Jane Tuesday

Happy Opening Day Eve! 🍻 We're all already two games up on the Cubs. 😉

The extended Sansone family is fabulously wealthy. They own and operate the Sansone Group, a national commercial real estate company. That house is in one of Missouri's richest zip codes. Very exclusive. Their neighbors are said to include the Busch family of Anheuser-Busch fame. True 1%-ers. Miss Bratz Doll might have started this looking for TikTok followers, but when she sees that property he might have a hard time dislodging her. Lol I find John's story to be so strange. He has not been - nor will be ever be - a farmer. It's entirely possible his maternal family farms and he's close to them, and that's very sweet. But I think the closest he wants to get to farming is owning a big property that he can visit on the weekends occasionally. Even when directly asked in the episode, "so, you're in law school, how will you be a farmer," he just gave a generic answer about "we're not meant to be alone, I want to build a life with a wife". Like, he couldn't even muster a thought about farming. I'm shocked the show is being so open about it. They usually do the opposite. Most of the farmers in the first two seasons lived within an hour of a major metro, and probably half of them have other "real jobs", but the show made it sound like they were just lonely cowboys out on the range. I wouldn't have been surprised at all if the show acted like he lived full-time on the farm and glossed over the fact that it's more than two hours away from St. Louis. I mean, he seems like a great guy so far, and I always cheer for St. Louis, but his casting is really odd. Are no actual farmers, or at least country dudes, applying for this show?

Things definitely don't sound great for Stanton. Yikes.

I respected the rule, and honestly I think most players did, too. But beardless Paul Goldschmidt was freaking me the fuck out. I don't mind beards at all, but I hate the long, scraggly, scissors-never-touch-it look. Brandon Marsh looks straight up *nasty*. I wonder if they'll relax the hair length rule?

The plot, it thickens... Seriously, whoever is doing PR training for the Red Sox should be fired!

I don't disagree that he should move off 3B (early reporting that Bregman would play 2B made no sense to me) but I do think that interview gives a false impression. Here's a tweet series with a deeper translation, if anyone is interested. Either way, between this and Cora's comment about Chaim Bloom, sounds like a mess in Boston.

Trout says he's moving to right field. Devers says he *won't* be moving to DH. RE: Devers, I have immense respect for guys who do interviews in English when it's their second language. I know they're trying to connect to fans. But in situations like this, where the topic is clearly emotionally-charged, I really think the interpreter and/or the team PR person has an obligation to jump in and try to get them to switch to their native language. (Also see Jorge Lopez and the glove toss interview last season.)

Nolan has arrived at camp. Says he's not expanding his "list". Hopefully the talking heads (and social media) can shut up about him now for five minutes.

I can't stand the guy, but it's also worth noting that if he pitches 140 innings this year, it automatically adds another year for $18M to his contract for 2026. He won't get close to that in the bullpen.

I'm not sure if blue sky posts embed here, but... The big letters are back! So much better. https://bsky.app/profile/jmjones.bsky.social/post/3lhvtw3cmfc2t

Stolen from social media... "The only thing that will make this @SuperBowl interesting is if they pan to Taylor and she puts on a Cooper DeJean jersey in the 4th quarter." 🤣 🤣 🤣

Awww... bummer. I was hoping for the shutout.

All respect to Ichiro and Billy, but I adore CC. (In spite of being a Yankee.) His happiness is making me so happy. He's just overflowing with joy on social media.

I feel really stupid, because I have no idea who you're talking about. Lol But the next best chance for a unanimous first-round vote is Albert Pujols, so I imagine we'll be on opposite sides of that debate. 😉

I'm guessing you want Rivera to be the only unanimous vote? Or am I missing something?

Sasaki to the Dodgers. Forget the inequity for a minute. It's just so fucking BORING. Thousands of hours of MLB talking heads speculating, thousands of column inches about this rumor or that. And then he goes to the dogdamned Dodgers, where everybody with a brain and a tiny amount of baseball knowledge and understanding of human nature knew he would go all along. I would have preferred he sign with the Cubs where he would torment us for years. At least that would have been INTERESTING. This league needs an international draft, yesterday.

Goldy rather famously hasn't cared what his number is, and only started wearing #46 when he came to St. Louis. I suppose it's possible Pettitte offered it up, or Judge arranged something, but I imagine it's just a holdover. Either way, I say with 100% confidence Goldy would never ask for it. Guy is as humble as they come. (Still love you, Goldy. Sorry they made you shave. *sob*)

In 50 years, the Yankees will undoubtedly win multiple World Series to soften the memory. And the Dodgers will still be paying last year's payroll. Lol

You know what they say... "Comedy is tragedy plus time." You just need more time. ;)

I know we talked in this thread about Salvy Perez playing backyard ball with some kids in KC. He was awarded a Musial Award for his actions a couple of months ago in St. Louis. The Musial Awards celebrate sportsmanship across all sports and all levels, and is named in honor of the great Stan Musial. (An aside...Stan was known to drive around STL with signed balls and pictures in his trunk in case he ran into a kid who wanted a signature. That's why items he signed aren't really valuable, because he gave away so many! He would have loved "Salvy's Sandlot" game. ❤️ ) Anyway, just dropping in a plug here that the entire Musial Awards ceremony will be broadcast tomorrow on CBS and Paramount+ at different times. On my listings, it shows up as "CBS Sports Spectacular". Other baseball-related folks being recognized include Bob Costas and a team each from the Baseball and Softball Little League World Series(es?). You can find out more about the Musial Awards here: https://musialawards.com/.

Heresy!

I got all 12, but I have to admit I eventually wrote out all 30 teams by division before I remembered them all. (I can never remember where the Tigers and Guardians fit without listing all of them out.) Kansas City was the final 3-word one I came up with. Apparently even I have coastal bias! Lol I guess that answers my other question... Tampa Bay or just Tampa?

Paul Goldschmidt to the Yanks on a one-year deal. Goodnight, sweet prince. 😞 Rumor is Nolan to follow.

Apparently Nolan doesn't like the Astros any more than I do. Personally, I'd be happy for him to stay. I know all the "smart" people say we need to trade him, but... nah.

Yes to all of this. Long contracts are often bad baseball decisions. The Cardinals are paying Sonny Gray $75M for three years, which is similar or slightly above AAV for at least a few of the contracts in the left column. And we've tried to get other players to take bigger contracts over the years. And some of the other teams... take the Brewers, for example. Why should they be embarrassed because they play winning baseball on smart contracts?