Breaking: The Bengals are headed overseas! Expect an announcement from the team within the next hour… Joe Burrow and the guys will be headed to Madrid to take on the Falcons. It’ll be either week six or week nine… But it is a done deal. Watch @WLWT News 5 beginning at 4pm
🚨 here's the chain of events you need to see..
Spencer Pratt sits down with CBS for a full hour..
CBS fact-checks Karen Bass on camera..
CBS "gets the call"..
CBS cuts the interview to 5 minutes..
Pratt posts about it publicly.. calls it a hit piece..
the internet loses its mind.. demands the real version..
CBS quietly drops a 30-minute extended cut..
and here's the part nobody's connecting..
the only reason any of this happened is because Pratt went public.. if he stayed quiet.. you never see 30 seconds of that interview.. let alone 30 minutes..
a sitting mayor allegedly called a major network after getting fact-checked.. and the network folded.. until the public got loud enough that folding the other way was the safer move..
that's not journalism.. that's damage control with a rewind button..
the system worked for someone today.. just not for you.
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Nick Wright says he’s got Kobe Bryant as the 8th greatest player ever, and he was never the best player in the world:
“I know people get mad at that take, but here’s the problem and the reason Kobe was never the best player in the world. Because once Kobe got great, call it 99, he wasn’t great yet, but I’ll give him 99 once you started seeing flashes. From 99 until 2002, Shaquille O’Neal was the best player in the world. And then from 2003 until 2007, Tim Duncan was the best player in the world. You know how I know Tim Duncan was the best player in the world at that time? Because he won three championships in five years. He won two MVPs. He was the best player. He was the best player until that 48 special by LeBron in 2007. LeBron was the best player in the world from that moment until 2018. So it was Shaq, it was Duncan, it was then Bron. At no point was Kobe the best player in the world.”
(Via @WhatsWrightShow)
A Cy Young Award Winner who was falsely accused and proven innocent of all charges in a court of law can’t get a contract but Marcel Ozuna can choke his wife with a cast then immediately get a DUI and play anywhere. Make it make sense.
Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A.
If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.
Bengals trade for 28 y/o DT: “He’s ancient, he’s basically 30 his career will be cooked soon”
Ravens sign 31 + 39 y/o DEs: “Smart, savy veteran pickups. These guys are both still playing at a high level and have a lot left in the tank”
A major study found that pesticide mixtures increased:
-Childhood leukemia by 23%
-Brain cancer by 36%
-Overall childhood cancer by 30%
And yet we’re still debating whether to protect these chemicals?
Remove pesticide protections from the Farm Bill.