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@DmoWriter @BernieSanders @RepCasar This bill should be implemented and any city affected within last 20 years should be retroactively made whole

Holy shit. @BernieSanders and @RepCasar just introduced The Home Team Act, a bill that would “Require team owners who want to relocate to first offer local owners the chance to buy it." This would have saved the A’s. Full stop. It would help prevent owners from "uprooting teams that people have rooted for for generations. No more extorting taxpayers for billions." (Casar.) It would prevent owners from "blackmailing one community against another for multi-billion-dollar subsidies." (Sanders.) It goes without saying this is needed. “Nearly every major city in the nation [has been] asked to mortgage its future to the sports industry," @fieldofschemes has written. If I may. The relationship between sports fans and the sports business has been broken ever since the Supreme Court gave MLB an antitrust exemption in 1922. Multiple Supreme Court justices have criticized the ruling as “unrealistic, inconsistent, and illogical.” The ruling stemmed from a whimsical interpretation of professional sports as a fundamentally communal, rather than capitalistic, enterprise. In practice the exemption merely grants team owners license to run their teams in the most ruthlessly capitalistic ways possible. “The major leagues” Kevin Baker has written, “remain to this day the most complete and enduring cartel in American history.” But it hasn't ever been addressed. In America, owners get to have it both ways. They're permitted to run their businesses like robber barons. The sports industry is insulated from both government regulation and free-market competition. Fans and cities possess no power or protection. This bill would give them some. Hell ya. It's also not that ridiculous at all. A version of this law already exists in Ohio. Lawmakers passed it after Art Modell moved the Browns, to protect fans in the state from ever having to go through that kind of thing again. Stronger versions of this sort of thing exist in Europe. In 2025, England passed the Football Governance Act, a regulatory framework designed, in the language of the law, “to protect and promote the sustainability of English football.” The law mandates team owners and league executives regularly consult with fan representatives on all matters relevant to fan interests. And it empowers an Independent Football Regulator (IFR) to evaluate the potential impact of all proposed changes by an owner to his or her club on fans and community members and to strike down those changes found not to be in fans’ interests. These include changes to a club’s name, crest, and, most fundamentally, its home. Versions of this sort of thing have been batted about by US lawmakers before. Most have not been given much attention. I hope this time it's different. It's too late to save the A’s. But I hope it passes so that no other fans have to suffer the indignities fans suffered here. So that sports work better for future fans like my sons.

Incredible deal on Battlehawks tickets in partnership with @BarstoolMizzou $9 tickets available for all 5 Battlehawks home games, including the home opener this Saturday! #Kakaw #UFL @BattlehawksUFL gofevo.com/group/Barstool…

@STLSoccerNews Blom’s Bleachers

What current or former CITY player should get the honor of some seats named after them at Energizer Park? Wrong answers only. The Selmir Stand? The Josh Ya-row?

30k+ sickos turning out to watch the Brandon Silvers show on the same day as the Cardinals second home game of the year + the Blues playing at home?! I love St. Louis so much, best sports city in the country.

The St Louis Battlehawks look to be getting 31k+ at their home opener this weekend against the DC Defenders, per @stlpublicradio Shout-out to the Battlehawks faithful, love to see it 🔥 #UFL

The pitch that JJ Wetherholt hit out yesterday had a plate side of -1.07 ft, which is nearly 5 inches from the edge of the strike zone. He hit it 425 feet. He’s the first LHH to go 425+ on a pitch at least a foot from the center of the plate since… Nolan Gorman in July of 2023

I love this story. Congratulations to JJ, his family and Mrs. Ingoldsby! @MarsAreaSD @Cardinals @WVUBaseball @Big12Conference

Saturday, I am doing the trifecta Battlehawks at 11am Cardinals at 1:15pm Blues at 6:00pm Last year, I did Cardinals, Battlehawks and City SC on a same day

Cardinals' Victor Scott II, Vince Coleman-esque, looks like he can steal 50 bases. An homage to Scott's opening day: 3 hits (including a bunt hit) 2 SB 1 free base (after pitcher disengaged 3 times trying to pick him off) stltoday.com/sports/column/…

@AndreaKatSTL He was tipping pitches last year and that started in STL (he struggled here before fully collapsing in NY). It wasn’t about the market but a fundamental flaw that’s been fixed

Playing in New York City for the Mets or the Yankees under the big city bright lights isn't for everybody. Helsley looks like he did in St. Louis. Hels gonna have a good year in Baltimore. #Birdland #LGM #RepBX

the definition of "this ball went 500 feet"

Opening Day in St. Louis vs Opening Day in Chicago

JJ WETHERHOLT 😤 He leaves the yard in his Major League debut!

It’s funny how humble Pujols is compared to Bonds. Bonds said at 60 he could still hit a 100 mph fast ball. There’s no doubt Pujols could go up there today and make contact, especially if he had a few weeks to train.

No waiting in STL!

Just a casual 1400+ homeruns in this picture

For fans of the Nationals, Mariners, Brewers, Cardinals, Marlins, Rays, Reds, Royals, Tigers, and Braves that are awaiting channel announcements on where to find your teams on TV… For planning purposes, these negotiations usually go down to the wire. Hearing that things are in a good place for all of them and that will be information first thing Thursday morning.

@ThomasWalterMc @JABsMusic Since the NHL expanded in 1967, the Blues have made the playoffs more than any non-Original 6 team. They are at least in a “solid organization” standpoint. When as an org you are making playoffs 80% of the time across almost 60 years that’s a pretty good record

@JABsMusic Depending on the metrics used, this is possibly accurate unfortunately. Who would the Blues replace above a tier? Only argument is WASH So they also have a Cup, but the difference is they have the greatest goal scorer that played his entire career there. I hate it but its right

lol okkk…

@StlMac_ @Ackerman1120 The big question is “IF”. In 2023 he posted a near .900 OPS but only in 53 games. 2024 was below league average, and in 2025 he never cracked majors. The Royals are desperate for an OF bat and didn’t keep him around. It’s a consistency thing with him

@Ackerman1120 If he keeps doing what he did this spring, he will force their hands.

Traveling today, but on the Velazquez move to Memphis… here is another lesson as we learn this rebuild together. We saw what we saw. The plan saw something different. #stlcards

STL Hotels staying hot in 2026 after leading the nation in 2025 In 2025, St Louis lead the U.S. with 7.4% RevPar growth over prior year, while the total U.S. contracted (.4%).   Thru Feb 2026, STL is 16.3%growth in RevPar over 2025, U.S. growing at 2.4% (& March was packed)