Just Ken

I know I ain't nobodys bargain, but, hell, a little touch-up and a little paint

[Bird Law Expert 🇺🇦 @RealBirdLawyer]

While you’re busy clowning Niners’ owner Jed York for patronizing an Ohio trailer park hooker, here’s a reminder that Bob Kraft did the same thing but got a judge to kick the case on a dubious technicality after Epstein recommended him a particular lawyer

[Derek Brown @DBro_FFB]

@mikeMaher @ShoeGuySteve12 @sportstalkmatt Yep a shitty pizza prob about the size of a small was $70. Absolutely insane

[Jake @EconomPic]

How do the Dodgers carry an unlimited payroll?

Filings uncovered by @NickNemo17 show roughly $1.45 billion in debt for American Media Productions, the entity behind SportsNet LA and the Dodgers' 25-year, $8.35 billion Charter deal, sitting on the balance sheets of 5 life insurance companies tied to or controlled by the Dodgers' own ownership group.

i.e. the Dodgers get a sweetheart deal on their TV rights from a media company their owners co-own, financed by insurance companies those same owners control.

Because ownership sits on both sides, as borrower and lender, the setup functions as a closed loop:

-When RSNs hit turbulence, banks enforce covenants or force restructuring. Here the lenders are insurers the owners manage, so the capital stays patient and cash flow to the team never gets choked.
-MLB taxes net local revenue at 34% but allows deductions for debt service and interest tied to running the network. Carrying $1.45 billion in media debt on AMP's balance sheet generates interest expense that shrinks reportable net TV income and the resulting revenue-sharing bill.

Then there's the payroll itself. Over $1 billion of it is deferred, owed to 9 players through 2047. Pushing that cash out frees up money today, some of which is going toward servicing that same debt, and kicks the actual bill to a stretch of decades many of today's owners won't be around for.

LA built a (seemingly illegal) structure that captures its own interest yield, shelters TV income from league revenue sharing, and helps fund payroll dominance in the process.

[Latios @EpicSonicLatios]

Keep politics out of sports! Unless of course it's your politics in which case it's mandatory to shove it down other people's throats

[𝙋𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙘𝙠 @PistolRick]

Explain this

[Herbo @ManLikeGinola]

Morons calling journalism snitching and then wonder why every single sports show is just slop content now

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

When the time is right:

I am extremely, extremely excited for our episode about this.

👀

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

I've noticed each member of Green Day has aged into a different type of beautiful lesbian

[NBACentel @TheNBACentel]

The Lakers are considering a potential jersey patch partnership with Turning Point USA

(Via @SharmsCharania)

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

They’re selling the game to private equity right out from underneath you — just like they did with everything else in your life — and you still want to give them the salary cap they want

[Dan Clark @DanClarkSports]

The 48-69 Kansas City Royals have largely escaped the national media spotlight this summer - which is quite bizarre.

2025: 82-80
2024: 86-76

It has been an enormous regression for a team that, less than 24 months ago, appeared to be building something good.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Right-wing host John Fredericks: So Collins knew—no, her team knew. She’s got a very savvy team. They know that even without her, Blanche has the votes to get confirmed. So this was a vote to help her get elected, to help her with Maine voters, but it does nothing to hurt Todd Blanche because he’s already got the votes.

[🧟‍♀️ @smacofsky]

Everyone who is mad at Pablo Torres for his kawhi reporting, are the exact reason why journalism is dead. If you do actual contentious investigative journalism, all these idiot cattle will just go “it’s not that serious bro.” It’s just completely and utterly dead.

[Pablo Torre Finds Out @pablofindsout]

#NewProfilePic

[Pete Sweeney @pgsween]

The Chiefs have announced they have shed "GEHA Field" beginning with the 2026 season. Back to simply, "Arrowhead Stadium."

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If you work for a living, you are working class.

Trying to divide those who are struggling to survive only benefits the mega-wealthy and powerful who benefit and profit from our division and exploitation.

They fear class solidarity more than election outcomes.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure on electing state Supreme Court justices, dealing another setback to Republican lawmakers trying to overturn a decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. https://t.co/2Vrq0owKr0

[Ryan Landreth @ryan_landreth]

They didn't even trade Jon Schreiber or Starling Marte, let alone Michael Wacha. Calling these fools incompetent would be an insult to the incompetent. Just completely incapable and undeserving of cleaning the toilets for a professional baseball team, let alone running one.

[Drew Banks @Drizzy_Dru29]

JJ says that 75% of their every day players were inquired for or asked about.

Didn’t know it was possible for the Royals to look worse than they do right now, but JJ you did it pal.