I’m fascinated by the idea of someone needing to consider how many parking spaces a highway viewing park needs.

I think a lot of people are taking that last post a whole lot more seriously than I was when I wrote it.

What’s the financial value of selling away the intellectual property rights on something like a blog?

um...  well...  then fuck capitalism.  What’s it ever done for us?

There’s a certain logic of selling naming rights (colloquially called “advertising”) to recoup tax subsidies.

The thing I love about Bloodborne is that there’s one penalty for dying, and a different penalty for dying twice.

a surge in home run production to match the height of the steroid era.

No, I don’t. With 25 man rosters, splitting up teams 29+30 gives each of the other 28 one or two more options. Now maybe only 25-28 care that a AAA player is worthy of the big league roster, better than the other 24 teams ignoring them completely, but it’s still a pretty minor addition. The last man on the depth chart…

You really think Baltimore and Tampa’s talent dearth is cause by dilution?

All I can ever think of when I hear that....

Well, Browns do land hard.

The part that makes me most sad is that not one person in the process from concept to implementation spoke up and said, “Guys, I don’t think we should do this.”

I find it rather depressing.

Would you need the league to agree to it, or could there be a chance it’s imposed by the government as part of the unique anti-trust status they grant these leagues?

It would be far superior if the league controlled this instead of just writing it in to the city contracts.

Those are possibly easy things to tax because they’re not necessities. You don’t need to gamble, you don’t need to buy pot. You don’t need hotel rooms. (Especially if you’re the local people passing the tax on theoretically “someone else’s money”.)

Simple idea: No team can move to a new market until they “clear waivers” and are offered for sale to anyone who would keep them there.

Wow that sure sounds like the type of chaos Billy Martin would do! I love it.

I really recall it was the start of a game, and that 86 one was in late extra innings running out of players.