Based on my understanding of linear time, this is not a helpful way to think about this

Mets-Sox World Series

Happy tax day! Undocumented workers pay roughly $20 billion in taxes every year.

Tesla made $5.6 billion in profit last year and paid $0.00 in federal income tax.

H/t @juddlegum.bsky.social for the morning corporate socialism point of rage

I know all this is true because it was my job to set premier pricing for luxury sporting events.

No other country would allow this and we don't have to either.

We have to demand better. These prices are absurd because corporations and leagues are able to manufacture scarcity by withholding tickets for sponsors and guests

Ticket companies have monopolized the market

American wealth disparity has guaranteed that there is always some asshole ready to pay up

Those prices do not include the 24% (!!!!!) service charge

A screenshot of the prices for low-level olympics events that are truly outrageous

"But, maybe they'll release more tickets," I think. "I should look at events around the horsey race and then maybe we'll get lucky in the future"

Hooo boy was I wrong.

$105+ to see women's cricket prelims
$174+ women's hockey prelims
$242 handball, $291+ V-ball, $1100 for the worst seat at track!

a) no Equestrian tickets available

b) if they were available, a seat costs $107 (+50% from Paris 24 when they were hosted at Versailles, a palace so decadent that the French made it a priority to strip the place for parts immediately after abolishing the monarchy. Still costs more in the US.)

I'm also not trying to go to, like Swimming or Women's Gymnastics or any of the shit your Boomer mom cries at

I was looking at Equestrian tickets. My wife is a horsegirl and watches Eventing every cycle

I got selected for Drop 1 for LA28 Olympics tickets.

In the long history of ticketed events emptying the pockets of American sports fans, this might be the worst I've seen.

And I am aware of (and have tried to buy) World Cup tickets.

NYT screenshot “The image showed President Trump in a white and red robe, commonly used in renderings of Jesus Christ and in Scripture prophesying his return. Bright golden light, which is used to depict divine intervention in religious imagery, radiated from Mr. Trump's hand as he touched the forehead of a sick man. A woman observed the scene with her hands steepled in prayer. As he received two bags of a McDonald's food delivery to the Oval Office on Monday morning, Mr. Trump told reporters that he did not catch all that religious imagery. He said he had thought the image he had posted to his Truth Social account had depicted him not as Jesus - but as a physician. "I thought it was me as a doctor," Mr. Trump said of the social media post, which he deleted after an outcry. "Only the fake news could come up with that." He added, "I make people better.""

I don't know if the last 11 years can be distilled any more purely than this

100% correct. JD Vance is performing for a debate team in his mind.

a group of people are sitting in a car and one of them is saying pick em up ! Alt: a group of people are sitting in a car and one of them is saying pick em up !

Giants offseason strategy:

Did he play in Baltimore?

In 1992, he [Mel Hall] rented an apartment in Trump Tower, then New York's most ostentatious address, where he lived down the hall from The Donald himself, the iconic emblem of that era's brand of crass New York excess.

The many crimes of Mel Hall He was a flamboyant player, a charismatic coach, and a sexual predator

I knew Mel Hall was in jail for multiple relationships/assaults with/of underage girls

I did not know he lived a few doors down from Trump in Trump Tower while it was happening

www.sbnation.com/2014/7/15/58...

Rise up. #Buffalo #NoKings

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You're right, David. Get out before you enter your 4th season as T-ball commissioner in which your league is now twice the size it was when you got started (as a hypothetical example)

Party of Nancy Reagan

I can't imagine how tedious the meetings were to settle the order of Arod, Papi, Jeter

Did we forget anything?

Let's see. Remembered to get a bow tie guy...

No I think that's it. Ship it.

MORE PERFECT UNION More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per@ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.

Two Days Later…

Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS The House could act as soon as Friday to reopen most parts of the sprawling agency.

‘A Mass Disaster Nonstop’: Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C. Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable.

“Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C.:
Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I wonder if Rob Manfred knows baseball enough to be disappointed by this Skenes start

All this "old school coach" talk. No, you're just a low-EQ asshole.

Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz Israelis said securing the strait for energy shipments could become the war's main goal now that regime change and ending Iran's ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach. March 22 at 5:41 PM 2026

Definitionally, solving an unintended consequence of your military action cannot have been the objective of your military action

Agreed. But I could fuck up some Sheetz hash brown bites right now.

If you have to ask you can't afford it

Barves ass bullshit

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.