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Apparently the Nats’ manager confronted him after the game over those comments
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ElwoodCuse posted:Juventus has won the league 7 years in a row. Bayern Munich has won their league 6 years in a row. That's pretty dire in terms of competitive balance.
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Crazy Ted posted:There really is no such thing as competitive balance in much of European soccer. Remember when Leicester bloody City won the Premier League that was fun so is ESPN 8: The Ocho
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Remember when Leicester bloody City won the Premier League no
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Remember when Leicester bloody City won the Premier League
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Parity doesn’t really exist in the majority of major professional sports leagues on earth.
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Soccer also has a bazillion club tournaments so not everything is about winning your league, which doesn't even have a postseason in most cases
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Mahoning posted:Parity doesn’t really exist in the majority of major professional sports leagues on earth. I think the thing is, there's two types of parity in sports: -Game parity, or equal chance of winning an individual game -Championship parity, or equal chance of winning it all The first is better if you ask me because you're watching a game and don't know who's going to win. The second is a bit of a thing because in a 30 team league, assuming each team won it in a 30 year span, the first team to win will have a 30 year "drought".
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https://twitter.com/HIGHNOONonESPN/status/1027543803329171457 This loving show. https://twitter.com/bomani_jones/status/1027555406007226368 
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/HIGHNOONonESPN/status/1027543803329171457 holy poo poo
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Vertical Lime posted:when you get just about every coach to try to save your channel No Urban.
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https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/1027591056521678848 it's gonna be high noon (in alaska) and reduced to 30 minutes https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/1027591216031064064 Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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AsInHowe posted:No Urban. guess its time for the Buckeyes to leave the Big Ten
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Vertical Lime posted:when you get just about every coach to try to save your channel God carriage disputes are the dumbest drat thing
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I can't watch any coach collage ad from BTN without hearing COME TO PENN STAATTEEEEE in my head.
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The peak of BTN advertising was Kirk Ferentz sitting in a giant nest. I love that they always have to use him as little as possible in the ones with all the coaches because he's so terrible at not looking bored and annoyed by it MourningView fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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That loving suuucks. That show is so loving good.
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Univision announced how they will covering the Champions League and Europa League. https://www.si.com/soccer/2018/08/09/champions-league-univision-coverage-press-release-uefa-europa Highlights: (Eastern Time) 1 PM: Match on Unimas/UDN and another on Galavision 3 PM: Match on Univision/UDN, another on Unimas, and another on Galavision Europa League 1 PM: Match on Unimas/UDN and another on Galavision 3 PM: Match on Unimas/UDN and another on Galavision The non tv matches will be streamed on Univision Deportes app and website for free. Turner announced that Tim Howard and Stu Holden will be part of the studio coverage for Champions League. https://www.turner.com/pressroom/tim-howard-stuart-holden-join-br-football-uefa-champions-league-studio-coverage-available
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Dexo posted:That loving suuucks. That show is so loving good. Cutting it in half sucks but that seems like a better timeslot
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DJExile posted:God carriage disputes are the dumbest drat thing I haven’t been able to get the Astros locally since they played in the NL.
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DJExile posted:God carriage disputes are the dumbest drat thing 
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The Casualty posted:Joe Buck ruins everything. Who was it that criticized him by saying Buck doesn't actually get excited during great plays, he simply drones on at a louder volume? There was a good story about this I just can’t find the original https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1027664753420902400
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GobiasIndustries posted:There was a good story about this I just can’t find the original How is that tweet related to any of this? 
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GobiasIndustries posted:There was a good story about this I just can’t find the original Joe Buck is Melania Trump's father?!
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ESPN+ looks to have added the A-League, Eredivisie and Chinese Super League. https://www.a-league.com.au/news/espn-acquires-broadcast-rights-hyundai-a-league-united-states-0
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psyer posted:ESPN+ looks to have added the A-League, Eredivisie and Chinese Super League. Finally I can watch Hulk in action
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I've been listening to Sports? Katie Nolan's podcast recently and drat it's great. Yeah she should be doing more for ESPN but she's amazing in the format. She's passionate she's funny it's good stuff. Ashely's a great co host too.
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ESPN+ has a ton of content at least.
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Yea I totally get people who don’t wanna pay $5 more for ESPN+ on principle but it’s got a ton of stuff and I’d imagine that’ll only grow as CFB and NFL start up. Also, UFC comes to the service in January. And the entire 30 for 30 archive alone is worth $5 a month from me.
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Right now 30 for 30 is just the only thing really as a draw to ESPN+ and that's more of a "subscribe for a month" thing. But I totally see the appeal. At a different stage of my life where I was consuming every sport imaginable I could see being into it. And I could definitely see subscribing for particular events or something.
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The only thing it has that I really want to watch is some FCS and midmajor football and man actually paying for Sun Belt football is a big ask, even as perhaps the world's biggest fan of the Sun Belt who did not actually attend school there
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I still don't see how they make money on this. The UFC deal is $150 million a year. You'd need 3 million subscribers just to break even with just that. To put it in perspective, Fight Pass only has like half a million subscribers. The new soccer deals is just over $18 million a year. So that means you need at least 350,000 subscribers to cover those fees. I know the other stuff they are carrying like CFL, Ivy League, etc is small potatoes that cost little to host, but it still adds up. Maybe I'm underestimating the demand for this kind of stuff but it seems like they'd need well over 5 million subscribers to make this worthwhile. I just don't see how they can pull that off.
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MourningView posted:The only thing it has that I really want to watch is some FCS and midmajor football and man actually paying for Sun Belt football is a big ask, even as perhaps the world's biggest fan of the Sun Belt who did not actually attend school there This is a very real thing and as someone who also pretty much uses ESPN3 for only to watch wednesday Sun Belt, Hawaii games, and to scout obscure college basketball prospects,, that part is a bummer at least. But I guess I've given up, they've won, we lost, no more free content and I guess if I have to pay this is a better value for me than even Netflix is really.
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Niwrad posted:I still don't see how they make money on this. The UFC deal is $150 million a year. You'd need 3 million subscribers just to break even with just that. To put it in perspective, Fight Pass only has like half a million subscribers. I'm pretty sure they're just treading water and testing it out until going full on OTT becomes worthwhile. Right now they still make enough from carriage fees that it's not worth it. I think loading it up with mostly a lot of relatively cheap niche stuff that fans of those things are really into is a pretty decent way to ease into it. MourningView fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Aug 13, 2018 |
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MourningView posted:I think loading it up with mostly a lot of relatively cheap niche stuff that fans of those things are really into is a pretty decent way to ease into it. Yeah I think that's pretty smart. The UFC deal just seems so out of whack that it feels like it'll just be an anchor on them financially.
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