Abe Pollin built the MCI/Verizon Center with his own money.

Abe Pollin built the MCI/Verizon Center with his own money. It is the ONLY area that has genuinely benefited from a new stadium in the region.

I’ve been waiting a long time for on-demand announcing choices. I suppose the NCAA now has homer announcers for championship games. But I would absolutely subscribe to the NBA’s games if Garnett was calling games NSFW.

Well done. This shows that the drop off started in 2011 when the new rookie scale came into effect. The 2010 data is an anomaly due to the lack of a salary cap or floor which ended up pushing down player salary.

Agreed. However the last CBA was signed in 2011 and the decline started around 2008 after a slight peak. That said, the owners voted in 2008 to end the previous CBA in 2011. This led to an uncapped year in 2010...which actually led to lower overall revenue to players for that year. The 2011 CBA increased overall…

The Fav-re guy always quit at the first twinge of pain.

It’s their team and they are part of an exemption from anti-trust laws that gives them the ability to operate like no other industry aside from insurance.

In Kruk and Kuip’s defense, they’ve had a bunch of long seasons recently. Vin Scully is a national treasure, but the Dodgers haven’t made him work late into October in decades.

Nobody tells stories about how aspirin dealt with their headache.

Eh...that could just be the continuing development from Petco. The downtown development push took a breather in 2009. There’s still a lot of real estate in the area that could be developed into condos unrelated to another stadium.

And how would a local ballot measure exempt a project from state law?

The “business community” could help by buying out this horsefucker. Any chance the Jacobs family wants to drop $2B to send this asshole back to Stockton? Otherwise I see no reason why both the public and private sectors should subsidize his horrid management.

Eh, UVA chanted “crackhead parents” to our Lord and Savior, Juan Dixon.

It was the “case” for reparations. Conyers’ bill that he mentions is only a discussion of the issue. At no point does he make the payment of reparations a be all, end all issue. You chose to read that way.

The establishment is not something that lives on its own. It is the consensus of populace. As something new emerges and is understood by the general populace it slowly becomes the consensus. Some dude named Georg who spells his name in an odd manner told me this once.

Because every country has paid reparations for past injustices?

But the thing is, this is the quintessential pattern in American activist movements.

That’s like asking Hamilton Nolan to take a reasonable approach to more or less anything. This has always been a weakness at Gawker sites (hey at least I’m reading). Yesterday Sam Biddle said the Obama Administration’s entire FY17 Defense budget request was a waste of money.

He is as available for appearances as Coolio.

Specific industries that have exemptions from Federal anti-trust laws find a way.