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Edward Mass posted:Isn’t there, like, a bona-fide law that says every NFL game needs to be shown OTA in their local market unless blacked out? No. Owners put it in when games started appearing on cable. Didn't want to potentially piss off fans. Probably irrelevant now but these are old guys who don't understand new technology well.
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Also those people who live in Western Massachusetts that only get Jets games. Orphan counties I think they call them.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:There's some conspiracy theory thats says the guy who negotaited MNF on the NFL end was a former ESPN employee still salty he was let go and intentionally screwed over ESPN and gave NBC a much better deal for SNF Owners would never agree to another BYE week since the players would not do it for free.
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I don't know if it was a move made especially for foreign broadcasters, but of the 32 FA Cup 3rd Round ties this year, 1 took place at 7:45 on Friday night, 7 at 12:30pm Saturday, 10 at 3pm Saturday, 5 at 5:30pm Saturday, 7 at 2pm Sunday, 1 at 4:30pm Sunday and 1 at 7:45pm Monday. Needless to say, the staggering of the kickoffs on Saturday especially didn't go down well at all with a lot of people
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FlamingLiberal posted:Owners would never agree to another BYE week since the players would not do it for free. An extra week of TV money would increase the salary cap a nice amount. And they don't even have to play a game to get it.
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i know they tried 2 bye weeks in 1993 and it didn't end well as for the over the air thing, since cable was still newish in 1987 and you can usually watch games on over the air tv it makes sense
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Players generally like the bye weeks and it would be easier on their bodies. It would mean a week less of off season but they'd probably be ok with it. Added revenue to go to the salary cap would be gravy.
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Lockback posted:Players generally like the bye weeks and it would be easier on their bodies. It would mean a week less of off season but they'd probably be ok with it. Added revenue to go to the salary cap would be gravy. Maybe having every team take a week off at the same time would cause a lull in the middle of the season, but given how much airtime ESPN et al can already fill by having their NFL talking heads talking about stupid poo poo I don't really see why this would be a problem.
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The could possible remove one of the four pointless preseason games.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Also those people who live in Western Massachusetts that only get Jets games. Orphan counties I think they call them. I don't know if this has since changed, but when I lived in Erie PA, the "closest" city is actually Buffalo, so you got Buffalo games on TV. But the newspaper covered Cleveland for who the hell knows reasons and everyone walking around the city was a Steelers fan. It was a perplexing thing.
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This is a good article about orphan counties https://deadspin.com/why-wont-the-fcc-let-orphan-counties-watch-their-local-1821328307
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Vertical Lime posted:i know they tried 2 bye weeks in 1993 and it didn't end well What really torpedoed this was in exchange for the 2nd bye week there was only one week between the conference title games and the Super Bowl
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Is a growth company like a tumor
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Sash! posted:I don't know if this has since changed, but when I lived in Erie PA, the "closest" city is actually Buffalo, so you got Buffalo games on TV. But the newspaper covered Cleveland for who the hell knows reasons and everyone walking around the city was a Steelers fan. It was a perplexing thing. Still the same. Even more baffling is the baseball situation. They’re pretty much dead center between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, so there’s a lot of Indians coverage even though you’d figure it would be Pirates country given that they’re in PA. The Indians have been bigger there more often by virtue of the fact they’ve been contenders way more often than the Pirates since the mid 90s. But they ALSO have the Detroit Tigers AA farm team there, so there’s an odd amount of Tigers fans as well...
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God the last thing we need is for Sinclair to have more power
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Sinclair owning the RSN's would be incredible. Every single baseball announcer bitching about lazy blacks walking to first instead of running.
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They already do that, they just dogwhistle it
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Peanut President posted:Sinclair owning the RSN's would be incredible. Every single baseball announcer bitching about lazy blacks walking to first instead of running. You say that as if it would be somehow different from current baseball broadcasts. E: ELWOOD 
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Peanut President posted:Sinclair owning the RSN's would be incredible. Every single baseball announcer bitching about lazy blacks walking to first instead of running. Is that really a thing? Are we talking walking when they're walked instead of running to first after a walk?
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Sash! posted:Is that really a thing? Are we talking walking when they're walked instead of running to first after a walk? Oh, hell yeah, it's a thing; phrases like "lack of hustle" are code for "lazy Latino or black guy I don't like." As Elwood said: ElwoodCuse posted:They already do that, they just dogwhistle it
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Sash! posted:Is that really a thing? Are we talking walking when they're walked instead of running to first after a walk? Yes. Its definitely a thing.
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Sash! posted:Is that really a thing? Are we talking walking when they're walked instead of running to first after a walk? Its important to remember that most broadcasters actually hate the sport of baseball and anything that prolongs their stay at the ballpark even a picosecond longer than they think it should pisses them off.
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howe_sam posted:Its important to remember that most broadcasters actually hate the sport of baseball and anything that prolongs their stay at the ballpark even a picosecond longer than they think it should pisses them off.
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He died last year too, and Tim Brando made basically the same post.
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lol he says he's "aware" it happened a year ago but his tweet says "just learned"
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oh lol, that's my bad then.
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STAC Goat posted:Yes. Its definitely a thing. Well that's just dumb. It's literally called a walk!
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Technically it's called a Base on Balls 
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Thank you Jesus. As a Reds fan, he is insufferable. Your prototypical old white man that bitches practically the entire time he calls a game, barely hides his overtly conservative politics, and just generally sucks the fun out of listening to a game. gently caress him. And his son, who is just a cheap imitation of his father.
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Billy's gonna make me crash my car one day trying to follow the path through his stories
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UFC paid shill Ariel Helwani went on Dan Lebatard's show and it got weirdquote:That then turns into Le Batard saying “Dana White wanted John Skipper just to be seen at a fight with him, because that sport, as you know, has the reputation of sewage, and that sewage isn’t something that Disney necessarily wanted to get into bed with. And so now, what has happened is Disney sees ‘Oh, there’s money to be made in MMA,’ and Disney’s buying everything, and ESPN’s buying everything, and now we’re telling you that the violence is okay. It wasn’t okay before, but now the violence is okay, and now we sell it to you with ESPN+.”
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Yeah, it was super weird.
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