A Five Win Pass? The San Diego Padres are not playoff contenders. Not by a long shot. They’re 15.5 games back and playing .400 ball. But how do you boost attendance? Some teams offer monthly “ballpark passes” which get you in the stadium, but not necessarily a seat for a low, set price. So when your team sucks, why not sweeten the deal? How about 5 wins for $99? Yes, if you buy the pass, you will be able to attend as many games as you want until you’ve seen five wins. For the rest of the season. Naturally, some fans aren’t big supporters of the plan. Others observe that many fans will basically be rooting for their team to lose. Even if you are unlucky and catch 5 wins in a row, you’re paying $19.98 a ticket, which ain’t that bad, compared to what you’d pay on a ticket reseller’s site.
Jim Jordan is running for speaker! And wouldn’t you know, he has some red meat to offer the base: impeaching Rod Rosenstein. Jack Goldsmith, in our pages, writes why that’s a sham. And on Fox, Judge Napolitano threw cold water on the crackpot idea on President Trump’s very favorite morning show.
Zero tolerance for zero tolerance. At the New York Times, Emily Yoffe writes an interesting op-ed on “zero tolerance” policies. “[O]nce zero tolerance has been adopted,” she writes, “it’s not easy to undo the bureaucratic incentive to punish indiscriminately.”
When airline CEOs try the cheap seats… Not all of the airline CEOs (lookin’ at you, United…) participated, but the Wall Street Journal sat some of them down in their planes’ tightest spaces to talk about how airline travel has changed.
Have a cow, man! This man in Ireland took his pet sheep to the Lidl grocery store to shame people out of buying lamb products. It didn’t end well.
Before they were landmarks. Atlas Obscura takes a trip back in time with some photos of world landmarks as they were being built.
“Words are the new weapons, satellites the new artillery.” That’s what the fictional media mogul Eliot Carver said in Tomorrow Never Dies. And turns out, the enemy might be our own laziness. BusinessWeek has a concerning feature looking at the vulnerabilities in the system that could send the world economy into a chaos.
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