jerichoholicninja

Seems like a dumb move by the Colts. Who's out there that's an upgrade? Jimmy G, maybe.

Hurricane in the gulf? Holiday weekend? Shutdown oil rig or pipeline leak somewhere in the world? There's always some baseless excuse to raise prices.

I don't think people have a problem with the games being solely on a streaming service per say, it's having the games jump around from service to service. I've seen pretty much universally people comment here that if all the games were on MLB.tv they'd get it in a heartbeat. But that's not the case.

ESPN is still a subscription if you just got basic cable and it doesn't come with ESPN are you still able to watch? Majority of people in the US have multiple streaming services. Yes older people will have a harder time but this is obviously not being geared towards older people. MLB is trying to capture a younger audience who are going to be around for a lot longer than the older audience. MLB already has this older audience and the inconvenience of the older audience doesn't matter to MLB. The few games that it will impact on this audience is going to be minimal but the possible increase in new and younger fans from these services far out weights the negative from a dying off older audience. This is the reality here younger people tend to not carry cable and instead carry streaming services. This is all about getting to that younger audience. Couldn't disagree more, the only part i agree with is the bolded part. What matters to MLB is getting max dollars. They don't care about alienating fans, which is absolutely what they are doing with each stupid decision they make. Watching the Brewers play shouldn't be that complicated and shouldn't require 4-5 subscription services to get them all. For me personally, I plan on creating 4-5 phony emails and signing up for free trials and then cancelling after the game with a very nasty note in the "why did you cancel". So for me it's a minor inconvenience at best, I just find this principally wrong and very gross by both MLB and apple. The worst part honestly is that it'll probably work as intended for apple. So many people are so stupid with their money, there will be quite a bit of "it's only 5 bucks" and then sign up and then forget to cancel and the credit card keeps getting charged while they never use the service. Apple has probably run studies that enough people will begrudgingly sign up solely to watch their favorite team play 4 times(knowing that plenty will forget to cancel) that it's worth the whatever millions they paid to broadcast the games. Exactly this. It's not about what's going to be easier for fans or even attract fans it's all about making money. The streaming services will make money and MLB will make money. I'm just sticking with my cable and getting the vast majority of games and just missing the ones I won't get. Not worth any extra hassle for me.

I guess I assume that the pitch clock goes both ways. It's actually a "ready for play" clock that both the batter and pitcher need to abide by. At least it's that way in my head. Back in the seventies, Mike Hargrove was called the Human Rain Delay for his routine. He would be speedy compared to the Ryan Brauns of the world. Daniel Vogelbach steps out and has an entire conversation with himself between pitches. The reason Suter can go faster is because he doesn't throw as hard. If you are throwing 100 mph you need to recover after each pitch. It is very much to your advantage to slow the game down. In Suter's case, it is to his advantage to throw batters off of their routine. It has been hypothesized that a pitch clock will increase offense and reduce strikeouts for this reason. Fine with me. Guys throwing unhittable speed and breaking pitches was fun for a couple years but it's just boring now. Batters barely swing because they know they can't hit it anyway.

Pretty sure that's the point. They're all working together to make sure you buy everything instead of just one or two.

I'm sure they gave up more than they would have for Rodgers but this certainly seems like a better outcome to have Wilson for a good number of years rather than Aron for a year or two.

Who really cares about the players gambling "ruining the integrity of the game"? All you have to do is watch any pro sport to see how much the inconsistency and incompetency of the officials is a bigger threat.

I think it boils down to the fact that Brian doesn't have time to maintain things. No, I mean why does the site have to move to a different host or whatever?

I won't disagree with that but is the union doing anything to fix it?

How is changing the way of evaluating player worth to a way that pays players less not being cheap? Teams aren't paying aging veteran free agents 7 figures a season when they can get similar production from guys from their own system for a few hundred thousand. That's not being cheap. That's being smart.

Maybe this has been addressed already but why is there any need to change from the current site? I don't see any real complaints about its current state nor desire for something different. If it's about increasing traffic, I think us who have been here for years know what happens when there's a large influx of new members and it hasn't always created a better forum with most of those members being banned or leaving in short time.

ROH tanked when the Elite left. The same guys that started AEW. I think there's enough juice for some money making storylines right there while still showcasing whoever's left. Heck, this may all tie in to whatever is going on with Cody right now.

Tony Khan bought ROH. I think this was the most likely outcome when they announced their hiatus. I'm interested to see what he does with it. I hope he keeps it and AEW as two separate companies with limited crossover.

I was just adjusting my resume to apply for a job when I noticed a spelling error. I sent the resume I was working on out last week so I immediately went back to the email I sent it in to see if the spelling error was there too. Yup. Great.

The two places I look for jobs are Indeed and my local COC's website. When I started looking in October I'd almost never see the same job posted in both places. Over the last couple months I'm now seeing a job posted one place and then a couple weeks later posted in the other or posted again entirely. That tells me they're not getting many or any applicants.

None of this arguing over how to split billions of dollars between themselves will do anything to change the product on the field. The game is boring. 3TO baseball has driven more fans away than anything else and will continue to do so. I don't really have any solutions for that but both sides are offering even less. They can do whatever they want with the money, I could care less, but please do something to make the game more entertaining.

A couple weeks ago I was having lunch at Noodles and a woman probably in her early 20's was getting interviewed at a table near us. She was wearing sweatpants and slippers.

Eh, I don't think that's as true and you want it to be. I remember sitting near the SkySox bullpen a few years ago and overheard [sarcasm]Brewer's great[/sarcasm] Mike Zagurski say "I really don't like baseball but I like what it pays me." To varying degrees, I'm sure this is the feeling of the vast majority of players.

Has anyone ever actually written down or in any way saved a confirmation code after they ordered or payed for something?

I'm far from a basketball expert but can someone explain why taking a timeout is such an offensive thing to do in this situation?

Bengals, Rams were confused by The Rock's over-the-top Super Bowl intro: 'What is he doing out there?' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/bengals-rams-the-rock-super-bowl-intro/adzvok45kjvheb9eti4akcq5 Glad I'm not the only one who thought that was incredibly stupid and utterly pointless.

Improvements through 2040? They'll be asking for a new stadium before then.

Career .861 OPS vs the Brewers and .740 at Miller/AmFam. So yes and also no. Apparently he's also BJ Surhoff's nephew. So he's got that going for him.

All pharma commercials are terrible but the Trulicity commercials take the cake for cringe. Oh look my loved one is eating a carrot! Activate big cheesy smile.