You realize that giving back the dues and not representing someone isn’t an option, right? I’d love to see you as an insurance adjuster: “here’s your premium back, we’re retroactively not accepting it because you just got in an accident.”

Someone is going to ace that if it’s playing 100 yards and softened up from the rain. Easiest albatross ever (and I’d still probably bogey it).

This is very good kinja.

If you can’t prove collusion when they fine the Cowboys and those assholes in DC for breaking a salary cap that hadn’t been negotiated (the literal definition of colluding to keep salaries down), the NFLPA most certainly isn’t going to prove shit here.

It’s not that straightforward though. The union negotiates on behalf of everyone in it, including Ray Rice. So, if Ray Rice thinks he’s being screwed and the union bails on him, he’s paid dues for their protection and now has to get his own lawyer. Not saying Rice deserves a good outcome necessarily (though I think…

There are labor law requirements that mean your union rep basically has to back your bullshit claim. It’s been a long time since I read those cases, but I recall that the union can be stuck in a position of sticking up for shitbags that’s not that far from what your defense attorney owes you. That arguable bug in the…

But that’s not unfair. The team should take more risk if more reward is possible. That’s business.

Aren’t Hardy and McDonald just as solid of evidence against the conspiracy? If you can play, and you beat women, there’s still a spot in the league for you. But Rice was not just bad in 2013, he was terrible. 3 ypc and he looked two steps slower. At harder to fill positions I could see someone taking a flyer, but he’s…

Sorry, I came off a lot more preachy than I meant to there. I was saying you mostly had it right and that there’s been some coverage of it. Most of what I’ve seen is the Deadspin stuff from the last couple months. You can just click the Qatar tag at the top of the story to pull all that up. I didn’t watch the…

This whole playoff season has been pretty fucking great.

I dunno, he keeps Riley Cooper around.

I live 10 minutes from an Amazon distribution center and can’t get it. I thought they’d be flying drones to my house on the reg by now.

...should I go on?

Make the roommate make your sandwich. He’s full of energy and unlikely to be hungry.

Your math is wrong.

Yes. And some other things, but a lot of those things you said. Deadspin has a lot of articles about this that have more detail and great links. In fact there’s a shitload of reporting on this including some video (from journos that were arrested in Qatar and had much of their video destroyed).

To be fair, when I searched it, there were tweets a few hours before yours... still a shame it hasn’t caught on yet.

Heading over to retweet now.

Is there anyone left in CONCACAF or are they all in Swiss jails?

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