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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 4h

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 5h

Then the Steinbrenner’s should sell the team for $10 bil and walk away

Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 5h

I will learn to fly a plane to deliver him there

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 5h

In 2024 the Yankees made $705 mil in revenue. The 3rd place Red Sox were at $514. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

CNBC's Official MLB Team Valuations 2025: Here's how the 30 franchises stack up

The average Major League Baseball team is worth $2.62 billion, according to CNBC's official MLB valuations.

www.cnbc.com

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 5h

Their payroll this year was $50 mil less than the Mets and $100 mil less than the Dodgers.

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 5h

(They will not do that)

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Pinstripe Alley @pinstripealley.bsky.social · 5h

Good night, 2025 Yankees.
Thank you, Judge & Cam.
No thank you ... pretty much everyone else.

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 5h

Or they can finally decide that they are the Yankees and spend their way out of the problem

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 6h

you know, say what you want about his past or how the rest of the team played, but Aaron Judge freaking showed up in this series.

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 6h

Please let this be the final night of Aaron Boone’s tenure

Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 7h

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Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal.bsky.social · 17h

not quite ready to unveil my 'bring ageism back' take, but i think it's ok to point out someone's performance *could* decline once they pass 45 years in a given profession

Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

"Belichick was always a fraud" is a ridiculous argument, go back and watch either Rams super bowl

he got old, he slowed down and couldn't keep up with the changing game anymore, and he lost his ability to evaluate talent

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 17h

Bill Belichick won 10 games with Matt Cassell and then made the playoffs with Mac Jones, so I don't think the UNC thing necessarily proves that he was always a fraud, like some folks are saying.

I think it proves he is *currently* a fraud, though.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 15h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 14h

Kellen Moore might be a god

Ben Baldwin @rbsdm.com · 14h

Adjusted EPA / PFF Blend through week 5

His name is Sam

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cunt eastwitch 🦇 @childlessgambino.bsky.social · 15h

Drago from Rocky IV about to say "if he dies, he dies"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

The obvious question here is how you can indict when you're "just getting your hands around" the evidence.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 17h

Bill Belichick won 10 games with Matt Cassell and then made the playoffs with Mac Jones, so I don't think the UNC thing necessarily proves that he was always a fraud, like some folks are saying.

I think it proves he is *currently* a fraud, though.

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Remember those court records that Miami Dophins receiver Tyreek Hill wanted sealed? They are now unsealed and up at @defector.com.

The paywall is also down:

Here's The Court Document Tyreek Hill Didn't Want Anyone To See | Defector

The Miami-Dade Circuit Court clerk released Tuesday a copy of the latest petition for divorce from the estranged wife of Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill. In the document, Lakeeta Vaccaro described...

defector.com

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 17h

People acted like the world is falling because they lost by 5 on the road to the team currently 4th in the AP Poll

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 18h

whole lot of negatives for a top 3 pick in the draft @dennycarter.bsky.social www.nfl.com/prospects/tr...

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 18h

They are forcing turnovers at an insanely unsustainable rate

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