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  1. 1 hour ago, Hozz said:

    I read that HBO Max has all the Bachelor and Bachelorette seasons in its library.   Can anyone with HBO Max confirm?  What about BIP?  

    I am only seeing 3 seasons of each (I think not the most recent season of each but the previous 3 before that but could be wrong) Also 3 seasons of BIP.

    In WAY more important news-

    Also includes-

    Bachelor UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

    Bachelorette Australia and Canada

    Bachelor Pad

    Bachelor in Paradise Australia

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  2. 1 minute ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    So HBO won't be available to people who have Roku or FireTV? That's about 60% of the streaming market. They are about to lose a bunch of subscribers. I know I'm not keeping my subscription if I can't watch it in any of my TV's.

     

    I would assume they will be smart enough to add them sooner rather than later. 

  3. 14 hours ago, Deej said:

    Malarkey seems like an OK guy, but he has made it way to far on mediocre performances. 

     

    Agreed. He's his own worst enemy as he doesn't know how to fucking edit. It's been his curse over and over again. He is funny and obviously talented he just always tries to do to much. 

  4. 3 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

     


    It doesn’t change my stance. My career also has a shelf life, most careers do.

    My boss owns the business and she is losing a lot of money due to COVID. I also lose money until things are normal again. If she came to me tomorrow and said the business expects ongoing financial hardship and I need to take less than we agreed on in March, then that’s just the situation we’re all in. I could ask to see the books and then complain if it appears my cut is disproportionate to her cut, and maybe we could negotiate a middle ground, but I can’t tell her that I refuse to accept any cut beyond that initial March agreement. That would be absurd. She’s the boss, I’m the employee. If that system is unacceptable to me then I should work on becoming the boss before the next pandemic hits.

     

     

    All fair points. 

  5. PLEASE, PLEASE take your kid's arm into account. 

    I know everyone wants to get back into games and tournaments but unless they have been throwing regularly the last couple of months jumping into heavy games (especially if your kid pitches) can do long term damage to their development. 

    Winning or losing a youth game/tournament isn't nearly as important than their continued safe development. 

    Good luck! 

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  6. 1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:

    At the risk of sounding like I'm taking the side of evil billionaire owners, I'm having trouble understanding the MLBPA stance on this. They are clinging to an agreement made in March despite the fact that the COVID pandemic has rapidly changed since then, and what was plausible in March is no longer acceptable. They agreed to a pay cut in March and are now refusing to accept any further cuts even though the situation is continually evolving and the alternative is no MLB at all.

    It's just hard to be sympathetic towards them. People across the world in every industry are taking pay cuts due to COVID and those income reductions have evolved with the evolving pandemic.

    I'm trying to picture a scenario in which my boss reduced my pay in March, our business continued to get worse throughout April/May, then she informs me my income will be further reduced due to ongoing business constraints from COVID, and I point back to the March agreement and refuse to accept her new offer, preferring instead to sit at home while the business fails. It just sounds absurd when you apply this scenario to any average person outside of professional sports.

    Someone feel free to enlighten me if I'm completely wrong with this line of thought.

     

    Using your example- Let's say you know you only can work in said profession at the same pay for the next year or two, Does that change your stance? Throw in the fact that the average MLB career is 5.6 years the players are the ones that have the most to lose long term.

    Owners have a lot less skin in the game then the players do. Take it in the shorts this season for the good of the game. 

    The problem of course is any give on either side opens them up for losing more in the upcoming labor negotiation. Neither side is going to want to give in. It's a lose/lose/lose for owners, players, and fans. 

    I am far from pro player but in this case I tend to look at the guys at the bottom of the rosters not the top. 

     

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  7. 10 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

    I was wondering what the plans for player safety is. I have to admit, I find this woefully inadequate:

    Seriously? What if a player turns up a false negative? Worse, what if they contract COVID-19 right after a test and are spreading during the time before their next test?

    The KBO tests their players DAILY (I thought i read somewhere it was TWICE daily). And any positive tests would halt the season for everyone.

    Frankly, I say just give Liverpool the title and let's move on, because I think the EPLs plan is a really bad idea.

     

    NFL and College Football in the fall is going to say hold my beer

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  8. 58 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    I thought their plan was to keep both Now and Max, but if it's at the same price no one is going to want Now.

     

    Now is (now) Max. 

    I have it on my Ipad and when I updated it yesterday it switched to HBO Max and gave me all the additional shows. 

    Also if you are paying through a cable service that isn't listed above just drop it through them and sign up directly through Apple, Google or HBO and you will have access to everything. 

  9. 53 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

    AT&T wants to charge me $14.99 for HBO Max even though I'm already an HBO subscriber.  Fuck them.  I don't like all of the streaming bs.  I'm going to go outside and yell at the clouds now.

    If you have AT&T it should be a free upgrade-

    Some HBO Max distributors unlock an HBO Max upgrade at no extra cost for their current HBO and HBO Now customers, thanks to deals HBO Max has struck with them. You qualify for the HBO Max upgrade at no extra cost if you already pay for HBO through: 

    • AT&T (HBO's parent company) and DirecTV, U-verse, AT&T TV Now, AT&T TV and AT&T wireless users who can add HBO with certain unlimited plans
    • Charter and its Spectrum services
    • YouTube TV or Google
    • Apple
    • Hulu
    • Altice USA and its Optimum and Suddenlink services
    • Verizon and its Fios services
    • Cox Communications
    • The NCTC group of independent cable and broadband companies -- that includes WOW!, Atlantic Broadband, RCN, Grande Communications & Wave, MCTV and others. (Check if your pay-TV provider is an NCTC member.)
    • Comcast X1 and Flex customers
  10. 1 hour ago, Cajun said:

    Ask yourself this question, and be honest about the answer:  How many of those you deem "good cops" in this statement would have stopped knee boy as he was committing murder and arrested him on the spot?

    Again, be honest.

    If you are you'll realize that there are really very, very few "good cops".

    @HoffaJimmy

     

    You are entitled to your opinion just as I can respectfully disagree with that opinion. 

  11. On 5/27/2020 at 8:30 AM, Captainant said:

    I wish someone could explain how we could rally in the stock market while at historically high unemployment numbers that are still getting worse. Just breaks every basic assumption on how markets work, the engine of consumption is shrinking so why is the market growing, if this isn't all just a bubble?

     

    Fed money bridging the gap until everything goes back to normal. 

    I don't think the "normal" is happening as quickly as people think. There are going to be some really awful earning reports coming in the next couple of quarters. 

    The next couple of months for a shit ton of small business owners who drive the middle class will be telling. 

     

     

  12. Just now, Brisketexan said:

    ....and because all of those "good cops" allow cops like Chauvin to continue to police like this, covering for him and backing him up.  That's a really, really, really important part of the problem.  The MOST important part, actually.

    Nobody expects any profession or group to be made of 100% angels.  There's gonna be a bad guy in every group -- hell, there are evil bartenders and shit.

    All that needs to be done is when these people are brought to the attention of others in the profession who can do something about it, the profession takes action.  That's it.  It's that easy. If the culture among cops was one of "protect the people from all lawbreakers, whoever they may be," instead of "back the blue, no matter what," all of these problems would go away.  Chauvin would have been drummed out of the force years ago.

     

    correct which is why I said that exact same thing in the first part of my post. 

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  13. He's not anywhere close to the top of his stand up game but he's still funny. 

    That said what he does on his podcast, and the depth of knowledge he has on a massive range of topics is impressive. He also isn't afraid to admit he doesn't know something or wrong about a topic. That's impressive for someone that is in his position. 

  14. 17 minutes ago, Cajun said:

    There are plenty of dickhead/meathead black cops.

    Plenty my man.

    The cops being absolute human shaped viruses has a racist component, a BIG one, but the problem doesn't end there.  Aside from that component they absolutely believe they are better than average citizens and do not need to obey/follow the same laws they enforce.  Couple that with the fact that many of them sport low IQs with gigantic chips on their shoulders and you get what we have here.  

    If you're white don't think they won't fuck you up too.  They will.

     

    One bad apple is all it takes, and for others too turn a blind eye when things go the wrong direction. Even if they see something they don't agree with they don't want to "snitch" on their partner/fellow cop. It's the code. Throw in the issues with the Union and it makes it that much more difficult. 

    It's a awful circle that has no easy answer. 

    Every good cop just had their job become that much harder because some asshat in Minnesota forgot what protect and serve means. 

    And obviously the worst part is it had to be on video and someone had to die. 

  15. 14 minutes ago, bamachine said:

    My brother died yesterday. He had a massive heart attack but it was preceded by him having a fever and a bad cough. We do not know yet if he had it but it seems quite possible, as he was a truck driver, working through all of this, all along the eastern part of the country. The worst part for me, other than losing my brother, is that I will not be able to go to his visitation or funeral. I will just be at his burial, keeping my distance from everyone else. I am one of those higher risk people. I have been cooped up in my house, other than sitting on my porch some, got the last two months, as precaution. 

    Shit, sorry to hear. T's and P's to you and your family. 

  16. Just now, Brisketexan said:

     

    Yes, the .26% IFR is for the population as a WHOLE.  So, yes, if that is the total IFR, and 100 milion end up  infected, yes, that would yield 260k dead.

    Yes, the bulk of those would be over the age of 65.....and?  I mean, we actually have people over the age of 65 who live here in the US, and absent COVID getting them, most of them have plenty of time left in front of them.  So....even if the survival rate is 90%....what the fuck, man?  Are we telling everyone in the US over the age of 65 to spin the wheel with 10 spaces on it, and if it hits space 10, you die?  That seems....fucked.

    And note that I am NOT saying that a systematic approach of protecting the elderly and vulnerable as our primary focus shouldn't be where we shift things -- I think that makes sense.  

     

    I agree with all of this. However, is there a happy medium somewhere? What is the number of acceptable deaths or newly infected before someone can go to the pool, or the store, or anywhere in public without a mask, etc and not be blamed for killing my Grandma? 

    Obviously that is a different answer for everyone but let's say a vaccine is 18 months out (if ever) is there a number of new deaths or new cases that you would be fine saying- Sorry, people have to live their life? 

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