Chaos

NFL apparently stated that the Dolphins were not found to have intentionally lost games in 2019 which the only evidence that could be found for that would be the month of September with some ugly blowouts.

Now I'm wanting to go back and replay it because it was a few years and I vaguely remember some of it.

I've always taken it that he's acting on behalf of Mr. McMahon. He's basically his proxy.

I can't think of this without watching Woods/Creed and Breeze doing the Vince McMahon YOOOUUUUUUUUUUUU PEOPLE! on Battle of the Brands.

I wonder if they loophole it and just induct ECW Originals as a group, which would be how you get like Taz, Rhino, etc. in there. From a WWE Perspective, RVD and Dudleyz are probably the only ones to get individual recognitions.

That WWE sale is very imminent.

I just think someone got hyped up over Clark Lea's "we're going to be the best program in the country eventually" comment.

God bless SEC Media Days and its media poll. Someone picked Vandy to win the SEC. It had as many SEC Champion votes as.... Texas A&M.

Auburn being a team of destiny and going on a run after everything that's happened over the last couple of years would be the most Auburn thing ever. Also, Oregon and Bo Nix winning the Natty and Heisman would also be the most Auburn thing ever.

Gives me hope that around the holidays might be able to seem them be even a little lower.

I do expect the streaming version to be absurdly pricy though. Stuff I was reading before the other rights deals were finalized and shortly after is that the league and the owners loved the ala carte model they could offer with streaming through a per game price, a per week price, a per team price, or a full season price. Given the demand for the NFL, a Sunday ticket package being $500+ for the season is very likely through Apple.

ESPN does this for its PPV model through + too. Thankfully, $5-7/month is not as awful as paying for DirecTV.

I was actually having this discussion earlier this morning with someone about how biases even predate the current climate. Look at some stuff from the yellow journalism era or the racial south. There's a story I vaguely recall in an American Lit class that shows excerpts from a Times Picayune story that's beyond alarming. There's other more recent examples too that exist out there.

I know the difference, but I know too many people who get their news from opinion. Also objecting opinion into news is very human and even happens in mostly objective reports.

The broad polarization on your heavy corporate media channels. Too much are driven along ideology or party lines or for clicks or whatever. Or even will cover something "in the moment" that maybe contradicts how they covered something months or a year or two prior. That's why you're seeing a rise in stuff like substack and patreon at the moment. (Although, that stuff will probably take a huge hit with the recession). I originally wanted to go into journalism before circumstances took me in a different path. I also gather news from a variety of sources and almost never from tv.

This just shows how few people pay attention to the news much if at all. It's worsened over the last say 6ish years as the average trust in media institutions has fallen and for good reason.

Miami not being tied to any of this right now makes this a little bit more hilarious to me given they're FINALLY pretending like they're willing to invest in winning at football. Y'know, for real this time.

I've been trying to look into that myself. Haven't seen anything serious reporting it yet. I'd believe it though.

This ultimately builds to a model of the super conferences breaking off from the NCAA and creating a revenue sharing formula of tv rights with the athletes because that will be pushed for until it can't be avoided similar to many of the pro sports leagues. There's going to be a lot of old school fans that are going to have their identities broken because all they care about is the sanctity of college football.

There were rumors before Texas and OU split from the Big 12 that they were trying to court USC/UCLA. If that had happened, I don't think you see Texas and OU move, so I'm sure the PAC 12 getting shunned every year in the playoff had an impact; however, neither USC or UCLA have really been a threat to make it other than that last Matthew Barkley season.

Time for the Power Two. Two Conference Power Trip of NCAA BAY BAY.

I'm debating going to Dynamite and staying over to do Braves/Angels that week. This might be another reason to finalize that trip.

Explaining why companies probably shouldn't take government money to help fuel R&D.

I just snagged Billy Strings Halloween tix. I may try to grab another day too.

The Atlanta homecoming made Freddie Freeman fire his agents that brokered his botched free agency. I doubt he's in Los Angeles for the duration of his deal.