Sure, the team's not cheap, but it's not leaving the rest of MLB in its dust like it was in the early 2000s. If the Yankees had the Dodgers' payroll they could afford all those guys and Harper and Machado too.
In the alternate universe where the Yankees sign Harper and Machado, Judge would be on the Giants right now. Hal doesn’t spend like George and it shows.
In fairness, “we can’t sign Harper because Hal won’t let the payroll go that high” isn’t something Cashman can say in public, and there‘s not a better lie Cash could have told that would make this sound better.
If you make a new policy and don't punish them for breaking it, they'll ignore it. If you try to punish individual officers for breaking it, they'll club together to frustrate the process.
The trouble is that American police are contemptuous of and insubordinate to civil authority, and there's not a realistic way to reform their behavior that's less drastic than abolition
Anxiety about identity and inheritance was pretty dang acute before the demographic transition, when "my kid takes over the family farm" was most people's retirement plan
It’s not the whole story but part of it has gotta be that Trump is a million years old and stopped learning new things somewhere around 1992 and as such tends to be fixated on bits of 20th century pop culture that nobody else thinks about much any more
Not to mention, Disney un-suspended Kimmel, which is what the boycotters wanted. If your boycott is actually effective in incentivizing the target to give you your demands, then once they do that you want the stock to go back up
AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: Please don't try to talk to me while I'm listening to someone else on the phone. When you do that I can't understand either of you.
Wouldn't every single opinion writer have views that cost them opportunities? Most publications have some sort of editorial stance, and if your work is compatible with all of them that's an admission you have no fixed views of your own.
