This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️
Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
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.”
Italy's Lisa Vitozzi wins the first-ever Italian gold medal in biathlon history — and bows to the crowd before crossing the finish line, queen
and Italy has officially won its most gold medals of any Winter Olympics ever (8!) with a full week to go. THE HOST NATION BUMP!
Chicago replaced New York City as the most congested city in the U.S. in 2025, according to data released Monday by @INRIX, a transportation analytics company. Across the U.S., the typical driver lost 49 hours to traffic, up from 43 hours in 2024. https://t.co/IanitqdDwm
a fucking cosa nostra gambling story breaks and the only people left to cover it are running ads for their sportsbook on screen. guys getting ready to cover this on their podcast whose presenting sponsor is Fanduel. just embarrassing what has been done to the sports world
it’s impossible to overstate how complicit the leagues and major media outlets are in the proliferation of sports gambling’s corruption, illegality, and general pox on society
FINAL: Yankees 9, Blue Jays 6
Toronto was 39-0 this year in games it led by five or more runs. After Aaron Judge paced New York’s rousing, season-saving come-from-behind win with a three-run HR off the foul pole, it's 39-1. Tremendous fortitude from Yankees, awful loss for Jays.
Maybe a suburbanite like you is afraid to go into the subway, @andrewcuomo,
but the rest of us do it every day.
We have problems in NYC, that’s true.
But we are not all gripped by fear, like in the Gotham City of your mind.