Jacquielynn Floyd Follows Up on Dale Hansen Sex Victimization Revelation. The News columnist talked to the sportscaster (sub. req.) after he revealed Sunday night that he’d been victimized as a kid. The night of his broadcast, he got 1,500 emails, some of them from people who said they suffered the same thing as a kid and were moved by him to talk about it for the first time. Good on Hansen.
AT&T Abandons T-Mobile Bid. AT&T offered $39 billion to buy T-Mobile, a deal it has given up on in the face of regulatory push-back. Good news is that now AT&T has a lot of spending money for Christmas, right? Eh, now they have to pay $4 billion in fees because the deal didn’t go through. That stings. (As you might imagine, this rather big news is being reported by more than a few outlets on the internet. Yet the Morning News still put its story behind the paywall. I really should dump that AHC stock.)
Rangers Win Posting Auction for Yu Darvish. Speaking of deals I don’t understand, the Rangers have paid $51.7 million for a pitcher. Not to have him pitch for the team. Just to have the right to offer him money to pitch for the team.
Khloe Kardashian Something Something. Blah, blah, Khloe Kardashian. Basketball. Lamar Odom. Blurgh.
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Once again Tim, I will try to answer your questions about life and baseball.
http://www.lewpblog.com/?p=8802
Please don’t call my boss.
Also, will someone explain the game of baseball to me?
I can explain the Yu Darvish “paying money to win the right to pay him money” thing.
He currently pitches for a pro team in Japan. That $51.7 million will go to the Japanese team IF the Rangers reach a deal with Darvish. If not, no money changes hands. It makes sense that the team that currently is paying him to play would get some kind of compensation from losing him.