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You certainly can’t, but you still would be better off having the $1 today even in 2014 - 2019. Invested in S&P 500: ~$1.95 Held as cash (real value): ~$0.89

if you took a $1 5 years ago it would be worth 70 cents what it’s worth today due to inflation. If you invested that $1 instead, it would be worth $1.70 It doesn’t matter if you don’t “agree”. That’s just not how finance works

Do I think black people are more likely to be faster than white people? Yes Irrelevant to the scenario we were discussing.

I’m all for thethe making his decision to rent to whomever he’d like for whatever he’d want. The point of the analogy was to use predictive data to make a business decision. I don’t fault thethe for having a bias. But using it as a screening tool while ignoring other input data isn’t good...

I thought we were talking about thethe renting his house

Or use a stop watch

so?

Yea. This is where I land. Well put

For the 1000000x time FF took less money from the dodgers than the Braves offered. He chose to leave

Eh… the trade wasn’t Freeman + Langeliers for Olson. No need to put a thumb on the scale If we’re doing the whole trade machine thing, then might as well factor in $ per WAR which puts an even bigger distance between Olson and FF

You and I are making the same point. Olson has been a much superior defensive player while providing similar offense. Hence why Olson has been better cumulatively the last 4 seasons

Freddie’s fallen off quite a bit defensively, even going by the eye test. There was a period where he couldn’t even move laterally without grimacing in pain. Olson meanwhile has been easily been the best defensive 1B in baseball for several years now

Oh you’re right. My bad. I had forgotten that debacle has been going on for 2 months now.

This is from before that side show

Oh I forgot. Not an approved metric Latest on real wage growth. It’s a little stale as it doesn’t count all the amazing things that have happened since March “Real average hourly earnings for all employees decreased 0.6 percent from February to March seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of...

Golden Age I’ve been waiting 6 months for the Q1 GDP print and boy did it not disappoint

Yes Next question please

You forgot the first rule of WAR Use the one that suits the point you’re trying to make

Since Alex Bohm is going to be out of the league in a couple weeks, I’m glad I found a new guy to loathe with a deep red passion

since 2023 Olson - 19.4 WAR Freddie - 15.5 WAR