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1. Bob Evans Posted: December 09, 2011 at 06:41 PM (#4011633)Did it really? The Sox are lousy, why do they need Santos?
Agreed, but they're still in the AL Central, where you don't exactly need to set the world on fire to compete.
It would be fun to be a Tigers fan right now. You can't assume anything, but on paper, they seem well suited to repeat as ALC champs without too much fuss.
They also have Thornton.
If they're smart, they'll let him close to build up his value for a deadline deal.
Guess again. People with lives don't have time to sit through six pitching changes and twelve conferences at the mound. Zap, zap, zap.
Football is nearly perfect of course as the 'skip fwd' button is nearly the perfect amount of time for skipping the between play milling around unless they go no huddle.
If they're smart, they'll let him close to build up his value for a deadline deal.
In other thoughts, wonder how Ventura proposes to handle this closer-less situation.
They will come around. Games are so padded out with advertising, meetings at the mound, and replays it's inevitable. Just start an hour into it. You'll finish live and you will get an hour of your life back you would have spent staring at inane beer and auto insurance commercials.
And TV viewers would do what with that extra time? Watch "How I Met Your Mother" or "The Big Bang Theory"?
I have trouble seeing how that works in Manhattan Beach. I know that in Hermosa Beach- and Newport, and a lot of places besides- when there is a Laker playoff game on, unless you wear ear muffs, there is no way to avoid what's going on in that game. A huge percentage of TVs are watching it live and you'll have trouble avoiding that unless you are watching it in a sound-proof environment. Some of the LA/OC burbs avoid that problem, but it's still an issue. I would imagine in really dense environments (like NYC) there is no way that you can delay watching a big Yankee game unless you work very hard to avoid the outside world until you're done.
The DVR definitely can work for sports, but there are limits to its value. It can be very hard for a sports fan to drive home and avoid the score of a game if he wants to watch it two hours after it starts. And, of course, a lot of people like to watch games in groups or in bars where it has to be live. Sports are really the only programming where a delay can wipe out one's enjoyment of the program- even if it doesn't necessarily do so. In a DVR-world, that means sports are going to have a lot more value than they used to. It's not that you can't avoid commercials in sports broadcasts, it's that there are some good reasons not to. For episodic programming, there's virtually no reason to watch it live.
I don't think that line will make Mets fans more likely to spend money propping up an increasingly illegitimate Wilpon regime.
Certainly true. It won't work for the SuperBowl. But for grinding through 162 games, it's a huge time saver. Put may daughter to bed at 9:30, go downstairs and zip through nine innings in 1-1.5 hours. I don't know how those of you sitting through these 3-4 hour games every night do it.
I usually just have it playing on the other monitor while I play video games or something.
It's the Wilpon/Selig regime now.
I use the downtime to mark papers or prepare lesson plans.
I'm assuming he'll name one. Might be Crain, given what happened to Thornton last April. I'm pretty much expecting him to be by-the-book for a while.
I know a friend of mine had the Olympic gold-medal hockey game ending (overtime winner) ruined because he was still 5 minutes behind the game on his PVR. All of a sudden, in the middle of a 15-second ad break, all of the people in his area started honking horns, yelling and cheering out in the street, and yelling "CANADA! CANADA!"
He was happy, but he felt a bit ripped off he didn't get to experience with everyone else at the same time.
I can't imagine people will ever watch games on DVR en masse though. That's why advertisers love sports so much these days, its the one programming vehicle that can ensure that people will watch the ads (not to mention all the ad exposure DURING the games, which is more taboo during sitcoms, but less so for reality shows)
Oh we're getting there. Last night I was watching the Flyers/Penguins game and the Philly CSN popped up an ad during play. Took up about 10-15% of the screen. Incredibly annoying.
Verducci's comments on the Cards' finances sound like someone who doesn't really follow baseball, which is weird. Regardless of the size of the actual city of St. Louis, "Cardinals country" is a huge swath of the nation, due to the history of baseball's expansion, radio broadcasting in that era, etc.
Furthermore, even without a RSN to take full advantage of that huge swath, I really don't think the problem was that the Cardinals were literally unable to pay as much for Pujols as the Angels were. They just did not believe it would be worth doing so, I think.
In other words, no one watches ads even when they watch live.
So much for that theory.
Hadn't thought about that. McCourt may have an incentive to backload the contracts. I wonder though if it reduces the value of the club, such that he get a lower sale price?
It started as a choice -- I'd miss a vast majority of games if I didn't record them. But now I tend to even watch via DVR the small subset of games that I could watch live. It is very liberating.
Didn't seem to hurt the Cubs' sale price.
I don't think McCourt has anything to do with it, he's going away sooner than that.
McCourt must sell the team in spring next year.
I certainly don't, I change the channel and watch something else, even if it is just one of the music channels or something. I spent years working in market research and had to watch commercials as part of my job; I'll be damned if I watch them on my time. At the very least I put the TV on mute. For live sports I try to DVR at least an hour ahead if I can, much more enjoyable that way.
Agreed on by-the-book. That'll have to be his saving grace, I would think, till he gets his feet under him.
The AL Central gets a bad rap. They are no worse, and probably better than the West. The east, because of the Yankees, Rays, and red Sox, are on an entirely different planet. Here are the win totals the Central and West winners would have needed for the last 6 years or so (second place winners totals +1)
2011 C - 81 W - 87
2010 C - 89 W - 82
2009 C - 87 W - 88
2008 C - 89 W - 80
2007 C - 89 W - 89
2006 C - 96 W - 90
2005 C - 94 W - 89
The Central was harder to win in 2 of those years (and one was by one game), the same in 1, and easier in 5
Some HD channels that are showing non-HD content do this to fill the black margins on the sides.
1. Works with over-the-air antenna reception, so not built into a cable/satellite box or dependent on such service
2. One time purchase, not any subscription model (so not TiVo)
3. Allows record-while-playing (so not a plain old VCR), for the approach mentioned here to start an hour late and catch up by the end of a game
4. Internal storage, not removable media (not consumable blank DVDs)
Gonfalon Bubble. International man of mystery.
Assault charges pending?
In other words, "whether the Mets were nice enough to Jose Reyes is irrelevant; he was going to take the bigger contract and wooing him with niceties wouldn't have changed that."
Anyone wanting to feel at least a little better about Reyes might want to take a look at the photo in the right hand column. What's up with the cartoon Marlins cap?
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