Cup of Coffee: December 19, 2023

The crime rate and free agency, the crime rate separate and apart from free agency, how Ronald Reagan made Americans shorter, and far, far too much about self-checkouts at the grocery store

Good morning!

There were only some low-level hot stove things yesterday so I spend a lot of my time today discussing how delusions about the crime rate affect the free agent market. Or don’t. I don't know. But it’s a simultaneously fascinating and enraging topic and that’s right in my wheelhouse, Jack.

In Other Stuff I . . . talk even more about the crime rate. But I do it differently, so it’s OK. I also talk about how Ronald Reagan made Americans shorter and I spend far, far too long talking about self-checkouts at the grocery store. You know, the important stuff.