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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Elite college athletes should be turned into paid employees of professional minor leagues for their sports. The college programs should shrink back to recreational size where nobody gets to make a million dollars. Baseball minor leagues are fun because the tickets are dirt cheap and you get to see players before they turn into stars (and also mostly bad players but that is part of the fun.) Also hot dog races.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Assistant football coaches at SEC schools with barely winning records can make over a million a year. The amount of money anyone makes in academia is not subject to logic. It's either shareholders or endowments. Both suck. As someone who lived in Indiana, the town did not look like Indiana at all 
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Sep 6, 2016 18:27
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monster on a stick posted:Baseball minor leagues are fun because the tickets are dirt cheap and you get to see players before they turn into stars (and also mostly bad players but that is part of the fun.) Also hot dog races. Unfortunately minor league players get paid so little they have to usually live with someone giving them free rent Despite the fact one major athlete's contract for the Yankees could give everyone in the minor leagues a living wage so unless minor leagues will at least give a living wage, gently caress that
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Sep 6, 2016 18:28
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C-SPAN Caller posted:As someone who lived in Indiana, the town did not look like Indiana at all Not enough corn?
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Sep 6, 2016 18:29
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canyoneer posted:Yeah I guess you're right, the "athletics fee" I paid in undergrad at a Pac 12 school must have been for something else The athletics fee usually goes to cover sports other than Football and Basketball ("non-revenue" sports), which PAC-12 schools tend to support a lot of (and I think pay more for because of geography-related travel costs). The finances of college athletics departments are generally incredibly opaque (especially when you take into account things like "how much does this drive alumni donations/enrollment?") and vary from school to school, but generally speaking the coaching salaries associated with the football program of a Power 5 school are not what will cause those schools to lose money on athletics.
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Sep 6, 2016 18:30
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monster on a stick posted:Baseball minor leagues are fun because the tickets are dirt cheap and you get to see players before they turn into stars (and also mostly bad players but that is part of the fun.) Also hot dog races. Lmao don't those players have to share rooms and go on food stamps to be able to have a shot at the big time?
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Sep 6, 2016 18:30
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C-SPAN Caller posted:Unfortunately minor league players get paid so little they have to usually live with someone giving them free rent Yes they get paid crap, but lol if you think the salary from one player will cover the salary of the 6000 players in the minor leagues.
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Sep 6, 2016 18:34
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fits my needs posted:Lmao don't those players have to share rooms and go on food stamps to be able to have a shot at the big time? Most American born baseball players come from rich backgrounds, because the only way you get noticed by talent scouts is to play summer touring baseball as a teenager. That costs upwards of $7k/season independent of room, board, costs for accompanying family, etc. Andrew McCutchen was part of an article recently on The Undefeated about how hard it was to break in, and how African American representation in big league baseball is lower than it has been at any point since the fifties. http://theundefeated.com/features/andrew-mccutchen-in-the-country-of-baseball/
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Sep 6, 2016 18:37
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monster on a stick posted:Yes they get paid crap, but lol if you think the salary from one player will cover the salary of the 6000 players in the minor leagues. sorry it would take at least 8 a-rods per year my bad his entire contract over many years could do it tho
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Sep 6, 2016 18:38
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There's basically a pipeline of hucksters who are there to take money from these kids' rich parents and tell them how good they are at baseball, until the late teens when real talent scouts start showing up to filter out the vanity players from the real talent. But without that pipeline there's no real way to break in.
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Sep 6, 2016 18:39
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C-SPAN Caller posted:sorry it would take at least 8 a-rods per year my bad At least those players are paid.
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Sep 6, 2016 18:45
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monster on a stick posted:Baseball minor leagues are fun because the tickets are dirt cheap and you get to see players before they turn into stars (and also mostly bad players but that is part of the fun.) Also hot dog races. I went to one that was "Free bread night" and I got a free loaf of bread!
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Sep 6, 2016 18:47
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Iron Crowned posted:I went to one that was "Free bread night" and I got a free loaf of bread! What kind of bread? I mean there is a difference between Dave's Killer Bread Night and Wonder Bread Night.
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Sep 6, 2016 18:49
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monster on a stick posted:What kind of bread? I mean there is a difference between Dave's Killer Bread Night and Wonder Bread Night. Kroger bread night
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Sep 6, 2016 18:49
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Iron Crowned posted:Kroger bread night As they say, it's the thought that counts. Hope you made some good peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with it. Also getting back to companies circling the drain: SolarCity.
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Sep 6, 2016 18:53
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Binghamton University is considered a "Public Ivy." The downtown campus has a plaque dedicated to a deceased state senator who was found to be a corrupt scumbag like most of Albany's politicians. The administration wanted to field a competitive men's basketball team so badly that they let their "student-athletes" get away with doing nothing for classes (par for the course for most big name programs, but Binghamton is a fairly recent D-I program that prides itself on academic selectiveness) and were barred for a couple of years from NCAA tournament. The international students' office has multiple incidents of not straightening out records for students on visa so that they're forced to leave, sometimes before they finish their degrees (my ex-girlfriend heard that news but was finished with all of her work for her Master's, so she just had to leave immediately after graduation). It's a stupid term that means nothing.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:02
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Y-Hat posted:Binghamton University is considered a "Public Ivy." The downtown campus has a plaque dedicated to a deceased state senator who was found to be a corrupt scumbag like most of Albany's politicians. The administration wanted to field a competitive men's basketball team so badly that they let their "student-athletes" get away with doing nothing for classes (par for the course for most big name programs, but Binghamton is a fairly recent D-I program that prides itself on academic selectiveness) and were barred for a couple of years from NCAA tournament. The international students' office has multiple incidents of not straightening out records for students on visa so that they're forced to leave, sometimes before they finish their degrees (my ex-girlfriend heard that news but was finished with all of her work for her Master's, so she just had to leave immediately after graduation). What idiots, the real gravy train is turning it into a diploma mill for foreign students, but I guess it doesn't matter if you kick out the foreign suckers after they've paid? Sorry for your loss.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:11
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Is radio dead yet? I been driving a lot lately and switch on the radio between CDs and they play the same 4 songs atleast 10 times a day. It's always that lovely disturbed song of silence and creep by radiohead, and that ambassador X renegade. I swear every time I turn on the radio there's a50%chance its one of those songs. The DJs must be turning into mad hatters playing this poo poo constantly
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Sep 6, 2016 19:13
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It really depends where you are (obviously). Something like 99% of the radio stations in the country are owned by the same lovely media conglomerate and they are just awful, but there are some diamonds in the rough out there.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:16
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Consolidation by ClearChannel, the collapse of alt-rock, the growth of EDM and the growing irrelevance of albums have all contributed to a rather samey-sounding set of popular music today. LA's alternative mainstay, KROQ, sounds barely different than the pop radio stations. Well, that and the fact that you've probably aged out of the "popular" music demographic.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:21
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darkhand posted:Is radio dead yet? I been driving a lot lately and switch on the radio between CDs and they play the same 4 songs atleast 10 times a day. It's always that lovely disturbed song of silence and creep by radiohead, and that ambassador X renegade. I swear every time I turn on the radio there's a50%chance its one of those songs. The DJs must be turning into mad hatters playing this poo poo constantly There was some funny drama in the NPR community in Seattle, where one NPR affiliate tried to buy the other for $8M, mostly using money from pledge drives, so they could basically corner the lucrative public radio market or something.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:26
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Is electronic music more popular now then in recent history? I assume that it is way easier to make the stuff then it was in like the 90's (when us cool kids recorded poo poo on a 4 track that used cassette tapes) but like, I never really hear it out and around. Radio in general is weird, other then one college station, every "rock" station around here plays like 80% the same stuff they played when I was in highschool like 20 years ago. I assume the 20% I don't recognize is newer music but it still sounds like numetal or alt-rock.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:31
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Moridin920 posted:I can't find the article now because the news is just flooded with articles about some shooting in a factory there... maybe it wasn't Kansas. It was def a Southern state losing a fat factory deal because the workers were just too uneducated though. This was in the South. A union rep for one of the big manufacturers was being interviewed on why they relocated from Alabama to Canada and he said that the workers in the South didn't understand the instructions at first. So they switched to pictograms and the workers were STILL requiring a ton of extra training because they still weren't literate and couldn't grasp the concepts. Relocated to Canada, paid more in taxes, and it was worth it because I guess the Canadian workers could read.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:35
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Maybe hire people that could read would be a less costly maneuver, but I'm no businessman
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Sep 6, 2016 19:37
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Fondly remembering my Radioshack.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:40
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I used to work for a company that made software for chemical, agri, and pharm labs. When our services guys had to go out on assignment they hated it because it would always been in some one stoplight town in the middle of nowhere. Most of the lab staff were barely high school educated and could only follow the steps given to them which was usually, "Put item on the balance. Write down the number displayed. Remove items from the balance" God forbid the days when the lab supervisor was out and these people has to call in for support. I had a theory that most of the big chemical companies and refineries pick cities like this because they know there is a ton of unskilled labor they can exploit and get tons and tax breaks from local government. Also the work force isn't smart enough or too afraid of retaliation to report any shady practices that may be happening.
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fits my needs posted:What idiots, the real gravy train is turning it into a diploma mill for foreign students, but I guess it doesn't matter if you kick out the foreign suckers after they've paid? Sorry for your loss. It sucks that a relationship with someone that I loved ended because a part of the university couldn't get their poo poo in order.
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Modern radio is funky. A local morning show went national and immediately excised any mention of local establishments or politics or current events. Their traffic comes from a central office that handles traffic reports for half a dozen other stations and the only time they mention their own city is a few minutes every hour during station identification. I guess once you hit a certain level you have to syndicate because no one makes enough money in a single market. monster on a stick posted:There was some funny drama in the NPR community in Seattle, where one NPR affiliate tried to buy the other for $8M, mostly using money from pledge drives, so they could basically corner the lucrative public radio market or something. Our NPR station in Atlanta has been doing pretty well, expanding local programing, and hitting their pledge numbers via the subscription model. So what happens? The PBS TV affiliate buys out the 100k watt college station and is now competing directly with the NPR station showing the same loving programing. Do you really like This American Life and can't figure out internet streaming or podcasts? Well now it's on 4 times a week between two stations in the same market. NPR stations will be circling the drain once all the olds die and people realize they can just donate straight to the 3 NPR stations that produce 90% of the content.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:49
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Captain Yossarian posted:I have a jastigar related confession- I actually don't mind Des Moines despite threatening him with violence. I live to close to Iowa to bust his balls too bad Printed and Framed. Now ya done hosed up.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:51
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Krispy Kareem posted:Our NPR station in Atlanta has been doing pretty well, expanding local programing, and hitting their pledge numbers via the subscription model. I forgot they did that. Goddamn, npr loving blows (not just for that reason tho)
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Sep 6, 2016 20:04
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Jastiger posted:This was in the South. A union rep for one of the big manufacturers was being interviewed on why they relocated from Alabama to Canada and he said that the workers in the South didn't understand the instructions at first. So they switched to pictograms and the workers were STILL requiring a ton of extra training because they still weren't literate and couldn't grasp the concepts. Knew it was down there somewhere. darkhand posted:Is radio dead yet? I been driving a lot lately and switch on the radio between CDs and they play the same 4 songs atleast 10 times a day. It's always that lovely disturbed song of silence and creep by radiohead, and that ambassador X renegade. I swear every time I turn on the radio there's a50%chance its one of those songs. The DJs must be turning into mad hatters playing this poo poo constantly Idk but I can tell you most DJing is done by robot/remote now. I think maybe the morning chat shows are still legit but otherwise a lot of radio is def just a playlist with some pre-recorded voice phrases like it is Radio New Vegas.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:09
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Moridin920 posted:Idk but I can tell you most DJing is done by robot/remote now. I think maybe the morning chat shows are still legit but otherwise a lot of radio is def just a playlist with some pre-recorded voice phrases like it is Radio New Vegas. Tabatha was the better DJ though
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Krispy Kareem posted:NPR stations will be circling the drain once all the olds die and people realize they can just donate straight to the 3 NPR stations that produce 90% of the content.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:26
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I swear most of sports radio morning shows are just around because of draft kings ads.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:29
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BexGu posted:I swear most of sports radio morning shows are just around because of draft kings ads. New York is so corrupt (the old state senator honored by Binghamton University had a reputation for being uncorruptable until those revelations came forth) that when our attorney general went on the warpath to outlaw these sites as gambling (which they are, and he actually succeeded for a time), these parasites bribed enough legislators and the governor to get them reclassified as something else while allowing them to keep their entire business model. There are far more important issues facing our state but this was a Big Deal up in Albany in this year's legislative session.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:37
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Y-Hat posted:Draft Kings, Fan Duel, and these other sites that are just ways to enrich their creators were nonexistent three years ago. Today you can't even avoid their ads when watching NHL or MLS. Isn't this a Spotify-like case of taking venture capitalist money and acting like they're more important than they really are? It's a case of startups/VCs exploiting a gambling law loophole to rake in poo poo tons of money from rubes and to operate outside of gambling regulations and protections. Frankly I'm amazed they are still operating but I guess if you have enough cash you can lobby anything to death. e: quick google seems to suggest that lobbying and advertising costs are wrecking their bottom line recently though Moridin920 has a new favorite as of 20:42 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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The best part is they almost got legislated out of existence because one of their employees won big with inside information. As prevalent as they are now, they were EVERYWHERE before that happened. How he didn't end up dumped in a lake I don't know.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:44
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Jastiger posted:This was in the South. A union rep for one of the big manufacturers was being interviewed on why they relocated from Alabama to Canada and he said that the workers in the South didn't understand the instructions at first. So they switched to pictograms and the workers were STILL requiring a ton of extra training because they still weren't literate and couldn't grasp the concepts. Yeah, I am from Kansas and while I know the state's hosed ("getting Brownbacked" brings up interesting mental images) I'd defend the honor of our state's workforce. Kansas is a major manufacturer of small aircraft.
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Yeah but didn't you guys just lose a huge Boeing factory/contract not too long ago?
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