Is this “clickbait,” as they call it? Sort of. Almost exactly two years ago, we found an excuse to blog about the Houston Astros as they were heading into World Series Game 7 against the Washington Nationals. Before that, we found a more direct October excuse to blog about the formerly-bankrupt Cubs (2016) and the
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The Houston Astros in October: Bankruptcy Edition
With an exciting but somewhat controversial finish in last night’s game, the Washington Nationals tied the series 3-3 with the Houston Astros, setting-up for a potentially exciting Game 7 conclusion to the World Series. Unlike the Cubs in 2016 and the Dodgers in 2017 and 2018, neither of this year’s teams is a former Chapter 11 debtor. However, the Astros are still very much tied-up in Houston Regional Sports Network, L.P.’s Texas Chapter 11 from 2013. Hence, our hook for our third bankruptcy-related World Series post.
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Happy New Year: The Best of 2017
Once again from my in-laws’ home in Potomac, Maryland, here’s Plan Proponent’s Best of 2017 post, a link by link Top 10 of our third year of blogging–although my wife just asked, in rather savage fashion, “Did you even have 10 posts this year?” Wow. (We had 11 posts, so one unlucky post about…
The Los Angeles Dodgers in October: Bankruptcy Edition
The Los Angeles Dodgers are down 2-3 to the Houston Astros headed into tonight’s Game 6 of the World Series. And after a wild, 12 to 13 extra innings slugfest on Sunday, we figured we’d do what we do best: simmer the anticipation and the excitement with a bankruptcy post. Last year, we wrote…
Book Excerpt: A Southern Lawyer’s Lunch with Harvey Miller
(Photo Credit: Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times)
On my drive home from New Year’s in D.C., I learned that my buddy Doug Ford, a commercial bankruptcy attorney in Atlanta at Quirk & Quirk, LLC, had self-published his book I Do My Own Stunts: Finding My Way as an Attorney. I’m not…
Happy New Year: The Best of 2016
(The Capitol from the Supreme Court on 12/30/16 via Dave’s iPhone)
Once again from my in-laws’ home in Potomac, Maryland, here’s Plan Proponent’s Best of 2016 post. With our second year in the bag, we’ll dispense with the formalities and get straight to the Top 10, link by link. In honor of our Supreme…
The Chicago Cubs in October: Bankruptcy Edition

The Chicago Cubs are down 1-2 to the Cleveland Indians headed into tonight’s Game…