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Billionaires aren't worth eating so why do we have them again?
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Sep 20, 2019 20:43
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The American Dream posted:From what I can tell from reading books about sports. I think up until the last few years team owners just treated the teams as another part of their business portfolio. Like, you had to be rich to buy a team, but not a billionaire like it is today. I think a lot of the owners now are just so loving rich they need to do something with their money and figure they can pal around with athletes and be on tv wearing blue jeans like a regular person. Turner bought the Braves in January 1976 (and the Hawks in January 1977). He had gotten the television rights to the team in 1972. For Turner, it was also publicity for his other business ventures. He had a big campaign to sign free agent pitcher Andy Messersmith in 1976 and, as part of his nicknames on back of jerseys thing, decided that Messersmith's was Channel. Messersmith wore #17. Channel 17. Baseball put a stop that pretty quickly. Note: Turner didn't come up with the initial idea of nicknames on the jersey, but it was right up his alley. 1976 was also the year of headlock and wedlock night. Weddings on the diamond before the game, Georgia Championship Wrestling after. The Braves promotions office, desperate for attention and money, were much like Turner. Anything to get noticed was better than nothing at all, especially how bad the club was at that point. Turner was extremely into the Braves ownership for the first couple of years. He made himself manager for a game (the National League also stopped that experiment), participated heavily in the Baseball Olympics he held at the stadium, meddled so much in a free agent signing that the commissioner suspended him. The Braves briefly got good in the early/mid '80s, but his enthusiasm seems to have dimmed by that point. 1991 perked him back up. 
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Sep 20, 2019 20:57
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I’m not hearing anything bad or something I wouldn’t also do.
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Sep 20, 2019 21:18
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Everything I know about owning a sports team I learned from the tv show Ballers What I'm saying is The Rock is going to buy everything
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Sep 20, 2019 21:19
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Does he ever complain about his height on that show?
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Sep 20, 2019 21:22
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drat those script "A" hats own
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Sep 20, 2019 22:29
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coconono posted:Billionaires aren't worth eating so why do we have them again? Because we lack the power to destroy them.
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Sep 20, 2019 22:37
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DJExile posted:drat those script "A" hats own 80's-90's Braves aesthetic is extremely good
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coconono posted:Billionaires aren't worth eating so why do we have them again?
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Sep 20, 2019 22:47
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ChrisBTY posted:Because we lack the power to destroy them. jesus WEP posted:guillotines won’t test themselves goofus and gallant energy with these two posts
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Sep 20, 2019 23:14
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I hated the Braves so loving much back in the day stop delaying the mothership! 
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Sep 20, 2019 23:19
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Dumbass barves
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Sep 20, 2019 23:40
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coconono posted:I think it was AJPW or NJPW that had Tiger Mask jump off the dome into some crash pads. Like 15 seconds of free fall. It was nuts. Wait what? Like the Shane McMahon bump off the side of the Tron but crazier?
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Sep 22, 2019 02:20
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Beer_Suitcase posted:Wait what? Like the Shane McMahon bump off the side of the Tron but crazier? Yeah it was pretty loving nuts. I wish I remembered it better, sorry.
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Sep 22, 2019 02:50
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After stumbling into a bunch of previously uncharted channel 17 wrestling history in May when I was writing about the Turner wrestling history WRT AEW on TNT, I'm much more convinced of Turner as a TV genius who valued wrestling more than other TV geniuses. To wit, a timeline: June 1969: Turner and Rice Broadcasting, the owners of channel 17, announce a merger. August 1969: Channel 17 starts airing outside of the Atlanta area on regional cable via microwave transition to cable companies in neighboring states. August 1970: Channel 17, previous WJRJ, becomes WTCG, which stood both "Turner Communications Group" and "Watch This Channel Grow," with the latter used in marketing. (Within the TV business, it was "Watch Ted Chase Girls.") September 1970: Pro wrestling premieres on WTCG...in the form of the WWWF's Capitol Wrestling from Philadelphia. October 1971: "WRESTLING" (Vince Sr's) is touted as one of the main reasons to watch WTCG in newspaper ads touting their new transmitter. December 1971: "Live Atlanta Wrestling"/"Georgia Championship Wrestling," the promoters of which Ted had been wooing for years, moves to WTCG, which drops the WWWF show. THAT is impressive. And it's all years before Ted gets a satellite and puts WTCG on national cable.
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Sep 23, 2019 03:12
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Sep 23, 2019 14:24
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lol perfect
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Sep 23, 2019 16:02
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Don't shame Macho Man for taking the reigns of male fashion back from Beau Brumell.
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Sep 23, 2019 16:24
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He’s slapping torrie Wilson and terrorizing Elisabeth in heaven now
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Sep 23, 2019 18:17
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More like oldslimjimless
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Sep 23, 2019 18:34
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I had a dream about Goldberg being my best friend last night.
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Sep 23, 2019 23:58
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... https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1176266490280054787
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Sep 24, 2019 00:20
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NienNunb posted:I had a dream about Goldberg being my best friend last night.
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Sep 24, 2019 03:14
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I'd watch the poo poo out of a TV show where someone's best friend is Goldberg, and he just runs around concussing himself on trees and posts.
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Sep 24, 2019 14:15
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I wish I was Goldberg's husky son
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Sep 24, 2019 14:27
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Helicity posted:I'd watch the poo poo out of a TV show where someone's best friend is Goldberg, and he just runs around concussing himself on trees and posts. I guess this is the best Where's Rodney? reboot we're going to get.
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Sep 24, 2019 14:45
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Helicity posted:I'd watch the poo poo out of a TV show where someone's best friend is Goldberg, and he just runs around concussing himself on trees and posts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBViaeEpX_A
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Sep 24, 2019 16:39
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Helicity posted:I'd watch the poo poo out of a TV show where someone's best friend is Goldberg, and he just runs around concussing himself on trees and posts. I was all kinds of disappointed when I learned ABC's "The Goldbergs" was not an Odd Couple remake starring Bill and Whoopi.
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Sep 24, 2019 16:56
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NienNunb posted:I had a dream about Goldberg being my best friend last night. lucky Randaconda posted:[video type="youtube"]cBViaeEpX_A[[/video] so good edit: wtf did i do there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBViaeEpX_A nope it is not having it
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Sep 24, 2019 18:11
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That's much less violent than his Christmas celebration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKrsAFWPnl4
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Sep 24, 2019 18:18
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Santas Slay is loving incredible
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Sep 24, 2019 18:41
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DJExile posted:Santas Slay is loving incredible I explained that the board would be divided into two sections. One for each movie. Every participant would be given five post-it notes with their name on them, they'd add them to the side of whichever movie just did something funny or amazing. They'd be offered one refund point, but only one. So they had to be careful not to use up all their points on the first flick. The winner would be the movie with the most votes at the end of the night. Then I pulled the curtain off the board to reveal the theme: HOGAN VS. GOLDBERG Santa with Muscles vs. Santa's Slay. We all assumed Santa's Slay would win, but Hogan won by a country mile.
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Sep 24, 2019 22:00
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I was watching a clip from a Vampiro shoot and he says that he's seen nine people die in the ring or in the dressing room, which is the funniest bullshit lie of a shoot filled with funny bullshit lies
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Sep 25, 2019 05:19
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Low Desert Punk posted:I was watching a clip from a Vampiro shoot and he says that he's seen nine people die in the ring or in the dressing room, which is the funniest bullshit lie of a shoot filled with funny bullshit lies that number may not be that far off tbh
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Sep 25, 2019 05:27
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Cross-posting this from the pod thread because it's VERY on-topic: --- Several weeks back, someone linked me [to Buff Bagwell’s podcast with a timestamp to when he had Shane Douglas on and they talked about being sent by Bill Watts to what seemed like a fetish photoshoot where they kept putting a gun in each other's mouth. Really. --- It's at 44:20 of this episode: https://buffandboochcast.podbean.com/e/the-franchise-shane-douglas/ (Yes, his show is "The Buff & Booch Cast" and they have it set up to have a public download counter.) Not surprisingly, given Buff's involvement and the story, there's some homophobia, but it still needs to be heard because they're clearly telling the truth and it's a loving *wild* story.
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Sep 25, 2019 07:54
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It's WCW adjacent but I can't believe I'm just finding out that Butterbean knocked out Sean O'Haire at Pride 32. Got himself a scalp from WWE and WCW. poo poo video but screw it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50bd83lvnAw And wow I had no idea O'Haire passed in 2014. I thought it was way earlier. God that's sad.
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Sep 25, 2019 09:34
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TheKingslayer posted:It's WCW adjacent but I can't believe I'm just finding out that Butterbean knocked out Sean O'Haire at Pride 32. Got himself a scalp from WWE and WCW. I wish the fight lasted multiple rounds so we'd get to hear the commentary team try to find more things to say to kill time. Instead we get a split-second fight and "O'Haire's a streetfighter"
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Sep 25, 2019 09:44
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TheKingslayer posted:It's WCW adjacent but I can't believe I'm just finding out that Butterbean knocked out Sean O'Haire at Pride 32. Got himself a scalp from WWE and WCW. i'm not sure that O'Haire would have been the megastar that people act like he could have been, but he could've had a really solid career and his future was pretty much ripped from his hands. he couldn't stop beating his girlfriends either which probably didn't help but it's not like WWE really cared that much back then. real weird hosed up dude, it's a sad story
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Sep 25, 2019 09:46
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It's actually a happy story if you don't ignore that one thing. Yahoo, everyone! Wa-hey!
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Sep 25, 2019 10:10
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I'm pretty sure Johnny Knoxville went longer in the ring against Butterbean than Sean O'Haire or Bart Gunn did.
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