I mean, I get the connection and agree that MLB being in bed with sports betting is problematic at best, but this isn't really connected. The rules these dudes broke couldn't be clearer. And MLB has never been shy about enforcing them.

As a White Sox fan, I can tell you without question that a salary cap will not improve the White Sox chances of winning a World Series.

That Ohtani so clearly hurdles over any eye test along with all the analytical arguments really puts these dopey nostalgia accounts in a revealing place.

Losing pitchers parents are executed.

Also, is the point of this graphic that the games most marketable player in a generation makes a lot more money than a rookie? Cuz wow! That's a pretty hard notion to wrap our heads around.

The Cubs won the World Series a week before shit hit the fan and I don't think this gets talked about enough. Here they are laughing at all of us about it.

I like the idea of an athlete being confident enough in himself and his own team to not give a fuck about meaningless symbolism and superstitions.

Also, I know it's not polite to go with the "playing against plumbers and electricians" argument against old timey athletes, but still... Ohtani is pitching against 2025 hitters and hitting off of 2025 pitchers and that only further distances himself from any other ghost baseball player.

Weirdly, yeah. I'd be interested. His personality and his narrative are so bland that he somehow had a mostly uninteresting career while putting up some of the best numbers ever. That's kind of interesting in and of itself. If you can get to the heart of why that is, maybe there's a story there.

Had to fit that booking.com ad in there.

Minivan Morrison.

Yeah, but it's still the Cubs. The bar for them to hurdle is basically buried somewhere under Lake Michigan.