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From the story: Griner said Monday that she believed “we should not play the national anthem during our season,” a 22-game schedule compressed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Like Colin Kaepernick and others in sports, she is clear that her message does not concern the military or the flag. It’s about police brutality and social injustice. “I don’t mean that in any disrespect to our country. My dad was in Vietnam and a law officer for 30 years,” she said. “I wanted to be a cop before basketball. I do have pride for my country.” Brianna Turner, Griner’s teammate, agreed and took her opposition a step further. “I personally don’t think it belongs in sports,” she said, adding that “it’s not played at Walmart, it’s not played when you go to Six Flags. Why is it played before sporting events?” I see nothing wrong with this, but then, I'm not a red hat.

Numerous charming takes from the right wing.

I still think he ends up in Asia at some point.

That’s why she needs Joe Manchin to join her. They can hold either party hostage at will.

That happened in Chicago when Chip Caray was run out of town for basically not being his grandpa.

The deals given to Bogearts, Turner, et al might end up not unlike the Bobby Bonilla deal, in which they play maybe eight years, then agree to fade into the woodwork for the last three in return for a negotiated settlement stipulating payments into their old age. That way the player gets the full value of the contract with income security throughout the rest of their long life, while the team gets the dual advantage of a lower luxury tax hit while the player is playing, coupled with the ability to keep the settlement payments off the official payroll once he’s gone.

If the idea is to fuck up the Senate and bank the loot from the highest bidder, it will work most effectively if Joe Manchin joins her and makes it 49-49-2.

BTW, did I miss the memo that said Brittney Griner hates America?

Yup. They sure could.

How much you wanna bet this came out of IRA in St. Petersburg?

But did they appeal to young people and bring new fans to the team? What did the consulting firm from Chicago conclude?

Still pretty fun. I'd like to know the technicals behind putting this together.

Ernie didn't start doing "looooong gone" until the 80s, I believe. I think "goodbye baseball" is one of those calls where you have to hear it for a few years to get used to it, and then to appreciate it. It's just that he had an impossible act to follow, it the phrase was never going to catch on here. Rick Rizzs has an outside shot at a Ford Frick award from the Hall of Fame.

It may be someone other than Putin …

He still uses it, and I think there might be a few others who ape him.

Goodbye, goodbye baseball.

Sold, or perhaps made good on a private campaign promise.

Billionaire is shocked that the deep state called him out on his horseshit sworn testimony. What is this country coming to?!

And also this: Good man.

He's still better than Steinbrenner.

I think it was a bet that a one-party right-wing fascist autocracy would win America, and if so, they would be showered with riches and power, and if not, they would pivot and regain their footing in a moderate new landscape, because short memories.

If course the vote mules exist. It's all over the Internet! What is you, ignant?!

I do have a strong memory of it, having been an advertising media executive with friends at WJR at the time. I also lived through Bo's entire tenure as coach of Michigan. I was even a Michigan fan myself as a child because every kid growing up in Detroit in the 70s was a Michigan fan, and a Bo Schembechler fan. I'm just sharing my recollection of contemporaneous conversation about the events at that time, and the conclusion JR people came to is that Ernie won because Ernie was universally beloved, and Bo—to your point about divided loyalties, but probably more because of his general demeanor—was not. Also, FWIW—I understand it's a huge apostasy to even broach this here—the JR people I knew at that time were not fans of Ernie in general. They thought he reneged on his promise to retire after his last contract, forced the station to give him one more year, and resented the soft power he wielded in that one press conference to curry public sympathy and make the station and the team look like the bad guys. They were personally glad to see him go. Believe it or not.

It would not surprise me to learn that Herschel Walker was relieved at losing. He seemed really half-hearted about the whole thing at the end. He is a deeply stupid man, but he's probably smart enough to know he wasn't qualified to be a senator. Kari Lake, on the other hand, strikes me as lusting to become Donald Trump's heir to become supreme MAGA leade. Arizona governor was just a stepping stone in the career trajectory in her mind, I think.

Is that your memory of it at the time?