I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Judgment Day is the nothing personal word of the day for Monday, May 2nd, 2022. Trevor Bauer was suspended for two days.

The suspension was handed out this weekend and it was announced as 324 games which caused a lot of people to do a little math.

They did the math and realized that 160 times 2 is 320 and then 2 times 2 is 4, 320 plus 4 is 324. Holy schnikes, that's 2 full years.

Not for the 2022 and 23 season because the 2022 season is already one month in.

So it was specified the number of games. The longest ever suspension under the domestic violence joint agreement between the Union and the commissioner.

There is plenty to break down. I want to go through with you what's been going on. What took so long? He's been under administrative leave for almost a year.

It started in July of 2021. Here we are in May of 22. No criminal charges and that was decided a couple months ago already.

So what has taken so long and why yesterday?

Well, let's start with the concept of administrative leave. So there's perfect clarity. Trevor Bauer has gotten paid every two weeks since he was put on administrative leave.

At the exact rate of the contract he signed as a free agent with Los Angeles Dodgers.

Whether he was pitching, whether he was not pitching, whether he was in the clubhouse, or whether he was home on his podcast or talking to his attorney for hire, whatever he was doing, he was getting paid.

Majorly baseball players get paid from April through September. So this off season, he didn't get paid, but nor did anyone else.

But then when the season started again, March 26, he started getting paid again at his new rate of his deal for 2022. You may recall he signed at $105 million, three year deal. That huge contract with the Dodgers as a free agent.

So administrative leave is a concept under the domestic violence bill. I call it a bill. It was an agreement between the union and the commissioner.

Protocols. The administrative leave is when there is a discovery of an event. The thought, the possibility of an act that causes the commissioner to believe that there will have to be an investigation into this player.

And pending the completion of that investigation, this player will not be allowed to play. However, this player may be innocent quote unquote, and I don't mean criminally, maybe innocent of violating the protocols.

Therefore, the agreement was this player will still get paid until the end of administrative leave until the commissioner's office comes down off the mountain and says, here's what we found.

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