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War Room Lounge v125: I was hoping @Trotsky's "debt for ants" quip would make it into the title lol

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AnGrYcRoW said:
Oh I did , not sure why you couldn't find it, took a tumble ,10 breaks on 7 ribs , 6 titanium plates , lacerated spleen
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The new search sucks monkey dick.

That sounds horrible man, hope you continue to recover.
 
irish_thug said:
I don't recall the thread you're talking about. Lemme call a friend @TeTe.
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I think it was Jei that showed up in the OT with a few posts about it.
But its a few years ago. or 3 or 4. Time estimation is not my thing.
 
lsa said:
So you have warts on your hands and face?
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Nope. That was one of my first realizations that my mom was a liar.

Another was when I learned that I wouldn't actually get tired of junk food if I ate it all the time.
 
Trotsky said:
Nope. That was one of my first realizations that my mom was a liar.

Another was when I learned that I wouldn't actually get tired of junk food if I ate it all the time.
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Well eat enough and you do get tired...
 
HereticBD said:
Starting to wonder just how much trouble sports leagues are in, given that big crowds are gonna be a thing of the past for the foreseeable future. Obviously the gate revenue isn't everything, but that's still gotta be a huge hit. I also have to imagine that spectator interest in general will wain over time, as watching audience-less sports on TV seems like it would get pretty dull after a bit, once the "OMG sports are back!" hype dies down.
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The NFL, NBA, and MLB should be fine. Probably the NHL as well. They work with billions of dollars and can just readjust by massively firing most of their stadium personnel. Smaller leagues might be in trouble. I know the MLS is getting kinda nervous. Minor league baseball is probably also looking at tough times ahead.

But I don't think interest will wear off. The only precedent to this is probably WWII. And from what I know, it bounced back pretty quickly.

And personally, audience-less sports does suck... but no sports at all sucks even harder. WTF am I supposed to start picking up? Tiger King or whatever dumb bullshit is popular right now??
 
Trotsky said:
Nope. That was one of my first realizations that my mom was a liar.

Another was when I learned that I wouldn't actually get tired of junk food if I ate it all the time.
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Fk you for destroying my joke about your mom being a liar. :(
Now I will go sit in a corner.
 
Possum Jenkins said:
The NFL, NBA, and MLB should be fine. Probably the NHL as well. They work with billions of dollars and can just readjust by massively firing most of their stadium personnel. Smaller leagues might be in trouble. I know the MLS is getting kinda nervous. Minor league baseball is probably also looking at tough times ahead.

But I don't think interest will wear off. The only precedent to this is probably WWII. And from what I know, it bounced back pretty quickly.

And personally, audience-less sports does suck... but no sports at all sucks even harder. WTF am I supposed to start picking up? Tiger King or whatever dumb bullshit is popular right now??
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90 Day Fiances imo
 
Andy Capp said:
Off topic so I took this to the lounge. The bit about Ireland means you're probably trolling, but just in case, England, along with Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, make up the UK. So no, England and the UK are not the same thing. Just FYI.
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Thanks for the clarification.
 
Gregolian said:
I've gone to a couple pro baseball games (Mariners right around that 116 win season they had), a Bruins game in Vancouver after the Cup win, WM and the Raw after when it was in Seattle, and a Utah Jazz game after I moved here.

Fucking hockey players are criminally underpaid for the risks of their sports. You have 150-250lb men, flying at each other on ice at 40mph, with a small hard rubber disc flying at 100mph, while they hold clubs and have swords strapped to their feet.

Then on top of that... hockey players and pro-wrestlers of the superstar athletes are the ones most likely to take time to say hi to fans. Even fans that are wearing gear of an opposing team.

I hate owners. I'm not like @Trotsky who feels owners should be done away with altogether cause IMO you need SOMEONE at the top to make decisions, if you leave everything to committees and shit decisions can't be made.

That said, douches like Jerry Jones need to leave. More owners need to be like Arthur Blank of the Falcons.
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So you were there when Brock almost killed himself?
 
Prokofievian said:
I'm not really making a comment about your comment, more of a general observation. The players are the people with whom the average person should identify with more. Take, for example, the case of David Desharnais. Some midget from a humble background, never drafted, played his way through the ECHL, AHL, and finally to a 60 point season in the NHL. Pay day finally comes and people start telling guys like him to take a hair cut so they could have their bread and circuses. It's always struck me as silly. Maybe it's jealousy. Like a ''next rung'' envy or something like that.
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Getting off the main issue, the MLB draft situation is even worse. They're limiting it to five rounds this year. Players drafted in the sixth round would normally get around a $250K-$300K signing bonus, and it's still in six figures past the 10th round. The overwhelming majority (>80%) of players drafted after the fifth round will never even see a day on an MLB roster (even in the first round, it's around 30% who *don't* appear) and most of the ones who do don't have significant careers, and they often get sub-MW pay in the minors. So for most professional players, the signing bonus is the only real decent payday they'll ever see in the sport (and remember that the whole purpose of having a draft in the first place is to artificially reduce the amount of money that poor young dudes get, shifting a portion of profits from the whole enterprise to the owners).

Used to really annoy me (before they limited this even more) when people would complain about draft picks getting "overpaid," when everyone knew they'd get paid much, much more if colluding owners didn't force them into take-it-or-leave-it negotiations with a single potential employer. To illustrate it, in 1996, the top pick, Kris Benson, got a then-record $2M signing bonus. Travis Lee, who went second, took advantage of a loophole (the rule on the books said that the drafting team had to make an offer within 15 days, which was usually ignored without consequence as the team and player negotiated, and when it wasn't ignored, it was a formality, as teams would send out a bullshit offer than they knew wouldn't be signed) to become free to sign with for the best offer, and he ended up getting $10M to sign. Matt White, who was picked seventh that year (and, BTW, never made the majors), got $10.2M for the same reason (and the sixth pick got $1.4M).
 
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irish_thug said:
I don't recall the thread you're talking about. Lemme call a friend @TeTe.
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I don't remember a specific thread about that. Maybe it was one of those Plat nation turds.
 
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