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Remember, a City Manager is hired and can only recommend items. S/he can ask for the world, but if s/he fail, they will be gone quickly. They don't make policy, they recommend policy. -
MLB Stadium Saga: Oakland/Tampa Bay/Southside
dfwabel replied to So_Fla's topic in Sports In General
Tampa mayor Jane Castor open on split season concept. -
Georgetown plays on campus at Cooper Field, which is nowhere near standard and is the lowest capacity in Division 1. There's likely little to no interest in seeing those games on TV. The media rights would be close to nothing.
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The family of José Fernandez may differ with you.
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Back to pole vaulting on the Masters circuit.
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MLB Stadium Saga: Oakland/Tampa Bay/Southside
dfwabel replied to So_Fla's topic in Sports In General
Bumping this as opposed to placing it in the Offseason or Angels thread since I'm not sure if crossposting in threads is prohibited. Hillsborough County officials are again willing to talk Rays stadium Now, regardless of site, in the last year Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa have been alerted to something troubling...there are at least two black cemeteries which were built over in the mid-1900's and the bodies were not exhumed and relocated. The first one was confirmed in July as a public housing complex was built on top of it in the 1950's. The second site was confirmed in November where a high school has sat since opening in 1960. And there is a former county worker trying to name ALL the sites. Ybor site and the current Jefferson HS property, which was often thought of as a parcel for stadium need to be scanned ASAP. Both parcels are fairly close to the Robles Park.- 3,837 replies
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That's two guys parodying them, however this tweet from their betting twitter account today was real and quickly deleted.
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They sound hideous and look worse.
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As I said a few weeks ago. I think they are still going to concentrate selling Direct To Consumer and at the stadium, as opposed to brick and mortar stores.
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Sara Lee only exists as a brand name. The company split in two in 2011 with the processed meat part bought by Tyson a year later and the Champion, Hanes, Playtex were spun off into HanesBrands before the initial XFL season.
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Barstool wanted to sponsor the Mobile (AL) bowl game, but ESPN, who owns the game, rejected the offer specifically due to no other media companies can be title sponsor. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2019/11/26/espn-prevents-barstool-sports-from-bowl-game-sponsorship Lending Tree is the new sponsor
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Callers are market sensitive. Markets like Dallas and SF rarely take calls and when done, it is one one or two specific shows or even weekly segments. Both The Ticket and KNBR are low on callers, especially the former and for now are still leading the key ad demo. The Ticket has little listener interaction but for their live appearances. The flip side is Finebaum who just acts like a party line for folks to bash other schools but for an occasional interview. Rome leaving iHeart/Premier for CBS Radio (now Entercom) for the money, upwards of $20M/year, took him away from the masses to a large degree.
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Does he actually have equipment to store in a room in DC or has he been told that it will be waiting for him in Houston? Hell, is he even in the Beltway now?
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It is. On pace for $22M in ad revenue, according to CEO Nardini, WSJ: Podcast Industry Grapples With the Prospect of Automated Ads
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Sports Illustrated to just have 17 issues in 2020: 12 Monthly Issues + 4 specials + The Swimsuit Issue
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CBSSN will replay featured games in primetime. The semis and final will likely be on CBS.
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It is the real Nielsen fast national. More details will likely be out on Thursday. Going into Sunday, ESPN's playoff ratings were up over 35% from last season.
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Learn Spanish and know your Univision channels on cable or digital. They rock. That TNT show is SO awful. Kate Abdo, Stu Holden and Tim Howard are meh. Howard and Holden is afraid to say something sharp. Kate just wears her FOX wardrobe since TNT shoots that studio show in LA, not Atlanta.
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Paul Maidment, the editorial director of G/O Media, who made the directive to stick to sports, has resigned himself. Deitsch spoke with Tim Burke, who left Deadspin last year, about last week's events on his podcast yesterday. It was about a 45 minute conversation.
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The inability to pivot to digital buried Sports Illustrated, and Deadspin/Gawker/Current Ownership failed to go to podcasting as well. There was money with Drew podcasting Jamboree or answering Twitter questions on The Takeout or Jalopnik.
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Not surprising. Chernin exploring selling Barstool to gambling company. EDIT: It's probably MGM Resorts since they sold Bellagio to Blackstone Group two weeks ago for $4B and will lease back the hotel/casino for $260M/year for 30 years. The MGM Grand hotel itself is now up for sale this week as MGM Resorts tries to sell all real estate including a percentage of their own REIT (which holds Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Park MGM), reduce their $15B debt, and have some cash ready for a Japan project.
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I, like you, looked at Deadspin multiple times per day, It lured me to Gizmodo, Jalopnik, The Root and even The Takeout. I go to Jalopnik most overall I stopped going to Gizmodo as they stopped making serious reviews circa 2014, then Deadspin post-Gawker saw me visit less daily, then The Takeout recently had writers leave, like Kevin Pang, and The Root only looks to have folks leave since us as Black folks cannot be seen as the first to leave, yet not wanting to be seem working for "The Man". When it was good, it was great, but I'll never say that for Barstool, since every four months, they have editor issues with the same dude. Barstool is more an audio business with Sirius/XM and podcasting than it is blogging, those page hits don't count nearly as much in 2019. If Sirius/XM dropped them, Portnoy would instantly panic to cover his gambling debt and his horse stable costs, and NJTank and his food reviews would not save him.
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