Kraus&Phillips

Just a reminder, yes I tweet mostly about sports. And yes, most of those tweets are troll tweets. Nevertheless, you should have an estate plan.

@MLBRaleigh @nut_history @baseballinpix @FOS @iJordanMoore @TalkinBaseball_ Take a look at a map of the area and see if you can guess where a ballpark might go? Cause there is most definitely a suitable spot.

There can be two truths; 1) Charlotte’s ballpark is beautiful and one of the best in baseball. 2) It cannot expand to MLB standards and land not suitable, even if demoed. Thank you for attending our Ted Talk. #RaleighOnDeck #MLB2NC

@BrianBalfourNC Choosing to help nobody just because you can't help everybody is a recipe for economic disaster.

@KrausPhillips How is it fair that Goodyear got a taxpayer bailout, while thousands of other NC'ians lost their jobs because their businesses downsized or went out of business, and didn't get any "incentives"? Why are their jobs more special than the others?

I'm old enough to remember when Goodyear was gifted tax handouts worth nearly $60 million for this plant in 2007. #ncpol wral.com/business/goody…

@BrianBalfourNC I mean...ok. I respect that I guess. But those incentives undeniably bought about 2,000 workers 20 years of employment, and the communities they live in 20 years of greater economic condition than they otherwise would have had. Seems like an investment, not a handout.

@KrausPhillips No. The argument is that they shouldn't have gotten any incentives at all, nor should any other company.

@ByronYork people often can't accept that something is incompetence, not malfeasance. The way Trump and the Secret Service behaved at the time were not what you'd expect in the middle of an assassination attempt, and so it couldn't be just that they're idiots, there must be more...

A Democratic fantasy world. A new poll shows a sizable number of Democrats believe the Trump assassination attempts were fake. The one that seems most undeniably real--the Butler shooting--is the one the most Democrats believe is phony. washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/456…

@AMandoSch Weird. Thinking about how I address them, I realize that I say "madam clerk" for females, and just call the males "Mr. _______".

Sir Clerk is the appropriate term, right? Because that's what I say for male courtroom clerks.

@politicalmath The dick mabutt part is funny, but otherwise this is one of this guys more mundane videos. He’s got some real top grade stuff out there.

you start watching this video and you keep thinking "there's no way this could get any funnier" and then it does

@CLTpetpeeves To allow the people that use it to maintain a specific speed. That’s why the price fluctuates. Toll lanes are designed to allow the rich people to bypass the peasants, not to enhance the peasants lives in any way.

@KrausPhillips And what is that?

This is the story of toll lanes in Charlotte. Only Charlotte sees terrible results & proposes more of the failure. Toll lanes, Gold Line..

@AlyssaRose Let me clue you in on something. No team cares at all about either's off the field behavior. In the game's mind Ozuna still has talent. So he plays. In the game's mind Bauer is washed, so he doesn't. There's nothing more to it. Seriously, there's nothing more to it.

A Cy Young Award Winner who was falsely accused and proven innocent of all charges in a court of law can’t get a contract but Marcel Ozuna can choke his wife with a cast then immediately get a DUI and play anywhere. Make it make sense.

@pastormarkburns You don’t get to self determine whether you’re engaged in idolatry. You are, and that’s not gonna be debatable when you’re looking up in the afterlife.

Today at Trump National Doral Miami, we witnessed an unforgettable moment with the dedication of the 22-foot statue honoring President Donald J. Trump. Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America. It also stands as a reminder of the hand of God and His protection over President Trump’s life. Time and time again, when his life was threatened, God’s mercy prevailed. Today was not just a ribbon cutting. It was the public display of a powerful movement that has spread across America and around the world. I was deeply honored to serve as President Trump’s main point of contact throughout this process, and I do not take that assignment lightly. I want to personally thank Ash, Dustin Stockton, Brock Pierce, Hershey Friedman, Yaakov Filitchkin, Sam, Jack, and the 6,000+ Patriots who donated, believed, sacrificed, and made this historic moment possible. Thank you to the entire Trump Doral team for your incredible hospitality and excellence. And thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for calling me today and speaking to the crowd. We are forever grateful. God bless President Trump. God bless every Patriot. And God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸 #PresidentTrump #SpiritualDiplomats #TrumpDoral #TrumpStatueDedication #AmericaFirst #PatriotMovement #FaithFreedomPatriotism

@BauerOutage for the love of God, have a little dignity. Nobody wants you. Accept it and move on with your life.

Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A. If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.

@EatDaBugs Literally every single one of these things were very plainly not going to happen. Seems kind of stupid to try to pretend he fooled you rather than you’re just a moron.

🚨 THOMAS MASSIE just said what MILLIONS are thinking out loud: "When I endorsed him, I thought we wouldn't have a new war." "I thought we would get warrants for FISA." "I thought that MAHA would be front and center at HHS with Bobby Kennedy there." "I thought we would end our involvement in the war in Ukraine." "I thought we would release all the Epstein files and indict some of those SOBs." "Those are all the things I'm still fighting for." The ONLY guy in DC who actually MEANT it. No new wars. Audit the spies. Release the files. Don't tread on Massie. 🦍 🟧

@WallStreetApes For Christ sake the Girl Scouts are raising money, not trying to compete in the dessert and treat marketplace.

The Dollar Tree sells white labeled Girl Scout cookies Girl Scout cookies sell the exact same cookies as Dollar Tree for 4x the price Comparing the boxes for Girl Scout cookies and fudge mint cookies from Dollar Tree Both boxes show they are manufactured at the same company, at the same address, they have essentially the exact same ingredients with only a very slight difference - Dollar Tree version often includes high fructose corn syrup and cornstarch. - Girl Scout Thin Mints uses caramel color and invert sugar instead That’s the difference, the rest is the same. Reviewers of the Dollar Tree cookie always mention they taste exactly like Girl Scout Thin Mints, its because they are The box at Dollar Tree is $1.50 The box at Girl Scout is $6

@kirkjangel I have found that those with the specialist label are only using it to inadvertently tell the world that they are very difficult to work with.

A couple years ago the NC Bar began certifying legal specialists in employment law. I meet all the requirements to sit for the exam and I am sure I would pass. However, do I really want to go through that process? I can't decide. It is not necessary for my practice or marketing.

@DonCornelius70 @CLTdevelopment @sshanewilson @TDCanes people act like Charlotte hasn't been in the conversation for 30 years regarding MLB expansion. When it gets serious, you'll see a plan.

@CLTdevelopment @sshanewilson There is no formal #mlb2clt ownership group nor plans to build a ballpark here . . . . . Best bet in NC getting MLB is up in Raleigh with @TDCanes (owner of Canes-NHL) who has talked about over the last couple of years . .

Portland? No thanks. Nashville will get it over Charlotte, right? They should.

@GfedGoCrazy Take away Lebron James, and Cleveland is at best Historically Respectable. Their most famous non-Lebron moment is the other team hitting a game winner in the first round of the playoffs. Even with Lebron, they should probably fall in the footnote champions category.

While we're here this is the correct NBA History tier list

@BBGreatMoments These are horrible. The only one that is even halfway decent is the AL Great Lakes, and it's not super.

Potential MLB Realignment by MLB on FOX

@NikkiBarnes It's ok, they also fail to mention that every single one of the candidates was painted as a leftist by their opponent and lost as a result.

These people always say this and fail to mention that the leftist lose in the primaries. 🙄

@bendreyfuss Maybe. But you cannot discount the amount of boomer wealth that is going to go to their care in their final days rather than their children. It will be a significant drain on the transfer.

Over the next few decades as baby boomers die off, millennials will be the recipients of the largest wealth transfer in history. This will not be evenly distributed but it will happen. It will have fascinating ripple effects. Point is: save your worries for the other generations