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  1. The key thing you are missing is that the people on the “administrative side” have transferable skills and a market value that they can take down the road to a variety of other employers. That is true of basically all of them from league commissioner down to marketer, accountant, physical therapist, secretary. Women point guards do not have transferable skills they can take elsewhere. So you either want this league to be run professionally, or you don’t. Or I guess you ask the secretary to take a pay cut so Kelsey Plum gets a raise? Do you want a Deloitte-quality CEO or just some person willing to give this a shot? A huge problem in sports media is allowing sports writers to write about things that are really economics or business.
  2. “Fair” and “percentage of “revenue” has no fucking place in the conversation around a league that’s not covering expenses. Coughing up 50 percent of 11 billion in a league that makes money is an entirely different mathematical proposition than coughing up 10 percent of 200 million in a league that loses money. If you don’t get that, I am sorry you are in the vast majority of people who cannot understand big numbers. And arguably, at the point the business people do deserve a higher share in the WNBA since as Fantana has pointed out— they are the ones who might be able to make the numbers eventually work. The argument right now is to funnel a greater percentage of money to the players and take it from, what, exactly— the marketers? Reinvestment into the league? Go ahead and hire some bargain basement execs and see how this goes.
  3. This is categorically not true. Thanks to a combination of no salary caps, unsavory oligarch ownership, and in some places big-spending owners attached to very profitable men’s soccer clubs who have their women’s team as a vanity project— a top tier (like, maybe a dozen) of American players can land big salaries. The vast majority make nowhere near that much and it needs to be repeated: that is mostly thanks to no salary cap which means teammates are all really on the struggle bus. This debate about women’s sports overseas and especially Europe is so unanchored in reality. In every metric from fan attendance to participation at the youth league Europe lags far behind America in women’s sports. There is no mass audience for women’s basketball in Europe, viewership and attendance lags well below the W. The W is actually trying to put the league on a viable footing and have some equity in the revenue sharing (hence the CBA, a thing that does not exist in overseas leagues and the non-stars make basically nothing). The salaries for Americans in Turkey at the top clubs are sort of like if Hal Steinbrenner and Jerry Jones decided to start women’s teams as a vanity project and pay whatever they felt like. Sure, you’d get some big money for 5-10 players but it’s not a way to grow the sport or make it a sustainable way of life for even most pro-level players. Watching these sportswriters and players talk about salaries and benefits in Ekaterinburg pre-2022 was especially crazy making. They weren’t getting paid to play basketball. They were getting paid to serve as a cut-out in a complicated money laundering and international sanctions evading scheme for one of Putin’s favored oligarchs. And yeah, that was a pretty sweet gig but is wholly irrelevant for the economics of a legitimate women’s basketball league. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4456252/2023/04/27/wnba-salaries-overseas/
  4. It is utterly grotesque and Soviet for an intelligence official to publicly comment on prosecutions or indictments. It’s hard to come back from, too.
  5. Usyk gave a counter-punching masterclass. Dude is special, and he’s doing this at 38 years old. Olympic gold, cleaned out the crusierweight ranks and then did the same at heavyweight while giving away height and size. Fury, Joshua, Dubois all X 2. Usyk would be a great in any era.
  6. Usyk obliterated Dubois with a monster left hook in the fifth. Huge win over an excellent opponent. We’ve talked about it on this thread but the heavyweight ranks in boxing are actually good right now. And it’s time to start talking about Usyk as one of the best to ever do it. I do think the language barrier and not being an American holds him back from being the kind of cultural icon other greats have been.
  7. Gross all around but you couldn’t water-board that out of me if I was “businessman” George Houraney.
  8. Total slop for the smooth-brained no matter who is in them.
  9. Yeah, man nothing worse than drinking booze with a lady and then getting laid. Totally against what I stand for. Wait, whut?
  10. Really he should get to be eligible twice. If Obama hadn’t helped Hilary he would have won bigly and been able to accomplish more. So that one didn’t count. And of course Joe stole 2020. So that’s two terms he didn’t get. But the election part we can skip because he already won those, we are just giving the makeup terms he was denied.
  11. No. Categorically no. No one uses the West Wing without going through Susie.
  12. You have to have all the buddies do it too and put them in a fine leather binding.
  13. Trump: I don’t draw pictures. Totally fake. Also Trump: One of the things I most enjoy is drawing pictures and then signing them.
  14. This stuff is extremely stage managed and this Admin, more than perhaps any other, is EXTREMELY cautious about the use of symbols and signaling around the President. DOJ and the FBI have press rooms and places for photo-ops. Nothing is ever done at the White House without the explicit aim to show direct presidential support and direction.
  15. He literally had DC Draino in the West Wing and let Pam Bondi hand out Epstein shit to him there after the election. “He didn’t say it personally” is splitting some extremely fine hairs.
  16. The White House invited a bunch of internet people to come over, then gave them a bunch of binders labeled “Epstein Files Tranche 1” and did a news release.
  17. Begging the “Epstein is an intel op” people to realize that spooks are government bureaucrats and any plan where step one is “make a failed math teacher into one of the wealthiest money managers in NYC” does not make it past the first budget review. It likely gets you a counseling session. Collecting kompromat is a few tens of thousands to hire janky prostitutes and make a grainy video. For the money spent on flying celebrities to kid diddler island, the Mossad or CIA or whatever could have simply downloaded child porn onto every politician’s computer and had some left over to outfit all their agents with poison-dagger shoes.
  18. This is honestly going to make it so much worse for him. Rich CEO having a midlife crisis and birddogging the 26 year old assistant is something you can work through in marriage counseling. Taking the HR lady who is the same age as your wife to see Coldplay will cut so much deeper. It’s simply “I like her a lot more than you” and that can’t be bounced back from.
  19. My guess is that Maxwell told people she was putting together a pervy birthday letter book for Epstein and some flack at DJT org wrote it and he signed it. Maybe he drew the naked lady.
  20. Trump has a favorite musical and it’s “Cats.”
  21. “Donald Trump doesn’t send typed letters” ok let’s see what Google images has out there.
  22. That sketch is giving some strong @THUJONE vibes.
  23. lol only a fucking tech CEO could produce a statement like this.
  24. If the dude raises his hands above his head and shouts “Wooo! Coldplay!” the cam moves on. But you have to be a legit sociopath to be capable of reacting like that in the middle of the “oh shit” moment. People are generally terrible at lying and pretending to do/feel something they aren’t doing or feeling. A handful of people in the world can pull it off up close and with cameras on and they have to rehearse and get paid tons of money.
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