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why the gently caress would they call a rugby union promotion "major league rugby"
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Apr 2, 2018 19:23
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Feels Villeneuve posted:why the gently caress would they call a rugby union promotion "major league rugby" 'murica
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Apr 2, 2018 19:26
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I’m thinking that their contracts with the cable companies prohibit them from putting the networks themselves on there. The NFL also sure as hell won’t let them air NFL games on their own streaming service.
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Apr 2, 2018 19:44
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DJExile posted:Oh poo poo that's right. Plus didn't the massive fox buyout include the regional fox sports networks?
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Apr 2, 2018 19:57
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Mahoning posted:The problem is, cable cutting will continue while their liabilities when it comes to TV rights are all pretty much set in stone for the foreseeable future. All the layoffs last year was a drop in the bucket. It’s largely unsustainable in the long run. Cable cutting isn't coming as fast as people think. The NFL is still a huge draw even if the games suck. They have the NBA which is growing in popularity. And college football is ingrained in our culture. Most sports fans need ESPN. They're setting up a streaming service as a hedge. If the poo poo hits the fan in the next few years with cord cutting, they can move some programming over to it and bail on making cable their primary source of revenue. Despite all the doom and gloom, ESPN prints money. They just weren't printing money at the same ridiculous rate they were years back. They didn't cut back to save their business, they cut back so their shareholders could get a bigger dividend. Every other cable channel would still love to be ESPN.
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Apr 2, 2018 20:03
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Lost Season posted:Plus didn't the massive fox buyout include the regional fox sports networks? yes, even though it's not completed yet wonder how that's gonna fit into espn+' plans
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Apr 2, 2018 20:05
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Niwrad posted:Cable cutting isn't coming as fast as people think. It's also honestly not that great anymore, either. Everything is so fragmented onto 80 different services you don't end up saving any money most of the time.
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Apr 2, 2018 20:07
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I thought about cord cutting but I couldn’t make sense on how to do it and still see all sixers and eagles games in HD
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Apr 2, 2018 20:08
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Inspector_666 posted:It's also honestly not that great anymore, either. Everything is so fragmented onto 80 different services you don't end up saving any money most of the time. yeah, i figured this out years ago also isn't espn+ is supposed to be a test for disney's general entertainment netflix competitor coming next year
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Apr 2, 2018 20:18
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euphronius posted:I thought about cord cutting but I couldn’t make sense on how to do it and still see all sixers and eagles games in HD For Louisiana sports, I subscribe to Vue and get the channel for all Pelican games (and others). I then use that same login/sub with the Fox Sports Go app and/or website to chromecast Saints games, though that actually didn't work until late in the season because these deals are all asinine which is why we are talking about this in the first place.
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Apr 2, 2018 20:23
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Vertical Lime posted:yeah, i figured this out years ago Yes, this is another important factor.
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Apr 2, 2018 20:51
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:'murica what's weird is that rugby league seems like it'd be a much better idea if you wanted to get rugby over in america for some god-forsaken reason, since it's more similar to football and has far fewer weird-rear end rules with breakdowns
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Apr 2, 2018 20:59
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euphronius posted:I thought about cord cutting but I couldn’t make sense on how to do it and still see all sixers and eagles games in HD I got Playstation Vue. It gets NBC Sports Philadelphia so I can still watch Sixers game on there. Been doing it for a couple months now and it has worked out very well. If you have a PS4 or Firestick or Chromecast you'll be good to go using it on your TV. I think Sling and DirecTV Now get the local channel too but not 100%
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Apr 2, 2018 21:08
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Feels Villeneuve posted:what's weird is that rugby league seems like it'd be a much better idea if you wanted to get rugby over in america for some god-forsaken reason, since it's more similar to football and has far fewer weird-rear end rules with breakdowns I'm with you on that, I think there's more transferable skills from certain positions in football to rugby league than union
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Apr 2, 2018 21:09
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Jota posted:I got Playstation Vue. It gets NBC Sports Philadelphia so I can still watch Sixers game on there. Been doing it for a couple months now and it has worked out very well. If you have a PS4 or Firestick or Chromecast you'll be good to go using it on your TV. I think Sling and DirecTV Now get the local channel too but not 100% Eagles games ?
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Apr 2, 2018 23:15
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euphronius posted:Eagles games ? Wouldn’t 95% of all Eagles games be picked up with an antenna?
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Apr 2, 2018 23:21
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Mahoning posted:Wouldn’t 95% of all Eagles games be picked up with an antenna? Are they HD? Also I live in the middle of Mordor
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Apr 2, 2018 23:24
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euphronius posted:Are they HD? Also I live in the middle of Mordor Most of the time digital over the air is HD sand better quality than the compression cable uses.
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Apr 3, 2018 00:14
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euphronius posted:Eagles games ? Yeah I get them no problem since it gets the local channels on it too and it gets ESPN and NFL Network and NBATV and the national NBCSports and all that. The only thing it really doesn't have is Viacom channels but that won't impact watching sports.
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Apr 3, 2018 00:39
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To me for what I want that thing sucks rear end.
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Apr 3, 2018 00:47
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Feels Villeneuve posted:what's weird is that rugby league seems like it'd be a much better idea if you wanted to get rugby over in america for some god-forsaken reason, since it's more similar to football and has far fewer weird-rear end rules with breakdowns League is dying in the old country and Union has been popular enough that this is like the 4th attempt to put a pro tour together in the us. Also since Major League Soccer made it big literally every fringe sport is "Major League" now, like Major League Lacrosse, and Major League Ultimate (rip). Same reason the National (hockey) League and National (football) League picked those names in the ye olden days.
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Apr 3, 2018 03:11
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National Hockey League is silly because hasn’t it been international from day one?
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Apr 3, 2018 03:15
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Henchman of Santa posted:National Hockey League is silly because hasn’t it been international from day one? it took 6 years before the NHL added the Boston Bruins and became a 2 country league before that, all the teams were (obviously) Canadian
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Apr 3, 2018 04:12
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Peanut President posted:League is dying in the old country and Union has been popular enough that this is like the 4th attempt to put a pro tour together in the us. Also since Major League Soccer made it big literally every fringe sport is "Major League" now, like Major League Lacrosse, and Major League Ultimate (rip). Same reason the National (hockey) League and National (football) League picked those names in the ye olden days. Major League Baseball is over 100 years old, so it's not a recent thing. Also it's international despite "National" and "American" leagues as well.  I wish they didn't have silly blackout rules for their streaming though.
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Apr 3, 2018 14:11
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iospace posted:Major League Baseball is over 100 years old, so it's not a recent thing. Also it's international despite "National" and "American" leagues as well. major league would imply that there's a minor league or lesser series, which is what the original distinction between the national and american leagues were as compared to the other national association teams. its just another part of MLS co-opting a naming scheme that makes no loving sense (Real Salt Lake and others) since anyone good plays in europe and they are like AA on the scale of things
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Apr 3, 2018 14:40
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Do they pronounce it real or re-al?
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Apr 3, 2018 14:44
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euphronius posted:Do they pronounce it real or re-al? Re-al I’m pretty sure. They usurped the Utah Jazz for funniest name in American pro sports. MLS also has names like Houston Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City. I’m waiting for Shakhtar Detroit.
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Apr 3, 2018 14:55
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exploded mummy posted:major league would imply that there's a minor league or lesser series, which is what the original distinction between the national and american leagues were as compared to the other national association teams. I was trying to bait peanut  US sports are definitely set up weirdly compared to the rest of the world. Though when is the NHL going to rebrand to "Major League Hockey"?
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Apr 3, 2018 15:13
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euphronius posted:Do they pronounce it real or re-al? Latter, the ownership was a fan of Real Madrid and wanted to use the name because it sounded cool and simple. They're actually called Real Madrid because Real Madrid actually translates to Royal Madrid because they actually had a patronage from the Spanish royalty. Real Salt Lake doesn't actually have any sort of patronage and is just an utterly stupid name. At least the Utah Jazz are justifiable in being an artifact of relocation.
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Apr 3, 2018 15:40
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io i love ya but you make your baiting waaaaay too obvious
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Apr 3, 2018 15:42
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iospace posted:I was trying to bait peanut Probably never, the NBA/NHL/NFL bought out their competitors and merged then in. The AL and NL were independent of eachother for 97 years.
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Apr 3, 2018 15:47
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I really thought MLS was trending towards decent names with the Sounders/Union/Timbers/Whitecaps run but they seem to be regressing
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Apr 3, 2018 15:47
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exploded mummy posted:The AL and NL were independent of eachother for 97 years. Yeah, literally the only reason the offices were shuttered was because Bud Selig didn't want a repeat of the 1994 - 95 labor negotiations, during which Bill White and Gene Budig were having back-channel talks with the union in an effort to end the strike. Selig's tenure in general was notable for the centralization of power in the commissioner's office.
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Apr 3, 2018 16:16
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morestuff posted:I really thought MLS was trending towards decent names with the Sounders/Union/Timbers/Whitecaps run but they seem to be regressing Sounders, Timbers, and Whitecaps all predate MLS, that's why.
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Apr 3, 2018 17:12
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Just a reminder that MLS names were horrible even before they started borrowing european naming conventions. Kansas City Wiz Columbus Crew Dallas Burn Tampa Bay Mutiny San Jose Clash Miami Fusion NY/NJ Metrostars LA Galaxy Why is it that every nickname is like an abstract thing instead of traditional animals or something similar? Seriously the only animal nickname in MLS is the RedBulls and that's pushing it.
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Apr 3, 2018 17:58
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Mahoning posted:Just a reminder that MLS names were horrible even before they started borrowing european naming conventions. I imagine trademarks had a LOT to do with it.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:13
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Mahoning posted:Just a reminder that MLS names were horrible even before they started borrowing european naming conventions. Like half of the NBA has names that aren't much better. These were attempts to be unique.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:17
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I don't even mind just going the FC/SC route and letting fans do the creative work, but the league doesn't need three Uniteds and a Union
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Apr 3, 2018 18:20
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I imagine trademarks had a LOT to do with it. also to do with old people trying to appeal to X-Games culture in the mid-90s.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:37
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they will indeed have the full 30 for 30 archive plus a new one https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/981191546904219648
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Apr 3, 2018 20:04
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