Sammy Sofa

The Cubs are going with the 4th "why bother acquiring one at all?" way.

Slowly dying.

What? He’ll be around to break Packer fans’ hearts, once again.

Uh oh what did I miss? https://isp.illinois.gov/Sor/Details/X05A2911 Looks like he went from young boys to the Proud Boys.

I honestly don't remember. I had been posting here for about 3 years, but I really have no memory of this whole bracket (if I posted in any of those threads, I guess my brain is turning to mush). I might have been taking an internet break or something; I was back in school at that point.

His real blog is still out there, too: https://web.archive.org/web/20140601095901/http://shades-of-wrigley.blogspot.com/ horsefeathering hysterical that the most recent post is about Khalil Greene.

Wait, meph didn't post enough to show up on there?

I guess what seems fuzzy about this is that while you're saving money, it's basically completely different content (outside of Sling vs. cable). I mean, if most of what you watch is going to be on cable, sure, makes total sense to go that route, but at the end of the day I'm getting much more bang for my buck technically paying more for multiple streaming services than for cable. I know it's different depending on where you live, but the only way I'd be able to get cable around here that's significantly cheaper than even a streaming list like that is if I'm getting a pretty shitty package. (Plus you should have been bundling ESPN+/Hulu/Disney+).

Wait, $1 million TOTAL from the PA?

I won an autographed Will Ohman card!

Yeah, the people talking about here at work are probably, like, 90% blame the players. Like you said, even if they toss in some gripe about the owners, it always circles back to, "these guys are getting paid millions to play a game!"

https://youtu.be/VVYA3oTG8fg

I actually think the problem is not enough long term thinking. - 5 years ago the MLBPA was fat and happy. Willing to sell amateurs down the river for roomier bus rides and like a dedicated omelette chef or w/e. MLB decided to pull back on FA spend, and now have a full on labor crisis - Last year we got the weird bastardized 60 game season because small market owners were going to lose money on a per game basis with revenue sharing suspended. The league passed on two months of assuredly bonkers tv ratings, including far more young eyes than they'll ever reliably be able to reach again - They're losing brand favorability with every day this current spat goes on, even though they could make major concessions to the players and still be north of 50/50 in revenue moving forward - They've not really invested in youth outreach beyond RBI. They've also dragged their feet on in market streaming and lifting the archaic in market streaming rules. All opportunities to spend a little short term money and expand the audience. They have to their credit cozied up with the online sports books. Smart long term thinking would be to only take ~50% of "baseball revenue" to keep the MLBPA complacent while enjoying skyrocketing franchise values and continually expanding baseball adjacent revenue streams that the PA wouldn't get their fingers in. The PA would have essentially rubber stamped this CBA. Now they're fighting tooth and nail, and there's probably going to be enough left over acrimony for this to happen again in 5 years. Yes, I phrased that wrong. I agree. I think both of you are right; they're not looking at the long term picture in any kind of smart or meaningful way, but they are very clearly operating under the usual Disaster Capitalism "I'M GONNA LIVE FOREVER!!!!!" mantra. They THINK that long term they're going to make more money if they keep doing variations of the same horsefeathers like they've been doing it, and that's all that matters to them.

NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Hey, Snyder:

Petition to merge this thread with the Good Dog thread.

Worth unrolling the thread: [tweet] [/tweet]

TBF, there's not much else to do at a hockey game.

Their goal was to use their VC money to drive their user base sky high while losing money and the selling to a larger entity. That larger entity wants to make money. Sounds like a recipe for this to not end well for subscribers.

yeah, not gonna lie, i'm not informed enough to understand how some of these companies you always hear operate at a loss can just continue to soldier on. others that come to mind are like the rideshare apps, sirius, xm, siriusxm Netflix, too.

There was definitely stuff going around last year about how much money they lost in both 2019 and 2020. And the NYT being willing to chuck out cash isn't necessarily a ringing endorsement of how well it's doing since, for one, it's the horsefeathering NYT, and, two, horsefeathers like the AOL and Time Warner merger happened. Or Yahoo buying Geocities for $4 billion(!!!!!!!!!!!). Big money doesn't mean smart money.

Nobody did that. I know he's done plenty for cancer charities; doesn't excuse this scam horsefeathers.