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I am aware. They also included all of the money from people that entered the raffle to be able to attend a private event with Biden, Obama and Clinton, and entries were $100 a pop.

Seats to the NYC fundraiser were $250.

Whenever I'm researching laws in North Carolina, my brain reads them in Foghorn Leghorn's voice.

LOL, the Post has a very long article today on how it all went wrong for Sweatervest. Some of it is below but it's paywalled. The upshot is he tried to be the CEO of Virginia and thought he could govern by fiat, and never seemed to grasp that, with a Democratic legislature, that didn't work. It also characterizes his legacy as "cloudy" which is weird for someone whose marquee accomplishments where to prohibit CRT from being taught in school (when CRT has never been taught in schools) and to bully trans kids. And as "A BUSINESS GUY" his resume includes a complete botch of the Monumental Arena deal, preventing Ford from building a huge factory in a part of VA desperate for jobs because CHINA something something, and failing to lure the new FBI HQ and it's 8,000 white collar jobs even though the FBI wanted to move to Virginia. Some people thought this guy could be President. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/28/virginia-youngkin-wizards-arena-legacy/ Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/03/ron-desantis-disney-settlement/ Ron DeSantis Claims Victory Over Disney And All He Had To Do Was Give Disney Everything They Wanted

UConn looks unstoppable.

You can if you are a Boomer.

No, you have this backwards. This is the same guy that added resources to increase suicide for trans kids.

Meh, not a concern for me.

I dunno. Zimm is certainly up there and you'll hear no arguments from me that he wasn't the face of the franchise due to his longevity and just who he is as a person. I love Zimm. But in terms of greatness, Scherzer vastly overshadows him. Zimm was one of the better third basemen during his prime and a 2 time all star. Scherzer is arguably the best pitcher of his generation and was an AS almost every year of his prime (8 times in 9 years, one year he was hurt and only made 12 starts). Most of his prime was with the Nats (see below). In terms of Scherzer v. Stras, I think it's Stras' moments versus Scherzer's consistent dominance. Obviously Stras' debut is legendary, and his WS performance was epic. That said: Scherzer had 92 wins for the Nats in basically 6.5 years (he was traded midseason to the Dodgers). Stras had 113 wins for the Nats in his whole 13 year career. Scherzer was an all star 5 times, i.e., every year he was a Nat except one. Stras was an all star 3 times in 13 years. Scherzer won the Cy Young for the Nats twice. Stras none. Scherzer set the tone for the whole team when he was here with his ferocious competitiveness. Stras......did not. Which is why he was never the face of the franchise (and didn't want to be). Stras had the dominant WS MVP year. But if you look at the whole playoff run, Scherzer was just as important.

If anyone missed this amazing dunk by Renegade, he’s referencing the last time Youngkin came to Alexandria and got brutally pwned by some rando lady in a grocery store.

I can't wait to hate Zach Leonsis for the final 30 years of my life. Even Jose Andres, who voluntarily flies into war zones to cook, looks like he can't stand being next to him.

JDub has been Mayor for like 6 years, all of which I've lived in ALX. He replaced a truly crazy lady and, except for this specific issue, I've pretty much agreed with everything he's done, and I just like the guy. He's not a politician glad handing people, he's an administrator trying to run the city as well as possible, and that speaks to my inner nerd (which is the majority of my innards). But that also makes him bad at this kind of thing. Frankly, my biggest issue is he needs to pick his thumbnails much more carefully because this one is brutal. Anyways, fun fact: I did get into it with him on Facebook and I got him pretty flustered, which was fun. If I recall, he was not a fan of my characterization of the financing as "magical fairy bonds."

Those people don't come to ALX either. They understand the plethora of these bumper stickers really mean YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE to those types.

A cyberattack? A boat crashing into a bridge is a cyber attack? LOL Also at :30: "The I-94 Corridor" This lady definitely knows what she's talking about.

I can't speak to all of Virginia. I know that basically nobody in Alexandria besides the Mayor wanted it. Personally, I could have lived with it going in, but did not buy for one second that I wouldn't be on the hook for paying for it (and it was going to be the largest public subsidy for an arena ever in the US), so **** that. And I'm a huge Caps fan. Everyone here that isn't a Caps or Wiz fan uniformly wanted nothing to do with it. The process by which they tried to get it done was also, well, terrible. They tried to pull all of the political tricks to keep the bad parts in the dark and they were clearly overselling the good parts, but this is ****ing Alexandria, people here can identify all of that bull****.

Agree that Chinatown is a good locale. Did not see that they've reached an agreement with DC. Got a link? Edit: I found it. WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/27/dc-capitals-wizards-capital-one-arena-alexandria-bowser-leonsis/ That all seems reasonable and should have happened before the whole ALX mess.

I usually go with an increasingly escalating series of life-endangering mishaps on my way to the 7-11 to get the cards.

Ted is talking with Maryland now. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/03/20/ted-leonsis-arena-maryland-wes-moore You almost have to admire Ted's shamelessness. He has absolutely crushed his standing in the area.

I'm Steven Crowder curious, but don't want to google him on my work computer. LOL.

"Siri, where is the closest bar."

How much power do you think the board has, after it agreed to go back to the old deal rather than start from scratch and renegotiate a brand new deal? Disney got what it wanted, the old deal reinstated. Is there now maybe some oversight that was completely lacking before? Maybe. The whole reason the Reedy Creek deal was controversial before 2022 was it pretty much made Disney sovereign over a big chunk of Florida land, which is pretty bizarre. But Florida was getting (and will now continue to get) billions of dollars a year in economic activity, so it agreed to it before and has now agreed to it again. But before this was a political fight to make DeSantis look big and tough, Florida wanted to let Disney do whatever it wanted. The only thing that changed was DeSantis needed a big target to bully for WOKEWOKEWOKE, and he did, and now his reason for doing it (the GOP primary) is over. So Disney got the old deal back and it's in Florida's interest to let Disney do whatever it wants, just as it has been for decades.

Yea, sucks how he's getting $245 million to sit at home. Unconscionable. GOAT Nat is easily Scherzer.