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oSuJeff97

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  1. Sure, that's the typical fanboy reaction. Now that we have almost 50 years of Star Wars, the pattern is abundantly clear: Fanboys adore and will look past the flaws of the movies they saw when they were kids and then absolutely brutalize and pick to death any new Star Wars content they see as adults. You've seen this with the prequel trilogy... the OG Fanboys hated them ("George Lucas ruined my childhood...blah, blah, blah...) but all of the little millennial kids who were watching them at the same age that the OG Fanboys were watching the OT loved them.... and now those kids are grown up and writing stuff and posting YouTube videos about why the prequels were actually great... and oh guess what they hate? The sequel trilogy! But guess what will happen about 10ish years from now? All of those little kids who grew up watching the sequel trilogy will be writing think pieces and posting TikToks (or whatever the fuck is the thing then) about how the sequel trilogy is actually brilliant and on and on it will go.
  2. I mean... shitting on Star Wars has been part and parcel to the Internet since its inception. And I've always gotten a kick out of the completely binary reactions fans seem to have online about Star Wars (which has translated to everything at this point)... everything is either AMAZING! or SUCKS! Mando was AMAZING and now it apparently SUCKS. Boba Fett SUCKED; Obi-wan SUCKED.... Andor was AMAZING but the second they do something that doesn't line up 100% with Fanboy expectations -- mark my words -- it will also SUCK. Star Wars fans online are just exhausting AF
  3. Denver is a top 20 MSA and growing. Getting carriage fees there adds value. And heck, who knows... if Deion can get Colorado football going again they would add even more value in terms of program prestige. Utah is a very good program and an obvious natural rival to BYU. Oh and by taking those four you would nuke the PAC and solidify your position as the #3 conference in CFB.
  4. Yeah being "OK" with 50% of your football inventory being on streaming services is pretty fucking stupid, IMO.
  5. From the article -- talking about % of the new deal that would be streaming... "Over 50%? No, I don't think so. I think that's too much. It's OK if it's 50-50. … You have to remember, guys our age, people that I went to high school with aren't going to want to deal with streaming. "I don't think it will be more than 50%, but if it ended up 50%, I think it would be OK." If it's anywhere near 50% they are fucked. 50% of your entire football inventory would be streaming? Not only does that reduce your overall visibility, but it exposes you to the PAC fans' well known apathy when it comes to football, because while random CFB fans may flip on to a PAC after dark game or any other broadcast PAC game on linear TV they sure as shit aren't seeking out a random PAC game on a random streaming service, so it's up to the PAC fans to provide the audience numbers for that and well... good luck with that...
  6. LOL no doubt. He was so great. Most of his best lines have been quoted already, but I have to say the line, "...ass like a 10-year-old boy.." is simultaneously absolutely repulsive and hysterical at the same time. Also I think my favorite line reading of his was after Arnold and Tom are fucking with him and they pull off his mask... "Hey! It's you! You still interested in that 'Vette at all...?"
  7. Yeah and the user experience is like 1000000% better than any cable or satellite company I've ever used. When you log in to your account is super easy to understand exactly what you're subscribing to, toggle packages on and off, etc., as opposed to cable operators where you would have to call in and haggle with some jagoff in a call center 4x a year just keep your bill from slowly escalating.
  8. Thank Christ. They suck. I haven't been able to watch Cardinals games on YTTV since I got it because shitty-ass Bally has only been available on DirecTV/ATT.
  9. At the same time they cut their 4K package from $19.99 to $9.99.... so if you subscribe to 4K, the base price increase is a wash.
  10. That's not surprising to me. I'm guessing there are pretty big differences between MLB and NFL scouting... primarily just based on the sheer number of players that have to be evaluated in the former vs. the latter. I mean, there are like 1,200 players taken in the MLB draft every year vs. 259 in the NFL. The hit rate on MLB prospects is just crazy low. Less than 20% of all those players drafted in the MLB draft on a given year will even make it to the Show, let alone end up being even a very good player. So given the super low "hit rate" I can see how guys would coast for a while if they had a big "hit" at some point.
  11. My guess: the return of Thrawn. They launched from his SD (Chimera) which has made its way back to the main part of the galaxy from the Unknown regions. It's going to set him up to be the main antagonist in the Ashoka series, in which Ashoka and Sabine will be searching for Ezra while battling Thrawn.
  12. Conceptually I understand what you're saying but I think there would be more than 5 or 6. Last year OSU had something like 28/32 teams at its pro day without having any serious low round prospects. And just to clarify I'm not arguing that the additional exposure from Big 12 pro day wouldn't be a net positive for all involved. I was just arguing against the specific point that "scouts are lazy" given I know a scout and he works his ass off travelling all over the place almost every week during the season and then goes to multiple pro days from schools all over the country, plus the combine, senior bowl, etc., etc.
  13. I'm not sure I agree with this. My brother-in-law is a scout for an NFL team. He travels a TON and goes all over the place. Scouts may not visit literally every school in FBS and FCS but they absolutely have not problem (and do) visit every single P5 school. You're acting like some of the lesser Big 12 schools are end-of-the-line G5 schools; that's 100% not the case. The idea that NFL scouts wouldn't have seen a player from a program like K-State is completely and totally false.
  14. Was more referencing the single-camera / no studio audience / no laugh track portion there.
  15. Not to mention the length of the deal. I'm assuming whatever new deal they sign is going to be short AF because there's NO WAY Oregon/Wash will lock themselves into a long-term deal when their ultimate goal is (obviously) to get into the B1G ASAP. So what that means is if you sign a deal for $29mm now, you are (a) signing up for less money than you would get in the Big 12 right now and (b) just kicking the can down the road a few years to be right back in the same spot you're in now but with an even less attractive conference.
  16. That's a lot of word salad to say you have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
  17. I don't think they would be "giving up" the school specific days so much as it would be just creating a specific TV event for the whole conference. I wasn't meaning that NFL Network would be the exclusive broadcaster... would likely be ESPN/SECN and or a combination of NFL Network and ESPN/SECN, not unlike how both networks extensively cover the NFL Draft and Combine. If the media money is there, I have no doubt they will do it.
  18. So recently I've gone down a rabbit hole of old Jerry and Larry interviews on YouTube. One of the more interesting nuggets was that George's "This is the show and we AREN'T changing it" is literally something that Larry David said in their initial meetings with NBC. However, it wasn't arguing that the show should be about "nothing", it was their original concept of the show was that it would be a single camera show with no studio audience/laugh track... almost a faux documentary style where it would be following Jerry around during the day showing how he got his ideas for his stand-up. Obviously they gave in on that point, but I thought it was pretty interesting that they wanted to do that, given that about ~10 years later that became the de facto format for sitcoms with The Office (BBC and NBC), Arrested Development, Parks & Rec, Always Sunny, etc., etc.
  19. Exactly. Dipshit above is missing the point as usual. It's less about the fact that it's a conference pro day in that it's a TV show with the associated revenue. Every conference will be doing this in the next 2-3 years.
  20. Yormark out here playing 4D chess. PAC has not chance, lol.
  21. Yeah I definitely follow Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt on Twitter and I like their free content, but $15 a month seems a bit pricey for niche content that I'm only going to look at a few months out of the year. I mean, I'm paying like $7 a month for The Athletic to get WAAAAY more content across every sport.
  22. Also - IF they actually get a deal done, you know it’s going to be relatively short-term because of the Washington/Oregon situation. So yeah the best case for PAC seems to be getting “similar” money (if not somewhat lower) to the Big 12, but less exposure, and then it’s short-term so you have no stability because you know that Oregon/Wash will leave for the B1G two seconds after they are invited; and now you’re in the MWC money zone for your next deal, which may be basically right around the corner (2-3 years or so).
  23. WHO DOESN’T WANT TO WEAR THE RIBBON!!!!!??????
  24. Don’t know if Mando will die, but yeah seems like it may go back to Bo Kotaan considering how she was wielding it. Another possibility (assuming they introduce her this season prior to the Ashoka show) is Sabine Wren.
  25. Yeah there was a whole thing in Rebels where Kanan was teaching Sabine who to wield the dark saber and talked about this. Apparently there is something similar (but not exactly the same) with a Jedi and their lightsabers.
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