But if the parlors lose customers to voluntary sex workers, how would they make money? And if they don’t make money, why traffic women?

But it would greatly reduce the profit opportunity for coerced sex work, by increasing the supply (through legal, or at least de facto decriminalized voluntary sex work) and decreasing the demand for paid sex through pimps or traffickers.

If we can get Drew and David to do bring back their Bob Kraft voices next week, I’m okay with missing Deadcast this week.

Man, I’m not one of those “Didn’t think I’d miss Dubya this much” assholes because fuck those guys who got us into two catastrophic, expensive and pointless wars with no obvious end games or metric for victory, but I do kinda miss Rumsfeld. Sure, he was still trying to sell you into thinking bullshit is good because…

He’s Just Not That Into Transfers.

Counterpoint: Harry Kane is like a new signing every time he comes back from injury.

potential new crop of players who could fit in best with struggling manager Maurizio Sarri’s preferred style of play.

Well actually Age of Consent was released 36 years ago and it still rocks my socks off

Oh man, imagine if those two basketball had intermediaries—should we call them reps? maybe go-betweens? negotiator of contracts and otherwise—who could deal with professional issues and know which teams are interested in which players and what kind of cap space was available? Oh boy, imagine the possibilities.

It’s still the only sports site to feature an Anton Chekhov joke pyramid in the comments. 

That’s exactly what I keep wondering. Is he playing the “Ha ha look at me I’m a pasty Northwester j-school grad that can’t ball for shit but I’m a successful sports business journamalist so it’s okay” thing? But he’s obviously trying to be hip with the Hawks pac-man throwback and the AJ1s and surely he has to watch…

Sexualizing emotionally vulnerable teenage girls to own the libs.

It’s always useful to replace “politically correct” with “treating people with respect”. These people are upset that in this day and age, there’s an expectation that we treat people with respect.

Is it though? We’re not talking about Pujols or Cano in their age 31 year, or even Prince Fielder at age 28. Machado is entering his peak production years and when his production declines, so will the relative cost of contract... unless the sports broadcast rights bubble bursts in the next few years, and then…

Fair enough, but in terms of desirability to stars and exposure in the US market, Raptors are a de facto small market team that has trouble attracting marquee free agents.

I mean, paying big money to a 30-something player sucks but I’m guessing that inflation take care of that. It’s just as likely the contract will feel like a bargain in 5 years.

It’s not so much that players are going to a small market (remember, Denver, Toronto, Milwaukee, OKC and Portland are among the top teams in the NBA), that top players are going to small market teams where they’re never seen by the national audience again.

Are we talking about the same NBA where Oklahoma Fucking City has two all-NBA calibre players, the second leading vote getter at the All Star Game plays for a team in Wisconsin and the likely MVP plays for the 5-seed in the West?

The latter point is fair, but this is what that Princeton vs Rutgers game looked like:

Conte, for all his faults, understood that that Azpilicueta was aging and Alonso doesn’t track back, but they could work as a right-sided CB and a wingback in a back 3 (and that David Luiz could orchestrate the passing out of the back without being a huge liability).