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New townhomes here in the Seattle area are going for roughly $500/sq ft. There are some near me that are $600K for 1200 sq ft which is the lowest price you'll find to purchase just about anything that isn't a dump within a 45 minute commute of downtown. They make really great starter homes. No yard but they usually have a rooftop deck which people like better anyway. There are plenty of parks, most people see a yard as more of a burden than a benefit anyway. The price was totally fine when rates were 3-4% so you could get that for somewhere around $3,000/month or even below that if you put some money down. Now it's more like $4,500/month which makes it really hard to afford.
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I mostly object to the amount of money. It's absurd. Seattle was in a nearly identical situation in 2018 and they signed a 20-year extension in exchange for $135 million in public funding. The suggestion that the Brewers somehow bring in $500+ million of economic benefit to the state is comical. Governments need to get out of stadium ownership entirely. The fact that the Brewers would not take AmFam field if it was offered to them for free tells you all you need to know. They are money pits. Unfortunately, cities like Milwaukee are a dime a dozen from the perspective of major sports leagues. There's always another one to threaten to move to. If the Brewers went to Nashville, the White Sox to Milwaukee rumors would start immediately and I would say the odds would be nearly 50/50 that the White Sox would be playing in Milwaukee within 10 years. Assuming the state once again offered a juicy package of public dollars of course. -
My grandparents' old home in the Milwaukee area is owned by an investment company now. My parents get constant requests to buy their house for cash. Once the home is owned by one of those groups it is off the market forever, As they grow their power to purchase additional homes will only grow with time, as well as their ability to influence rental prices. They mostly work in markets with low housing prices like Milwaukee and especially in lower income neighborhoods like where my grandparents lived.
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This team will sleepwalk to 50 wins. They don't need to care about defense until next April. Until then they can get used to playing together with the new coach and having fun. Giannis and Dame are going to have a LOT of fun together.
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It's completely the opposite in many places, particularly large coastal cities. Cities tend to have the most housing growth because they can grow upward. Suburbs have exclusionary zoning and face resistance to upzoning and have nowhere to build (without causing traffic/infrastructure problems). At first this caused single-family home prices within cities to go through the roof because they have the most limited supply of all, but recently the suburbs have caught up, especially after there was added demand away from cities during the pandemic -- although people have obviously held onto their purchases even if they have moved back to cities.
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It turns out that spending big money in free agency does work, assuming you spend it on the right guys and compliment what you already have.
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It's tricky to speculate what rates will be like in 3-5 years, but I think we can be fairly confident that if rates do go down, housing prices are going to shoot up again. The nationwide housing shortage isn't going anywhere. The best time to buy is in the past and the second best time to buy is right now (if you can afford the monthly payments).
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They can get quite a bit worse and still make the playoffs. Presumably the Reds will be a hot pick to win the Central in 2023 but that's far from certain and the wild cards will be sitting there for the taking. Building a team with an upper-80s win ceiling isn't the worst idea in the world, especially if it depends on someone like Chourio coming up and having an immediate impact similar to Julio Rodriguez and Corbin Carroll. I'm still in favor of trading Burnes, I think can make the playoffs anyway.
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This isn't a pretty situation. They shouldn't offer Woody arbitration if he isn't going to pitch in 2024. But it would suck to release someone of his caliber who is rehabbing. I agree with the idea to offer 2/25. The Brewers have some leverage here so it might not even take that much cash.
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Yeah we were well-positioned for another NLCS run if we had drawn the Marlins. Unfortunately I think the NLCS was probably our ceiling after Woodruff went out and the inevitability of running into either the Phillies or the D'backs in the NLCS.
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Most of the complaints sound like whining from the big markets. Out of the 4 teams in the LCS, the Diamondbacks are the only one that are a true surprise to anyone paying attention, and the Dodgers put up such a pathetic performance in the NLDS that nobody in their right mind would expect them to have won a series of any length against the Diamondbacks. They cobbled together a pitching rotation and then failed to score off Brandon Pfaadt. The thing about playing 162 games is that it's been a long, long time since April and May. If you ask the Texas Rangers, I bet they would say it's been a long, long time since their inexplicable collapse in August. And the two defending league champions advanced, both of which returned basically the same teams that won the pennant last year. On what planet is either of those two teams winning an upset???
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I think they have changed their approach at the plate in the postseason.
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My main issue is that the quality of the postseason baseball is really, really bad this year. It's little more than home run derby and most of the games have been blowouts. Phillies/Braves game 2 is the only DS game that was any good. The Brewers/D-Backs wild card were actually pretty good as well, but not a single wild card series even made it to the third game. I don't even think juiced baseballs are to blame -- it's just the natural response to bullpen optimization. Nobody will ever be able to string hits together, so everybody waits for the one mistake pitch that they can hit for a home run. Occasionally somebody comes in who can't pitch and you get like 4-6 runs scored in a span of like 5 minutes, then nothing for the next 2+ hours. The solution to this is to deaden the baseball, but nobody is ever going to allow that to happen.
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Maybe we're just living in an Astros dynasty and everyone else is mediocre? They don't seem to have any problems with the postseason format. And they also seem to have figured out that regular season wins don't matter. Same for the Phillies perhaps. Didn't Castellanos admit last year that he doesn't try as hard in the regular season? It's increasingly likely that the World Series will be a rematch of last year. That doesn't seem like random luck.
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Thanks for the correction. We clearly would have had the advantage against the Dodgers although I doubt we could have matched this performance by Arizona.
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The Braves and Dodgers had a week to line up their rotations and this was the best they could do in game 4?
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There are no home field advantages in baseball. Except in Philadelphia apparently. 45,000 were all thinking the same thing and Harper delivered. Again.
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Then we would be giving him away to the competition for essentially nothing -- a straight up salary dump.
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The Boston Red Sox lead the AL East in October wins with 1.
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Rumors of the Astros' death have been greatly exaggerated.
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This isn't going to spread beyond what it currently is. Hamas did this to kill the Israel - Saudi peace deal. Israel will respond and then things will go back to the way they have been for seemingly forever. We already heavily support Israel so I don't know what can change there, presumably this will be used as an excuse to not fund Ukraine. I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop on the US economy. I feel like I was too conservative in investing this year given that the S&P 500 is up 12% and it was only my retirement funds that really captured that. I only got the easy 4-5% in my short-term investments. However, I buy a decent amount of my company's stock and that is up 34% so overall I did fine. Curious how it's going for others -- what has worked and what hasn't this year?
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It was us in 2018. We had no business being one game from the World Series that year.
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The playoff field is never going to shrink, it’s only going to expand further if they make changes. Rangers over Orioles isn’t really an upset so I would argue the “favorites” are 3-3 so far. Too early to judge who will win the other series but does anyone actually want to see the other three higher seeds win besides their own fans? The easiest solution is to make the DS seven games.
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That first round bye is a disadvantage for everyone except the Astros who are apparently on another planet. The wild card winners are riding waves of momentum into the second round and five days off is an eternity for batters in particular.
