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No. That was blackhawks excuse in 1987. It’s always been about protecting cable money. I mean yeah, duh, it's about money with the cable companies, but it also isn't not about attendance because they insist on that being a primary reason for it and have for decades. Even though that's obviously a fallacy because the blackout maps make no horsefeathering sense for that to even work, that's what they put out there as a big reason as some kind of "Golly gee shucks Mister, guess you oughta buy a ticket or something" while they stuff their fat faces with Comcast and Fox's sweaty ballsacks I don’t understand your lingo but I can’t imagine thinking it was about attendance. It’s not about attendance and hasn’t been about attendance. It’s about making it easier to justify millions of people paying an extra $3.75 on their cable bill every month. -
Huh? Attendance is the strawman they've used as the reason for the blackouts forever. The whole point is that if you're in the vicinity of a teams location, they black you out to force you to go to a game. That's quite literally the reason it said on their page for years. Whether it says that now I don't know, but that's why I was unable to get Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, or Houston games in Mobile, Alabama. Cable had nothing to do with it because outside of maybe TBS, I literally got none of those local stations, so there was no reason to be blacked out on a service I pay to watch these games. There are cities everywhere that are dead zones that get screwed out of watching teams that aren't realistic to drive and go see, nor do they have the local channels to watch those teams. Their blackout map is absurd. No. That was blackhawks excuse in 1987. It’s always been about protecting cable money.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CCLlp5epxj3/?igshid=1ul4eykcdbos4
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Finishing to learn to golf is more difficult.
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https://twitter.com/nicoleauerbach/status/1281303990546948096?s=21
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Did somebody find the lost archives from the original board crash? He would’ve broke anyways, but horsefeathering Joe using him against the rules they allegedly set is still infuriating. He was horsefeathering awesome for his ~30 innings or whatever. He was worth almost 1 WAR for us. If you have to set special 'please don't break' usage rules for a player, you probably shouldn't sign him, and you definitely shouldn't pay him $10M per year. If pitching one inning on a third day in a row was enough to kill him for 2.5 years, then it was never going to work. Modern baseball disagrees with you.
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2020 Game Thread Starters
jersey cubs fan replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Cancel culture catalyst crystal bowl -
It'll still cement the possibility as real (and perceived to be more likely than it is, perhaps) and lead to pulling back. We've made long standing/permanent changes to society in reaction to plenty of unlikely events that just hadn't occurred yet before. I think seeing a player die would make players far more fearful of getting it, too, even if they can prove he didn't get it from "work." Maybe I'll end up being wildly wrong (as per usual). But remember, we're not talking about what you or I would do. At the end of the day, MLB just needs 30 billionaires, some politicians and ~750 willing baseball players. The amount of money they stand to lose if they don't have some sort of season is enormous. They didn't become billionaires by prioritizing lives over money. A death leads to a walk out which creates a near impossibility to fill rosters with scabs in time to finish a season.
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If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo. What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job? What would that matter? The entire point is these guys can all easily infect each other after getting it from anywhere. The whole premise of reopening the season is the theory that big strong men can't die from it so it's not really an issue. They've basically created a new DL category assuming the guys that test positive just need a little R&R. It has been more or less accepted that a huge surge in positive tests will very possibly cause it to shutdown. If, and I don't anticipate it happening, but if a player actually dies from the disease during the season it blows the whole thing out of the water.
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If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo.
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https://twitter.com/gourmetspud/status/1280985160561963008?s=21
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Timely
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From what little I understand, it sounded like the new people were ok with political slants as long as they were being written through the lens of sports related stories. I didn't read Deadspin enough then, and don't now, to know whether there's any functional difference between the angles they've taken. Yeah, no. They lost all their readers and changed their approach afterward.
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To what? Stateless R*edsk!ins
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Blackhawks 2019-2020 - A New Window
jersey cubs fan replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
I don’t think it will be a huge deal but there is comfort and familiarity playing at the stadium you play at 40+ times a year, not to mention they are used to the ice conditions and how the boards play etc. Plus even if they are in a bubble, they are still in their home city. Again it’s not a huge deal but it is a slight advantage for the Oilers. Not as big of an advantage as getting to play the Blackhawks. -
That’s the rangers stadium? I thought it was a big 12 field house.
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I felt this one in my soles
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I shouldn't reward such sheer laziness lol, but 42-18. I have to assume that this was their best 60 game stretch of the year too given the 25-6 start. It was more than just sheer laziness. I was at a stoplight and I knew I could always count on you for something like this lol You typed two separate sentences including punctuation in a stoplight post? Put the phone down you negligent homicidal maniac.
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A DH in't an extra job unless it comes with an extra roster spot. The only thing it does from a jobs standpoint is allow for a couple all stick no glove guys to stay in the league. But there are relatively few exclusive DHs in the league and that number isn't likely to grow exponentially with universal DH.
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I wont bore you with the site but: COVID-19 is believed to spread mainly from person-to-person, between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet) or through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. https://covid19.wustl.edu/health-safety/ how does that not happen in, say, the nfl? The concern is not the actual athletes spreading the virus. They get tested too much for that to matter at all. Its the audience spreading the virus (which, in case you didn't know, is a MUCH larger population than the athletes, much more at risk to die from the virus, and does not have access to testing to tack and prevent the virus's spread) and how they make money off of actually playing the games that matters. But yeah, if you want to handicap things you are obviously free to. I'm also free to say that's ridiculously wrong, right? What audience? Nobody is playing sports in fronts of fans this year.
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As the world's foremost proponent of the 1 game wild card series, and the actual originator of the idea, I have to say it's kind of pointless to have it this year. There's going to be no atmosphere in an empty stadium and that immediate elimination game excitement is the best part about it. If they get rid of it and never bring it back, they'll regret it, but I couldn't care less about it this season.
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Breaking news alert. it's an old article, but I don't remember seeing it posted here. I don't know if it was here or not but I saw it before and thought it was a dumb story regardless. Maybe he didn't want to play for the Bears, which has a history of being a terrible place for QBs to play. But if he was getting 3/60 he wasn't going to be worried about competing with Mitch Freaking Trubisky. That just reads like a story leaked by a guy working for the Bears who really wanted to fluff up Mitch's ego after the trade for Foles.
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Were there any names? Leaking the fact that unnamed players and staff have tested positive is a shady negotiating ploy, but doesn't seem to be a HIPAA violation.
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I can never see a discussion about home run totals without thinking of our intro to stats prof who was a filthy Frenchmen and always referred to Baaaaby Ruth
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The opposing pitcher from Rookie of the Year wins it how many famous asses did you think of before you came up with the rookie of the year reference? JLo and that’s it
