Asking me to choose which stadium scam I dislike most is like asking me to choose which of my children I dislike the most, by which I mean I hate them all equally because they make my life a living hell.

So is it “choked with ads” free or “secret front for gathering marketing intel” free?

The only—and I truly mean only—reason to scrub the archives of a site without notice and deny journalists their clips they desperately need to pursue further work is spite. I understand that Web Archive and Wayback will have cached versions of pages but rest assured that piece of fucking filth Ricketts did this to…

Unionization isn’t always just about pay. It’s about pay in cases where a business is raking in profits and underpaying staff, but unionization can also be about making sure staff are treated fairly, that any raises are given in an equitable fashion, that staff can’t be dismissed on a whim.

Any claim that this is anything other than retribution for unionizing is horseshit. If it was merely a matter of numbers not adding up - and Ricketts no longer being willing to eat the losses - he’d try to sell the business to someone else and thus recoup some of his losses.

Yeesh. At the home opener they brought out someone from Detroit Public Schools. All I could think was, the taxpayers are on the hook for this half empty building and the kids in the city don’t have textbooks, etc. What. The. Fuck...

The point of the arena deal and that wad of taxpayer cash was to “revitalize” a moribund downtown. That it’s taken a single home game (and that might even be generous) for the new car smell to wear off should encapsulate pretty neatly the scam of publicly financed stadiums.

As a Cub fan I know that curses don’t exist. But, the Youppi Curse lives!!!!

So the Red Sox are still stealing signs then?

Live in Calgary, can confirm several things about Neshi’s stance.

(Davis’s money grab in Nevada was successful in large part because he enlisted local casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in his cause, even if he ultimately double-crossed Adelson)

I find that I am far more able to watch MLS on TV during the portion of the MLS season that coincides with most other national league’s offseason. It’s like I can sort of convince myself through amnesia that the product is half-decent. Then seasons start around the world, comparing the products becomes much easier,…

its bad when your ticket receipts come with a friend referral code

“If I start watching now, I’ll really be invested and know the league by the time they get good. Sure, I’m not having fun now but give it time.”

I heard Ponzi is having a terrible year in Serie B, which means the Revs will step right in and give him a deal.

During a game in Vermont, he said that the opposing team’s coach once complained about him to an official and called him “that Oriental.”

I get laughed at every time I say this, but we try really hard not to over-promise in headlines, and for the most part don't. Sure we try to make them memorable and interesting to get people to click on them and read the content within—and use swear words, humor, irony etc.—but the general philosophy is that while…