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2000's in Vegas was so great. Spent a ton of time at Casino Royale and original O'Sheas. And my first ever trip @ 21 I stayed at the Palace.

That's your opinion and I'll grant you it's almost certainly a majority opinion. But I'll say this, when I would open up the Sportsday top 10 on morning dog walks, I would inevitably listen to (i) any Dan and Jake segment first and (ii) whatever seemed interesting from Musers or Hardline with remaining tiem. Granted I typically heard some of Musers/HL during commute but Dan and Jake were an automatic tune in for me to the extent I could listen to radio in afternoon. If those guys ever do compete directly with either the Musers or HL, I'm betting I tune in to whatever station they are on during drive time more often than not. I can't even weigh in on anything 10-3 now as I haven't heard a second of it since new pairings were announced and don't really have any desire to.

@RGBIII - Was there any material CS recruiting win bump in One Fund signups yesterday?

I ate at Viva last week as well. Twice in same day actually. For our first fishing trip - it was slow and I stayed out a couple of extra hours after dropping wife and son off at Jim's (fishing was still slow) but walked next door mid-afternoon and had an awesome smashburger + several beers while waiting for family to pick me up. I noticed the same top shelf and drink menu and realized chatting with the bartender they actually attempt to make real cocktails so brought my wife back for dinner (with the fish we caught for their "cook your catch" option). Fantastic lunch and dinner + drinks. Will definitely be back next trip.

I read his contract last week and it did specifically state that the non-compete was effective through the last day of his employment and those provisions survived regardless of whether the contract itself was terminated. The part I thought was interesting was the Waiver argument. No idea if there is any case law that helps him or not but the fact that he was contractually restricted from competing via podcast yet has had a separate podcast since 2011 without any objection from Cumulus seemed like a helpful argument.

Finished a quick read of it. Not a very well written legal document but if their goal was to display what a shit corporation Cumulus is they were effective on that front. Looks like it's going to mediation in any event.

Way outside of my practice but I have family in the employment law space that was telling me how some damn fast food chain or something was having hourly minimum wage or close to it employees sign non-competes in their boilerplate employment agreement and got popped. It's shit like this that has the FCA trying to ban the concept all together. I think appropriate in some highly compensated fields with employees that may or should be using counsel to negotiate for them, and, as you mentioned, are receiving material benefits in exchange for the non-compete, but garbage like Cumulus apparently did with the young guys making under $30K is absolutely ridiculous. And not surprising in the least. Reading through all of this now and it really makes Cumulus looks worse than I imagined.

Now all we have to do is hang on another 4 months LOL.

If D&J's attorneys are P1's as someone noted, really hope they give us bits/ticket easter eggs in the reply.

Would feel a lot better if he picked Miami today compared to LSU. Miami would seemingly be easier to pry him away from in the fall if we do our part on the field and Miami falls flat. But yeah, would be shocking if that was actually the pick. Just don't see it.

Probably. But seems like we get another 1-2 weeks of content. Is there any chance Dan and Jake don't gloat about this a bit on the next podcast they record? They won't be able to help themselves LOL.

Maybe so. I just generally think 33-34 is probably around the minimum age of experience/competence to lead on anything as an attorney to the extent they went straight to law school and have been practicing full time (which this guy clearly has not). Then again, he didn't have the procedural fuckup, and I'm a transactional attorney, not a litigator, so what do I know. @Brisketexan - I know you probably have no idea what The Ticket is and don't care about this Dallas soap radio opera, but if you were engaged to handle an ex parte TRO regarding a non-compete violation in federal court and didn't provide notice to the D's or provide a basis for why notice should not be required (apparently Rule 65(b)(1)(A)-(B). Is that a fuckup or could it have been strategy to expedite hoping the judge didn't care? I'm genuinely curious given my assumption the big corp lawyers (Baker Hostettler) were about to wipe the floor with our radio friends that are being represented by a couple of activist attorneys.

I'm imagining that poster as some Old Army Ag that sent a short term employment offer at or slightly above minimum wage and is perplexed why he didn't receive any response (i.e., I would have killed for $15/hour when I was in college in the 60's)

This all makes perfect sense and I can't believe it wasn't my initial reaction knowing aggy like we do.

So apparently the ex parte TRO was denied on procedural grounds (Plaintiff didn't give notice to Defendants or reason why notice should not be required). We need an employment lawyer/litigator to weigh in on whether this was likely something Baker Hostettler thought they could slip through in order to expedite the TRO (i.e., strategic) or if it was a fuckup.

That's what I'm curious about here. The Aggy press release mentions the IRS memo. Not the NCAA memo. So it's unclear if this is really tied to the loyalty points component, related to the fact that A&M set up their collective directly via the 12th man (i.e., as if Longhorn Foundation was running the Texas One Fund under its corporate umbrella) or if this could be related to the 501(c)(3) collective model generally. I just hope Aggy's brazen disregard for anything didn't raise enough concerns that they are going to fuck it up for us/others trying to do it the right way.

I didn't mind her (like most) when she had a minor role. But yeah, she's not a lead and certainly no chemistry with Mike in small sample size I heard. But Mike is and has been 'done'. Have not heard a single segment with Mike that held my attention anytime I've flipped over since The Freak started. Good for him getting a last payday but his days of putting out good radio are way behind him. The current HL is an improvement compared to the last few years he was at The Ticket IMO.

Has anyone tried Strouderosa in Lake Highlands area? Think it's just a couple that were doing it on the side and now have a brick and mortar location. Hearing good things around the neighborhood (or my wife is on mom's social media chatter) but no idea if it's people that don't know solid BBQ. May try it this weekend. Would love just an above average option close by. Think it's in the same shopping center as Mijas Taqueria (hidden gem discussed in Dallas Mexican food thread).

He's a 34 year old "attorney" blogger/podcaster from what I can tell. What actual experience does he have defending non-compete TRO's? These guys appear to be a couple of activists/idealists which is fine and all but they are about to go up against real lawyers that, from what I can tell so far, have both the facts and the law on their side. Unless they have some written communication that invalidates/weakens the contracts or something similar up their sleeve I suspect they are going to get their ass kicked.

I don't understand why The Freak didn't move Danny/Sirois to that slot. That was such an obvious move. I flipped over this AM on drive to office during Musers commercial and next thing I know I got to the office without flipping back. It's a decent show and they had a real opportunity to grab share. Same can't be said for Mike's new show. After flipping over yesterday - I decided after a couple of minutes to just listen to ticket commercials. It was that bad.

So they hired (or are getting pro bono work) from friends/activists and not employment law experts. That's a shocker.

LOL. My wife just texted Fubo randomly disconnected from another TV. Just a pure garbage app.

I think you are right. It just blows my mind reading their contracts that they could be this ignorant/dumb that I'm attempting to come up with some theory in my lawyer brain how their brazen disregard for their contract makes sense. But then again none of this should surprise me. Their business Tues segments were sometimes cringeworthy.

Jake's contract specifically listed podcasting as competing (Dan's, which was several years older, did not)

I mean there is zero certainty at this point as to how exactly this is going to be resolved in BK unless I've completely missed something recently.