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  1. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'm about as apathetic about this as I thought I'd be.
  2. OldSchoolSnapper
    with what? Its why I stay away from the blogosphere unless one can argue that the packers would be better off with cooper than adams. If they do let Rodgers and Adams walk, there is no point to pay top dollar for Cooper either. The financials don't matter for about half the fans.
  3. OldSchoolSnapper
    How disappointed will the blogosphere be when the Packers don't sign Amari Cooper?
  4. OldSchoolSnapper
    Saw The Batman. I have comic burnout, but am a huge Batman guy so I had to see it. Very, very good if you like the true to source material character. More detective and less brute. I have some nit-picky things but it's well done. It is the best depiction of the comic book character by a wide margin.
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    if owning a team was not profitable the owners would open their books and show all the world what a money pit it actually is. The fact that they dont tells me that the information would NOT benefit their cause if made public. My point was more that trying to guess profits by looking at valuations isn't a great strategy. Retail is currently full of companies with multi-billion dollar valuations whose profits are shrinking every year. I'm not saying owning a team isn't profitable, just that I don't think we know how profitable it is. And it probably fluctuates a lot year to year. My guess is that it is more like a cute toy for most owners, yes they make some money on it most years, but not something they are really depending on to make money.
  6. OldSchoolSnapper
    A high valuation doesn't necessarily mean something is profitable though because that profit is only realized if sold. You have companies valued in the tens of billions that still operate at a loss year to year. Obviously can't do that forever but it does happen.
  7. OldSchoolSnapper
    Serious question: Would the Brewers really sell for $1.3 billion? I doubt anyone actually knows, but it seems awfully hard to believe.
  8. OldSchoolSnapper
    2 or 3 million in a short span of time is in fact, life changing. If I make 2 million in a 30 - 35 year career, that's different. If I make 2 - 3 million in less than 5 years, and have the rest of my life to still earn, you better believe, 2-3 million is life changing... Also, how can anyone say 2 - 3 million isn't life changing unless they have experienced having that kind of money. I can say for 100% sure that 2 - 3 million would change my life now, and would have changed my life 30 years ago, and every year in between. Yes the original post here is extremely silly. 10% of households making $200k != $3 million in earnings before you turn 26. $10 million is also a highly questionable threshold for your definition of life-changing. $3 million is career earnings for someone making $60k. When you get it before you turn 28 and invest, it is absolutely 100% enough to live off forever depending on your choices, and at the very least to only do work you actually want to do. It is a life-changing sum for like 97% of the richest country on earth.
  9. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'm pretty much there. I like baseball, but a few months into 2020 I was doing just fine, and I never took that season seriously at all, barely watching a game. So just go ahead and do it again. I have other things to do.
  10. OldSchoolSnapper
    There is this thing called ad blocker it works wonders. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-%E2%80%94-best-ad-blocker/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom?hl=en-US Unfortunate reality, many of us visit this place predominantly on company time and hardware and we can't always customize the experience like this.
  11. OldSchoolSnapper
    Couldn't agree more.
  12. OldSchoolSnapper
    I wish I could switch teams. Just psychologically I don't know how anyone does it. I can barely watch a game my teams aren't playing in. I genuinely wish I could myself to care even a little about a different one.
  13. OldSchoolSnapper
    They seem to love October for these. Looks like twice in early November but almost always in October.
  14. OldSchoolSnapper
    I know people should do whatever they want but I always thought it was a a bit odd to go overseas and see an NFL game. I'm sure it'll be a good time but most folks don't get to take a trip like that too often and it just struck me as weird that you do it and then see an American football game. The Packers have a bizarre presence in many of these countries though and I'm sure it will be a lot of fun regardless. I'm guessing most of the tickets end up on the secondary market.
  15. OldSchoolSnapper
    I've often had the random thought that if you hypothetically did this with every player so that the gap among them wasn't really noticeable...would people really care?
  16. OldSchoolSnapper
    Guessing it's the Jets.
  17. OldSchoolSnapper
    Rodgers has badly wanted to get a London game, just sayin'...
  18. OldSchoolSnapper
    Kurt Warner Rams are the closest I can find. League worst in 1998 was 3-13, they were 4-12 and won SB in 1999.
  19. OldSchoolSnapper
    I agree that no one goes worst to first in baseball. But what NFL team has gone worst to first? Tampa went from no playoffs to SB champs in one year, yes there was huge player movement, but that volume of player movement is not really possible in baseball for all teams equally. Cincinnati went from 2-14 to AFC Champs in 2 seasons, this is just literally the last two seasons. The Eagles and Rams both missed the playoffs before winning the SB. So not worst to first literally, but you see massive jumps year to year, constantly. Baseball has a lot of things working against this, the salary issues are obvious, but also that your drafted talent doesn't see the field for years. That and one player like a QB can't turn the franchise overnight.
  20. OldSchoolSnapper
    I've never felt like looking at a list of champions is a great way to determine partity. The truth is that very rich teams aren't terrible for a really long time. The Mets are a mess, but I've seen them play in the World Series twice and once not too long ago. The Dodgers have one lame title recently but they are good every single year. Boston and NYY fall into darkness but it is never really prolonged. So a super high payroll can still yield poor results, but generally you will stay really bad for a much shorter period of time. In the NFL, it is completely possible to go from worst to first in a single off-season. QBs are king, but there are always new teams coming and going.
  21. OldSchoolSnapper
    I think that is highly likely going on. I know nobody has to or should have sympathy for Aaron Rodgers, but so much of his reputation is from rumors that just roll on for days or weeks and then eventually get proven false but we're still floating around long enough that they're eternally accepted as fact forever. It's a weird sort of phenomenon with him that I don't see other players have to deal with, even players who,.you know, actually do illegal things.
  22. OldSchoolSnapper
    Honestly I'd be fine with MLB disappearing for 5 years if at the end of that, a new league existed where the playing field was equal across the league. I'm a sucker for Brewers baseball but the system in which it exists is beyond stupid and horrible for fans.
  23. OldSchoolSnapper
    Jennings has just come to peace with the fact that Rodgers won't ever forgive him, so at this point there is nothing to lose and plenty to gain by talking about him at every chance. I'd do the same thing.
  24. OldSchoolSnapper
    I get the feeling this is how at least 3/4 feel. They'll be fine with chasing the Super Bowl again but also see the benefit of just moving on.
  25. OldSchoolSnapper
    I also love hotels, I just think I might have enough of the Downtown Cincinnati Hilton by my 67th night there in year 4 of my career. I imagine that for a bunch of guys whose yearly incomes eclipse what most make in a lifetime, spending 4 nights in LA or Baltimore is just not that much fun or their idea of great travel.
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