Senior VP Sacramento and North Region Special Olympics Northern California. Proud Pacific Tiger and De La Salle High School alum & blessed father and husband.
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Tim Dickson retweeted
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Tim Dickson retweeted
After the Bears fired him in 1993, Ditka made a cameo appearance on the SNL cold open with the Superfans. What a loss.
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Crying in baseball is allowed today. This was a perfect exit for future first ballot Hall of Famer Justin Verlander. So awesome.
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Tigers Take Second at CDA National Reserve Invitational
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Don't forget to set your clock back one second this Saturday for Michigan Savings Time
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BREAKING: Employee no longer considered late to work after informing boss that he keeps time himself with a secret special internal clock that nobody else has access to except for him
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My wife when I tell her I’m watching football tonight. And for 14 hours Saturday. And 8 hours on Sunday.
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I'm sorry that this will piss off half the parents reading this:
Your 11 year old probably doesn’t need a $8,000-a-year travel team.
Meanwhile, mom and dad haven’t had a weekend alone in 8 months because every Friday afternoon the SUV is packed for another tournament 4 hours away.
They need to just play sports (if they want).
There’s a difference.
$3,000 team fee.
$2,500 hotels.
$1,500 eating out.
$500 uniforms.
$500 entrance fees
Every weekend gone, and somehow we convince ourselves this makes us better parents.
Then we wonder why marriages struggle. Put the kid in rec ball and let them play with their buddies.
Take your wife to dinner. Take a family vacation that doesn’t involve a Marriott next to a sports complex.
If your kid is truly THAT good, you’ll eventually know.
But I think a lot of parents are sacrificing their marriage, money and entire family calendar chasing a scholarship that probably isn’t coming.
I agree that most kids need sports.
I’m just not convinced they need travel sports.
That's me - the one who forgot their $5 hat for picture day on a team that cost $20 for the season.
Tim Dickson retweeted
This is where Dolly Parton came into this world and grew up. Her family was so poor that her father had to pay the doctor who delivered her with a sack of cornmeal.
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Quite the stat from Giants PR: Rafael Devers became the third Giant to hit at least 48 homers in his first 222 games with the organization. The others? Barry Bonds and Willie Mays.
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‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.
Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.
“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.
“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.
It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: nymag.visitlink.me/1-gbZQ
Tim Dickson retweeted
The Dodgers aren’t special, they aren’t “the best run organization in baseball” They have a special deal from MLB that enables them to financially cheat and spend nearly twice what any other team could
All of the breathless complimenting of the Dodgers completely ignores that the Dodgers are only able to spend like this because MLB gave them a special TV carveout after the McCourt Bankruptcy
They are the only 1 of 30 MLB teams that doesn’t have to fully share their TV revenue
They also happen to have the largest local TV contract
This is the only reason they can spend like they do
MLB created this entire situation and sees an opportunity to use it to finally try to get a cap
We don’t need a cap, all MLB needs to do is revoke this settlement and nationalize all TV Rights. Just stop giving the Dodgers the ability to cheat
Any team can be great when you have enough to spend that you can burn $110M/yr in salary and luxury tax on Kyle Tucker while he has the worst season of his career and not feel it.
They have Snell, Glasnow and half of their most expensive pitchers injured now for more of the season than they’ve been healthy and haven’t even noticed
This is all because MLB gave them a special deal on their TV rights no other team gets
Not Because Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman are geniuses
The Dodgers already have Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, among more. Jeff Passan says they are the favorites to add Tarik Skubal, the reigning two-time Cy Young winner. Four months later, the CBA expires. This trade might be the last piece of evidence the owners need to shut the sport down.
On pure baseball logic the move is inevitable. Passan reported the Tigers will trade Skubal and named the Dodgers the favorite. Los Angeles has the best record in baseball and arguably the best farm system in baseball at the same time, which is not supposed to be possible. They can absorb the roughly $10 million Skubal is owed without blinking. Bob Nightengale reports the Dodgers are also Skubal's preferred free agency destination this winter, so this is not even a rental. It is a pre-acquisition.
Now the calendar. The collective bargaining agreement expires December 1. The owners have proposed the first salary cap since 1994. Multiple owners have told Passan the only real path to a cap runs through missing the 2027 season. One official said they are ready to burn the house down.
The mechanism connecting the trade to the lockout is simple. The Dodgers are the owners' entire case.
Buster Olney wrote it plainly. The spending of the top teams has reinforced to the other 28 that change is necessary, and they believe that change is a cap. Every argument the owners will make across the table this winter is a picture of the Dodgers roster. Ohtani's $700 million. Deferred money. A rotation of aces. And now, potentially, the reigning two-time Cy Young winner added at the deadline for prospects, because they have so much talent they can buy the best pitcher alive with their surplus.
The Dodgers adding Skubal does not just improve the Dodgers. It hands the owners their closing exhibit, timed four months before the negotiation.
The competitive balance argument is empirically wrong. Baseball has produced 16 different champions since 2000, more than any capped league. The Dodgers are not breaking a rule. They are excelling within all of them, drafting, developing and spending at once. The punishment for running the best organization in the sport is that the other 29 owners get to point at you and demand a system that makes you impossible.
But being wrong does not make the argument weak. It makes it convenient. Small market owners do not want to outspend the Dodgers. They want cost certainty, because cost certainty raises franchise values, and the Dodgers roster is the best sales brochure a cap has ever had. Every superteam headline between now and December 1 is worth more to the owners' negotiating position than it is to the Dodgers' World Series odds.
Follow the incentives to the uncomfortable place. The 29 other owners benefit from the Dodgers getting Skubal. Not on the field. At the table.
The Tigers get prospects. The Dodgers get the best pitcher in baseball. The owners get their exhibit.
And the sport might get a season-long lockout, argued on the back of a roster that did nothing except win too well.
The Dodgers can survive a salary cap. What baseball might not survive is the year without games it takes to get one.