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A Göbekli Tepe fan account

[Alex @trilling_wire]

@LouisMend @charltonlive Utter rubbish explain to your mums that yes mothers day comes around once a year, but so do #cafc wins at this rate

[Céspedes Family BBQ @CespedesBBQ]

your first-place Chicago White Sox

[Alex @trilling_wire]

@Dzikhead @whitesox That's disgusting. Exposing children to thr White Sox. I'd rather my kids major in Musical Theater.

[Doc @evandluzak]

Welcome to the show @B_mont_

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

BRADEN MONTGOMERY WALKS IT OFF IN HIS MLB DEBUT 🤯

[Mark O'Haire @MarkOHaire]

Alan Partridge tries to explain the format of the 1994 World Cup finals with the never-to-be-forgotten Soccermeter.

[Alex @trilling_wire]

@Plenty_of_Shots One of my all time favorite Charlton goals

[Andrew Johnson @GburgAddress]

Maybe the @ChicagoBears should stop buying lattes and avocado toast so they wouldn’t need so many government handouts?

[Austin Guy @Dzikhead]

@landon20s

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

the most clarifying thing I’ve learned by paying attention to MLB labor relations for the last decade is that some of you are just losers. you are sad losers who wish that a billionaire would smile at you for a fleeting moment while sticking his hand in your wallet

[Rational Yankees Fan @rationalyankee]

“Tie the cap to league revenue” sounds fair until you realize owners spent 30 years engineering what counts as league revenue.

The Braves don’t just sell tickets. They own The Battery. Mixed-use development. Hotels. Restaurants. Parking. None of it counts as baseball related revenue.

Cubs own the rooftops across from Wrigley. Rangers built Globe Life District. Cardinals own Ballpark Village. The Mets are building a casino.

The players fill those seats and attract the fans. The players make that real estate valuable. The players are the product that turns a parking lot into a $500M development.

But Freddie Freeman’s contract counts against the cap. The Battery’s hotel revenue doesn’t count toward the pool.

The NFL cap works because owners can’t spin gate revenue into a shell LLC and hide it from the players. MLB owners can and do.

A cap tied to “league revenue” in baseball is a ceiling built on a rigged floor.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

I am going to say this many times on the podcast over the next year, but I may as well put it here for posterity:

If an MLB team has debt, it is because the owner has intentionally amassed it to lessen the tax burden on their other business interests

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[artemis ౨ৎ @fagholmes]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH. THE LEMKIN INSTITUTE PUT OUT A 3RD RED ALERT FOR THE GENOCIDE OF TRANS AMERICANS. INDIA IS ERASING TRANS INDIANS. RESEARCHERS SAY UK IS THE MOST ANTI TRANS DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD. WE WOULDNT HAVE PRIDE MONTH WITHOUT TRANS PEOPLE. ADVOCATE 4 YOUR TRANS FRIENDS.

[Alex @trilling_wire]

@CespedesBBQ Will Venable easily manager of the season so far. Jacob Gonzalez made it 11 MLB debuts for the White Sox this season. To be five over with so many youngsters is insane.

[Alex @trilling_wire]

@JamesFox917 Every time Liberty loses I win

[Alex @trilling_wire]

@soxmachine_josh In short (no pun intended): No. This core needs OFs and probably more pitching depth. But middle infield, or infield in general, is pretty well covered. There's a case for the waves of prospects" view. I'm not saying take Emerson, just agreeing that ETA isn't a huge factor at SS

[Josh Nelson - Sox Machine @soxmachine_josh]

With how well Colson Montgomery, Miguel Vargas, Chase Meidroth, Jacob Gonzalez, and Caleb Bonemer are playing - is readiness as big of a factor as we thought a couple of months ago?

[Kyle Blomquist for U.S. Congress @BlomquistForMI]

What terrifies these people the most isn't that someone like Abdul might lose; it's that someone with Abdul's politics will win exactly where they've told people Abdul's politics can't win for decades. And once that spell is broken, their time is up.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

It shouldn't be this hard to afford a second bag of groceries.

To send your kid to the doctor or dentist.

To know that the job you've worked yesterday is going to be there for you tomorrow.

Y'all...in the richest, most powerful country in the world...it just shouldn't be this hard.