BlueinNy wrote: Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:25 am I'm retired and could probably do a fair to middling job with a 10 second delay. "What the fuck was he thinking" and "for the love of all thats holy just fucking stop turning the puck over" probably wouldn't sit well.

You'd be surprised. Joe Vitale can't even pronounce lackadaisical.

Related but not related. Did I hear Mizzou's season opening football game isn't available tonight in St. Louis due to an ESPN/Charter or whoever dispute?

Dave's a mess wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2023 9:11 pm Related but not related. Did I hear Mizzou's season opening football game isn't available tonight in St. Louis due to an ESPN/Charter or whoever dispute?

It was available on ESPN+/SEC network for me but maybe different in St Louis. Spectrum dropping ESPN right at the start of CFB season is criminal

Not great news, Cook is still going to be the starter.

If Mizzou had a real QB, they could contend for the division title IMO.

I'd like to know what the heck is wrong with Jake Garcia. Must of really rubbed the HC the wrong way. How he isn't the front runner to compete for the QB job is beyond me. Sam Horn in no way is ready for the starting job. Really brings up a red flag on Garcia. He can't be too happy that he transferred there and doesn't even get a shot. Gotta be pissed.

I couldn't read the article but why does the NHL put up with this.

A cheap as can be. That's what they think you deserve.

BluesSK wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:06 pm I couldn't read the article but why does the NHL put up with this.

A cheap as can be. That's what they think you deserve.

They’ve made it too expensive for you to go to games and now they are making sure you can’t watch at home either. Sound business strategy.

I couldn’t read it either - another sound strategy - but found the article via other means: That’s it. That’s the entire article they want you to pay for. Minus the fantastic headline picture used in that tweet, of course.

And yeah, my son and I were looking at going to that Caps game this season, as we’d like to see Ovi one more time and it doesn’t look like the suite is going to happen (due to price increases). The cheapest seats are like $70 each. That means for me, my wife, him and his wife, we’re at nearly $300 before parking or refreshments. And this shit company wants me to pay $20/mo for one thing I care about, now featuring reduced camera shots. NHL is fucked in the head. Neither of those are viable prices. And they keep raising the cap, raising player salaries… gee, wonder who pays for that?

I got to watch game1 on ESPN+ via Hulu/Netflix .... national game with Dallas announcers (had to watch with no sound). If you can't afford to go to home games, or travel to the away games, the NHL doesn't give a fat fiddler's fuck about you... period.

More Bally’s sports fun. Comcast has pulled them. It is nearly impossible for a local sports fan to watch their team.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/400 ... ir-comcast

Diamond Sports Group originally agreed to a six-month extension with Comcast in the fall but could not agree on a new multiyear contract by the time that deal expired on Tuesday night, prompting Comcast to pull its Bally Sports channels.

Bettman is a jack-off!

"nearly impossible"? welcome to three years ago now. i have forgotten what it's like to watch hockey 3-4x per week.

T.C. wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 5:06 pm "nearly impossible"? welcome to three years ago now. i have forgotten what it's like to watch hockey 3-4x per week.

By the way, unrelated but I was traveling via amtrak today and connected to their wifi and went to check this board and was presented with an IP address ban Wonder who you IP address banned while they were on an Amtrak

T.C. wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 5:06 pm "nearly impossible"? welcome to three years ago now. i have forgotten what it's like to watch hockey 3-4x per week.

I was in Boston earlier this week and my hotel didn't have NESN, and TBS was blacked out so I couldn't watch Game 6 from Boston. Luckily my work laptop has a VPN so I could watch on hulu. NESN isn't part of Bally's/Diamond Sports, so all the local networks are finding ways to screw fans.

Turk Sanderson wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 3:30 pm Bettman is a jack-off!

This statement was true, before the shitty tv contracts

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 8:30 pm

T.C. wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 5:06 pm "nearly impossible"? welcome to three years ago now. i have forgotten what it's like to watch hockey 3-4x per week.

By the way, unrelated but I was traveling via amtrak today and connected to their wifi and went to check this board and was presented with an IP address ban Wonder who you IP address banned while they were on an Amtrak

ah dang, well i get liberal with the IP range banning of spammers. if you can capture that IP i'll investigate and fix it, but without that info, not much i can do. sorry about that.

The longest train wreck ever

Oh, now that it hits baseball, the sky is falling? I mean, I’m happy about people finally paying attention, but fuck you.

Important line:

Diamond recently asked to move its confirmation hearing from mid-June to the end of July largely to buy more time to negotiate deals with the NBA and the NHL, both of which were able to essentially take their digital rights back at the conclusion of the 2023-24 season.

WHAT!?!?!?!? Holy shit that’s fucking ideal. I swear, if Diamond somehow is able to continue and the NHL signs a new deal, fuck them forever. You have all the cards. You have existing national partners. You have your own infrastructure. I know this seems obvious, but you know, maybe don’t have too many cooks in the kitchen? Yes, it limits your options for negotiation having all your eggs in one basket, but holy fuck man. This is something that continues to happen all the goddamn time and isn’t right for your fans. It’s your greed that caused this in the first place. Eat it a bit if you have to, but DO FUCKING NOT sign another deal with RSNs that includes blackout provisions.

The only thing that concerns me in that article is this quote:

As NHL attorney Shana Elberg said June 4: "Time is of the essence."

Like they WANT Diamond to come out of this and sign another RSN deal. This fucking clown shoes league, I swear. Even the Cup finals, can’t possibly broadcast those on a widely-adopted national platform that you already had in place (Hulu with ESPN+ or HBO for all other playoff games), you have to do it on goddamn ABC that has no real streaming presence (why would they)? Lucky for me they did, as I have a cheap OTA antenna so was able to watch the last game and the next one, but this is the most retarded fucking league. What a joke. Who the hell is running this and allowing this dumb shit to happen for YEARS now, taking the game away from a shitload of fans?

Oh, right.

The NHL is great at giving the fans what they wany 10-15 years after it's the obvious move.