Joshua Codd

Vancouver, BC

[Jacob Calvin Meyer @jcalvinmeyer]

Chris Bassitt, MLBPA executive subcommittee member, on the salary cap debate and why he's against it:

“The salary cap doesn’t fix anything. If you look at every major sport with a salary cap, we have the best parity. The salary cap is not the issue. Having suppressed salaries across the league so owners make more money is not the answer.

"If I would tell you in 25 years, the Dodgers would be going to 10 World Series and winning seven of them, is that an issue? Because that’s the Patriots. The Chiefs have been to what, six or seven? The Philadelphia Eagles have been to four or five. The parity in our sport is better than any other sport.

"We will make changes to try to help the so-called bottom teams out, but a salary cap and suppressing salaries and taking from players to try to help the so-called bottom teams spend more? That’s not the answer. Because if you’re trying to make a competitive league across the board, we have proof that every single league [has] less parity than ours. So how can you sit there and say a salary cap is going to fix this when every single salary cap sport has less parity than ours? It makes no sense.

"Again, the root of the answer is not the salary cap, and the root of why owners want a salary cap is not for competitive balance.”

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The flexor mass is the bundle of muscles in the forearm that connects to the elbow and serves as a brake to take stress and strain off the UCL. Flexor injuries often precede those to the UCL, but they can be healed with rest. Time on IL varies and depends on severity of strain.

[Khelsilem @Khelsilem]

Rich people do drugs in expensive mansions, apartments, or condos, but few column inches are spent calling for arrest.

Instead, pundits blame poor people for being poor (not having secure, safe, affordable housing).

[Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @HousingLogement]

I call on @KenSimCity and @CityofVancouver as well as municipal authorities to put a moratorium in place on dismantling encampments. I also urge all governments to respect the principles of the National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada: https://t.co/bKgIj10buJ –MJ

[Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @HousingLogement]

I am concerned by reports that @CityofVancouver and @VancouverPD are dismantling the homeless encampment on Hastings Street in Vancouver. I visited the encampment last August and spoke with residents. We consistently heard that moving people puts them at risk. –MJ

[VANDU @VANDUpeople]

@Dave_Eby we have a seat for you too if you’d like to come watch the decampment.

[VANDU @VANDUpeople]

There are now approx. 100 constables on Hastings.

@VancouverPD are creating an 'exclusion zone' barring community & legal observers from entering, waiting for @CityofVancouver to arrive.

This paramilitary tactic was used against Wet'suwet'en land defenders & at Fairy Creek.

[VANDU @VANDUpeople]

💥 BREAKING: @VancouverPD have descended upon East Hastings Street to enclose the community and begin decampment. Police vans are blocking the street from Main to Columbia. Approximately 50 constables on the ground.

[Khelsilem @Khelsilem]

We often fixate on how much donations a municipal political party receives from real estate developers, but have we looked into how much a party receives from single detached house owners?

They are a substantial political class in our civic elections.

[Joshua Codd @jrcodd]

#Eby frustrated by… democracy LOL

[Anjali Appadurai @AnjaliApp]

For a party that's had 5 years of a majority & has seen its membership cut almost in half by disillusioned members who no longer see themselves reflected in the party's direction, 3 months of "delayed work" should be well worth the chance to change course. https://t.co/Wh49xvWFvt

[Joshua Codd @jrcodd]

Its crushing to me how we still pick & choose who matters & who doesnt. Our system makes it near impossible to own a home & then we vilify & harm ppl w/o a home cause theyre not rich? This story should be a wakeup call we need major social change & not just more $$ or “supply”

[Shayne Ramsay @Shayne_Ramsay]

Today I’m announcing that I have decided to retire as the CEO of BC Housing. On Saturday morning, May 7th, something shifted. I watched out my window as police descended on Crab Park. I had just returned, minutes earlier, from taking Fred for our regular morning walk. 1/10

[Andy McCullough @ByMcCullough]

The amount of exhaustion, despair and anger I’m hearing from people around baseball — people who have dedicated their lives to this industry — is remarkable. The owners are breaking the spirits of the people who run their businesses.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

MLB did this. The owners' arrogance. The mistreatment of players. As the league threatens to turn its lockout into a canceled Opening Day, the story of how something so very avoidable grew into Rob Manfred's disastrous outcome.

Free and unlocked at ESPN:
https://t.co/5WXA1tCHSl

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

This is a sad day for baseball.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

This, to me, is the most important part of the entire mess baseball finds itself in. It's something that exists in all sports and something all fans should recognize.

The players are the game.

Here's the rest of the piece, too: https://t.co/5WXA1tCHSl

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

BREAKING NEWS: The Lower Kootenay Band in B.C. says a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site close to a former residential school near Cranbrook. https://t.co/xl98DXEHPy

[Maria Torres @maria_torres3]

Josh Bell said he couldn't watch live Nationals games while he was out the last two weeks because he was blacked out from streaming.

***Ahem***

[Alana Robert @alanajrobert]

The COVID-19 outbreak at Stony Mountain in #Manitoba is the largest among federally-run correctional facilitates across the country.

316 total inmate infections. 744 inmates.

Over 60% of inmates are Indigenous.

https://t.co/3lm7cDZin4

[Jordan Stein @JordanSteinAB]

@Scribulatora This dumb take is based on the fairy tale notion that effort and wealth are correlated.