2024.10.25: Hands On A Hardball

Burnie and Ashley discuss fake reviews, the power of averages, the gym lobby, corporate personhood, floppy disks, hard balls, misappropriated laws, the power of Hitachi, the baseball brawl, big bucks for big leagues, and the Dodgers as baseball’s true underdog.
  
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Fake Reviews

• You Can Now Get Fined $51,744 for Writing a Fake Review Online (gizmodo.com)
• The Corporation | Feature Documentary | in HD (youtube.com)
• How the 14th Amendment Made Corporations Into ‘People’ | HISTORY

Unsubscribe

• Industry groups are suing the FTC to stop its click to cancel rule – The Verge
• Industry groups vs FTC – DocumentCloud

SF Floppies

• San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks – Ars Technica
• The best Hitachi memes 🙂 Memedroid
• Hitachi ®Magic Wand Original – Official HitachiWand.com™ | Buy 100% Authentic Hitachi ®Magic Wand Original
• What Is the Capacity of a Floppy Disk? | It Still Works

Bick Buck Baseball

• Ohtani’s 50th home run ball auctioned for $4.39 million; ownership battle heats up : NPR
• Shohei Ohtani: 18-year-old files lawsuit over ownership of historic 50-50 ball, seeks to prevent auction | CNN
• The battle for Shohei Ohtani’s 50/50 ball | MLB on ESPN (youtube.com)
• Evil woman steals ball from little girl (youtube.com)
• Guardians payroll breakdown: How Cleveland compares to big-spending Yankees, Dodgers and Mets in MLB playoffs | Sporting News
• Baseball Doesn’t Exist on X: “They’re postponing the season premiere of ONE PIECE so they can show the World Series in Japan…” / X