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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Hmmmm, just checked online.

NBA TV ratings - In the toilet
MLB TV Ratings - In the toilet
NASCAR TV Ratings - In The toilet

NHL Ratings - Quite good year over year
Pro Golf Ratings - Quite good

Guess which groups are dabbling in social justice BS and which are not... People are sending a message and these complete morons are ignoring it. I love baseball, but I will not be watching any of it this year or until they pull their collective heads out of their collective asses.

Talk to the media and liberals and NBA ratings are at an all time high
The NHL has been pretty enjoyable to watch.

Tucker tweeted he was destroying the NBA and Cuban had to respond.

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In the advertiser coveted 18-49 demographic, our prime time outperformed Tucker in prime time by 215%. He did slaughter us in the 70+ plus demographic, so have to give credit there. https://t.co/kbjaHbsCF9

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) August 8, 2020

https://thespun.com/nba/dallas...cker-carlson-ratings

Liberals fiddle as pro sports burn and the Dem cities turn to rubble.

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Originally posted by Ackks:
The NHL has been pretty enjoyable to watch.

Except right now I wouldn't trade a one of the Bruins for a used puck bag. They absolutely sucked fecal matter in Round Robin play. President's Trophy winner in the league this year and go 1-3 in RR. I hope Bruce is kicking them in the ball sack to get their attention....

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Talk to the media and liberals and NBA ratings are at an all time high
The NHL has been pretty enjoyable to watch.

Tucker tweeted he was destroying the NBA and Cuban had to respond.

NBA ratigs hugh??

After a four-and-a-half month absence, tons of lead-up media coverage regarding the bubble, with little competition on the airwaves and a schedule specially constructed to deliver us the draw of Zion Williamson, Pelicans-Jazz garnered 2.1 million viewers. For context, that’s roughly 400,000 fewer viewers than the average audience of a TNT game in the 2011-12 lockout season. Notably, the NBA’s official Friday viewership news release did not mention the season’s opening game at all.

The more feted Lakers-Clippers matchup did better, but its 3.352 million viewers fell short of expectations, even adjusted for the fact that the game also aired on local RSNs. Basically, the Lakers-Clippers bubble opener roughly equaled the Lakers-Clippers season opener audience, only the latter was going against a World Series game. Baseball, despite all its controversies, managed an audience of 4 million for its Yankees-Nationals opener and 2.8 million for the Dodgers-Giants nightcap last week. For another comparison point, both season-opening NBA games in 2017 topped 4 million viewers.

https://hotair.com/archives/ed...a-mlb-slide-openers/

Major League Soccer Players Booed for Taking a Knee For the Anthem

They said it was "disgraceful" for paying customers to express their views, and said it "pissed [them] off."

We'll see how they feel when their salaries get cut as paying fans abandon them.

FC Dallas defender Reggie Cannon says players had requested for the anthem not be played, but that didn't happen. So players took the knee and the boos started. "You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference. "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

https://www.outkick.com/mls-pl...ing-national-anthem/

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"We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

That's funny right there. Does he not see the irony? He thinks fans shouldn't boo them in their own stadium, but yet kneeling for the anthem is essentially "booing" for America when you're standing in it. smh man, wake up!

That player got crushed in the comments to the linked article too.

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Originally posted by Ackks:

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Originally posted by bigdeal:


NHL Ratings - Quite good year over year

The NHL has been pretty enjoyable to watch.

The NHL is in on it too. Players are kneeling and a friend of mine posted a picture from in the arena that shows they have hung a large sign that says #we skate for Black Lives Matter. Supporting the NHL is just as bad as anyone supporting the NFL or NBA.

Point of fact though, I believe the sign says, we skate for black lives. I say that because I recall it being enough to be “in” on racial equality and against racism, but they specifically stopped short of “Black Live Matter” because they didn’t want to alienate those who don’t believe in the other aspects of the orginaztion.

This is the joy of being a company in 2020. How do you just go about running your business without angering half of your customers.

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Originally posted by esdunbar:
Point of fact though, I believe the sign says, we skate for black lives. I say that because I recall it being enough to be “in” on racial equality and against racism, but they specifically stopped short of “Black Live Matter” because they didn’t want to alienate those who don’t believe in the other aspects of the orginaztion.

This is the joy of being a company in 2020. How do you just go about running your business without angering half of your customers.

Maybe, but that’s not any better. Anyone who thinks it is is only justifying it to themselves so they can continue to watch the sport.

Anyone in denial can watch this video. The NHL makes it clear they support the Black Lives Matter movement.

https://www.nhl.com/video/we-s...-280064652/c-5392953

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Originally posted by esdunbar:

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"We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

That's funny right there. Does he not see the irony? He thinks fans shouldn't boo them in their own stadium, but yet kneeling for the anthem is essentially "booing" for America when you're standing in it. smh man, wake up!

That player got crushed in the comments to the linked article too.

Lol! Exactly! They are kneeling for the anthem in their own country but mad they are getting booed in their own stadium.

Typically leftist though. Only their right to protest matters.

I wonder if professional athletes qualify for unemployment checks??

I refuse to give any of these people agency over anything in my life. If I want to watch basketball, I watch it. Same with hockey, football, or baseball. They aren’t boycotting me because I vote for Trump, own guns, etc. I could give two shits about their politics. That’s their business. I honestly don’t get why people get worked up about it. That, to me, is letting them win. I’m not going to change my behavior one iota for the lot of them. I’ll do what makes me happy, and fuck the rest of them. This shit works because people give them a voice and a platform. Not me. I like sports. I have played them most of my life. I have kids that play at a very high level as well. My oldest son is a D1 basketball recruit. I want nothing more than for this COVID shit to be over so I can watch him again. My middle son plays in the DC United junior feeder program. I’m sitting here watching them practice (while social distancing) while writing this. I get why everyone’s mad. I would never kneel for the national anthem. I think it’s bullshit that they do. But I refuse to let them effect me with it. Period.

I get it Kev, and I considered that angle. At the end of the day, I decided, for me, if I keep giving them money and making them powerful, I am ultimately giving them greater influence over my life. I respect your call though man.

Thanks brother. They aren’t really getting money from me. I mean, I guess the TV gives them money from me directly, but the cable is packaged with my internet, so I’m getting it regardless. My kids, fortunately, have never really been “athlete worshippers”. Hell, my son’s favorite basketball players, who he models his game after, aren’t even American (Dirk Nowitski and now Luka Doncic). I understand the anger. I really do. I can’t describe the emotions I felt when Alejandro Villaneuva stood alone while the rest of the Steelers sat in their locker room. As a fellow member of the long gray line I was so proud that Big Al stood and saluted the colors...and I was so angry when the Steelers threw him under the bus. In the last few months I’ve really tried to focus on only letting the things I can control effect my life. I got off Facebook and all other social media (except here really) and my blood pressure is miraculously lower. Thanks again.

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Originally posted by esdunbar:
I get it Kev, and I considered that angle. At the end of the day, I decided, for me, if I keep giving them money and making them powerful, I am ultimately giving them greater influence over my life. I respect your call though man.

I would not notice if the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL folded. not 1 bit.

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Originally posted by scratchy:
I would not notice if the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL folded. not 1 bit.

Curious questions (I don't know the answers).

I wonder how much in fed, state, local tax revenues are provided by pro sports and all the supporting businesses?? I wonder how much stadiums receive in taxpayer subsidies??

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Originally posted by scratchy:
I would not notice if the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL folded. not 1 bit.

I heard on Rush's show that a few days ago both Tucker and Hanity's shows out-viewered a prime time NBA game by 3-1.
I guess the point was not so many care about the NBA.
Eventually that will have to cause a $$ trickle-effect that won't be pretty for the BLM worshipers.

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
Curious questions (I don't know the answers).
I wonder how much in fed, state, local tax revenues are provided by pro sports and all the supporting businesses?? I wonder how much stadiums receive in taxpayer subsidies??

I can tell you this:
In 1995 the Rams were lured to St. Louis with a stadium, payed for 1/2 by the State of Missouri,
and 1/4 each by the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County. It was for a 20-year commitment by the team. Once the 20-years was up, the team moved to LA. It all benefited only one man, Stan Kroenke, who became fabulously rich. The promised 'economic development' never came, the stadium generated no lasting jobs, but the debt remains. We are still paying for the empty stadium.

These public financed stadium deals usually turn into very expensive boondoggles for the community.

Publicly Funded Stadiums
https://www.johnlocke.org/poli...cly-funded-stadiums/

Shanna,they kneeled for the national anthem, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.
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This might look like a joke but I am completely serious. Bring back the USFL. Or not. Better build some more prisons though.

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“If”the NFL plays this year I’ll be sitting also, watching a movie or anything but the NFL.