📉 A Billion-Dollar Temper Tantrum

A wise man once said:

“There are rich teams, poor teams, 50 feet of crap and then there's us.”

That man was Brad Pitt Oakland A’s GM, Billy Beane, on the state of the team.

🗞 The Big Story:

While little has improved for the Oakland Athletics since the release of the best baseball movie of all time (don’t @ me), Moneyball - fans might finally have something to root for:

Never having to watch this dreadful ball club play baseball in Oakland again.

That’s because owner, John Fisher, wants to move the team to Vegas (which MLB has already quietly said is ok) once he’s done holding all the taxpayers in the country hostage.

You see, John Fisher (whose net worth is estimated to be $2.2 billion) is demanding that the city of Oakland pays for the infrastructure and part of the building of his new waterfront stadium.

“But why can’t they just renovate the old stadium, or build the new stadium on the existing site, Tyler?”

Great question, yougin’

That’s because Fisher knows he can have the taxpayers of Oakland, California and, hell, all of America pay for a more valuable stadium instead.

Because this new stadium would come with shops, apartments, and office buildings that Fisher could profit from personally without having to pay for anything himself.

This harebrained scheme would involve at least $300 million in state and federal grants, with more being required to foot the $1.13 billion bill Fisher is sticking the city with.

I wonder what’s harder: being that rich or being this hateable?

📊 Charts, Pictures That Teach You Something:

Someone asked me on TikTok how I’d make NASCAR cool, but it’s really not rocket science.

Just do what Drive to Survive did for F1 by getting us emotionally involved in the people instead of just the racing and watch the fans come pouring in:

🔮 Predicting the NBA Finals:

On the court: Celtics over Suns in seven games

Off the court: A decrease in playoff ratings due to them being stretched out too long

🛸 We Live in the Future (Part 2):

You can now buy a custom, 3D-printed hockey helmet for $550…

👋 See you next Friday!