MrTPlush

I doubt we all will get to do laps and celebrate because we already have Prime and it is no extra cost. I am sure there will be an extra cost, but I could see it being cheaper than what a dedicated Bally subscription was. Amazon will make a boatload on people that have to get Prime just to unlock the ability to get Brewers baseball. They also make a boatload on the fact you now have Prime and will make a bunch of unneeded purchases now. That is value Bally itself couldn't provide and depended on subscription price entirely. The value baseball has and why Amazon has any interest in baseball is the fact the season is so long. It stretches 6-7 months, football is only 4 months. Add in the basketball RSNs and you darn near cover the entire year. You may only buy Prime the one game (aka month) your team plays on Thursday for football. Infinitely more viewers, obviously, but much less commitment to Prime in the grand scheme. The concern is accessibility. Peacock, financially, was a raging success for the wild card game. The problem, millions of viewers did indeed refuse to buy a month sub to watch. So, while the NFL and Peacock got their cash...millions less watched. Is that a big deal for the NFL/Chiefs? No...probably not, however, I don't know the same would ring true for the Brewers when millions less watch over the course of an entire season. I just don't think there is any reason why Amazon would buy the viewership rights and not force you to buy Prime. That model isn't working for Bally, why would it work for Amazon?

As sveum said, that is based on points allowed. They are a more modest 17th by yards allowed. The offense is 12th by points or 11th by yards allowed.

But what are you insuring against? In the Midwest, where I am guessing he lives...there isn't a ton of risk with an extended power outage. I guess you could amortize it over the life of the loan, which will make the cost seem small. That is also how you make a speedboat seem cheap too though. I guess I don't know that I would compare it to insurance. You need homeowners' insurance because you don't have hundreds of thousands to rebuild if it burns down etc. There are plenty of alternatives compared to a whole home generator, some quite cheap. I am guessing the average person, at least in the midwest, would be lucky to run into 10 times the home generator made a huge difference (aka probably a good 3+ day power outage). Heck, many maybe half of that over a 30 year life of a generator (usually considered max life, could be less). So you pay a solid $1k per time it kicks in to save the fridge or the house from being 45 degrees? There are probably better ways to spend $8k or so at that point. That is kinda why I say, you have to find value in the luxury of it. Where the typical power outage of 2 hours, 8 hours, maybe 24 hour power outage being avoided is a huge value to you. Of course, a lot of it depends on where you live and the infrastructure. My first step, if I was pondering a whole home generator, is finding a neighbor that has lived in the neighborhood a long time. Are extended power outages often etc.? If he can't even recall a big power outage, that is probably a sign it isn't much of a concern in your area. If you live in a newer neighborhood and all the utilities are underground...a big generator is likely going to be quite a waste.

Okay, so if you knew that...then what is the point of giving tax credits for hybrids?

Till you give tax credits and the price suddenly spikes.

Don't get a solar one. It is a lot of investment for quite a bit of potential headache. If you are getting a generator, you need it to be reliable. Generators usually don't help your homes value much. As nice as they may be and as much as one may say they would like one...99% of people don't have one. No one starts their house search with one of the requirements being a generator. So naturally, it just doesn't add value for a buyer. I wouldn't shy away from a gas one. Yah, gas goes bad...but you just run it down after using it. It may only last 12 hours on a tank of gas, but driving to the gas station for more gas is pretty easy. It is the most economical and best ROI in my opinion...as far as taking care of needs. Plug in your fridge...plug in a few other things, boom....you are good. I just find whole home generators to be a luxury and rarely save your arse. The only people I know that have one and NEED it are people with saltwater fish tanks with well over $10k in fish etc. in them. If your concern is your furnace and heating your house, just have an electrician alter your furnace so it isn't a light switch and instead a plug into an outlet. There are plenty of portables that can handle your furnace plugged into them. Then if/when you move you still have generators to take with you instead of it being attached to the house you are selling.

Maybe we win, maybe we don't. Is this lopsided on paper? Yah...but we would be very far from the first team to win such a match-up in the playoffs. I have watched the Giants in the playoffs enough to know that. I think our offense is good enough and our defense performs better than people like to think sometimes. I think we are pretty underrated. Despite the disastrous start to the year our offense was ranked #12 and the defense #10 in the NFL. That was without key pieces on offense too. We are playing our best ball and playing like a Top 5 team. We don't blow the doors off offensively or defensively...but it is a legitimate Super Bowl possible team. Of course, they probably don't have a great chance if the 49ers bring their 'A' game, but that doesn't always happen.

Article I read, no, this will only apply to in-market viewers.

I mean…that was just a dumb dumb drive MLF.

Packers just practicing in the Cowboys at this point going for it on 4th down.

Going into this week I figured the offense was going to have to pull a 2009 when Rodgers and the offense had to obliterate the Cards D just to manage to get to OT. They did exactly that…but I guess it wasn’t exactly needed.

Alright…Cowboys should just agree to kneel every play now after that. Lol

The Cowboys former kicker once missed four in a single game (by himself)…not sure if that is the record or not.

What an idiot

Too easy, too predictable.

You are getting railed by 27…you need 7 here.

Just because it hit his hands doesn’t mean he should have picked it off…looked like it was too far in-front of him, sucks, idk.

They are the most annoying, but the XPs are not the problem. All year collectively it added up to two field goals worth and spread out over many games. It’s just, not that meaningful. The real problem is he isn’t that great over 40 yards. Leg don’t matter if it ain’t accurate at long range.

Yah, that was a weird one. Seemed like a doable field goal, kinda screwed that up.

It’s a nice flop job, but his helmet definitely hit his arm before the ball was even there. Minor, but hitting a guys arm is a pretty big deal when trying to catch a punt.

Refs give Chiefs free timeout for Mahomes to scramble around for a new helmet…alright whatever, player safety. However, he then can’t actually put it on and strap it, so they run a play, and he gets obliterated. If he can’t strap the helmet, he needs to be kicked out of the game until he can actually properly wear it. What’s the point of giving him a free timeout for safety and then let that happen?

It has been like this for years. Good teams lose on the road all the time. Then March comes and it is on neutral courts. That and the fact these teams can pull off an upset here and there...but they can't string them together. Thus, come late march into April it is rarely overly shocking.

Honestly, I think this is a pretty nightmare match-up. Our defense has a lot of bend, but don't break in them, but Dallas isn't Chicago. We aren't going to get bailed out by half a dozen sacks against a trash team. That just isn't likely to happen against the Cowboys. The Cowboys light up the scoreboard at home...we are going to have to pray their tamer scoring of late can continue and it wasn't more indicative being on the road. Because as great as Love has been, I don't think he is going to go 2009 Rodgers and lead them to almost 50 points if it becomes a shootout. The Cowboys are the #1 offense in football...I believe we only faced three of the Top 15 offenses all year. Detroit at #5, New Orleans at #9, and Kansas City at #15. Yes, I am leaving out the LA Rams who started a rando at QB when we faced them. Of those 4 games, we benefited by being the home team in 3/4. We need to dominate the trenches to have a chance. On our side to eat clock and reduce possessions and on their side to make sure their pretty awful rushing attack is exactly that. Pollard barely cracked 4.0 a carry...if he starts running all over us their offense is probably going to light us up like a Christmas tree. Something tells me we get handily creamed 38-20...but we certainly have a good enough team to win if we are efficient on offense and maybe get a timely turnover too.

I doubt it motivates them any more or less than it had prior. If the offers aren't crazy good, you still get a draft pick after the season. It also helps avoid the team plummeting into the abyss of 90+ losses, which can be pretty damaging to attendance etc. They never seemed super interested in a fire sale after last year, even after Woodruff was dropped.

Not sure that is bad news. I think it would be nice if he never played the Packers and had to cheer against them so to speak. Regardless of one’s feelings towards him, he has been pretty passionate about the team/city even after leaving.