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DC Murderverse posted:Can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to tie their business success to this: Was trying to figure out why Penn paid half a billion less than a year ago only to dump it for a buck, and I still don't get it, but lol at this quote: quote:According to an Aug. 8 video announcement from Portnoy, “we underestimated just how tough it is for myself and Barstool to operate in a regulated world.”
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kalensc posted:Was trying to figure out why Penn paid half a billion less than a year ago only to dump it for a buck, and I still don't get it, but lol at this quote: Proof of concept, why keep Barstool around when ESPN is knocking?
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Speaking of gambling, ESPN is promoting gambling as a big fun element of Slamball to the point that their sideline reporter spends part of the broadcast spewing lines and odds. Here I was thinking we were already at peak obnoxiousness with sports betting promotion. Imagine blowing your kid's college fund because the Fury were +595, man!
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kalensc posted:Was trying to figure out why Penn paid half a billion less than a year ago only to dump it for a buck, and I still don't get it, but lol at this quote:
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That's....surprisingly reasonable and progressive to be coming from the NFL.
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Yeah this got me to look at what I had and shake some things up. Cancelled sling (which I mostly had for redzone and willow) and hulu (which I just wasn't watching at all), picked up standalone willow, espn+, and nfl+, and saving about $680 a year, and I get more sports than I had before (which was pretty much all I was paying for anyway). Even if the prices of all of those double in a year I'm still spending less.
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Xerol posted:Yeah this got me to look at what I had and shake some things up. Cancelled sling (which I mostly had for redzone and willow) and hulu (which I just wasn't watching at all), picked up standalone willow, espn+, and nfl+, and saving about $680 a year, and I get more sports than I had before (which was pretty much all I was paying for anyway). Even if the prices of all of those double in a year I'm still spending less. Doesn't this setup prohibit you from getting the main ESPN networks?
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Dango Bango posted:Doesn't this setup prohibit you from getting the main ESPN networks? Yeah, as far as I know all the big ticket games (or really anything on their linear networks) isn't available on ESPN+ with maybe some exceptions
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I never had them to begin with. ESPN+ has all the cricket that willow doesn't which was the main reason I picked it up.
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Aug 11, 2023 19:26
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/kevinnbrown/status/1690069163484807170 Whats the story about that?
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Lockback posted:Whats the story about that? Kevin is the Baltimore Orioles play-by-play voice and was basically suspended out of nowhere for like 2 weeks for literally saying how the team had improved against Tampa Bay compared to the previous year because the birds' ownership is hilariously thin-skinned even by professional team owner standards
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DJExile posted:y'ever wanted to see someone tweet at gunpoint? well now you have! should have done this as a live video so we could see him Morse-blink T-O-R-T-U-R-E
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Wait the owners were mad that he suggested the Orioles were maybe not the platonic ideal of winning for a period of time in the past?
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Yeah, and it wasn't like he was out there shooting from the hip, the segment was produced by the company the Orioles partner with, he just ended up being the fall guy.
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I just watched the clip. That is wild to get disciplined for that.
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As a Jays fan the idea that "our team gets beaten at the Trop" is a discipline -worthy offense is wild.
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The kind of wild extra bit about the story is that half the other team announcers around the league got upset enough about it to go on “gently caress the Orioles” rants on air. Which I very much why they’re now trying to quiet the conversation since they had somehow gone from the underdog story of the year to villains over the stupidest poo poo.
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FlamingLiberal posted:John Angelos in particular sounds like a real terror to journalists, period. A 56 year old who’s only ever worked in and now owns Daddy’s company and who after being absolute unwatchable dogshit for most of the last 6 years is now trying to shake down Baltimore for 600 million. He seems like a John Fisher type guy who can gently caress up the “give billionaires public money for sports” scheme by being so odious
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So basically the Orioles are the Succession sequel in which Kendall Roy wins
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this rules. i’m like the exact target customer for this.
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STAC Goat posted:The kind of wild extra bit about the story is that half the other team announcers around the league got upset enough about it to go on “gently caress the Orioles” rants on air. Which I very much why they’re now trying to quiet the conversation since they had somehow gone from the underdog story of the year to villains over the stupidest poo poo. The way I found out about it is that Keven Kelly was making fun of the Orioles during the G1 of NJPW, that poo poo has gone everywhere.
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Yeah people accepted long ago that every team’s broadcast was basically state-run media but this was both particularly egregious and dumb as hell even by those standards.
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Rick posted:The way I found out about it is that Kevin Kelly was making fun of the Orioles during the G1 of NJPW, that poo poo has gone everywhere. Of course it reached Japan. Wasn't Angelos fighting Okada in the semis?
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happy tenth anniversary to the possible reason this thread exists https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1691073553636999168 also in the midst of espn announcing their nba commentators for this year https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1691108692673060864 https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1691098571796606977 Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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Has JJ done in game stuff before? I like him in studio, I'm a little skeptical how he'll handle the flow of a game though. Jefferson is alright, probably approaching his shelf-life though. Still, not a bad team for ESPN. Highly appreciate canning JVG and Marc Jackson but keeping Hubie Brown.
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JJ's done in game stuff and he's pretty solid at it. My one complaint is that JJ and RJ on color at the same time is pretty samey since they both fill that sort of Enlightened Former Player niche, but I could also see them developing some fun chemistry as a full-time team
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Hubie Brown is like 90 years old. Just retire my dude
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Hubie Brown is like 90 years old. Just retire my dude Wait til he has a Mitch McConnell freeze
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Hubie Brown is like 90 years old. Just retire my dude I'm pretty sure he was 90 years old when he coached the grizzlies
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https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1691451062228787202 oh hell yeah
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Isn’t she also a Chud https://twitter.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1691441107153149953?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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FlamingLiberal posted:Isn’t she also a Chud yes
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She sued ESPN for violating her Free Speech because she claimed that Disney and ESPN were dangerously overstepping their ability to mandate someone be vaccinated. She has right wing sports influencer gig #7 in her future.
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