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I guess it was overdue to become commercialized. I was under the impression it was player driven and organic. But now I assume they will utilize the new scoreboard to show them celebrating then we will get the “pizza pizza” sound bite and cartoon clip. curtain calls will soon be sponsored

That is so bad. I get the teams do this now and the hockey stick and helmet was good because it showed camaraderie with your fellow sports team. But now it’s just a ****ing advertisement for the corporate ownership? So so bad.

I think it will be Tim Scott or someone we haven’t really heard of.

He rubbed their faces in it some more today.

Wow. I remember. One thing I forgot about was how in 2020 we didn’t really have normal conventions. Will we this year or do you think they are a relic now? Republic convention will be a **** show and should help Biden quite a bit.

I don’t think we will see Bill or Hillary Clinton out campaigning. Like was said…this is fundraising. One reason will be his age. He sounds and looks really old. Like Richard Lewis on Curb old. You don’t want him and Biden representing today’s Democratic Party. Biden is fine doing it since he is the President. Clinton can use his magic on the behind the scenes financiers to convince them it will continue to be ok. Trump is not going to have that network out on his behalf.

They think it’s the Heisman where they anoint someone early in and it’s up to them to either lose it or someone overtake them.

I stayed conservative as you all know but on the far libertarian side I immediately recognized the crackpot side. You’d read a newsletter and it all sounds fine but then look in the ads and the end and you see some white national stuff. It was there around the edges. Jon Coon was the libertarian candidate for senate, I think 1994. I looked into him and it seemed ok. But again you see people around an event with questionable attire or flags. think of it like going to a church and you sense some cult like behavior.

I thought the same thing. And it looks like a thin crowd today in Chicago.

Yes. I don’t like it. Reminds me of the red wings preseason jerseys.

Nobody owes you an explanation. This isn’t a court of law.

Let’s go.

Yes thanks for adding to the site's functionality.

I am a moderator giving you advice on how to conduct yourself here and if you don't like what i said then you can get the **** out.

I get what you are trying to say but can you use the term "Israel" instead of "Jews"? I will give you the benefit of the doubt and not assume anything nefarious but the statement as you wrote reeks of white nationalism. I'm going to edit the post.

Since this site started as a baseball site and today's Opening Day, let's all collectively chill and enjoy Tigers baseball today. I'm asking everyone, myself included, to tone it down. I don't know precisely what that means but I think we're all friends in some way and like each other.

The blackout rules, from my understanding, is the result of each team making deals with their local cable provider to broadcast games. Bally's, or whoever it is, pays the team $XX Million a year and that agreement states that anybody in that market that wants to watch that team has to subscribe to Bally's. Otherwise baseball fans could just get MLB.TV and cut Bally's out of the loop, not to mention that money goes to MLB and not the local team. Bally's and the others are paying so much money to the local team to ensure that is not allow that to happen.

Two things can be true. Netyenhau is scum and using this to go too far and the left wing protesters are going too far. I've seen too many whitewash what happend on Oct 7, either saying it didn't happen, it was justified, or was an inside job by Israel. Hamas can end this right now but they refuse to because they want civilians to die. Their actions started this. They are the ones fighting a war while embedding themselves with civilians. Those claiming genocide by Israel ignore a lot of reality. They want the best of both worlds. They are ready to let a Republican win the WH because they see no difference with regard to their pet issue, ignoring everything else out there. That's why I have no use for them.

and I question the ability of various reporters around this to do any real digging around because they have to protect their access and the outfit they work for probably has financial agreements with the league, if they aren't outright owned by the league. And is there really a difference that these bets were made with a bookie and not fanduel or betrivers? I don't think so. That's like saying "You went to this after hours blind pig and got drunk and got lap dances from girls rather than the brick and mortar location that sponsors us". The sports leagues can't pretend that there's this hard line between the players gambling and everybody else gambling. I"ve seen tweets referencing basketball players getting hit up on Venmo to help cover legal prop bets. I saw a reference to coaches getting threats by gamblers. You encourage your fans to bet and some of them will get desperate and out of millions of gamblers out there then mathematically it's a near certainty that at some point a crackpot will lose big and take it out on a participant. Having a disclaimer "To bet resonsibly" doesn't alleviate any moral link. I think in 5 years we'll have handheld betting consoles in our seats so we can do it during the game. It wil be linked to our season ticket account. "Hey, place some bets to help pay for your tickets next year!"

I bet a good portion of the Jan 6 folks were those you described. Preppers. They spend a lot of time at ArmY Surprlus stores. They have swords they got at Trade Centers. They take boner pills they buy at gas stations.

but for me today is Friday... so i see the confusion.

Some people are just so butt hurt to find out that many of their political brethren are antisemtic asshats and can't accept it. It's true. People of all political stripes are capable of being assholes.

If it were a planned parenthood clinic being blocked I think the reaction would be different.