Trunk or treat is a practice of Christian insularity and fear of their proximal neighbors.

Sabrina Ionescu made approximately $87K in base salary this year. A $2K fine is 2.3 percent of that. Consider that a 2.3 percent fine for, say, Damian Lillard ($45.6M salary) would be over a million dollars.

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One thing that hasn't shown up in the Oregon minor-league ballpark discussion: Other players. Cities have been bidding against themselves as other Pacific Northwest options haven't emerged. Eugene is using that leverage... Hillsboro, perhaps, jumped too soon.

I keep forgetting there's already a vacant minor-league facility in the I-5 corridor. Given how MiLB treated the Volcanoes franchise, it would be interesting if it turned into the Emeralds' best option.

Moving out to the exurbs to have "public safety" Halloween.

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The Oregon fake southern accent is really something else.

One day they'll open a "Just Got Here" wing at Buffalo General.

The Texas Rangers put their new ballpark to a vote by the city of Arlington back in 2016. The people of that city resoundingly supported the new ballpark. Five years later, the franchise won its first championship in its 63-year history. ESPN espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…

Breaking silence just to point out that this was also: 🏀Higher than what NASCAR broadcasts averaged for all of 2023 🏀Roughly 2 million higher than the average for U.S. Formula 1 broadcasts.