Posted on 07/28/2020 4:09:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
> Baseball is back already
Tried watching one of the games. The announcers have fake crowd noise piped into the background when the game is being played in an empty stadium. Fake, fake, fake.
Russian Collusion
Bought a new bass boat last February and never looked back.
Like watching college football and minor league baseball and F1. Sometimes folk on occasion.
Like listening to MLB on the radio.
Other than that, no interest.
folk = GOLF!
Geesh.
Will the advertisers look at the ratings and either drop out or demand to pay less? Or will they be guilted/threatened into keeping up payments even if they aren't economically viable?
Will the networks demand immediate renegotiation of their contracts because of lack of games and championships or will they just wait until contracts expire and then offer less or just let them lapse?
Will the teams change? Will they continue sponsored on field politics or demand players leave it in the locker room? Will they insist networks pay them as much as now? Will they start offering players smaller contracts?
Will the players start behaving or will they continue to insult the nation by focusing on the "Woke" rather than the win?
I bet on the networks breaking first. Every other point can be postponed or done incrementally in hopes of weathering both the disease and social storms. But when those multi billion dollars contracts come due then big decisions will have to be made. They will have to decide how much to cut the offers. Some might even declare bankruptcy to bail out early.
“Many of my customers had practically a ‘shrine’ to John Elway or Peyton Manning and the Broncos”
Yeah. Living vicariously through a team/player is Probly the one single thing that keeps the big 3 pro sports afloat. If white folks ever decided to close their wallets they’d get the message...of course white folks don’t stick together like that, unlike some other race who shall remain nameless.
Not watching Marxist League Baseball. Don’t care what they do.
I wonder when the primadonnas will realize that their gravy train is about to end.
Maybe the covid thing is destroying the professional sports business. And without a viable business, the players have to be furloughed.
Good riddance.
“Will they continue sponsored on field politics or demand players leave it in the locker room?”
They don’t wanna kill the goose that laid the golden egg. That’s why discipline in pro sports is so lax. What would finish burning it down is people closing their wallets as I suggested in post #47.
Almost as good as naked Vaseline twister!
Now an Olympic sport. Yes!
I love sports. Having participated in years past, now it’s just as a spectator. But professional sports have been politicized to the point I shall not watch. I’m finished with them. College sports yes, love it. But if they continue down the same political path I’ll discontinue watching.
Pro sports exists because of taxpayer-funded corporate welfare. Stadiums now cost over a billion to build.
I’m sure the leases and agreements require the teams to not engage in political speech. That’s entirely what BLM is. It’s an organized political entity that donates cash exclusively to Democrats.
Why are we funding this nonsense?
We need lawsuits to shut the nonsense down.
If your gonna watch college football you might as well watch pro. I suspect it’ll be very similar when it comes to the sjw crap.
Bump
I never had the opportunity to play because I lived ten miles from the school and I had to work on the farm. There were no neighbors with kids my age in the country so I just never got into ball games and have not spent more than ten hours watching them in my whole life. We have a son-in-law who grew up very close to Clemson and I have had all I can take of a grown man who is six foot one and weighs 235 literally jumping up and down and screaming when Clemson makes a touchdown and ignoring all else in the world as if the fate of the entire planet hinges on the outcome of the Clemson-Carolina game. I could die of boredom while he is on an adrenaline rush that could cause a heart attack.
Yeah I used to do that crap...finally realized what a waste it was.
The OSU Football coach had to apologize for wearing an OANN shirt while on vacation. He also had to give back a million dollars of his salary.
That’s why the Miami Marlins draw so few fans. There’s just too many better things to do in that city than watch baseball.
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