Friday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

2023 Cy Young winner Blake Snell signed a 5-year $182 million deal that includes a good chunk of deferred money. Think this is of more an attempt to avoid California's onerous state taxes than anything. Think states that have no state income taxes should tout that as a selling point to potential free agents. Enjoy your money now - it's your money... What people pay in taxes… When I was growing up it used to be if you owned a Jaguar you were showing a certain disdain for money because those Jags were fast and beautiful but always needed some type of work. This new commercial shows that to some virtue signaling is the now more important... Tend to listed to Dr. Matt Walker when it comes to matters of sleep… Deion Sanders says both Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter will play in any Colorado bowl game. Still say that a huge opportunity exists for an insurance company to step in and provide the players with a policy that pays millions if either player is injured in that game. The amount of free publicity the company gets will be priceless and many Buffalo fans will immediately switch insurance firms to them out of gratitude... Learn something new every day. Now I want the story about the person who first learned this the hard way… Life advice: ask yourself about your possessions - is this essential or it it a novelty? You should try to shed the novelties that may clutter your life. Of course this doesn't apply to books... OK I'll admit it! I've never watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind... With the Washington Redskins reportedly bringing back the franchise name the question has to be asked - what about the Cleveland Indians or Land-O-Lakes butter?… Father George Lemaitre once said, “There is no conflict between science and religion.” This is significant because Lemaitre was also the discoverer of the Big Bang theory and not only got Albert Einstein to agree with the theory he got the Pope to agree that the science isn’t settled and to hold off on proclaiming the Big Bang to be a law of nature…

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