JoPoy88

Quick and dirty research says that the smallest MLB market is Milwaukee at around 1.55M in the metro area. Buffalo currently sits around 1.2M. So it’s kinda close but I tend to agree with you I don’t think MLB would currently work here, especially when it’s not a market that MLB is coming back to.

Yeah college defensive coverage to facing an NFL secondary is night and day.

picked it up from the ghosts of confederate soldiers that visited him when he spent a week underground.

Absolutely I agree and no snark intended by me either.

Yeah I agree - I think (or would hope) that they built in some kind unexpected downtime due to weather events when they were planning the construction. But maybe not.

Won’t delay anything, just cost more.

gotta have money to make money brah

all good 🍻

Once again: “the timeline is several weeks from when I said several weeks.” you can choose to ignore that clause all you want in this little quest to be right, but it won’t work.

Or he’s just being a prick to reporters because he’s tired of the same question every day.

Reading is fundamental.

“the timeline is several weeks from when I said several weeks.”

Except that’s not the case - it was pointed out upthread that whoever posted that update here completely misinterpreted it, either intentionally or unintentionally. All Taylor said today essentially is nothing has changed.

No one knows the degree or severity of the injury besides Burrow, the team and their doctors.

And that whining will be never ending.

My guess is he’s back by week 3, week 4 at the latest.

Exactly. The NFL’s popularity is such that it simply doesn’t need to push or fix any specific outcomes. People will continue to watch no matter who wins. Conversely, the astronomical risks to the league, both monetary and legal, if they in fact did engineer outcomes makes this thread and discussion ridiculous.

Yeah, and Donaghy got caught. How did Donaghy get caught? Because people talked to the FBI. Which was my point. You claim how “easy” it would be for a ref to throw a game, but these nefarious things are never a secret for long. Parties in the know will eventually talk, for a whole variety of reasons. So until that happens in the NFL, I’m not assuming it’s going on.

great info and yeah I vaguely remember back when it happened they had to do a blood draw. And honestly just the sole fact that you’re driving 156MPH through a residential area at night, you’re beyond reckless, and if you kill someone I don’t even care if you had anything in your system at that point. You go away for more than 3 years.

SoFi was initially budgeted to cost $2.66B. It actually cost $5.5B. Extreme example, but all these things end up costing way more than the price announced when they close the deal for one. If that thing in Tennessee (which is hideous, btw) ends up costing $2.1B I’ll eat my hat. https://www.mecreeled.com/how-much-did-it-cost-to-build-the-sofi-stadium/#:~:text=The cost of the arena,constructed as of this writing.

yes trust me I get it - two entirely different cases, the intent to harm certainly wasn’t there for Ruggs - I’m just saying the optics are bad, especially considering the horrible way the woman Ruggs hit died.

Hard evidence would convince me. Do you have any of that? The NFL is an enormous operation. If anyone (refs, league officials, the Rog himself) were on the take there would be word of it by now. Until then I chalk it up to plain old incompetence.

So, a comparison just for everyone (and I’m just picking this since it happened a day before the Ruggs sentencing): Tory Lanez, a semi-famous rapper, just got 10 years for shooting a very famous rapper, Megan thee Stallion, in the foot following an argument. She’s fine now. And Ruggs kills a woman and her dog and gets a 3-10 sentence? There are a multitude of differences in the cases here (Lanez went to trial, for one) and I’m not attempting to make a 1:1 comparison here but damn, given the proximity of the announcements it sure does look really bad for those prosecutors out in Nevada that this is what they landed on for Ruggs.

yeah no that’s a loooong shot.

All driven mostly by market size it appears (with the exception of Green Bay) so no surprises here.