Day 67
- Looks like the beginning of that ambitious NASCAR relaunch is going off well. Kevin Harvick won.
- Mark Cuban is proposing an interesting idea for stimulus of businesses -- every household gets $1000 every other week for three months. One catch: The money must be spent in 10 days or it is lost. Cover for the possibility of directly cashing out the money and declaring that "spending it" -- because this is intended to help relaunch American (especially small) business -- and this might even be better for the back end of what's going on...
- And on the day the Giants prepared to fire DeAndre Baker by telling him he was no longer welcome at team meetings...
- The THIRD high-profile NFL arrest incident in the last four days. Ed Oliver. DWI and an illegal weapon in Houston. You guys are giving the racist #NFLBoycott crowd all the fucking ammo they need NOT to want the NFL back this Fall. Are you basically going by the "Murderer" Ray Lewis playbook, threatening to go criminal if the NFL is shut down like he said would happen if the game was locked out that one season?
- Baker and Quinton Dunbar are out on $200,000 bond apiece, but required to remain in Florida.
- Olbermann:
- And there was a Part Two!!
- Olbermann is also slamming NHL negotiations -- it appears that a 24-team playoff system is being considered as one of the "Return To Play" options. And I have nothing against Olbermann objecting... The only question I have is: With a near-certain "second wave" or continuation of the first this winter, if it's this bad now, does that not seal the deal on the 2020-2021 season too -- at which point you begin to talk existential threats to the Big Four professional sports... and far more????
- If this is any indication of how people are going to be as things reopen, we are beyond fucked. Cape Cod ice-cream store, quietly reopens. First day in, they re-close after losing a three-year employee who was saving money for college. The customers refused all social-distancing limitations and the fact that people were supposed to call in an hour in advance for ice-cream orders. The aforementioned ex-employee, according to the owner, was given language "you wouldn't even say in a men's locker room". If there's one saving grace, the owner set up a GoFundMe for money for that girl's college fund. It's got at least $40,000 raised (now that CNN has picked up on the story). (Thank you to my anonymous friend for that story from GO Media's The Takeout).
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