Do people actually want to live near a stadium? That sounds like a nightmare. Or do corporations just want to buy up the properties so they can run them as unregulated hotels through AirBnb?

He lists all of the major events coming to Los Angeles over the next 10 years, including Super Bowl LVI, the MLB All-Star game, the 2026 World Cup, and the 2028 Summer Olympics.

The story of residents being priced out of their neighborhoods or otherwise displaced because of the development some new stadium or office complex—which are often built with taxpayer subsidies—is not a new one. It’s happened in many cities around the country, including Los Angeles, where families were displaced by…

Joel Embiid at number 3 seems the obvious choice

Bennett was an unexpected #1 pick in a terrible (at the time, Dipo and Giannis and even Otto Porter are good now) draft class. Wiggins was called “the next Lebron”, yes really, in high school and was pretty much considered can’t-miss. He’s way more of a bust than Bennett

It was fucking stupid when the Wolves gave it to him, and, remarkably, the contract looks even worse now. Minnesota is NEVER moving that contract unless it’s the final year of the deal and some team is desperate to shed salary and accepts Wiggins’ expiring contract. I still wonder what would have happened had the…

On the plus side, he’s only under contract for another...let’s check...four years, $120 million. Not only is he a horrifically bad player, he’s also wildly overpaid!

“““You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” - Wayne Gretzky”

For whatever reason, a lot of 2nd and 3rd year associates at my firm get “poached” to be in-house counsel by clients who hit it off with them. I want to tell them that most 2nd and 3rd year associates don’t know jack shit and making them general counsel of your start-up is bad idea. But I don’t. 

Looking forward to the “Who is the oldest person you have ever sexually assaulted?” questions at next year’s combine.

C’mon, you had the “Inside Job!” punchline right there and biffed it.

The handjob was coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!

Given this guy was with Chiefs at the time of the Belcher murder-suicide and with the Patriots at the time Kraft was committing crimes, maybe this fella is the real culprit.

I’m truly happy for him. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go argue for a 3% raise in a performance review that my boss forgot to conduct last year.

IMO that’s more about the state of the U.S. fanbase than the game itself, which is pretty diverse both in foreign fans and players (the declining number of black players aside). Watch the ads with baseball games and they’re aimed pretty squarely in the 55-to-great-grandpa demo.

It’s strange that the too white, too old, too slow thing is brought up so much because outside the US, baseball is very popular in Latin America and Asia*. And the demographic shift in the US is more Asian and Latino and old, white people.

Thanks, I’ve been trying in vain to find median figures.

It’s hard PR for the players. When you’re making, on average, $4.5 million a year, it’s hard to make the (correct) case that it’s the owners that are the really greedy ones.

yeah, but conservatives like to pretend they’re millionaires, or at least will be some day. Why else does Skeeter who lives in a trailer park in Alabama (Roll Tide) and makes $12/hour at the hog fat rendering plant argue vociferously that the richest 1% should have their taxes slashed?

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