The union is definitely losing the argument with their own membership that a guaranteed generational wealth insurance policy is not worth leaving $50-$100M+ of EV on the table.

Buster Olney put 9/140 out there. Then deleted it. But it's because they can't formally do this deal until Griffin plays a game, so that they can keep the PPI pick.

Back when the WNBA was going bankrupt almost everywhere, the fact that CT had legit fans who actually wanted to go to games mattered. But now that billionaires want the teams post-Caitlin Clark, the mom-and-pop indie band days with a few thousand UConn fans coming to the small town casino are over.

Yes, the median CT resident cares far more about women’s basketball than the median Houstonian. But the market is a tiny fraction of the size. Boston would have been a different owner than the Celts.

Silver wants the WNBA to be like the G League. Owned by NBA owners, same market, as a sister asset.

Top headlines: Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash. Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

This was inevitable ever since Caitlin Clark turned the WNBA profitable.

The Sun weren’t even in a relatively populated part of Connecticut. Once the league became truly professionalized, no way to keep them.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

They really, really should have taken Kurtz, though.

Phil Plantier 1991 upper deck card

You, talking about Graham Platner

Me, thinking about Phil Plantier

This is truly the late 90s Mike & The Mad Dog vibe. Perfect delivery.

I got 9 out of 10 teams correct. Celtics out, Spurs in.

This tweet works equally well if you read “Al” as his dad or artificial intelligence.

Jim Crane: frugal in the winter, the Steve Cohen of the deadline.

orangefire.substack.com/p/dana-brown...

“Ashton Izzi” is one of those pitcher names where the guy should definitely be left-handed, but he’s not.

Always fun when two ultra-shithead public evangelical types get divorced and they have to say stuff like "as a biblical man,"

Hey, he got pitch 2!

Could probably go Nuggets/Spurs if you want Wemby over Flagg+AD.

NBA Christmas:

Noon: Knicks/Celtics
2:30 PM: Cavs/Wolves
5 PM: Nuggets/Mavericks
7:30 PM: Thunder/Rockets
10 PM: Lakers/Warriors

Ah, crap. Forgot his found work this past week.

16/18. Castellanos the other.

17 of these 20 players are out of MLB/retired. 17-of-18 position players.

It’ll fit perfectly on my tombstone.

a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a clock that shows the time as 7:20 ALT: a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a clock that shows the time as 7:20

Lance will be back “soon”. Just an abundance of caution.

Over/under July 20th for his next start?

I just found out that JoMarie Payton left Family Matters during the final season after a fight on set with Jaleel White. Gonna go down this rabbit hole for 20 minutes now.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Alex Cora gets treated as this unique managerial savant, but his team is bad in every way a poorly managed team would be bad:

Good Astros/Rays game. My Jeremy Peña over 1.5 HR/Zack Littell over 8.2 IP parlay came in. $20 to win $6.3M.