Hairyducked Idiot
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I read on another board that they might think he can be a good mentor for Wall, same as he was for Rose.
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Meh. This isn't third grade. Teams will do what is in their best interest. This isn't third-grade stuff.
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You back out on a deal, you lose the ability to ever make a handshake deal ever again. Not worth it.
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I think the Bulls already traded the No. 17 with Hinrich.
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It seems as if that can't quite work. Assuming James and Bosh get max deals, those five and seven minimum guys still puts them very slightly over the cap. They'll need to move Deng if they want two max FAs.
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73-9, imo
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Knowing nothing about this but what I read on other message boards, and only caring because I intend on bandwagoning like one of those girls with Kane jerseys at the Cup parade if the Bulls sign James, the trade still leaves the Bulls $2-3 million short of signing two max FAs. They could still move that last little bit of salary, or they could sign a max and a near-max.
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Considering on of those games was at 4 in the morning on a work night and the other was at 9am on a work morning. Imagine what the ratings will be if soccer ever catches on in this country.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
In terms of value and not ability, nothing trumps a SC winning overtime goal. -
Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
That would seem to make the most sense. What will they do with Huet? Demote him to Rockford and just eat his money? I'm not sure how all that works. Once the season starts, they can waive him and assuming no one claims him, he'd go to the minors, where he still gets paid but he doesn't count against the cap. In the meantime, he just sits there eating up the 10% a team can exceed the cap in the offseason. That's assuming that the Blackhawks are willing to pay him to play in the minors and use the cap space elsewhere. Most people are assuming they will be. -
Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
i dont think theyre close to done. kyle will have to confirm, but we're still gonna lose something like versteeg, ladd, and niemi... right? and of course madden By my math, we still have to lose Versteeg or Sharp, and probably 1 or two of Ladd, Niemi and Hjalmarsson, depending on how much they are all willing to sign for. -
NFL prints money MLB and NBA are hanging on to former glory, but doing a good job of it. Soccer is just as popular as whatever other ish you want to bring up.
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Who? Do I need to break out the tiers again? Tier 1 - NFL Tier 2 - (way below tier 1) - MLB and NBA Tier 3 - NHL, soccer, NASCAR, golf, some other stuff
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So I read this and had to look it up. There are MLB players who make more per year than MLS made in television revenue in 2008. Average take per team was under $1 million. The national television contracts TBS and Fox have with MLB are 20 times that per year. ESPN is another 10 or so times the league total per year. How many individual teams have local television deals worth more than that? The Mariners get over $40 million a year for their local television rights, and they're maybe barely in the top 10 in the league Hint: Maybe I wasn't referring to MLS, then? But yes, nobody has local TV deals comparable to MLB. That's MLB's bread and butter, and soccer is nowhere near that.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
We're talking about guys who had 44 and 34 points in the regular season. -
He was the guy who disagreed with tipper. I thought that was Al.
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Okay, here's another fun fact. In total U.S. TV viewers, USA-England in an afternoon slot beat out the first four games of the NBA Finals in primetime.
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I'm not entirely sure who Frank Zappa is, to be perfectly honest.
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Probably pretty tiny. What percentage of the population attended an NFL or NBA game this year? Because they like soccer. That's what you aren't getting. A lot of sports fans have decided in the last 4-5 years that they like soccer.
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Well, if soccer isn't measuring up on the Sulleymon Index, I guess all those other points I made are meaningless. So you disagree? With which part? That specific post? How many games of any sport you personally went to is pretty irrelevant to the discussion, though I don't specifically disagree with you. I'm sure you have a pretty good grasp on how many games you went to. On your assessment of the size of soccer's fanbase in the U.S.? Yes. You are underestimating it by quite a bit.
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Well, if soccer isn't measuring up on the Sulleymon Index, I guess all those other points I made are meaningless.
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I don't like the NBA. I generally find basketball to be boring and frequently unwatchable. I don't go around making pronouncements that the NBA hasn't made it in this country. I'll never understand why people who feel about soccer the way I do about basketball can't acknowledge that they don't speak for everyone.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
I'm torn on who is more valuable. Mostly because I don't think either of them are all that important. -
Soccer has several quality TV deals. Soccer matches draw ratings comparable to the other "major" sports outside of the NFL, often better. MLS attendance is averaging 16k across a 16-team league. Soccer highlights routinely appear on major sports news shows, and the scores appear right alongside every other major sport in the score tickers. It'll never be the NFL, but nothing is ever going to be the NFL. There is no "big four." There's the NFL. Then there's the NBA and MLB. Then there's a tier that includes a lot of ish, and soccer is in that tier. And really, MLB and NBA are a lot closer to this tier than they are the NFL.
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The U.S. qualifiers and the European leagues on cable both got solid ratings well before this World Cup came around.