Probably the guy cleaning his trash cans

Best comedy series on TV

The time Frank Viola got tossed for arguing with the robot ump. 🎁

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hard agree

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While Gohlke kept circulating-and kept telling his friend he wasn't interested-the friend kept haggling. "We went back and forth two or three times, and I don't know any dollar amounts at this point," Gohlke says, "and finally he comes back to me, and he tells me the dollar amount." As Gohlke would later learn, his friend had negotiated from a starting offer of $5,000 to $20,000. At that price, Gohlke couldn't say no to doing a simple Instagram post.

Now that March Madness has properly begun, re-upping this one on how the tournament’s folk heroes cash in on their moment of fame. This is how Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings in 2024:

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Or “How Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings”

The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.

"There’s no time to be fussy because the players’ schedules are packed and the tournament’s viral moments fade quickly. “If anything requires approvals, legal reviews or custom creative, it’s already too slow,” Denton says."

The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.

"Although there’s no real way to prepare for March Madness fame, there are a couple of things every player should do before the tournament: Make sure your name is in your social media handles, and put an email address in your bio." bloom.bg/4luhGlF

The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.

So you’ve gone viral during March Madness?

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Or “How Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings”

The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.

So you’ve gone viral during March Madness?

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Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball “Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.

The Dodgers have a huge payroll. Biggest ever. The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing. Baseball will be fine. Great, actually. Enjoy it.

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The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball “Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.

Nice article on the Dodgers and MLB's current competitive balance non-problem, with quotes from me! (and a 100+ year old reference I forwarded along that @rodneyfort.bsky.social shared here a while back).

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The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball “Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.

The Dodgers have a huge payroll. Biggest ever. The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing. Baseball will be fine. Great, actually. Enjoy it.

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Gambling Pros Adjust to a Super Bowl on the Prediction Markets The sudden rise of sites like Kalshi and Polymarket has sophisticated bettors scrambling to adjust their strategies.

Prediction markets are forcing professional sports bettors to learn to think like their pontine nemesis: the bookmaker.

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I see people saying that the writers who leave the Post will be fine if they set up their own newsletters and I get that's probably where things are going and I'll pay for them, but... that's not a newspaper. Newspapers are inefficient. They have stuff that's important that's not a money-maker. 1/5

What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately. Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

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This lad Own Goal has been a great signing for Arsenal

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

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The Business of College Football Has Never Been More Exciting or More of a Mess The NIL spigot continues to flow despite a revenue-sharing cap.

I wrote about how the college football sausage gets made in the era of NIL Go: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Unofficial Bloomberg Business of Sports Awards 2025 The money being thrown at sports teams, leagues, conferences, pickleball, etc, will dry up. But this year, the cash still flowed.

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Kalshi and Other Prediction Markets Should Scare Sports Leagues A lack of regulation can leave bettors vulnerable to manipulation.

"For prediction market customers, it’s buyer beware. When you trade in sports contracts, you might be up against a counterparty with sophisticated statistical models or even a team of quants on their side. And you might be up against someone with access to information you don’t have."

Kalshi and Other Prediction Markets Should Scare Sports Leagues A lack of regulation can leave bettors vulnerable to manipulation.

The culture of prediction markets around insider trading, at least in their early days, doesn’t fit with the integrity needs of sports leagues.

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Scoop: Giant Wind Farm Off New Jersey Coast Is Getting Killed Leading Light can’t move forward, a legal counsel wrote to state regulators.

scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed

say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind

(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘Fame is a liar and a thief’ The rock legend on making peace with the critics, the business of running a band — and his history with Donald Trump

"Bon Jovi has eaten two bowls of pasta. I am struggling to keep pace. I feel supremely conscious of his fame. Stardom means there is always a schedule, a car, a plane. Our conversation continues only at his discretion. If he wanted, he could slip away more easily than the spaghetti on my fork."

Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.

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Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.

If you’ve ever spent a Saturday shouting from the sidelines, you’ve probably helped build Dick’s Sporting Goods’ $13 billion empire.

Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.

Dick’s Sporting Goods — "which began life in 1948 as a fishing and camping store in Binghamton, New York — has become the Levi Strauss of the youth sports gold rush. It’s the leading supplier for young athletes searching for glory." Happy weekend, to my fellow sports parents out there!

Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.

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