If Theo wants to know, my pitch for a better postseason format involves a throwback best-of-nine World Series and is organized thusly:
1) Expand MLB to 32 teams. That's four four-team divisions in each league.
2) The postseason field is 16 teams—eight division winners, and the
What a time to be a New York sports fan! Yanks are playing great, the Knicks brought it home, and the city is buzzin’. Enjoy the parade today—NY is rocking! 🗽🏆
Members of the Knicks front office partially credit James Dolan "getting distracted" by the Sphere for the team's success in recent years, according to team sources
Inside the transformation of the Knicks from dysfunctional to champions
At Sunday’s Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Archbishop Hicks joined New Yorkers celebrating the Knicks’ victory.
The No. 11 Knicks jersey carried an added significance: Archbishop Hicks is the 11th Archbishop of New York.
Within one 24 hour period, Trump:
- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion
All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.
But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."