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  1. Ok. I'm just interested in teasing out criticism of amateurism. I think, by itself, it is a worthwhile thing. Perhaps not legally an adequate justification for complete denial of revenue sharing, but probably should have been regarded as adequate to support some regulation of financial incentives in college sports. The big tell here is that only a relative handful of college athletics programs actually generate significant revenue: the "big-time" programs by size or reputation or wealthy boosters. That belies the notion that the "labor" is what provides the value. They do provide value, but not to the extent the court decisions seemed to credit it with. If you reduce this to absurdity, organizations like UIL will be disbanded or de-fanged like the NCAA because high schools and the sports infrastructure generates revenue for certain high schools.
  2. Well, Maalik, among many others, seemingly has sought to "maximize his value" by trying to find the highest bidder in a pretty mercenary fashion. He hasn't seemed to be an uber-douchebag about it like Immaleavin. I try to hate the game and not the playa, but sometimes it's hard.
  3. Well wait a minute. If "amateurism" was an idiotic pursuit, then college athletics should have been a thunderdome arms race, with attendant corruption, from jump. Or is there some other justification for withholding revenue sharing from the "labor" that I'm missing. And I presume that it is the thunderdome arms race that you object to when you say it's headed for pro boxing.
  4. Just an observation. Most mental health pros consider therapy for any condition, other than substance abuse, for an active substance abuser to be mostly a waste of time. Variants of mindfulness are present in AA and other therapies for substance abuse, not usually per se, though. "One day at a time" is a mindfulness principle.
  5. Ran out of time to edit. Or, maybe he didn't have NDAs at the ready, or advice from Alabama, or agents, but he was taking his cues from a certain person sometimes referred to as the leader of the free world.
  6. Well, if one is going to hook up with cleat-chasers, I can certainly see agents advising NDAs for anything other than the most normal of relationships. Not defending Alabama, or Bond, or anyone else. First advice should be "stay away from hoes." Next advice is "if you mess with hoes, get NDAs." Note that by using "hoe," I am not saying this chick asked for it. Or that that in any way absolves Bond for trying to stick it in her ass without consent. Also, note that NDAs usually have a nefarious purpose, but if you make the reasonable assumption that cleat-chasers are looking for an advantage from or over the athletes they chase, an NDA, along with birth control, is one way to blunt that advantage.
  7. Fuck you man. That's not what that post said at all. Trump either blindly stumbles or is advised to find interstices in the law.
  8. They're going to try to pretend that they didn't 100% arrange for this guy to be shipped to CECOT, like Bukele made an extradition request or some shit. I'm sure they very intentionally selected some guy at State that knows jackshit about this whole thing, so as far as he knows, he made a diplomatic inquiry to the government of ES about an ES citizen. So, this Kozak fella is actually a long-time State civil servant, going back 20 plus years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kozak
  9. I disliked most if not all of his characters. So that probably means he was a damn good actor. RIP.
  10. Different CEO signed the letter and retired.
  11. Generally probably not. And, I don't think this is "with" the government. It's government-approved stuff. I'm sure the firms figure they can game or slightly adjust existing pro Bono efforts to satisfy the Administration. I'm not so sure about that.I suspect the administration is going to insist on some homophobes that don't want to bake cakes for teh gheys and shit like that. But this whole thing is geared to chill biglaw from suing the government, lest they get on some shitlist. I did read some apologia from capitulating firm chairmen. They apparently had clients threatening to flee because they didn't feel like the firm could represent their interests before the Trump administration. I suppose that's potentially valid, but I doubt that capitulation much improves the attitude of the administration if the firm comes up against the government or agency. And also that other firms were exacerbating this fear among potential clients in an effort to steal them. Still, the refusal to fight something so clearly morally and legally wrong and unconstitutional should reflect very poorly on the firms.
  12. That'll work.
  13. Can we put the influencers in there with them?
  14. Good question. Is it exercising sovereignty over its own citizens? Is it acting as a contractor to the US Government for incarceration services? That they are being paid tends to indicate the latter rather than the former. And the former has no application with respect to non-ES citizens.
  15. Unlike the Venezuelans, there is a level of difficulty here that he has been returned to his home country. The Venezuelans may have a better case here. Nevertheless, the "you put him there, you get him back" makes an awful lot of sense. in the first instance, this is an exercise of executive power over immigration that is not an inherent power, only delegated by Congress. It is not an initio either a foreign affairs or national security matter. That is something arbitrarily engrafted onto it by Trump. And even then, he acts pursuant to an act of Congress, the Alien Enemies Act. At some point, though, the agreement or treaty with ES to take unlawful immigrants comes into play, and some of that may be covered by executive privilege. In a criminal prosecution of a citizen, that privilege would yield to the rights of the accused (US v. Nixon). Here, in a civil or quasi-criminal proceeding against a non-citizen, I'm not so sure. One would have to think that the agreement itself would have to come into evidence, if not the negotiations that led to it. And one might think that such an agreement might constitute a treaty, invalid without the advice and consent of the Senate. It's a messy thing.
  16. Seems rather miraculous that this isn't far more common. It's getting harder to believe that college football involves any sort of personal loyalty or school pride, if it ever did.
  17. Well, I can certainly buy that we need to do something other than incarcerate people in Thunderdomes for excessive terms. Also, the article notes that the BJS statistics quoted include both arrest (without conviction) and probation/parole violations as recidivism. Given the environment into which most long-term sentenced are released and their no-doubt marvelously developed social skills, it's a wonder the numbers are as low as they are.
  18. Checking the dates, the original Easton aluminum bat came out in 1978. The Black Magics were newfangled at the time, but we had em, both in school bat bags and as personal bats. So, I guess they were getting pretty long in the tooth by the mid 80s, which was our time, certainly my time. And yeah, the couple two or three that broke did so right above the handle. I would later learn as an engineer that aluminum is highly subject to fatgue and cracking, especially if a tiny defect or a stress riser--like where diameter starts to change rather abruptly.
  19. I used to call him The Donald. It was a term of contempt derived from Ivana's pidgin references to him.
  20. Seen several, including the barrel from an Easton greenie hurtling toward me on the pitchers mound.
  21. If the people of Collin County elect jackwagon judges, and the people of the state elect jackwagon AGs and Supreme Court justices, and the lege doesn't fund the bar well enough to hire better lawyers, well I guess I can piss on a spark plug.
  22. Uh, I have thought Donald Trump was an assclown from jump. I have a pathological hatred for self-promoters, though.
  23. The existential threat is also an external threat. The government, not the legal profession, sets up the legal system and the judiciary. Lawyers don't elect the government, the Congress, the President, we don't appoint or elect judges, If those external to the legal system choose to disrespect it and kneecap it, there's not all that much we can do. Right now, again, the legal system and profession is the ONLY thing standing up to Trump, again. It may not ultimately succeed, but that failure, should it occur, is at least as much a fault of the government that set up the legal system, as it is the system itself.
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