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mitchell retweeted
From someone who literally wrote the book Billy is one thousand percent correct.
Phil Mickelson owed money to his Las Vegas gambling buddy, Billy Walters. Billy gave him a secret stock tip, Phil made $931,000 in a week and paid him back. Billy went to prison for 5 years. Phil was never charged.
When Billy got out, he wrote a book about Phil.
More than $1 billion in bets, by Billy's count.
In the video below, Billy tells ESPN what would have kept him out of prison.
Billy spent decades as one of the biggest sports bettors in America. Phil was his golf partner, his friend and a man who owed him money.
July 2012. Phil owes Billy gambling money. Billy calls him and tells him to buy Dean Foods.
Billy's information came from a Dean Foods board member. He owed Billy money too.
A week later, the stock jumped 40%. Phil sold with more than $931,000 in profit. In September, he paid Billy back, partly with that money.
The money went in a circle. Only one man went to prison.
In 2016, the SEC named Phil a "relief defendant." That means he wasn't accused of anything, but he was holding money that wasn't his to keep. He paid back $1,037,029 and never admitted or denied a thing.
In 2017, Billy was convicted and got 5 years. Phil never testified.
"All Phil had to do was publicly say it. He refused," Billy wrote.
While Billy was inside, his daughter died. He wrote that he still believes he could have saved her if he'd been on the outside.
In 2023, his book came out. At least $1 billion wagered. At least $100 million lost. More than 1,115 bets over $100,000. Phil denied one claim: "I never bet on the Ryder Cup."
$931,000: what Phil made on the tip.
5 years: what Billy got.
$1 billion: what Billy says Phil bet.
Phil kept his silence, his career and a reported $200 million LIV deal.
Billy kept the receipts.
mitchell retweeted
The year is 1999. You’re 16 years old sitting shotgun in your best friend’s 1991 Nissan Sentra. It has an Alpine deck and two 12’s in the back he bought from a guy named Mike (surely stolen). Feel Me Flow by Naughty by Nature blasts. He drops you off at your girlfriend’s house where you’ll touch boobs under the bra for the first time while watching Tremors. The second one that doesn’t even have Kevin Bacon. Her dad comes home just as she reaches under your JNCO’s. It’s painful but it’s also the greatest night of your life. Your friend picks you up and you go smoke a bowl in your school’s dugout. You talk about how you’ll either be a Navy Seal or on Saturday Night Live. You get a page from your mom and go home, check AIM and pass out. Life is good.
mitchell retweeted
Imagine spending $1.5 MILLION dollars on a movie and it ends up looking like this. LOL.
Could have made two Obsessions if they just invested in a real filmmaker.
"Merry the Christmas Witch" director Tom Walsh says his movie adaptation of the 2012 children’s book would've cost $80 million if he did not use AI. The final budget was $1.5 million.
“We were kind of stuck. The doors are not very open to new kind[s] of ideas and new kind[s] of stories and everything, and that makes it a little tough for independent filmmakers, so that’s where AI came in.”
variety.com/2026/film/news/m…
mitchell retweeted
Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
mitchell retweeted
NFL can't ignore the missed call that handed #Titans their 6th loss 🤬
titansized.com/nfl-can-t-ign…
mitchell retweeted
AirBNB had its place and time, but it’s over. Had a lovely stay at a Hyatt last night, left trash in the can, towels on the ground, and am confident my corporate overlord isn’t going to light me up with a guest review video. A professional exchange of goods for money. The AirBNB hosts did this to themselves and the platform lost control long ago.
its just bonkers the new policy @airbnb is trying to put in place. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, taking out the trash, pulling the sheets off the bed....they are just standard things any normal person would do when staying at a house. Why wouldn't a host be allowed to say that?
mitchell retweeted
devastated. i’m a blue collar parent in a swing state who was going to surprise my daughter with dinner at the cheesecake factory, the fanciest restaurant of all time. but now my daughter says cheesecake factory is “mid,” because of obama, and she is changing her name to mark.
mitchell retweeted
Yet another tragic aftereffect of Bush’s Iraq War: If we had not invaded and Saddam had not been hanged, he’d still be alive today and people would get this fucking Cheesecake Factory joke
mitchell retweeted
Billionaires can’t pay more in taxes but can spend $400,000,000.00 on midterm elections.
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The sickening stories keeping coming in…😢😢😢
SHAME ON YOU, @StubHub.
Imagine being a kid, a HUGE @Brewers fan, and finding out you’re going to see your team play in the WORLD SERIES! ⚾️💙💛
The excitement. The anticipation. The memories you’re already imagining making.
Now imagine having that excitement ripped away because a company sold your 3 tickets that you bought, that they apparently can’t deliver.
That’s exactly what we’re dealing with right now.
We purchased THREE tickets to the Milwaukee Brewers World Series for Game 1 last Tuesday(13th) through StubHub. We selected our section, our row, paid for our tickets, and received our order confirmation.
Everything was supposed to be set.
Then suddenly, StubHub tells us they’re “searching for replacement options” because they can’t provide the tickets we purchased.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
How does a company accept someone’s hard earned money, confirm a purchase, and then turn around and say they can’t fulfill it?!
And their solution? We can request a refund while they continue looking for tickets.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT THE MONEY.
It’s about the experience. It’s about the memories. It’s about the excitement of a kid, his dad, and grandpa, who thought they were going to watch their favorite baseball team play on the biggest stage in baseball.
Look at the first picture. That’s the disappointment you’re creating, StubHub.
A refund doesn’t replace that moment.
And here’s what really bothers me…
StubHub advertises a “FanProtect Guarantee” and tells customers their orders are “100% guaranteed.”
Guaranteed WHAT, exactly?!
Because from where we’re sitting, that guarantee doesn’t feel worth much when you can’t deliver the tickets you sold us.
We did everything right. We purchased through a major ticket marketplace. We trusted the confirmation. We trusted the guarantee.
Now it’s time for StubHub to make it right.
We aren’t asking for anything extra. We want the three tickets we paid for, or comparable or better seats together, at no additional cost.
Stubhub…DO BETTER.
Please SHARE this. Not just for us, but for every fan who has trusted a ticket company with an experience that means so much more than the price of admission.
ℹ️Brandon Barker
mitchell retweeted
I texted my children that we got the puppy they’ve been begging me for and sent them a link with pictures. 🐶When they clicked on the link, it took them to a webpage that said YOU’RE GROUNDED. They’ll be spending the weekend retaking our family’s cybersecurity training course.
mitchell retweeted
The press ran with EVERY lie about the Bidens. Now, after the fact, an FBI informant admitted fabricating bribery claims. Hunter won $1.7M in defamation damages. TWO ex-FBI officials face charges over laptop testimony.
Meanwhile, Trump’s family makes BILLIONS in crypto and everything else.
America owes the Bidens an APOLOGY.
BREAKING: Two former FBI agents have been charged with lying to Congress about Hunter Biden's laptop. cbsn.ws/4Bp5HgU
mitchell retweeted
There are 30 NFL stadiums -- 27 (90%) used direct public funding. The other 3 got tax breaks/publicly funded infastructure.
Stop taking games from fans, stop stealing rev you promised tax-payers when asking for their $, stop diluting the product, and stop risking player health.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell teases future Tokyo game, sees "new opportunities" for international growth
nfl.com/news/commissioner-go…
mitchell retweeted
They. Don’t. Care. About. The. Players.
As the NFL pushes forward with its plan to stage Steelers-Saints in Paris on Sunday despite ongoing unrest, a soccer match set for Sunday night has been postponed at the direction of the local authorities. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…
mitchell retweeted
This is bad.
Owning a piece of Paramount-Warner Bros. would give Elon Musk a place at the table on Skydance's biggest decisions.
On Thursday, came word that Elon would make a (start with?) $1 billion investment in the David Ellison company, according to a Semafor report. David and his father Larry are in the hole for $79 billion, and you can only cut that much staff to make up the difference. A cool $10 bil from Elon, even if not all of it is in cash, takes the bankers’ pressure off you. A chill $1b already helps.
But the Ellisons’ financial breathing room comes in a distant second, consequence-wise, to what such an investment would create: a backdoor for Musk to enter the media-entertainment world.
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