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NHL Off-Season 2017 |OT| Weve Been Here Since October
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I heard that the team interviews were a complete Weekend at Bernie's thing with his agent and parents moving his hands and tilting his head back and forth while pressing on his chest to make air escape his lungs and create low moaning sounds. Just thank god he still got straight 100s in the "is Canadian" and "#WANT" categories.
Not a hockey article, but Jonah Keri talking about baseball's TV future is very relevant to all sports: The Unplugged Effect: How cord-cutting could become baseball's next huge crisis
Very interesting to see what happens. There's also a link in the story to a report about how regional sports nets are doomed, which would impact hockey even more than the other sports.
Very interesting to see what happens. There's also a link in the story to a report about how regional sports nets are doomed, which would impact hockey even more than the other sports.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Blackouts need to fucking die. When they die, people will pay to watch all the sports online, even if they add commercials.
Yep. I pay for NHL.TV even with it's shitty quality and huge delay because it's the only reliable way for me to watch the Avs.
I DON'T pay for MLB.TV because 99.5% of my Mariners games would be blacked out... Granted I watch most of them on TV, but it would be nice to stream the games I can't watch at work instead of listening on my $9.99 AM/FM radio
bonesmccoy
Banned
The report - not the blog post Jonah links to but the actual report from Moody's - predicts that *if* RSNs decline, that streaming services are likely to barge in and fill the void.
Or that maybe they'll all work it out.
Then there's another guy who thinks RSNs are in better shape than national broadcasters.
Blackouts probably won't die until the current TV contracts are expired, I believe the blackouts are part of the clause to help out with the TV regional viewership.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
when is your birthday?
A key plank in the process of selling TV rights twice, yep.
Who knows if unbundling will hurt RSNs or the national networks more, but I would bet a lot that TV fees were way, way overpriced in the past 5 years or so as networks panicked and overpaid for live TV. Now they're extra vulnerable to declining carriage.
If streaming becomes the next thing I'm not sure Facebook or Youtube would pay *nearly* as much as the networks do even if they are competing with each other. Youtube might really want live NBA games or whatever but if Twitter makes a large bid I bet they shrug and spend the $ on cooking shows or something.
Let's just say in 2025 when the national rights deal expires I doubt Sportsnet is going to shove $5.2 billion into the pot again. They started regretting that deal *fast* and that was before all the Canadian teams fucked them over last year lol.
House GOP passed the AHCA. Will likely fail the senate, but still.
Millions of people would lose health insurance and go bankrupt and/or die.
Pre-existing conditions not covered.
Being raped, a victim of domestic violence or having a c-section now count as pre-existing condition and make you either lose health insurance or have your costs skyrocket.
I pay 50USD/month for health insurance in Canada, 0 deductible except for 200$ on prescription medicine. 50/month is waived for low-income. I've never been more glad to be here. My sister has T1 diabetes, the GOP would've basically condemned her to a life in debt.
Fuck everything about the GOP, seriously.
Millions of people would lose health insurance and go bankrupt and/or die.
Pre-existing conditions not covered.
Being raped, a victim of domestic violence or having a c-section now count as pre-existing condition and make you either lose health insurance or have your costs skyrocket.
I pay 50USD/month for health insurance in Canada, 0 deductible except for 200$ on prescription medicine. 50/month is waived for low-income. I've never been more glad to be here. My sister has T1 diabetes, the GOP would've basically condemned her to a life in debt.
Fuck everything about the GOP, seriously.
Every single thing I read about that bill left me stunned. Like, you couldn't imagine DELIBERATELY creating such an evil fucking thing, and they somehow managed to do it only half trying.
Every quote about not knowing what would happen and shrugging when asked for specifics, despite deliberately pushing it through before those calculations could be made... just the most fucking banal evil imaginable.
Cattle cheering McDonald's in-fucking-deed.
nothing really surprises me anymore
Unfortunately there are a lot of KingBrolys and ignorant people out there
Conservatives in Canada are angels compared to the GOP though. They're not as downright evil and vile.
For a LOT of people, it's a religion thing.
One party loves Jesus, the other kills unborn babies.
The party with the guy who's been married 3 times and rather goes golfing instead of visiting his wife&sun is the party of religious&family values, go figure
The backbone of the party is wealthy people voting FOR their interests, of course. Lower taxes, less regulation, and a smaller welfare state as 'they got theirs'.
But they alone can't constitute enough to win elections. So over the decades they've generated a base of people largely voting against their interests whose election priorities have become religion, guns, patriotism, etc. Poor education has been at the heart of this.
Trump's base is very similar, but while he lost a lot of Repubs/cons/independents who can't stomach voting for him he also won over a lot of new (?) marginalized voters who want to see the world burn. Trump's anti-PC campaign roped them in. Bigots generally that despise liberal ideology. A lot of them seem like they were spurned by the world in some way and congregate online anonymously to try and fuck over minorities, women, 'leftists', etc
Fox News doesn't talk about that. Those people are uninformed, and when they do get informed, they're in full on confirmation bias
Save 100$ in taxes, pay 1000$ more in insurance and your cousin dies
Good deal
Of course the rich benefit as if any other demographic mattered
I have to say this made me laugh. It's truly bizarre. It's sad but all I can do is just laugh at how dumb some people are.
Wow sounds great to me!
And 25% of people getting welfare don't realize (or can't admit to themselves) that they are actually benefiting from a government program.
https://www.good.is/articles/half-o...-swear-they-ve-never-used-government-programs
The ignorance level here is genuinely staggering.
I've never seen that table. That's amazing. And explains a lot of things about the lack of education and amount of brainwashing, jesus.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
SMH
Bill was never going to pass in the Senate. Senate basically goes "good job" and throws the bill that the House just passed in the trash, writes their own thing, votes on it and then hands that back to the House to vote on. No way the Senate comes up with anything as vile as the House Freedom Caucus so whatever the Senate writes is even more unlikely than this current bill to pass the House.
And the wheels go round and round
None of them can hold a candle to my boy Krz Plummer.
Canadian Liberals desperately wanting Canadian Conservatives to be just like the America conservatives is actually hilarious. Canada is not the United States.
It's Canada. Show some faith. Canadians, all Canadians, are centrist. The unfair villainization by eastern Canada against western Canada is a bunch of bullshit. Don't believe it. Canadians are a lot alike, but some simply refuse to believe it.
Yeah. Canadian conservatives are still by and large ignorant, short-sighted, and self-serving, but they definitely aren't as bad as American conservatives.
This is well understood, though, I'd say. I've seen recent comparisons, but usually it's tied to Canadians supporting Trump or attacking Hillary. The 'lock her up' stuff in Alberta was pretty dismaying.
That just blows my mind.
Life comes at you fast. No nation is immune to what's happening here.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
The WHL Bantam Draft.
Those names... Scout Truman!
Those names... Scout Truman!
Master of None is back 😳
Hope it's as good as the first season
Hope it's as good as the first season
I wonder how these trends happen. We named our dog after a 1992 Twin Peaks character because we had the show on while we were deliberating. I was convinced it would be unique. A month later when we were on the beach with him we ran into two other dogs with the same name. What the fuckThe WHL Bantam Draft.
Those names... Scout Truman!
Damn it, you just made me check if it was up already
The WHL Bantam Draft.
Those names... Scout Truman!
wtf kind of first name is "Ridly"
"Yeah it's Ridley without the e."
EDGY
edit: and "krz"? "yeah like Coors, the beer, but more edgy"
Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
Just cuz we're not 'merica yet doesn't mean Harper and his ilk wouldn't lead us down that path if they could. He wasn't as blatant about it but he definitely tried (& in some cases succeeded) to. I still can't believe he got away with the whole science gag order shit. Asshat should be in prison.