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  2. Damn. RIP John Michael.
  3. For marketers or accountants or whatever, there isn’t collective bargaining or payment based on revenue. Those are transportable marketable skills. Teams have a choice— hire an accountant within the local pay band, or don’t. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to compare the salaries of a WNBA player to WNBA admin employee. Those salaries are based on local labor conditions and basically are what they are. Clark and Wilson are not the examples here and a future CBA isn’t about them. There are 170 (maybe?) WNBA players. If anyone between number 50-170 (I am being generous) tell a front office owner “I can make more as a teacher or accountant using my degree” the owner can absolutely give them a handshake and go grab someone from a developmental league or one of the undrafted players. 170 is a tiny pool and because of title IX we fortunately have plenty of D1 colleague athletes to vie for those spots. You are absolutely correct that the ladies have more bargaining power if the league makes money. That’s kind of at the heart of the whole system. None of this is unique to women’s basketball. U.S. olympians in multiple sports are among the best in the world at their craft and the vast majority of them are faced with tough decisions about finances and when you go get a real world job. Michael Phelps or Katie Ledecky has Caitlin Clark-like leverage and bargaining. The fourth place finisher is likely more marketable outside the pool. For most of its existence the WNBA has been closer to “Olympic sport” level interest than it has been to major professional level interest from the viewing public and the salaries have reflected that. It’s in a weird growing era.
  4. The saturday game is on Fox. I will be there and so will two other Surly's confirmed. @Brisketexan and @Sbbruin I am right behind the Pole. (Not on it....)
  5. Mittens

    Ozzy has passed.

    Not gonna lie, it's pretty awesome that they threw him a helluva goodbye concert and he left right after. Godspeed, Metal GOAT!
  6. Iceman

    Ozzy has passed.

    RIP Madman. one of kind and admittedly imperfect. One hellova showman and frontman.
  7. Ozzy gave a lot of us 24 points. RIP to a legend.
  8. RIP Will they scatter his ashes on the Alamo?
  9. i think utsa fans show up huge
  10. SHARON!!!
  11. Someone with more talent than me should create an AI deep fake version of the Trump piss tape and start spreading it around the internet
  12. Just found out a real good friend got wounded today with his team. They were evacuating some wounded when they also got hit. Fuck Putin.
  13. I would take the over, but at the moment Paxton +5 seems about the right line.
  14. I presume that when you stop, it will be a Monday. Because you hate Mondays.
  15. I get it, trust me. That’s my default setting. But I’m trying, Rico.
  16. @Rip76 Your handle certainly applies today. RIP 76.
  17. That should be blasted everywhere on all legitimate news outlets. If you think that is okay then you are a fucking asshole that I wish nothing but misery for.
  18. tbone_

    Ozzy has passed.

    Paranoid was the first song I ever played live with a band.
  19. Yeah today Dotard was asked a question about Epstein, and like 10 seconds later he was accusing Obama of committing treason. Just for fun, imagine Biden being asked a question about Hunter or something and a short while later he’s talking about putting George W. Bush in jail. It would probably have largely been ignored as this has been.
  20. In the mood for a smokin’ Sugaree? Here’s one I’m revisiting DP29, the only 6-disc, double double-wide DP release. This is the 2nd track on disc one. Giddyup.
  21. Well, shit. Not really a surprise, but this still sucks. RIP Ozzy.
  22. and Open Door is up 159% in the last week...
  23. Rimbo

    Ozzy has passed.

    His memoir, I Am Ozzy, is one of the best and funniest books I've ever read, and I'll recommend it to anyone.
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