It took me way too long to figure that out. I was really going nuts that I was way worse at math than I thought. Then I realized. Really crappy labeling here.

What helps me realize that's absurd is fiction. Fiction is great because it's all stories about people and their meaningfulness, so if these guys who also wrestle with waste of space kind of issues end up having meaning, then so can you and me.

I get fiction isn't real life, but that's not the point. Fiction is a reflection of how people really are. That's why literature is art. Books remind us that we only see a small part of our own story at any given time and that we are our harshest critics.

Read a book.

As much as it sucks, it's a good ruling. Civility codes are notoriously hard to enforce, and often are misused if the content is perceived to be rude. Ultimately stuff like this just gives bad faith actors weapons to wield against their political opponents, and that's not a good thing in local political situations because the sample size often results in partisan misuse.

Eh, this is better for Giants fans. It's really only bad for Boras and Correa, and maybe a little bad for Mets fans. It really makes the teams look pretty reasonable and the player like damaged goods.

Actually, Lindor and Correa are good buddies. Lindor specifically appealed to Steve Cohen to go out and get Correa for 3B. This won't cause friction at all. The players already are on board with Correa going to 3B and Lindor sticking at SS.

It's not very common at all. This particular offseason has been a bit insane in that lots of players that are pretty darn good but not necessarily all-time greats are getting longer contracts. Part of this is just an unusually robust free agent market, but part of it is that some teams realized that since the luxury tax (kind of an informal salary cap) calculations factor in the average annual value of a deal, spreading the deal out longer than the player will be good or useful might actually be a net gain on the team because they can be really good for most of the player's deal and then hopefully replace them with homegrown, cheap talent on the back end of the deal.

Before this year, basically the longest deals given out were 10 year deals, and those would only go to guy who were on a hall of fame trajectory and very, very young. But now, in this offseason, it's been a bit of an arms race, in part because the Mets are just throwing absolutely obscene amounts of money at some of the best players on the market. Last year the Mets set an all time MLB payroll high with something like $230M or so. This year, the Mets payroll is over $400M with luxury tax penalties.

The Correa situation is also a bit odd because Correa already had a 13 year deal lined up with a different team, and then yesterday they delayed their announcement of the signing due to "awaiting test results" with no further information. The Mets had made a late push to sign Correa only hours before he signed that deal with the Giants, and then all of a sudden in the middle of the night we find out that Correa's deal with the Giants is gone and the Mets swooped in with this offer. VERY rarely do you see deals like this fall apart, and for the Mets to already have a new deal in place before most people even knew the old deal fell apart is completely nuts.

The Mets are just turning the entire sport on its head. And it's great for fans and players.