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Yet another compromise, this one to mollify the small states in the union who were used to the one colony-one vote scheme under the Articles of Confederation.

In my Axios Sports newsletter this AM. 5. ⚾️ The problem with league-owned media Photo: Patrick Smith/Getty Images MLB insider Ken Rosenthal is out at MLB Network after more than 12 years, reportedly due to critical stories he wrote about commissioner Rob Manfred, Jeff writes. The backdrop: In the summer of 2020, Rosenthal's columns for The Athletic analyzing the stalemate between MLB and the MLBPA "featured some light criticism [of Manfred]," writes NY Post's Andrew Marchand. June 16, 2020: "Rob Manfred finally seems to be figuring out he has no choice: Strike a deal with the union and salvage the 2020 season, or ruin his legacy as commissioner of baseball," wrote Rosenthal. MLB Network unofficially suspended Rosenthal following that piece, keeping him off the air (with pay) for nearly three months. When his contract expired at the end of 2021, the network didn't renew it. Of note: Rosenthal, 59, is still a senior baseball writer for The Athletic and an on-field reporter for Fox Sports, so he and his famous bowties aren't going anywhere. What they're saying: "I worked for Turner Sports, which operated NBA TV and NBA.com in partnership with the league, for 14 years. You know what David Stern did when I wrote or said something he didn't like? He called me up and cussed me out. But he didn't go to my bosses and try to fire me." — David Aldridge, The Athletic The big picture: We don't know if the decision to part ways with Rosenthal came directly from Manfred, but the fact that it's even a possibility highlights the problem with league-owned media.

Or, when I was in school:

These are purported to be the leaked finalists for the WFT name, as reported by a newsletter I get from The Athletic: Let's name a football team The Washington Football Team, complete with its shoddy stadium railings, will announce the new team name Feb. 2, per a release. The reported finalists: Commanders Armada Admirals Red Hogs Presidents Sentinels I’m voting for Red Hogs, simply because it is the coolest of those choices and it's a callback to the Washington teams of the late 80s and early 90s. I doubt they’ll use it — something stately like Commanders or Admirals will win. Snooze.

I think a lot of us would like to hear exactly what you mean by this. I can think of a few things about the American political system that I would to tear down and rebuild. The way we vote for president, for one thing: in my opinion, the electoral college is an anti-democracy institution that was devised as a bald compromise to ensure that southern states would stay in the union. I would advocate totally eliminating the EC and going to direct popular vote to choose our president. But I would't blow up the idea of democracy altogether, because I believe that "democracy" and "American political system" are not interchangeable. They are totally different concepts. So please, JBK, can you clarify what you mean?

As you get closer to retirement, you'll want to move an increasing amount of your retirement funds from equities to money markets. Heck, given how old I know you are, you should probably start doing that today! 😃

What, so this isn't a second-grade teacher training to return to the classroom in Colorado?

The problem with the Hannity situation is not whether he is or is not technically a journalist. The problem is that because he works for an outlet who uses the word "News" in their name, while sitting behind a desk blowing hard about topics in the news with chyrons screaming headlines in news-like fashion, his viewers truly believe he is more legit journalist than everyone at literally every major news organization in America put together. To the red hats, Hannity has the credibility of being a truth-telling journalist without having to put in that work, despite his employers' assertions, made well out of earshot of his viewers, that he's not.

And a reason it took six takes to get a message they felt they could even put out there.

I will grant that she is speculating, since she wasn't there, but I totally buy her hypothesis.

Maybe he's cancelling so he can claim that he and his red hat base are being muzzled by the Deep State™ and the Fake Media™.

Being neutral is what got Rosenthal shit-canned.

He survives this because the owners think he's just peachy. The only way Manfred could get the axe is the lose the CBA negotiations to the Players.

And now that Rosenthal is gone, it's become even more of a garbage network.

Watch Hannity claim executive privilege

“They shouldn’t be allowed to do business in this country.” Determining who can have a business in America and who can’t is the power Trump 47 is seeking. Tens of millions want to give that to him. Welcome to America.

Both sides

Speaking of which: So, this is happening next month: I still believe the most obvious win-win is to name the team something military. Make them the Washington Minutemen, or the Washington Calvary or Washington Infantry or Washington Brigade, something along those lines. Or, if you prefer something more elite-sounding, how about the Washington Green Berets or Washington Fighter Pilots or even the Washington Marines? I'm not particularly good at naming teams, but you get the idea. Renaming the team after the military is a win-win, not only because American Indians no longer have to withstand a racially offensive term thrown in their faces every Sunday, but also because football fans, at least the ones who abhor political correctness and who generally love everything military anyway, would receive in return a badass, kickass team name they can really embrace, and after a very short period of adjustment they will forget all about the "tradition" of the Redskins name. It does appear, though, that one name I thought was a pretty obvious candidate—Warriors—is off the table because it's too close to being offensive in the same way "Redskins" is.

I think it can be about Christian Nationalism for some, white grievance for others, and about both for still more people. They don't all have to be in it for the same thing. Trump will tailor his message to each. All he cares about is that everyone is in it. I think this is an excellent, and underconsidered, point. "Misery loves company" drives a lot of behavior we all see in our own lives every day.

Dr Projection says: what this is really saying is Republicans make up stuff about BLM and Antifa, and even go undercover as either, so they can have all the fun of destroying stuff while assuming their enemies will get all the blame.

And not even Mexico’s money, as explicitly promised, that it’s a waste of.

Headlights are on!

A lot of that might have to do with southern migration to Michigan in the first half of the 20th Century, but the saturation of populist red state political thinking, I think, is a recent thing, like last decade or so. The feeling was probably always latent, but I think that movement, as it were, might have found its legs with all those bomb-throwing right-wing websites that all started up in the mid to late 2000s, then got supercharged by Trump and his sycophantic right-wing media cabal in the last six or seven or so years.

I can't speak for Wisconsin or Minnesota, but Michigan was "white-settled" mainly by people from the northeast, chiefly New York state. It's one of the reasons why we have cities named Troy, Rochester, Utica, Farmington, Warren, Auburn Hills, Clinton Township, and probably a few others named directly for New York towns or people.

what are the chances any of them show up? 😏