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[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@nicolegelinas Or he's the mayor of a city whose team is in the championship of a major sports league.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@esidery @AdamSchefter It's actually not dysfunctional. Political leaders in Springfield were always hesitant to give out public funds to build a new stadium. Enough people were in favor of it to make it a possibility, but they weren't able to convince enough people to win a vote. Pretty standard.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

Never let anyone tell you that the political preferences of major market actors are not as important as fundamentals. Oil inventories are collapsing, but you wouldn't know it based on price action.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

OIL FUTURES EXTEND LOSSES, US CRUDE DOWN BY $5 A BARREL

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@hecubian_devil Honest question because I have very little knowledge on the subject: is she campaigning that she'll be just like her father or is she campaigning as "I'm not like my father"?

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@TheStalwart It was always a stretch for the odds to be above 50%. Hell, it's probably a stretch to have them at 46%.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@BarstoolChief McCaskey is far more worried about his legacy being he had to give up 100% family ownership of the Bears in order to build a new stadium in Illinois. He’ll gladly move the team over the border to avoid that.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@JonesOnTheNBA It's fair to say "don't make arguing about politics online your whole personality" we could all use that reminder, but there is a difference between holding that thought and being aloof and incurious about what's going on in your country.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@pblest I don't know, I think that tracks perfectly with both the bombastic level of corruption in Trump 2.0 and the nat-like level of attention span of modern America.

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@TechAthletics @TexasTechFB Your program should get the Death Penalty.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

Alright, so this is far worse than I initially thought. Essentially, Tech got a friendly judge/politician to throw out the oldest rule in sports so they could have a better shot at the playoff, knowing that an appeal couldn’t be done until the season is done.

[Christopher Kratovil @chris_kratovil]

As a veteran Texas litigator who has fought my fair share of TRO/TI battles, several things to be aware of regarding the temporary injunction order issued to allow Brendan Sorsby to play for Texas Tech this season:

(1) The temporary injunction obtained by Sorsby is valid through the date of trial. So by setting the trial date for after the college football season ends the Lubbock County state district court effectively awards Sorsby ultimate relief; he can play the full season under the TI, excluding only the first two games carved out in the text of the TI order.

(2) In Texas a TI is subject to immediate (“interlocutory”) appeal. The appeal will go to the 7th Court of Appeals in Amarillo, Texas.

(3) The problem with the appeal is that even an accelerated appeal of the TI order is likely to take at least 9 to 12 months, meaning the college football season will be long over before the Amarillo Court of Appeals affirms or vacates the TI.

(4) The only way the interlocutory appeal of the TI order gets resolved before the college football season ends is if the Amarillo Court of Appeals orders expedited briefings and decides the appeal “on the papers” without oral argument. But even such an expedited appeal is likely to run well into the college football season.

(5) At bottom, as Diego Pavia and now Brendan Sorsby illustrate, these sort of emergency injunctive proceedings are a huge problem for the NCAA: hometown judges (in Texas elected at the county level) err on the side of granting the TI to allow the key player to play for Hometown U, and the college football season is much shorter than the appellate process. So the preliminary ruling on the emergency injunction effectively decides the entire case and, if granted, allows the player to play a full season.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@bykevinclark If I'm reading this right, it's a temporary injunction, meaning the there will be a full hearing on the issue and a final decision will be made then, so this does not mean he's won his case.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@samhaselby I've seen him write about all three things.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@hecubian_devil https://t.co/A1IjYarNL5. They have a free version and a premium version where you see all jobs in all states for $5 a month.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@MeriwetherFarms You reap what you sow.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@matthewjswalker Both the Greeks and the Romans would disagree.

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@CathyYoung63 Counterpoint: she is very much a moron.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@dilanesper How exactly was she cancelled? Wasn't it just a bunch of randos online hating on her novel for vague "woke" reasons?

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

Holy shit.

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

The last time the Knicks had a lead in the NBA Finals was June 17th, 1994.

Yes, the same day as this:

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

@mattyglesias Yeah, that tends to happen when you don't raise the minimum wage as inflation goes up.

[John Gordon @GoodTimesGordon]

If this is meant to shore up confidence in Platner, then he and his team are not living in reality.

The odds of Dems winning the Senate without winning Maine are low, but growing.

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

MAINE POLL - Senate (Platner internal)

🟦 Graham Platner: 49%
🟥 Susan Collins: 45%
⬜️ Not sure: 6%

@ppppolls | 6/2-3 | 670 RV | ±3.8%
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