Rick Olague

Seattle born, retired software business planner/pricing/licensing - dog and SEA sports lover, achieving serenity one mute at a time

[Rick Olague @OlagueRick]

@jonmorosi @Mariners @MLB @SeattleSports Honestly with the starting pitching depth the team would be better off bringing up Anderson and piggy backing him with George-much rather have 8 innings a week pitched by Luis/Anderson vs the backend of the bullpen

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@TheWARmonger_ Victor makes that catch and the runner stays at 3rd. Julio should be the every day RF a Victor the every day CF, trade the spare parts in RF and Middle infield for a top RBs closer and actual 3B

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@mlbtraderumors Silly, Luis is the only starter with no trade value due to age/contract-he’s an affordable back end starter for years to come. trade the RHPs close to free agency if they already let you know they won’t sign extensions

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@didem5654 110

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@Mynorthwest Homeless come from across the country to the west coast because of winter climates-this will never change-you can’t get addicts/alcoholics clean and productive until they want to or are forced to-attacking this through counseling to the unwilling is lunacy

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@TyDaneGonzalez Should have been done 2 yrs ago when Det was holding their fire sale before going on a win streak (along with a certain closer from Oakland)-we needed/still need a LH starter and a true ace that can win 3 games in a 7 game series but it’s too late at this point

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@seattletimes Homelessness on the West Coast is due to climate not politics-no one survives a winter on the east coast or Midwest without shelter. This should get a Federal response but it won’t receive on-all West Coast cities must fix this on their own before spending $1 on anything else

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@stuartpstevens 💯 this should have been done day one to put pressure on the Russian population. I don’t blame Russian athletes who would be imprisoned along with their families if they speak out but all Russian travel to EU/NATO countries should be blocked

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@mcuban Small businesses (primarily services) don’t exist without the cash big businesses inject into the economy paying professionals who then create demand for services-no big business (work from home) no services

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@awfulannouncing Because he’s only chartered by the league with protecting the Dodgers/Yankees monarchy financed by their revenue disparity-without the rest of the teams the Dodgers/Yankees would generate no revenue

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@CFiltheth63 @SanPedroAce LAD deferrals are more a tax avoidance strategy because of CA/LA taxes. At the end of the day the problem is LAD/NYY have 160% more annual revenue than 1/3 of the league simply because of geography-if no one played them their revenue would be $0

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@SanPedroAce Glad to see the players are focused on revenue sharing to create parity realizing teams spend the revenue they have and a cap wouldn’t be necessary-establishment want to focus on caps/floors so they don’t address the real issue that team revenues range from $300M-$800M

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@JeffPassan The issue revenue parity not forcing a team with $300M (which is forced to find/develop young players for the top 5 rev teams) to spend 1/2 their rev on payroll at the expense of scouting, ops, etc. This is punishing low rev teams protecting LAD/NYY-5 owners approve this

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@FOS Coincidentally that’s the revenue difference between hi/low….because teams actually spend their revenues. Fix revenue parity and payrolls will follow automatically

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@OleTimeHardball Edgar Martinez was 10-16 with 2 homers and 6 RBIs in 20 plate appearances against Mariano Rivera in his career.

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@RepAdamSmith US Economic data shows most metropolitan areas had an average income between $4k-$6k in 1970 (Seattle $4,758-San Jose $5,079, NYC $5,290)-in 2022 those incomes were $92K, $142K and $84K. The populations/skills have changed in these regions and costs follow incomes

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@RepAdamSmith In the 60’s we had a small pop, Boeing was the major employer of blue collar workers, you could by a home on Mercer Island for $30K-today we are a high tech hub w/a highly educated/well paid workforce bidding up housing prices-a recession & massive layoffs is the only fix

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@ProudSocialist Yeah this is why so many Independents get pushed to the right despite the clear corruption-class grievances are not winners for Dems sounds like “I want free stuff”-rule of law, protecting citizens rights outlined in the constitution and our long term alliances are winners

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@saintjavelin @reedgalen This is silly-I think all Russian citizens and athletes should have been banned from international travel as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine (sorry NHL) but we are not there, Russian athletes supporting Putin now know they and their families will be disappeared if they don’t 🤷🏻

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@shannondrayer 3 great plays-Naylor getting back to the base immediately after the ball gets by him, Young ranging 30 ft to get to the ball preventing a double and making the throw, Naylor securing the throw without creating a collision on first (footwork for first basemen is under appreciated)