Any claim that this is anything other than retribution for unionizing is horseshit. If it was merely a matter of numbers not adding up - and Ricketts no longer being willing to eat the losses - he’d try to sell the business to someone else and thus recoup some of his losses. Read more

Get a load of this snitch! Read more

Courier winding up like Hideo Nomo and whipping the package into your TV screen. Read more

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The founders were pieces of shit, pretty much without exception, and I have no problem with tearing down every likeness of them ever assembled. But it does not follow that because Confederate statues are coming down, all statues must come down. Even a very small child knows better than that. Read more

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I was okay with the racist mascot, their flight to Cobb County, and their fleecing of taxpayers, but this assault on urban planners’ sensibilities is the final straw. Read more

I’m not an economist, but Noll and Szymanski are. (It’s my journalism degree that I got from a vending machine.) Read more

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Neil deMause is one of the best-respected writers in the U.S. on the subject of franchise economics and stadium finance. He’s been covering this subject for decades, in greater detail than just about anyone. His book, Field of Schemes, was on the leading edge of covering the… Read more

Davis’s bilking of Adelson was expertly memorialized by Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. for ESPN The Magazine back in April. Read more

I am doxing here but fuck him

I used to eat sandwiches consisting of Duncan Hines frosting and Ben and Jerry’s between Pop-Tarts. Read more

Doesn’t seem like such a raw deal to me. In Mark Davis, Las Vegas certainly got bangs for their buck. Read more

Homer? Arigato! Mr. J Votto. Read more

If you think Dan is pissed, imagine how angry his viewer must be. Read more

A fresh lawsuit from T.J. Maxx, funded by Peter Thiel, should be filed momentarily. Read more

Regarding the location of Arena Corinthians, the reason that the presence of nearby slums shouldn't come as a surprise is that in the 1970s/80s the military dictatorship forced poor residents from downtown and dumped them in massive public housing projects out there, then forgot about them - the area has the lowest… Read more

Aesthetically jarring? I dunno, the highly repetitive expressed structural elements give the stadium a wonderful sense of rythym. Theyre large enough to signify importance, yet are delicate enough that they do not impose. The added canopy from the renovation is rather unremarkable but useful. I'm curious as to how you… Read more