@squidgerugby.bsky.social have you talked about "PREM Rugby" and the franchise model anywhere? I know the pro/rel has been mostly hypothetical for a few years and the financials are a mess, but I still find it incredibly disappointing
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Back-to-back World Cup games held at 40 and 50-year-old stadiums, one of which was privately built. Remember that the next time a politician tells you they need a new taxpayer-funded stadium to attract world-class mega-events. It's bullshit.
drafts are inherently anti-labor and that's literally not how sports economics works hope this helps 🩶
Emmitt Fitz-Hume@efitzhume.bsky.social · 4w agoDrafts: 1) Encourage parity, which serves to increase overall fan interest and thus league revenue, which increases (how, depending on league) overall player compensation. 2) Tend to match players with team who most values the player’s skills. Without drafts, most pro leagues would not survive.
It’s the true US football fans I feel sorry for. Years of satisfying moaning about the dodgy ref and how you’d have beaten Belgium if Balogun had been on the pitch denied by an autocrat’s whim
if I was the head of FIFA and you came to me and said you invented a technology that takes the most exciting and emotional events in sports and just kind of muffles them, but also operates in a completely arbitrary way and doesn't solve the "problem" of referee errors, I would shoot you with a gun
underrated aspect of free college is the amount of pressure that could be relieved from youth sports
victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · last mo.i kinda love this answer, it’s very illuminating. it’s not about female athletes at all, it’s about the fragile egos of delusional psychopathic parents who want returns on their perceived investments
mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain
you know what would solve the offside rule? if you just moved it back a bit then goals that are just a bit off are now just a bit on. No one ever would complain about that when a goal was scored against their team that was just a little bit off. And the new marginal offside calls people would like.
(watching The Last Boy Scout) on review, number 41 los angeles pull out a gun and shoot people. the decision is ARREST FOR MURDER
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
Both Messi and Ronaldo have complimented Trump so it's not about either men's actual politics. Here's my best explanation for this phenomenon: authoritarians think Ronaldo is better because they're fucking stupid
Andrew Martin@andrewmartin.bsky.social · last mo.Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.
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
Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute
Benjamin Alvarez@benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 2mo agoMeanwhile on the White House South Lawn
Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016
alot of problem with cops is 1) they're legally allowed to do anything if they're scared 2) they're trained to be afraid of everything
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe agent testified about being in the SUV surrounded by protesters and said, "I thought I was going to get drug out of the vehicle and, you know, assaulted or beat down."
I kinda get it from the Knicks’ perspective, I mean, I, too, thought I was doing pretty well and then Donald Trump forced himself into my life and the vibes have gotten a lot worse and I feel like the winning has ended.
Replay in all sports must be abolished. Enough, not worth it.
@edsbs.bsky.social Alabama or England
Adam Chapman@adamchapman.bsky.social · 2mo ago'For 66 years Valerie Smith kept a bomb in her garden and invited her neighbours to play with it.' Come for the classic local news story, stay for a fine example of the full fat Norwich accent which has to be heard to be believed.
They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.
Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud
Remember this when certain state funerals are planned in the future and people get their knickers tied in a bunch because people aren’t sufficiently grieving, and call for them to lose jobs and such.
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoSen. Roger Marshall on high gas prices: "Freedom is not free. Americans are gonna have to make some sacrifices."
Explaining to a toddler they’re going to spill and then they spill and naturally they’re mad at you about it is very much like Current Events
A thing about watching the Olympics I really like is how no one ever tells me to bet on anything
"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 6mo ago“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”
No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again. And nothing above is hyperbole. God, but you are not a leader for this time.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 6mo agoDemocrats want commonsense reform for ICE: End the roving patrols and racial profiling. Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police. Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.