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Rich Hill’s Blister

@blisterrich.bsky.social

A mix of baseball hockey and political shitposting #AlwaysLA #GoKingsGo

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Eugene Freedman@eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Most teams are earning substantial profits annually. Teams like the Pirates earn between $70-100M in profit, all of it derived from revenue sharing. Their team's value increases annually as well. Can't afford and refuse to take a smaller dividend are not the same thing.

Joe Sheehan@sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 3d ago

I still don't know what "can't afford" means. If an investment in an expensive baseball player goes sideways, how does that impact the owner of a baseball team or his family? Do people just not get the gap between "a baseball player's salary" and "the wealth involved in owning a sports franchise"?

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5d ago

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.