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Why find people with charisma when there are so many ex-stars needing work? I emphasize ex-stars as Rex Hudler did play in the big leagues but was mostly a utility player. Seems like guys like that make better coaches and broadcasters.

Thing is, I had an old co-worker at a ticket broker I used to work for (long story) who said that when he worked at a liquor store, Rex Hudler would come in and get 5 shot bottles of Seagram's 7 before he'd go to the booth for Royals home games. I imagine that those were simply liquid appetizers. Rex is certainly one of those love him or hate him guys. But, he's certainly not forgettable which is a trait that so many broadcasters now unfortunately possess.

If you've ever seen Rex Hudler on TV, you'd wonder if they actually stopped.

Nah, what Purdue should do is go by PU and call their team the Trashmen. And have some Danny DeVito looking guy be the mascot.

Oh. Thank you for letting me know, I had no idea. Yeah, that does sound better. Personally, I'm wondering how long it's going to take for the WAC to collapse. It's gone on for way too long.

Why can't they just do what University of Missouri-Kansas City did and name their teams "Indianapolis" while still keeping the official university name?

It's not ads so much as it is competing for donors and media coverage whether its traditional media or online media. And even if things have loosened up wrt sexuality in past decade or so, media companies aren't usually big on giving coverage to "porn companies".

Seems like the biggest driver of these competitors is catering to non-mainstream political views regardless of what they are. I should've worded it a lot better but I've never been one for tact. However, OnlyFans actually has a good shot because you can't dismiss it as a cesspool for NEETzis. Might make Patreon better too now that they actually have legit competition.

I miss steroids in baseball. Yeah, yeah, records, morals and all that but baseball was a lot more exciting when the best sluggers were roided up.

From what I heard, OnlyFans is trying to move away from porn to be more advertiser-friendly (read: boring). Pornhub doesn't seem to have problems with money or traffic so it doesn't make any sense to me. But, on the flip side, if anyone is going to make a Patreon competitor that doesn't cater to fascist/commie kooks who got the boot for ToS violations, they would have the best shot.

I don't miss the NFL blackout policy. I don't miss the Edwards Jones Dome being an NFL stadium even if St. Louis did get :censored:ed over. That place was a dump even in the late 90s. I don't miss the New Orleans Hornets. And I don't miss the Oakland Mausoleum being an NFL stadium. Like St. Louis, a total dump stadium in a total dump of a town. Although the Mausoleum was more of an upper decker than a dump

I miss the Tony Gonzalez slam dunking of goalposts. Hell scratch that, I miss Tony Gonzalez. Thanks Goodell.

I don't miss the idea that a national champion would be chosen by coaches and reporters. Say what you will about the BCS, but it was a step in the right direction, at least. Bonus: I do not miss these Bills uniforms at all. Jesus Christ, I feel bad for whoever was a sports fan in Buffalo in the late 2000s.

I swear to God, the next time I get involved with fantasy football, I'm calling my team the Fighting Kefkas. Wait, different kind of fantasy....

I don't miss ties in hockey. I don't miss teal and purple being popular colors. Yes, as a 90s kid I know this is blasphemy, but y'all can bite me. I don't miss the NHL lacking a salary cap. I'm glad I never grew up when the NFL lacked a salary cap. I don't miss the Arena Football League. I don't miss MLS teams playing in NFL stadiums. I don't miss Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football. I don't miss being a fan of a team that always dominated in the regular season but whiffed in the playoffs. Derrick Thomas deserved at least one Super Bowl ring. EDIT: It's not something I don't miss (because I barely remember it being a thing) but until I saw games from the 70s and 80s, I always thought it was weird that my Dad would ask me what the score was. When I finally did see said games, it became a lot more understandable. Thank God for scorebugs.

My guess is that while podcasts might decline in absolute number, local radio is probably going to get hit harder in percentage terms. Thus, even if podcasts decline, they are still more competitive economically than having to pay for a radio station and maintaining that radio station and the talent. Its like how even if blogs became less prevalent, it still didn't stop the decline of newspapers as the underlying economic fundamentals that caused such a shift were still there.

Sounds like ESPN was the original "compensation by exposure"

I miss NHL teams wearing white at home. Heck, I miss knowing what NBA uniform goes for what occasion. I miss National Hockey Night on ESPN. I miss official NFL video games that aren't Madden. I miss Keith Jackson. I miss Nebraska being a football powerhouse. I miss the annual Kansas-Missouri Border Wa-I mean, "Showdown" at Arrowhead Stadium.

Welcome back. Hockey has really taken off here since the Mavericks showed up. Give it 20 years and maybe, maybe we'll get an NHL team again.

Vancouver has their affiliate in New York State. Since when have NHL affiliations made sense?

Well, I'll play Devil's Advocate as to why the World Cup should stay in Qatar. By about every moral standard short of sociopathy there is no denying that Qatar has committed atrocity after atrocity against the workers building their stadiums. As a proud American, I would love to see the World Cup relocated to the US for 2022 if only to right blatant wrong that occurred at the final stage of voting. However, I'm not going to be arguing from a moral perspective. But, rather a realpolitik perspective. Even if Qatar did manage to host the World Cup, they would likely find themselves deep in debt and left with stadiums that would likely not be maintained as much after the festivities end if other nations are any indication. So, why should we allow Qatar to not only abuse their workers but to also $500,000,000 a week preparing for the World Cup? Because although Qatar is a nation of 2,000,000 people, not only produces the world's most natural gas, they also produce a disproportionately large amount of oil for a nation of its size. So, if we have a nation that is spending about as much on the World Cup project as their annual gross domestic product and there is nothing to show for it? In a country where said abused workforce is the majority of the country's population? Well, in a region that has already been wracked with turmoil over the past decade plus so many workers dying in vain, I don't think its going to have a very pretty result not just nationally or regionally, but also globally as well.

But seriously, I read more into this story and it's actually going to have a more kid-geared presentation on Nickelodeon along with the normal broadcast on CBS. It's not going to be Spongebob for 3 hours followed by the Houston Texans playing the Cleveland Browns or whatever irrelevant game the NFL would allow to be stuck on a kid's network.

Ohhhhhh! Who's high on coke with ideas that are jokes? Viacom's C Suite!

Eh, was fun to imagine the Blues having an AHL team in-state. Oh well. Not surprised that Lamar Jr. is relocating his NAHL team to Johnson County, Kansas though. It's the Orange County of Tornado Alley so it's not surprising that the sport with the richest following would be moved to a county with a median household income of over $85,000.