Toronto! The One In Canada! Wonkette Is Coming At You! THIS SUNDAY!
Toronto! The One In Canada! Wonkette Is Coming At You! THIS SUNDAY!
Shhh. It's a secret.
Hello Toronto! Whatcha doing on Victoria Day Eve, just 12 days from today? Is it “going to the Library Bar at the Fairmont Royal Yorkshire Pudding to see Rebecca and Shy”? It IS?
YAYYYYY!
Join us Sunday, May 19, from 3 to 5, and let us buy you some very spendy cocktails and some apps! And by us, I mean the Wonkers who reach deep into their pockets on the regular to keep me in the lifestyle to which I have become accustomed (that lifestyle is buying you drinks) (also the mansion) (also I’ve been spending some on skincare lately, I am 51) (oh right, mostly it’s “buying new writers,” I almost forgot!).
Speaking of drinks and lifestyles and Wonkers and things, the Wonkrew will be out in force like a swarm of cicadas in both Milwaukee and Chicago for the R and DNCs, and the Sunday before each of them starts, we will be buying all y’all drinks and nibbles then too. Watch this space! Or a space. Watch any space! Just be alert okay, eyes on a swivel really.
You can’t be too careful.
This is now your OPEN THREAD!
I'm looking into buying my own place and... holy shit, what is this fucking nightmare? Even if I set aside the fact that matchboxes full of mold are being sold at what must be seven times their actual worth, there's a minefield of junk fees, bullshit sleight of hand and bad faith to manoeuvre through. I just want to buy a house, not sell my soul to Santa!
I'm thinking a tin shack in Queensland among the tree frogs is the best solution.
I guess this over-entitled team owner is angling for a new Las Vegas stadium subsidy:
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The nearly 60-year-old
multipurpose park was always a terrible place to watch a baseball game, with seats ridiculously distant from the action, but in recent years the experience has only gotten worse. During one game, the stadium flooded with sewage. On another occasion, the lights went out. Feral animals roamed the increasingly vacant corridors. Then, for the 2022 season, Fisher doubled season ticket
prices. Meanwhile, he and MLB
commissioner Rob Manfred shed crocodile tears over the lack of fan support in Oakland. But what kind of product
have Fisher and MLB been asking fans to pay for? In a nutshell, the A’s stink. Last year they turned in the worst record in baseball by losing 112 of their 162 games. They scored 339 fewer runs than they gave up to opponents. This record was the
product not of chance, but design. The team payroll last season of $43 million ranked dead last in the league, 12% of the leagueleading New York Mets (who, to be fair, hardly made the most of their $334-million payroll, losing nearly 54% of their games). The best-paid player on the A’s, shortstop Aledmys Diaz, batted .229 last year and has started this season on the injured list.