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The degree to which a bunch of people who are lawyers decide it is or isn't is probably proportional to how much money he walks away with. 💰

IDK - economics of the game have changed so much in 20 yrs it's hard to compare. There may be enough revenue sharing today that teams can more easily flounder for a long time without being in danger of actually going under. It must have been pretty dire in 2001 in comparison for them to actually take a vote on contraction. Those were some bad years for baseball in Detroit so I wasn't paying enough attention to remember it well.

LOL, I was talking about Musk but if the shoe fits...... Probably on an ethical/world view level there isn't much to separate the two of them. The difference is that Elon hasn't gone bankrupt, yet.

Loria was only a 24% owner when he bought in so if he had plans to kill the team at that point he'd have had to persuade the rest of his partners. He tried to get a new ball park. He put in more of his money when the other owners wouldn't until he ended up almost sole owner. When it was clear there would be no new ball park, he bailed. He only owned the team for 3 yrs. They were failing before he got there and but true enough he basically took anyone and anything he could carry when he sold the team to the league. It's probably true he soured on owning the team pretty quickly after he bought it and found he couldn't do much with it - but remember he couldn't find any sources to work with. The province turned him down, local business wouldn't ante up and the the league even voted to contract his team out from under him, so at that point I would have some sympathy with him saying 'screw it'. And in the end the MLB could have tried to save the franchise once they ran it and didn't either so they weren't seeing any future either. I don't mean to defend Loria per se, I don't know him from Adam, but I don't know if it's fair to lay the failure of the Expos at his feet in particular. He seemed to be a relatively bit player in their overall history. He was just the guy holding the bag at the end. I don't think one guy can kill a franchise's fan base and its regional market goodwill value in only 3 yrs. That failure had to have had a lot of contributors. I would guess the Montreal fans who blame Luria are a little like the people who never forgave the Tigers for leaving the old ballpark. They were a group that were loyal but too small to make what they wanted to preserve economically viable. Owners don't owe vestigial fan bases permanent economic subsidy.

Documents case is a slam dunk. Even Marcia Clark and Chris Darden couldn't lose this case. Trump knows his only chance is to keep it from ever coming to trial.

I beg to differ. It is perfectly clear what he meant by that.

LOL - Problems of the 1%ers. I imagine if Schlissel were just a middle class schmuck he and his wife would probably already be divorced and he could just have married his girlfriend, but probably too much money at play for such a simple solution.

That's cold. Very cold.

Well, notifies him that they are going to try to fire him. Now he has to hope his lawyers win more than his football team. 🤣

I liked this line from Haller's statement though: "The unprofessional and unethical behavior is particularly egregious given that the Vendor at issue was contracted by the University for the sole purpose of educating student-athletes on, and preventing instances of, inappropriate sexual misconduct" I guess Tuck would have been fine if he had managed to engage in some appropriate misconduct. 🤷‍♀️

I don't even think it's only his ego, it's his shallowness. All he cares about is the world of money - since he has no principles or interests beyond that, he has no concept that outside his privileged bubble, millions of other people live lives where freedom, justice, morality and human rights matter.

And what do I do now if I really do need to get in touch with customer service for my security products?

But wasn't it because Luria continued to put capital into the team when the other minority holders wouldn't that left him in complete control of the team? Yes, no doubt by the end he just wanted out of Montreal, but how much of that was because he had already gotten to the end of his rope with what he was dealing with there? Bronfman - probably a smarter financier than the rest of them, had already given up his hope of making it work and bailed. Most people (at least not named Musk) don't invest a lot of money on an asset with an initial intention to trash it.

I also wonder if the creation of the Blue Jays wasn't a death knell for the Expos. A francophone baseball team wasn't going to maintain enough market interest in Canada unless it was exclusive. Once they lost the overflow into the anglo Ontario market where most of the baseball interest in Canada probably existed, they were likely doomed long term no matter what they did.

and it's also an argument to let a player concentrate on mastering the details of one position. Now to be fair, I don't see most of the Tiger 'wanderers' as candidates to be full time players anyway - with the possible exception of Vierling. If it had been me, once I saw that he could play a little 3rd I'd have let him concentrate on that as that is where he can ultimately be the best fit if he mastered it. He has enough arm, his platoon split is small. He's maybe a little long in the tooth, but OTOH, 3rd is not a completely new position for him.

Well, the good news is that I just happened across a story about Adrian Beltre, and he led the league in errors at least once early in his career. Some guys do get better.

From Scott Pelley's 60 minutes piece with Zelenskyy:

I'm sure they did, but one has to assume that claim is negotiable given enough $$. With the A's leaving, any expansion in the bay area will face some kind of objection from the Giants, which is probably why it will happen somewhere else.

If you were going to add a team in the Bay area, wouldn't you go to somewhere on the south end like San Jose?

I get the impression TPTB in Tampa aren't particularly interested in getting the team to their side of the bay. But there are nearly a million people living West of the Bay. If they pick a location that splits the difference between St. Pete and Clearwater they should be able to sell 30K, which is a small ballpark.

The rose tint on Henning's MiLB glasses is at least 2 full f-stops. I wouldn't put money on anything Lynn reports about any of these guys being able to play in the field. I'm glad Lynn is down on the farm reporting on these guys, just keep lots of salt handy when it comes to all those adjectives he so loves.

It's ironic that they say it's mostly the older generation that supports the GOP, but the Dems never have the heart to cut off SS payments. If they did it would be over in 5 min.

Only if you call having two pretty good teams fail in the WS 'getting way with it.' 😢

Offensive stats on each side very close to even. You can always use more pass rush (and also having holding called....), but Seattle's overall pass D was no better than the Lions. It came down to Goff making one throw behind an open receiver -or maybe the receiver ran a sloppy route. Either way it was an unforced error and Seattle's D didn't have much to do with it but have the luck to have the D-back, who could not have broken up the play if the throw had been on target, standing where the ball went. Add in two more losses of possession and you end up short in the end. But the expectation the Lions would have a top D this season were never realistic. Improved, sure. Middle of the pack - maybe. But you don't go from a pretty terrible D to a great D in one off-season.

World is getting to be a weird place. What possible point?