Unless somebody can get Harris or Walz on video drowning a bunch of kittens, or an economic collapse, this one is a wrap.

and then, to sell those ads, you have only 40 games to do it with only 12-14 teams vs 30 teams playing 82 games each in the NBA. That ads would have to be very expensive relative to buying airtime on NBA games which also has 16-18 more regional markets to diversify in.

tldr, putting a +$1.8 billion dollar added value on a single player, on a $200 million media deal is a wild stance to take. That's a lot of commercials to sell at a lot higher price tag. If you came with +$100 million that'd be within the bounds of a reasonable place to start negotiations with ESPN.

In a league that used to have 20 teams, and attendance numbers only 17% lower than the Fever's current numbers, decades before the white savior came to uplift the sport.

No, what I'm telling you that CC is a unicorn

#26 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-16 10:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

You're selling the Straight White Hope.

I'm satisfied he'll no longer be elected since the Dem ship course corrected.

Corny propaganda going viral that can be verified to be 86% a lie concerns me. Wtf are we, Russians?

They produce a lot of wind energy here. It fits the geography. California is doing great with solar.

propagandist social channels. I think end workness is tiktok twitter or both.

The guy read the document and compares it to the infographic that's gone viral.

He also dissects Russian propaganda, propagandist youtube channels like End Wokeness, etc. It's an apolitical channel.

"Longtime shifting stance"

The Pentagon is going to put long range JASSM cruise missiles on the Ukrainian F-16s. That only has 1 purpose. Russian deep strikes.

Immigrants and Medicaid & CHIP

If you're a "qualified non-citizen," you're generally eligible for coverage through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), if you meet state income and residency rules.
To get Medicaid and CHIP coverage, many qualified non-citizens (such as many Lawful Permanent Residents, also known as LPRs or green card holders) have a 5-year waiting period. This means they must wait 5 years after getting "qualified" immigration status before they can get Medicaid and CHIP coverage. There are exceptions. For example, refugees, asylees, or LPRs who used to be refugees or asylees don't have to wait 5 years. Qualified non-citizens who haven't yet had their status for 5 years generally qualify for Marketplace coverage, if otherwise eligible.
The term "qualified non-citizen" includes:

Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR/Green Card Holder)
Asylees
Refugees
Cuban/Haitian entrants
Paroled into the U.S. for at least one year
Conditional entrant granted before 1980
Battered non-citizens, spouses, children, or parents
Victims of trafficking and his or her spouse, child, sibling, or parent or individuals with a pending application for a victim of trafficking visa
Granted withholding of deportation
Member of a federally recognized Indian tribe or American Indian born in Canada
Citizens of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau who are living in one of the U.S. states or territories (referred to as Compact of Free Association or COFA migrants)

It's a big distortion of "Asylum seekers who are 65 or older and have a work permit based on seeking asylum, and have been working in the United States for 10 years or longer, may be eligible to apply for Medicare."

Straight White Hope is still cracking me up this morning though. Damn we suck as a society.

Still baffled as to why anyone wants to pay big (and bigger every year) bucks to watch "professional sports."
Do things with family and friends?
Invest in a hobby that you can pass on to your kids?

#22 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-08-16 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

My daughters play softball. They like the Astros. I can buy Crawford Box tickets off a season ticket holder, where about 1/3 of home runs are hit to. It's a fun family experience.

Less confused now?

Numbers aside, the absurdity surrounding the concept of:

"Straight, white player in a black, lesbian league"

We had a 4x championship team in this city. This metro has a higher population than the entire state of Indiana. Are you telling me that if we'd come up with some straight, white chick that could drain 3s and not dunk in 2008, we'd still have the Comets and their popularity would have surged? That's a wild hypothesis.

I am understanding. I even know it's actually the Superstar Effect, not the Tiger Woods Effect. There's statistics studies on it.

You're saying what the WNBA Union Rep said, after the deal was signed. To paraphrase, it's 10x more valuable than the deal signed.

What I'm saying is that it is quite clear the WNBA's economists and the ESPN, etc, economists disagree with you and the player rep, and quoting %'s of numbers that were abysmal to start with instead of using raw numbers, doesn't help your case. When she travels to a low popularity city they get a 1 night bump in attendance and ticket prices, but those aren't sustained playing teams other than the Fever. One night bumps don't create 1000% value increases and the current reflected value of the media deal is far, far more realistic than $2 billion.

Numbers don't lie.

#16 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-16 09:01 AM | Reply | Flag:

They don't, but people do, which is why that league is not worth 1/3 of the NBA. You're going with the WNBA Player Union valuation lol.

You must certainly be from Indiana. Decent state, I'll be there for the 8th time in a month.

The rest of the teams are only up 10% average, lower than last year's non-Clark-based 16% attendance increase.

10% doesn't get you 1000% value growth.

Ahh still doing the tiger wood thing. As if golf is a franchise sport with 14 teams and she's a black man in a highly racist sport.

No.

The conspiracy theories are embarrassing. Where the qanon and left wing horseshoe meets.

Blaming lol. You silly nut. I am mansplaining how it really works beyond your histrionic misrepresentations.

#4 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-15 05:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

I get your argument, but when you start off with % increase in what were really low numbers to begin with. The current butts in seats for the Fever are only 17% higher than NY Liberty numbers from 2000 and the league shed 6 or 8 teams from the originals because the market couldn't support them while the NBA runs 30 franchises. I'm from a city with 4 WNBA championships, but you don't really see the jerseys in Academy. You want any city team from a male sport? They have it by the hundreds in every store. 1/3 value of the NBA? That's a very serious stretch.

The second documented HIMAR loss just happened near Sumy. It launched missiles from its hiding spot while under Russian drone observation.

The WNBA worth 1/3 of the NBA? Somebody smoking that great white hopium. 27 years of the WNBA has less dunks than a pickup game at Rucker.

Yeah it IS a big deal. It wastes my time. I shouldn't have to scroll through pages
of search returns to get below the damned adds. Again, you are forcing me to look at
adds from products that I have expressed no interest in.

#11 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-15 06:39 AM | Reply | Flag:

Well, no, that's not how search algorithms work. It's suggested because it's related to your search, it's geo-located to you, and the ads are paying for the service you are using. The data centers powering your search cost millions of dollars per day to run. All you have to do is scroll past a few relevant ads. You don't have to pay them a dime. You don't have to use the system at all so obviously you're not forced into it.