If this comment doesn't bring back Gloopan, than nothing will.

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False. This thread has no point.

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Come on "Woke" man. Surely you can do better.

Or is it Woke Bae? Far be it from to mischaracterize.

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I'll take "things never uttered on this message board" for 1,000.

March Madness is incredibly popular, so that's probably true. But I think it also has a number of things that the NBA couldn't do as well. There would be no huge Cinderellas with a bunch of honkeys from Pennsylvania going to the Final Four in the NBA. You also wouldn't have nearly as many teams. I actually think upsets in the NBA playoffs would hurt more than they would help. If you had a Finals that was, say, Toronto and New Orleans, this year, very few would be watching. You run the risk that the final game wouldn't even have any superstars. They are two very different events with very different fan bases. I can't say that the NBA would necessarily beat them.

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There is a very clear point to be made.

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Woke Bae's Lecture Notes would be a good mult.

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Define "good".

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I disagree about the small markets in a one game tournament. I think any two teams would draw massive ratings that easily beat a game 7 of GS/Cleveland.

Obviously we’ll never know.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Somewhere between Long Time Gay and Beerdown.

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Small market big market holds little relevance these days. G.S. is a small market team. There isn't a team in the Finals from a top 5 market yet the ratings will still be huge. NBA is a star driven league but if you have a team that makes it to the Finals then chances are they have a big star on it.

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Hard hitting analysis here.


Teams that get to the Super Bowl probably have a pretty good quarterback.

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Come on. That's not a small market, and it's team that transcends it's market in terms of interest.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

The Bay Area has 8.6 million people, lol

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Will it be made soon?

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Its in Oakland however. Its funny that when people talk big market G.S. they never referred to it as a "major market franchise" yet the budding geniuses as per usual know otherwise.

When free agents think Major Market they think NY, LA ChI, Houston and G.S.Huh?


That same "big market" just lost a football team and has struggled to keep its baseball team for years and no one ever thought of it as a "big market" team til when exactly? yeah 2 minutes ago.

Forget about looping San Fran in for baseball and Football too. I know that is your angle.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I had a rather eloquent response but my computer bumped it out. Didn't feel like retyping it.

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When did Oakland become a "big market"?

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--yet I can't look away."

From the guy that thinks he is being revelatory by telling the world that Robin Ventura was a shitty manager a full 2 Years After he has been fired. I will take that as a compliment.

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It's only the 8th biggest TV market in us. Ltg right again!!!!

Due to LTG’s avatar for some reason I hear crambone at the end of all his posts. My wife is giving me more weird looks and shaking her head.

You have to combine S.F. and Oakland which are 2 separate cities and it still is only 8th largest.


Been around this game a long time and i've never heard anytime refer to G.S. as a big market franchise. Budding geniuses know otherwise.

Oakland is a small city. Makes for a small market franchise. Laugh on however.

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The Warriors air on San Francisco television and radio; there is no standalone Oakland television or radio market. (San Jose is its own radio market.) SF-Oakland-SJ is ranked 6th, by the way.

http://bl.ocks.org/simzou/6459889

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No one has ever considered them a "big market franchise"

Until now. If you loop it into "Bay Area" then yeah i guess but Oakland is a small market city and always has been. They have to move the franchise because of it.

When it comes to the NBA there are only about 4-5 major markets and everyone knows who they happen to be.

Durant didn't sign there because he believed he was going to a major market.

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Facts about market size? Get those the hell out of here, I'm going to appeal to the authority of literally "no one"!

LTG asks "when did oakland become a big market". you didnt state "when did GSW become a big market team" you asked about Oakland..... so MANY point out the SF, Oakland, San Jose TV market is actually just one TV market ranked between the 6th and 8th biggest market in the country.....

LTG response to factual information about TV market size Oakland which LTG questioned it being called big?..... says GSW basketball team has never been called a big market team. a clumsy argument pivot at best... par for the course for LTG

Damn dude do you even follow the NBA? G.S. has never been regarded as a big market franchise. If that is the case Minnesota is also a big market franchise since theoretically it has the whole State of Minnesota.

There are big market teams. Bay Area doesn't qualify.

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Through the '90s and 2000s, he Warriors were owned by a miser who let the team go to crap after Don Nelson left. I don't think they were regarded as a team with the limited resources of a small market so much as a major market not living up to potential, like the Bulls or the pre-Cuban Mavericks. They certainly haven't been run like a small-market team with Silicon Valley money behind them.

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