David Molnar

all written in the same handwriting, because why let one good thing go unruined?

Vivek Ramaswamy is going to Hell.

ooooh, I hate when that happens.

(tbf everything is about labor)

The Protect College Sports Act got 77 votes in the Senate. It doesn't do what its backers say it does, but it DOES achieve a lot of other things. One of them is perpetuate the diversion of $$ from black football players to a largely white class of ADs, coaches, and agents slate.com/culture/2026...

Ahead of dälek's return to the stage in North America and in support of their latest album, Brilliance of a Falling Moon, Today they are sharing a brand new track which did not appear on the album, titled “Surrealist”. dalek.lnk.to/surrealist @daleknwk.bsky.social

What is an "unspoken threat"? The Blazers have nowhere better to go and zero offers on the table. Either the team is threatening to leave or it isn't.

Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣

I do not know what this means, but I ❤️ it.

same, but taking the Subject and General tests of the GRE on the same day. I don't even have an excuse.

Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year.

I think anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together would have immediately deduced the overlap between “Mr. Beast fan” and “person who reads books” was so small as to approach the Planck length, but now I’m legitimately thinking about reviewing this because I’m curious how bad it could be

The NFL doesn't have "markets," it has 30 TV studios. Two-thirds of revenue comes in through the national-TV deals; there is no local TV, and successful teams sell 600-650K tickets. There is absolutely nothing connecting the business models of the two leagues. It's apples and concussions.

For Zuck, people aren't co-equals with needs that are as real and important as his own. For Zuck, people are problems to be solved. He embodies Terry Pratchett's maxim (voiced by Granny Weatherwax) that "sin is when you treat people like things." 20/

I just had a gyro. Here's what Christopher Nolan gets wrong about Greek culture.

and then what happened

That Claude ad fucking suxxxxxxxxxxxxx

🔥🧵 🔥🧵 🔥🧵

It’s just amazing how Peter Seitz ruled on the reserve clause more than 50 years ago, and multiple generations of owners still think about baseball players like a constipated Gussie Busch.

Free Joe Sheehan!

David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” was released on this date in 1972.

Brief rant: Yes it's cool that Brunson took less money so the Knicks could build a champion under the salary cap. But he shouldn't have *had* to. Salary caps are just tools billionaires use to suppress wages, and no one gets upset because the labor (pro athletes) make so much money. 1/5

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If you take nothing else from this feed before you unfollow, take this: MLB and its team owners do not, never have, and never will give a single flying fuck about what the fans think. If they’re citing “the fans,” they’re just lying.

Paige is the white girl who should be receiving the admiration Caitlin Clark gets imo

please, I beg to have to understand baseball trades in these terms, it seems like such a good time!

Waffles, pancakes, etc.

another point in why a cap/floor system is inherently anti-labor is that the cap/floor system gives owners more power/leverage that can lead to much more union busting. if owners are given a system that they can wield more power with, there will be attempts to ensure they get what they want.

I will say this again and again until the cap fetishists get it. There is a 1:1 correlation between "leagues that have broken their unions" and "leagues with a payroll cap." Let that be a clue as to who wins in a cap system.

SANTA DELIVERED A NO-HITTER ON MEMORIAL DAY 🎅

Oh yeah this is the good shit

Wishing a happy birthday to Decoy Ohtani!

Often parties begin by taking positions in bargaining. Unanimous support for a salary cap is a position. It's not an interest. The more the clubs (that's what this multi-employer group likes to be called) talk about salary caps the slower the bargaining will go. 1/ www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Reaction to the Rob Thomson/Don Mattingly swap by the Phillies is posted free at the site. Read, love, subscribe. Need money for my ballroom. www.joesheehan.com

Iggy Pop, 1969 Topps style, in honor of his birthday today

old man wanna be rich rich man wanna be king and a king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything

top shelf.

I forgot to buy peanuts and crackerjack.

Out this Friday is the new album from dälek, Brilliance of a Falling Moon, and our friends @bandcamp have made it their Album Of The Day! Read and listen at dalek.lnk.to/bandcamp "They are revolutionary in word and deed with an envelope-pushing sound to back it up. A rare thing indeed."

But Grammarly has just rolled out an AI tool that is so obviously contemptuous of writing that they might as well have called it "Go fuck yourself, by Grammarly." 42/

Congratulations to Mark Teixeira on his big primary win in Texas. I am sure he will be a totally shameful and absolutely forgettable member of congress. It's basically what he's running on. defector.com/mark-teixeir...

Craig naIls it. I wrote on r.s.b 30 years ago that ”competitive balance” is code for “the players make too much money.” Still true. Cannot underline enough that the owners don’t care about competitive balance. It’s just the line that most effectively cons the rubes.

"Math is not true because we tell kids it is true; math is true because they can find that truth for themselves. We can find these truths together."

Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆

“Fate of Castellanos” is my favorite Poe.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox, 1977 Topps style