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clumsy courtship

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Absolutely nothing clumsy about it

Insane to include that much made up salt in the first line

AI deserves to win

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Vegas odds spiked today for Golden FWIW. Almost 3:1 over next candidate.

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Todd Golden (Florida): +300
Mark Byington (Vanderbilt): +400
TJ Otzelberger (Iowa State): +500
Nate Oats (Alabama): +600
Dusty May (Michigan): +700
Billy Donovan (Chicago Bulls): +800

Don’t know if 25% implied probability is a spike when there’s at least 6 candidates 10-25%. This is what a market should look like when no one has any idea

Unless you have more updated data

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They got a less polarizing mayor so that's worth something.

They did alright in the 90's with the Jackson Generals, so it can be done (again).

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Not sure what the Jackson mayor has to do with baseball in the region. No one’s playing in Hinds ever again

They’re realistically cooked as a minor league metro. Their last 4 seasons they were the 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st least-attended team in AA. That's not good. The inexcusable / disqualifying part is they are the affiliate of the unanimous MLB team of the region, which is a boon few minor league markets get to experience. It should have guaranteed the M-Braves solid attendance in perpetuity. There's no reason to assume another team could even equal the apathy people felt for them at the end

Maybe in a decade they can build something off 55 in Madison where more of the discretionary income is (like a northward march to Marietta 2.0) but that metro deserves a cooling off period. They didn’t take care of what they had

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They are starting to price people out of skiing at the mega resorts

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But the pass price increase has consistently offset the fall in volume and their revenue hasn’t cratered. It’s been pretty sticky. It’s a hobby that already leans rich. Do not underestimate the number of people with money who will keep absorbing increases to do favored activities

- Posted shirtless from Beaver Creek which is a sad, sad sight

(Both the conditions and me shirtless)

If anything it’s a wake-up call that the NFL players can’t half arse it to earn the bid

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Is the NFL running it and going to force franchises to allow some legit stars to play?

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The NFL is the entity most responsible for it being in the Olympics and the owners already approved player attendance

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The draft is expected to draw 500,000 to 700,000 visitors, according to regional officials.

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That entire region has less than 40,000 hotel rooms

Need new regional officials

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Because UGA players will be in town for the draft. Best to keep students off the road those days for safety

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This is valid :lol:

It should be next to impossible for a baseball AD to botch a baseball hire so badly, but here we are

Ughhh

If you ignore CAF corruption and the AFCON competition rulebook entirely, proper application of the global Laws of the Game also results in a Senegal L

- Leaving the field of play without referee permission is 1 of the 7 yellow card offenses
- All 11 Senegalese players receive yellows
- 3 Senegalese players already sitting on yellows are given a second and sent off
- 8 man Senegal is trounced in ET

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2. Every country (USA) needs to be 100% invested in competing.

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3. It needs to be moved to late fall or mid winter and adopt a longer, more serious tournament format.

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The more serious we are the less meaningful of a competition it becomes. And a longer competition will become very boring watching our superior depth dominate shite in 3-game series with less opportunity for upsets. Best on best would see the US and Japan in most every final as they are by far the deepest squads. I have no interest in watching a sweatier longer tournament outside of the championship. There may be some allure in that game / series but the tournament as a whole would be as underwhelming as watching 95% of Olympic basketball

You don’t actually want the serious tournament you think you do. The restrictions and opt-outs at least make it more of an even playing field and not a borefest

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1. MLB needs to remove its influence (I know they created the thing, but they’re harming the product with restrictions)

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I believe you’re confused as to what the product is. The product isn’t the WBC. That’s the sales channel. The product is MLB / baseball as a whole to international markets

We’re the least relevant market. Worst case we stop following the event…in which case so what, it’s already not well watched or attended here. The goal of the tournament isn’t to have a best on best competition. It’s to leverage a few games watched by an international fan every 3 years into years or a lifetime of MLB fandom. When there’s more parity and that stops being the goal, then there’s room to contemplate a more serious tournament. But that’s not for a while