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Agreed why go half when you can go full
Dodgers player Alex Call is calling out MLB and broadcasters over the ads during postseason games.
"Can we please get the soft porn ads off playoff broadcasts? My son wants to watch baseball with Dada, but how do I justify that when a half-naked woman could come on screen anytime?? This is America’s Pastime. Parents shouldn’t have to worry about this."
Why you pocket watching
LeBron James went from a $52.6M salary in LA to $4M a year in Philadelphia, then started commuting to practice by helicopter. Both decisions come from the same spreadsheet.
The Sixers' facility sits in Camden, New Jersey. His home this season is in New York, 95 miles away. That drive runs 90 minutes to two hours each way. The helicopter does it in about 40.
Call it two and a half hours saved per round trip. Across home games, practices, and film sessions, that's easily 200+ hours a season. Five full workweeks of his life, bought back.
Now look at what he does with hours. LeBron reportedly spends $1.5M a year on his body. Hyperbaric chamber, cryotherapy, a personal trainer who has been with him since Cleveland. At 41, in a 24th season no one in NBA history has ever played, recovery time is the scarcest input he has. Three hours in a car is three hours of a compressed spine in I-95 traffic. Three hours at home is treatment, sleep, and legs that still work in April.
The salary explains the rest. $4M is a rounding error against the billion-plus he's built off the court. He didn't come to Philadelphia for the paycheck, so there's no reason to let the paycheck's geography cost him anything physically.
A charter helicopter between New York and Philly runs a few thousand dollars per flight. Over a full season that could approach $1M, a quarter of his salary, just on getting to work. Sounds reckless until you price it against the thing it protects. The contract pays $4M. The body it's attached to built a billion.
