Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball and hockey are pretty good too. Student at Missouri State, Journalism Major, business minor.
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Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Umpire Doug Eddings tells Cardinals rookie Hancel Rincón to fix his hat, a breakdown
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Cardinals manager Oli Marmol did not hold back in the postgame TV interview with Chip Caray on the Doug Eddings situation:
"Quite honestly, I thought it was pretty embarrassing on his end. We have a kid making his debut and in between an at-bat he tells him that he needs to fix his hat and the kid's not going to wear his hat like that on my field.
"So, last I checked, this is Coors Field. So, I took issue with it. And then the pitch violation while I'm out there having the discussion, that's also stupid, in my opinion.
"So, there's a lot of moving parts to that one. At the end of the day, I thought they handled it poorly and I'd like an explanation at some point."
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Jack White is already paying tribute to Dolly Parton with a cover of Jolene in London
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"National Treasure 3" is in the works, according to franchise director Jon Turteltaub:
"It’s finally real. Now, it’s ‘Hollywood real,’ meaning things could happen. Nic gets hit by a bus, there’s no ‘National Treasure 3.’ If I get hit by a bus, there’s probably a ‘National Treasure 3.’ Welcome to Hollywood.”
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How do the Dodgers carry an unlimited payroll?
Filings uncovered by @NickNemo17 show roughly $1.45 billion in debt for American Media Productions, the entity behind SportsNet LA and the Dodgers' 25-year, $8.35 billion Charter deal, sitting on the balance sheets of 5 life insurance companies tied to or controlled by the Dodgers' own ownership group.
i.e. the Dodgers get a sweetheart deal on their TV rights from a media company their owners co-own, financed by insurance companies those same owners control.
Because ownership sits on both sides, as borrower and lender, the setup functions as a closed loop:
-When RSNs hit turbulence, banks enforce covenants or force restructuring. Here the lenders are insurers the owners manage, so the capital stays patient and cash flow to the team never gets choked.
-MLB taxes net local revenue at 34% but allows deductions for debt service and interest tied to running the network. Carrying $1.45 billion in media debt on AMP's balance sheet generates interest expense that shrinks reportable net TV income and the resulting revenue-sharing bill.
Then there's the payroll itself. Over $1 billion of it is deferred, owed to 9 players through 2047. Pushing that cash out frees up money today, some of which is going toward servicing that same debt, and kicks the actual bill to a stretch of decades many of today's owners won't be around for.
LA built a (seemingly illegal) structure that captures its own interest yield, shelters TV income from league revenue sharing, and helps fund payroll dominance in the process.
Justin Turner is secretly one of the biggest #stlcards haters around. I’ll honestly never understand it.
Wrigley Fans giving a standing ovation to Baez, a visiting player, who hit 3 HRs in his debut for the same team that intentionally walked Michael Busch, in the 2nd to last game of the season last year (meant nothing to either team in the standings), when he had a chance to hit for the cycle. Just sayin, #WrigleyGetsIt @Cubs
Sam Grus retweeted
a sister *bang bang* a witch *bang bang* and what was her sister? *bang bang* a princess *bang bang* the wicked witch of the east, bro *bang bang*
