People truly never learn.
If you ask any five year old if paying big bucks to name a stadium is a smart business move, they’ll tell you “no”. History has provided countless examples of this. To cite just a few……….
Name Dropping
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
$400,000,000 —> Toilet
As you well know, when a company dumps a fortune into naming a stadium, that’s usually a sign of impending doom (perhaps you’ve visited the Enron Stadium in Houston recently?) The latest of these was Sofi, which got a boost in attention thanks to the SuperBowl. They spent $400 million to slap their name on the place.
Post-Woke Culture
Bloxheads
Well, I guess the “R-Word” is off limits, so I’ll instead refer to the denizens of WSB as brain-dead. At least until the Association for Brain-Dead Dignity comes after me, at which time I’ll be foreclosed from using the “B-Word.” But, for now, brain-dead it is.
As most of you know (unless you, too, are brain dead) the WSB sub-reddit is crowded with degenerate gamblers and males in a state of arrested development. They are dreadful investors, and their hero is DFV, whose drug of choice, famously, was GME. It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime things, but attempting to behave like DFV is, I believe, akin to modeling yourself after someone who won the lottery. They got lucky, and it’s one-and-done, so it’s all a bit silly. Of course, WSB and its self-deluded victims would not exist were it not for the Fed’s wicked machinations, but this is what we’ve got to work with.
(more…)Salesman
Below is one of my favorite documentaries, if not the favorite, of all time. It is considered a classic, and if you haven’t seen it, give it a look. I figured it was time for some Slope Cinema as we all wait for the all-important CPI in the morning. This is a devastatingly marvelous tragicomedy from our culture:
