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Yes, it's an embarrasment of riches......pretty sure the Dodgers bought the 2024 Title, should be confirmed in a week or so. "The club also signed starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow to a five-year, $136 million extension after acquiring him from the Tampa Bay Rays, putting their total offseason spending close to $1.18 billion." Yankees are lucky many of these pitchers are out or they'd have ZERO chance. If Yankees can get lucky and have Freddie Freeman also miss or play injured they'll have a slight chance, but if he plays and plays well it should be over fairly quick. |
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It explains why no obvious Yankee calls in Game 5 at Cleveland, MLB would have been fine if it went back to NY. But with games on TBS & FS1, instead of the major networks....eh...yah know.....it didn't matter a whole lot. |
Pete, I know you are a music man.
Here is the theme song for this Postseason for the Yankees and Dodgers. Please substitute "MLB" for "My Friends" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXV4WyQMHFM |
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Let's see. Would you believe in ball four called a strike? Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time. |
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Anyone else notice the 2 really bad calls on Tommy Edman in the bottom of the 10th?
Good news for Yankees fans if the Yankees keep getting this awful calls late it might make the difference of a win or 2 for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYSosH7mhLw 1:20 mark |
Anyone else notice the heinous strike calls against the Yankees in the 1st inning?
The home plate umpire was bad, but he wasn't particularly partial. There's no strategic sense in waiting until the 10th inning to start ruling towards the Yankees. |
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Early in the game I thought they were gonna have to go back to L.A. but they pulled it off. I'm neutral though I live in L.A. Still, I'm glad for the Dodgers in part that spectre of the 2020 win hanging over their head that they couldn't get it done in a full season.
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all of you conspiracy theorists and yet nobody has explained to me why the other owners go along with it. You do all realize that the "NFL" and "MLB" is made up of the owners and that the "League" including the commissioners serve at the owner's pleasure.
So explain to me really slowly what super competitive alpha male agrees to let some team besides his win the championship every year. Oh and you basically have to convince ALL of them because if you don't one of them will blow the whistle. |
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NFL, like the NBA protects it's "Stars". In the NFL, that essentially boils down to about 3 or 4 veteran QB's a year that get special treatment.
That's essentially the long and the short of it. I'm a little jealous because the Giants haven't had that type of protected QB in like.....well......ever. Even Eli never really got any special treatment. Peyton certainly did, but not Eli. Mahomes, let's be honest, has gotten really good at baiting the refs. I think he's been watching a lot of James Harden footage lately. |
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I don't buy legalized gambling as the villain because they don't make their money on outcomes they make it on the line. They're not trying to "score" they just want their juice. Lines don't change because the book decides that they suddenly like one team more, they change to try and get the money wagered even on both teams, because then the profit is assured. It's the same question I ask for any conspiracy theory. How do the people you're accusing benefit? At least if you're saying crime you have an answer for me. |
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Jeez. #1. Don't you think the NFL would want another very marketable QB in the mix to generate excitement? Josh Allen ticks literally all the boxes, for who you want to represent the NFL from a marketing standpoint. #2. You overestimate the influence Taylor Swift has on the economics of football, or anything else outside of loud internet chatter. Sure, they use her as a marketing tool, as they would any celebrity...but deciding games? C'mon! |
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In the last 11 playoff games the chiefs opponent has been flagged more 11 times. Better coaching I guess. Nothing to see. If you watched the Texans and Bills game it didn’t pass the eye test.
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The most watched Super Bowl in history (pre-streaming) was the 2015 Patriots / Seahawks Super Bowl. Katy Perry was the star of the halftime show. The quality of the game determined that more people tuned in as the game went on. Imagine that. |
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/...bdc0a2930d6129
Pick your source, the media was running with this $331.5 million only from September 2023 to January 2024 alone. She brings a ton of eyes and money. There is a very long history of the biggest players and teams getting more lenient officiating in sports, leading to more wins and better outcomes for them. I would be quite surprised if the NFL right now is a sudden exception to that. |
When Greg and I agree on an issue that makes it an unassailable position, almost by definition!
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That ignores all other revenue generating story lines. If the Bills made it to the Super Bowl it would bring a ton of eyes. Who wouldn't want to see the Bills either finally win or pitifully lose a fifth Super Bowl?
I do agree that exceptional players get the benefit of a lot of doubts. An umpire might call a strike on a rookie they wouldn't call if Aaron Judge were at the plate, for example. But league-wide collusion to alter the outcomes of games at the executive level seems farfetched. |
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And no league wide collusion, not sure who started that. This is all Goodell, he is a crook. He is money & power happy. He wants the most watched most money generated SB's while it's under his helm. |
Never mind that so much of this makes absolutely no sense at all (gambling? wouldnt Vegas DO BETTER by having the Chiefs LOSE??), so lets put that aside.
Whats the damn point of all of this? SURELY if you believe its fixed you arent watching the NFL now or ever again, right? I mean, my god, what a colossal waste of time. So if you arent watching, how is it you can recount all of the injustices? Why would you care? I dont see anyone giving us WWE updates. And further, why talk about it at all? Yall just trying to help us see the light? Thanks? But like many things in life, you may find that nobody GAF what other people think. Nope. This is just the 2025 contortion of bitching about teams/outcomes we/you dont like and pretending to put some sort of intellectual hat on it. |
I hope all you fella's were equally up in arms when Brady was getting the star treatment......or was the Gisele's fault?
People thinking Taylor Swift fandom is determining the outcome of games is just bonkers to me. :confused: |
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Listen to Burr on Rich Eisen, he pretty much nails it....
start at about 15:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFA5N9muBI |
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We've all heard the storyline plenty of times. Im not interested in leftovers. Im trying to have a conversation, apparently, with people who cant/wont answer questions. Im good here.
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I think some of you are completely missing it. This has NOTHING to do with Gambling and Vegas.
Don't you all recall when Swift and Kelce first became an item and she showed up at a Chiefs game, then another, then another, and as this happened, it get every NON-Guy interested in Football. Goodell saw this OBVIOUSLY, the Chiefs and the Swift thing were nearly doubling viewership and he knew the Chiefs were the team going to last years Super Bowl and again this year. With females interested in football you nearly doubled every source of income. I know a girl, she's about 40, never cared about football. Last year she bought a Chiefs jersey and sewed Swift over the name on the back of it. She watched "Chiefs" games religiously week and week and the SB. She never watched a minute of footballl in her previious 39 years on this planet. She is just an example of what happened and Goodell, hell call him smart, but I prefer power hungry and money hungry saw his meal ticket = the Chiefs to make the SB, the game itself as was last years will be clean, this was all about helping the Chiefs get there by the NFL once they're there, they've done their part. SB is clean. |
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Or just come up with some dismissive snippet pretending to be intellectual again. |
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Focus people. |
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Man this is tough. Do you believe Vegas is involved in the fixing of Chiefs games or no? Simple yes or no question.
I did not bring up gambling, someone else did earlier in the thread. You responded. I proposed that the idea was non-sensical, you retorted with a single example in which it was not. Thanks. My theory still stands. Moe agrees with me. And I'll even give you a diversion. "Vegas" probably is involved in the fixing of games, in the sense that people do gamble and that leads to corruption that we've already seen. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the NFL unless you'd like to offer up your own theory there. And yet still neither one of you has even gone so far as to confess to no longer watching games or explaining why you do. |
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How much money has Taylor Swift made for the NFL? Swift attended her first Chiefs game of 2023 on Sept. 24. Since then, she's attended 12 games total, including the AFC championship. The Super Bowl will be her 13th game, which, if you know the 14-time Grammy winner, couldn't be more fitting. Ahead of the Chiefs' AFC title win over the Ravens on Jan. 28, Apex Marketing Group calculated how much brand value Swift has generated for the league and the Kansas City-based franchise. The revenue added by the singer came out to an estimated $331.5 million between print, digital, radio, TV, highlights and social media, according to Front Office Sports. |
Damn, Mahomes been getting calls long before Swifties showed up!
Same way Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and a few select others have been the favored sons of the league at different points in time. I'll be rooting for the Eagles and Saquon to get a ring, and I'll probably yell at the TV whenever the Chiefs get a call to go in their favor...but blaming it on Goodell having some sort of Satanic Pact with Swifties, is super silly at best. |
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It's like watching a pre-arranged marriage, just aint the same |
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Thank you both, gentlemen. For the record I wont be watching the SB either. Not because I think its fixed but because I dont care for either team. But my question was in the broader sense....I dont understand why you would watch any games at all. Just a hard habit to break?
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Nobody handed Nike $100 million in cash, and their sales didn't go up by that amount, but the amount of airplay that shot got in terms of advertising was worth that much. So first off, $300 million is chicken feed compared to the revenue the NFL as a whole generates even if it was actual cash in someone's pocket; And again who's pocket??? It's not like Goodell gets to stuff it in his mattress, league revenues get shared so now you're dividing the spoils 32 ways. But wait that $300 million figure is largely intangibles like the Nike figure. But yup, the other owners are all going to agree to not win Super Bowls because Taylor Swift blah, blah blah... |
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I'll say this. I was at one point a Steelers fan. Until Roethlisburger raped a girl. And the Steelers did nothing to punish him (the League suspended him 4 games). Should have be off the team. Would have if he wasn't the star, any other player would have been gone. Lost all respect for that franchise. Once a proud franchise, the almighty dollar guided their very POOR decision to do nothing. So I've never watched another Steeler game, nor visited their stadium(s) again, no more merch, etc. So to be determined if this gets me out of "PRO" football. It might, we'll see how my not watching the SB goes. Guessing quite smooth. |
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When it came to getting rid of Dan Snyder the owners did it because Goodell doesn't have the power to oust one of his bosses. |
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Part of the issue is Goodell’s fondness for the Chiefs is well known. If you’re a ref even getting the assignment for a playoff game is a big deal. They know what to do to keep the boss happy. The league office had an opportunity to address this after the Texans game with a statement that those calls against the Texans may not have been the best. Instead, they issued a statement (which is an odd thing to have to do in the first place) doubling down.
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Exactly!!!!
This guy also knows it.... https://russellstreetreport.com/2024...ell-is-a-liar/ and some good comments at the bottom of the article. |
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