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Lived to fight another day, I’ll keep you in the will in case something else takes me out. I have to admit, I’ve felt better the last week after the procedure than I have in awhile. I was chalking up feeling like shit to lack of sleep and 18 months of hell at work after a transaction. Guess there was more to it. Start cardiac rehab next week with all the old guys, should be lots of fun.
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Curious what options you would look at for a spend over that amount? We’ve been debating whether to keep the Reserve or not. We’ve had it for years, but we don’t ever book travel through Chase which is where the main benefits are. We have Preferred cards for the kids, but it’s still $1000 for our two cards. I’m not ordering DoorDash, rarely fly SW, etc. Use an Amex Platinum for the company card so get airport benefits and some of the positives with it although the Amex airport lounges have been overrun the last few times we have flown.
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This was my thought. A fully optioned G25 MSRP may get in that range, but no one should be paying that. However, my next thought was whether it made a difference if they said $450k, $500k, etc. the whole thing is just nuts. I’ve owned a lot of wake boats over the years. The biggest check I ever wrote for one was $115k on a brand new 210 right around Covid. I kept it about a year and got rid of it because I didn’t enjoy having it. I worried about boards hitting the sides, I worried about the kids messing the seats up, I didn’t want to pull into the beach, it just wasn’t fun. One thing the pricing has done has really screwed up the used market. I got together with my nephews a couple of weeks ago to look at picking something for them I could use occasionally. I used to be able to pick up a 205 for $10k-$12k every other year or something newer in the low $20’s. It doesn’t look that way any more.
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What exactly does that have to do with the issue? It’s fine because there are worse things out there Sure, they can see worse lots of places if they look for it. The whole thing is ridiculous, not funny, disrespectful to the players and the fans, etc. I’m also not one of those fans that yells at players, cusses the people around me or the players, or acts like a general asshole in public venues or private venues for that matter. Sports fans have taken on a weird sense of entitlement to do what they want. Even with that, dildos are a bit of a bridge too far in my opinion.
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That’s a terrible comparison. Throwing anything on the floor, field, pitch, whatever else there is, isn’t funny. You want comedy and sports, go to a Savannah Bananas game.
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I have two daughters that watch a lot of WNBA now. I can assure you that sex toys weren’t on the list of topics we discussed at 15 and 11. Throwing dildos on the floor of a women’s basketball game isn’t humorous. What it’s turning into online isn’t humorous. It’s not something that a lot of parents of teen and preteen girls expected to have to be talking about when watching a basketball game.
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I wish I had some of the problems you all have with our youngest. She is the polar opposite of her sister. We sat down tonight to talk about a plan for the application process and I should have just kicked myself in the nuts for an hour. I might have felt better at the end. I think we have a tentative list of colleges to research, we’ll see if she follows through with it. We’re also going to meet with an admissions counselor because she doesn’t want to work with the school ones. Some progress is better than none I suppose.
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We used a consultant with our oldest. They started working together sophomore year to tailor her school schedule and start working on other things that would help her through the process. By the time her senior year started, she was completely done with everything application wise and was just waiting on the process to open. They spent her senior year working on scholarship applications, trying to get another point or two on the ACT, etc. My oldest wanted to go out of state to schools that were hard to get into, so it made sense to us to do it. My youngest is a senior this year and hasn’t done anything at this point. She has no interest in going to an exclusive school, so she should be fine. She’s going to work with the school staff, so we’ll see what the differences are.
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That doesn’t make much sense in the grand scheme of the way things work in pro sports. Most of the other leagues have some revenue split with players, that revenue is part of what drives valuations as well as player pay. Using the Lakers as the example is an outlier because of the franchise itself, but you can look at the valuation of the lower tier teams and what they have increased along with the overall cost of entry/expansion. Most of the people entering ownership now aren’t doing it for hobby purposes, teams are investments they they expect to continue to increase in value which comes from revenue growth.
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Yet, here you are going in the same circle over and over. The NBA owns a significant portion of the league, it’s not like they are just ponying up money for the hell of it. Using just your numbers from the attached article along with the difference in the TV rights deal going forward, the WNBA numbers look much different in 2026 and beyond. Along with everything else that has been pointed out to you, now is the time for them to argue for more money.
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Why does the NBA need to open their books for anything? What other sport has done that in a player pay debate? The people that see the numbers are paying significantly more for existing franchises and new ones, so that should tell you quite a bit about what the real numbers look like. The NY Liberty valuation was $450m for a team with less than $1.5M in player payroll. That math doesn’t work for the lower pay argument. The reaction to the WNBA players looking for more money (again on the back of a new media rights contract, valuation increases, expansion, attendance increases, etc) seems odd compared to other sports. I’m sure the owners are happy to know that for the first time ever the fans are worried about their pocket books while their investment value continue to multiply.
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The social media engagement by a number of other players is what’s bringing them and their friends to the games. They were all in on the Studbudz All Star streaming. We were moving the oldest back into college this week and she had her college friends that were with us watching Min/NY at supper Wed night. For them, it’s about engagement not what appeals to you or me and that’s one thing the players have gotten right the last few years. Sustainability will be interesting, might be a good time to get a bigger piece of the pie while it’s there.
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Would you call the new TV deal and the increased attendance numbers “producing it first” or not? That’s without getting into the valuation increases and the expansion fees. Someone paid the bills for every league for a long time. Look into the NBA numbers for the first half of its existence.
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It’s kind of funny reading through pages of a bunch of middle aged white dudes bagging on the WNBA. I would say at this point with their social media presence and fan engagement, we aren’t their target market. My late teen daughters are all in. They don’t watch any other sports outside of F1, but they both have ESPN+ to watch games, follow numerous players religiously on socials, have travelled specifically for games, had a big watch party for the AllStar game, etc. Neither like Clark for the record, she has zero appeal/engagement for them. Now is the exact right time for the players to go after more money with expansion, the TV rights contract, valuation increases, etc. Every other sport has done it, so the view around here on the WNBA players making their play for a larger split is a little odd.
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I would take any day in the tropic or sub tropic temperature range over the heat and humidity of the southern US this time of year. We spent summers in south Florida for years and it was hot, but it was more manageable than TN is this week. We would just head in or to the pool during the mid day, mornings and evenings were perfect for being outside. It doesn’t really cool down at night, but that was still manageable. If you’re trying to escape the heat right now, you’re out of luck most places. We’re in Denver for Mumford and Sons this week and it has been right at 90 the last three days.
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