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Friday Fun Thread for September 4, 2026

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What is going on with sports team owners?

In the space of a few weeks:

-- The owner of the Los Angeles Lakers has been forced to sell (to a Kushner brother) the team because of an SEC investigation into financial irregularities at insurance companies he controlled. (((I'll leave the questions about the Trump admin investigating a businessman who then is forced to sell a prized asset to a Trump-family-affiliated entity to Pablo Torre to unwind)))

-- The owner of the San Francisco 49ers was arrested in an East Palestine, OH trailer park in a human trafficking sting, apparently trying to hire a $140 prostitute. He plead guilty to some minor misdemeanor charges and spent a night in jail.

-- The Los Angeles Clippers have effectively been neutered for the next 5-8 years by the NBA's decision in their salary-cap circumvention scheme, in which Kawhi Leonard was paid extra money outside his contract under the table through no-show endorsement deals from affiliated companies.

-- Investigations into the Los Angeles Dodgers are coming to the forefront, involving financial irregularities in their ownership group.

It could all be a coincidence, but it feels weird astrologically.

The owner of the San Francisco 49ers was arrested in an East Palestine, OH trailer park in a human trafficking sting, apparently trying to hire a $140 prostitute. He plead guilty to some minor misdemeanor charges and spent a night in jail.

Shouldn't he be able to easily afford a $1400 D1 escort from UC Berkeley or OSU instead of trailer trash?

It's the power difference which is appealing, the money is unimportant. That D1 has a low chance of making it big in sports, or may otherwise use a college degree to earn a decent living in a non-athletic career even if she temporarily sells her body. The D1 is potentially upwardly mobile.

The woman in the trailer park is probably destitute, with little future prospects other than marrying well if she can avoid the drugs. The exploitation is what makes it erotic for him. There is likely no sexual degradation she will refuse, unlike the fit D1 who can be choosy with her wealthier clients.

Not to say that the D1 wouldn't do some degrading stuff for the right price. But it wouldn't be real degradation done in desperation, it would be play-acted at best.

But it wouldn't be real degradation done in desperation, it would be play-acted at best.

I don't know. If she walks like a urinal and she talks like a urinal, then I don't see the difference between "real" degradation and "fake" degradation.

Don't you also see the difference between a real girlfriend and a purchased Girlfriend Experience?

(What's D1? Google and deepseek fail me.)

(What's D1? Google and DeepSeek fail me.

Judging from the context:

D1 escort from UC Berkeley or OSU

I'm going to guess it's a double-ish meaning.

  1. Most selective or elite top division of a given form of labor, e.g., highest division of intercollegiate athletics: NCAA Division I.
  2. Literally, the very attractive women you see immediately attached to top-level athletes recruited to top football program schools, where there is some implication that the women were "supplied" at some level as part of a recruiting package. Especially pre-NIL money. Presumably, that supply can also be directed at other sources of demand in adjacent industry.

Edit: I see I should have refreshed first. Yeah, that is also an implication I was thinking of but failed to mention, and is a real thing.

In this case, both are purchased.

D1 is the highest college athletics division in the US. Someone from a less flashy sport like track and field might supplement her income by escorting.

More cynical people say both are also purchased in the girlfriend case. But the underlying motivation and emotions differ, and the client knows they differ, and some get off on it not unlike the men who prefer a conventional girlfriend to the one who takes pay by the hour.

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