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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

Nah, I just know how things get twisted here. My unedited posts remain.

And there will be no spinning allowed by the people on the other side who said 0% chance. I dont want to hear "yea, it's available but _____"

The argument is that a large portion of chicago will not be able to watch the games and the fanbase will suffer a la Sportsvision and Hawks blacking out home games.

when I'm in elevators that have Stadium screens I promise to close my eyes

Stadium already can be found several places online, including watchstadium.com as well as Facebook, Twitter and Twitch. Depending on where one lives, it is also available on over-the-air TV and/or cable. In some locales, it’s seen at gas pumps, bus stops and in elevators.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

You can't mean this right? Nobody goes into business to fail.

Smart people start businesses that fail.

Stupid people start businesses that fail.

Well capitalized businesses fail.

Poorly capitalized businesses fail.

Businesses that have parsed numbers to the nth degree end up failing.

Business that have no concept of numbers fail.

Just because someone has crunched some numbers doesn't guarantee that a business venture will be successful. Come on man.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Never picked brogue as a Bernstein “very smart people” guy

Shrug. I just think that a successful media company doesn’t just blunder into a deal that they think will lose money but I guess they could just be fans of the team and wanted to give them hundreds of millions of dollars. We’ll see.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He's just taking the opposite side of people saying this is doomed to fail like Sportsvision.

I think it's fair to assume that the Cubs and Sinclair are as informed as us message board posters on the history involved.

Would you say the same thing about The Score and the Cubs radio deal?

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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!

No. I’ve seen who they’ve hired as their on air talent .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Nice read on Dodgers tv history. Also talks about their latest pay tv venture in depth.

http://www.baseballessential.com/news/2 ... tradition/

Interesting. I knew the Dodgers were only an over-the-air team in the early '90s before Fox Sports West 2, but I didn't realize they aired so few games. Good thing their radio side was so good.

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I didn't notice as I was splitting cable between 2 other roommates and didn't handle the bill. But once my wife and I moved into our own place and my sports consumption has decreased I've noticed the full impact.

It's my fault I didn't read the fine print when I signed up for my Comcast deal that their advertised rates didn't include all the bullshit fees and taxes (especially painful for Chicago residents).

Maybe the current $8.25/month I'm paying for existing regional networks decreases once the Cubs leave but in total I bet the fee jumps if you combine NBC+Ricketts Pravda TV

The audience will shrink, sure maybe lose 20-30% of audience but the Cubs will get 100% of the 70-80% .

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Lot more casual Cubs fans than I thought. Soxdom was right. Frat bros.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Cubs will be on every system nationwide. Simple. People will demand it and it will happen.

I will not argue that the Dodgers don't have a good fan base. But if the Cubs had a stadium as large, they would probably sell even more tickets. And the fans would be there before the 3rd inning and stay for the whole game.

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Go Cubs!!!!

I don’t think that’s allowed anymore like Cubs and Atlanta were.

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Elections have consequences.

Starting to rethink everything

Great minds

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

You can carry a regional sports channel anywhere but MLB/NBA/NHL games are subject to blackout restrictions. The YES Network is on a lot of cable systems in Florida, but you would need Extra Innings to watch Yankees games. You'd only be able to watch Michael Kay's radio show or David Cone's perfect game or whatever else they show.

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I truly don’t know why anyone (under 40) worries about any of this shit anymore. Reddit is there for everyone. Ignore the cesspools and just go to the streaming subreddits.

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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

Winner!

As long as Cubs are on U-Verse I'm good.

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First I see Old Man Ricketts emails then Todd Ricketts heads Trump 2020 reelection fundraising and now Sinclair. Fuck them! This is the final nail in the coffin. I've always been a casual, fair weather Cubs fan but have gone to a game or so every year since my teenage years and usually have them on in the background during the summer. Doubt I even follow baseball that much anymore.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

That will require a cable subscription though.

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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!

Why would you not sign a big personality like Harper to help promote this new network?