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Dodgers get their man! Noah Syndergaard, 1yr/$13mm

I heard MLB was ready to kill a proposed 14yr Judge/Padres deal precisely to combat this kind of AAV manipulation

Carlos Correa to the Giants for $13yrs/$350mm. I like this a lot. I hate Correa and I hate the Giants, so it’s perfect

The Mets projected 2023 payroll currently stands at $345mm

Nimmo back to the Metropolitans, 8yrs/$162mm.

Dodgers land their man, sign Jason Heyward to a minor league deal!

Padres finally manage to get someone to take their money, land Bogaerts for 11yrs/$280mm

Padres offered Judge 10yrs/$400mm. The Dads are sure looking to spend some money

Bellinger to Cubs, 1yr/$17.5mm

Apparently the Padres offered Trea $342mm

Verlander to Mets 2yrs/$86.66mm, with a 3rd year $35mm vesting option

Trea Turner to Phils, 11yrs/$300mm

Dodgers making big moves, resign Kershaw for 1yr/$20mm.

The Crime Dog is finally in the HoF

Holy shit. Rangers might win 80 game next season!

This fucking sucks. She never really got the credit she deserved as a musician and songwriter. I don’t care what anyone says, Tango in the Night is a hell of an album, and Christine’s songs are the highlight

Gross

Fucking M’s, get your shit together!

I’ve got nothing against obscure writers winning the Nobel. If they hadn’t won the Prize I’d have probably never read Müller or Jelinek, and I was pleased with the Gurnah selection (other than the fact it means Ngugi will never win). It’s the SA’s predilection for indistinguishable French authors that I find boring. I’ve read some excerpts of Ernaux’s stuff, and she’s a very fine writer. But she is, like Modiano and Le Clezio before her, the human embodiment of staring out a Parisian window at dusk while smoking a Gauloises. I hate to say it since he’s a complete piece of shit, but Houellebecq is a far more interesting author than any of them.

Eh, a bit boring. Though I suppose, not quite as boring as Pierre Michon, the French writer I thought they were gonna give it to.

A few hours to go, so here are my thoughts: My favored pick: Salman Rushdie My best guess: Yan Lianke Left field pick: Patrick Chamoiseau I’m completely wrong and the actual winner is obviously: Pierre Michon

So Ladbrokes top 10 are: Salman Rushdie (8/1) Michel Houellebecq (12/1) Cormac McCarthy (14/1) Ann Carson (16/1) Edna O’Brian (16/1) Jon Fosse (16/1) Ngugi wa Thiong’o (16/1) Pierre Michon (16/1) And four at 20/1: Annie Ernaux, Garielle Lutz, Haruki Murakami, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai Also, they continue to spell Don DeLillo’s (25/1) name wrong (DeLilo) Another also, Unibet has Houellebecq as the odds on favorite. Shit’s gonna get wild if he actually wins

So the eighth best writer in France. Who, incidentally, is the odds on favorite every year.

Oops wrong thread

Okay, so Thursday’s the day. And I’ve got no clue. I’d hope they’d finally give it to Rushdie, but they won’t. Same for Kundera, Pynchon, DeLillo, Ngugi. Two notable names have died in the past month, Javier Marias and Hillary Mantel, but I believe the rule is they can still be awarded so long as they were on the shortlist before their death. Neither of them was likely on the shortlist however. I don’t know why, but I feel like this year they’ll go with an Asian writer. Duong Thu Huong would be great, so would Hwang Sok-yong, but my money’s on a Chinese author. So Can Xue, Yan Lianke, or Yu Hua.