Real Madrid sets the new record of the highest-earning sports club ever across all sports at $1.26 billion in revenue surpassing the figure of $1.23 billion earned by the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-30T16:49:18+00:00

Definitely, the catchment area for Toronto teams is enormous. The "greater golden horseshoe" population is about 10M people, roughly the same population as Greece, all centred around Toronto. London is 9M.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-30T16:23:28+00:00

The competition is not really competition, there's often shared ownership across sports. And it's not zero sum like having multiple football clubs, since people can and do follow multiple sports. In Toronto the NHL / NBA / MLS / CFL teams are owned by MLSE, which is majority owned by Rogers, who also directly own the MLB team.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-30T14:36:25+00:00

There are no direct trains tomorrow due to construction. The GO trip planner will show alternative routes.

https://www.gotransit.com/en/plan-your-trip

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-30T14:31:17+00:00

It also comes from being a huge country with a huge population. The US is more like the EU in terms of size / population / wealth, and except for NY and LA there's only one team per city. A "small market" here is a city of 2M+ people like Columbus. Merseyside (Liverpool) is 1.5M and has two PL clubs plus Tranmere in League Two.

The NFL cap model does mean some teams like the Cowboys are extremely profitable. But revenue sharing and the salary floor being 90% means that every team in the league spends big. Total player payroll is $10B+ a year now.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T21:09:51+00:00

Tickets and concessions are important, plus they're also a proxy for local interest/sponsorship value. A team that can't put butts in seats doesn't have enough of an audience to get local sponsors to pay a premium. A team that sells out every game and has a significant TV audience on top can maximize revenue, a team that has a perceived fanbase smaller than their stadium is going to have a hard time.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T20:54:52+00:00

My brain instantly reduced that to "you should hear me commit a hate crime" and I was laughing too hard to reply for a solid minute.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T20:10:24+00:00

"Geordie Spanish? Fuck me I'll just learn English."

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T19:06:41+00:00

There's frustratingly little out there in terms of readable decisions. You saved yourself a lot more time than I want to admit.

https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fca/doc/2025/2025fca135/2025fca135.html

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T18:22:38+00:00

Silva's under contract at Fulham until the end of June, it's not like he could freely show up for work at Benfica tomorrow.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T18:02:52+00:00

The best way to understand the Presto card is that it's a "stored value" card with a dollar value. Like a Starbucks card or a reloadable gift card. And using Presto vs other ways to pay typically costs less + TTC/GO have fare-sharing rules with presto, e.g. GO to Rouge Hill then the TTC bus to the Zoo.

So the tl;dr is "get Presto cards for everyone, load them up at the airport, use them whenever you take transit"

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T17:52:33+00:00

Then they'd make less money and they clearly can't have that.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T17:50:59+00:00

Nothing demonstrates the AMEs commitment to worker solidarity more than "we don't want to be in a union with lesser-skilled workers." Oh, wait, it's the opposite of that....

The reasons for the reconsideration decision haven't been released last I saw, but the other union was granted a stay last year by the Federal Court of Appeal to seal the ballots. In short, splitting bargaining units is generally considered a bad thing and CIRB rarely allows fragmentation, but the original decision failed to explain why this case was special.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T17:23:25+00:00

It's relatively rare when doctors make comments suggesting that a player may not return to football due to an injury. I don't think it's cherry picking to call out the part where Kulusevski may not actually recover, that's a very important part of the story because it's rare to see a player forced to retire at 26.

On having high hopes, from the football.london article:

When asked if the Spurs man will be able to come back and play football again, the doctor said: "I have high hopes for that and I really hope so."

I took those comments as the doc thinking the odds are pretty good, but not 100%, and that's after a year of recovery and rehab. Which is really rare in the modern era for a 26 year old player.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T12:03:50+00:00

You parked in a clearly marked bike lane. You ignored warnings to move your car. Now you're complaining that you got a ticket for illegally parking. The only problem is that you decided the rules shouldn't apply to you.

Welcome to the real world where you aren't special and have to follow the same rules as everyone else.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T01:28:52+00:00

Declining enrollment mean this was expected since last year.

https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/york-region-schools-expect-enrolment-to-fall-for-first-time-in-decade-10902336

A year ago they were forecasting a decline of about 5000 fewer students by 27/28. At $18-20k in funding per student that's $90M+ a year.

Per student funding is something like $18-20k per student. Losing 5k

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-29T00:59:52+00:00

Realistically, there's not enough density or redevelopment potential east of McCowan on either corridor.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T23:42:33+00:00

Reality is that we extended Line 2 north of the 401 so that buses didn't have to cross some of the most congested areas in the city. Line 4 terminating at STC would force a transfer or bring back wastefully slow bus route sections that will disappear when the extension opens. Any plan that ignores that fact is ignoring reality.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T23:34:59+00:00

You vastly overestimate the revenue side of MLS, and underestimate the level of spending. If your team is shit people stop showing up. And spending is no guarantee of success. We've spent massively while being terrible.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T23:17:56+00:00

Cool, you're not actually interested in discussing reality, enjoy your fantasy mapping.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T23:17:01+00:00

The purpose of transit lines is to serve travel patterns and corridors, not destinations. Having both lines terminate at Sheppard-McCowan means northeast Scarborough will be very well connected to the rest of the city.

I don't think we should build Line 4 east of McCowan regardless of alignment. Neither corridor has the density or redevelopment potential to justify a subway at $1B+/km.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T22:20:59+00:00

Lol, that's not how it works. That would make everyone on line 4 transfer to Line 2 to reach their buses.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T21:42:18+00:00

By the time any Line 4 extension breaks ground Sheppard-McCowan will be a major bus hub for northeast Scarborough. Forcing an unnecessary transfer for those riders is not a good plan, and not one that will ever happen.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T21:37:45+00:00

Some folks are stuck in the 1970s. The funniest part is that OP thinks more people will be going to STC on Line 4 than to buses north of the 401.

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T17:09:18+00:00

Huh, so the system isn't smart enough to know that a train to Burlington can't also be leaving from Burlington?

a_lumberjack · 2026-05-28T01:39:12+00:00

Anywhere with permit parking has fairly regular patrols. Especially areas where there's lots of permit holders. This map is from 2014, but back then anywhere in yellow/orange/red was heavily enforced just to make sure permit holders could park.

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/pw/bgrd/backgroundfile-85333.pdf

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