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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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Kepler said:
I thought it was a license to print money. Wha- happen?
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Combination of cord cutting and the fact many RSNs are not on the basic tier, so they don't get to collect from the 85% of the population that doesn't watch sports, unlike the mothership which costs every cable customer $10/mo whether they want it or not.
 
Handyman said:
A la carte is not the answer. The RSNs will end up trash because no one is going to pay for them.
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The RSNs screwed themselves by blacking out streaming and not letting people pay for their product online, so I'm not shedding tears for them.

I'd pay $150/yr to be able to stream the Cubs or Wild. But I can't.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Millennials. Probably.
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Millennials, especially the older ones, love sports. It’s the younger millennials and even more so genzers who aren’t as into sports. I wonder what impact commercialization has had in turning kids off from being into sports. They def weren’t as in your face with it when I was growing up. Kids obviously have much less opportunity to play sports now so that probably hurts as well.
 
unofan said:
Combination of cord cutting and the fact many RSNs are not on the basic tier, so they don't get to collect from the 85% of the population that doesn't watch sports, unlike the mothership which costs every cable customer $10/mo whether they want it or not.
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That and at least for Bally, they played themselves by trying to play hardball with the streaming cables (YouTube, Hulu, Fubo, etc). So now they’re only on like three of the traditional cable companies. They either overpaid and never had a chance at making it profitable, or they vastly overestimated how many people truly need to watch their local sports teams.

Of course for some markets it wasn’t a huge deal. Until this year for the Wings all Detroit fans were getting were three cellar dwellers.
 
It is absolutely absurd that, in 2023, I can't buy a streaming package that allows me to watch all games, or one that allows me to watch "my team's" games. I realize that a la cart usually results in higher costs, but I don't know that I care anymore. I rotate through streaming services regularly - a few months of Netflix/HBO/Disney+, rotating them in and out along with Apple TV, Fubo and whatever else has something I'm interested in. It takes a little more management than "I have cable", but I get only what I'm interested in and I don't support ESPN/Fox/whatever. At the moment I'm probably spending $125-150 for internet/services, but whatever.
 
unofan said:
The RSNs screwed themselves by blacking out streaming and not letting people pay for their product online, so I'm not shedding tears for them.

I'd pay $150/yr to be able to stream the Cubs or Wild. But I can't.
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It doesn’t help that many teams are either full or part owners of a lot of the RSNs, especially the ones in NYC and Boston.
 
TalonsUpPuckDown said:
Dude. We’re both full boomers. Gotta own it.
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Nope, my brother and sister are full on Boomers and f-ck them. The only Boomer characteristic I share is I'm rich.

The only stereotype personality traits I see match up with GenZ: I'm optimistic and I'm sick to death of GenX anhedonia and Millennial victimhood, and, for that matter, of slicing people up by idiocies like generations.
 
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Kepler said:
Nope, my brother and sister are full on Boomers and f-ck them. The only Boomer characteristic I share is I'm rich.

The only stereotype personality traits I see match up with GenZ: I'm optimistic and I'm sick to death of GenX anhedonia and Millennial victimhood, and, for that matter, of slicing people up by idiocies like generations.
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Sick to death of stuff that’s not even real? That’s a lot of headspace being used.
 
psych said:
Sick to death of stuff that’s not even real? That’s a lot of headspace being used.
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Exactly my point. They as a population aren't any more disadvantaged than any other.

The people who use generational identity to sell stuff (including ideas) picks random things for a given generation to gripe about and things for it to be proud of, which aren't in any way unique to them. Then they drape it all over messaging and rake in the money. "I'd like to teach the world to sing."

I'm sure this began way before the Boomers thought they had created a "sexual revolution," but that's the most silly example.

The bottom line is you aren't special and neither am I and neither is anybody who ever lived, just by virtue of our birth year. It doesn't mean anything, for any of us.
 
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In a thread discussing Chick-Fil-A's decision to ban underage patrons that are not accompanied by an adult (or whatever) the discussion invariably led discussing boycotting business because of this or that, in which an Old Pio sort mentioned he doesn't boycott Target despite the 'fact' "Target throws homosexuality in your face at the front door". I was not drinking anything at the time thankfully.
 
Slap Shot said:
In a thread discussing Chick-Fil-A's decision to ban underage patrons that are not accompanied by an adult (or whatever) the discussion invariably led discussing boycotting business because of this or that, in which an Old Pio sort mentioned he doesn't boycott Target despite the 'fact' "Target throws homosexuality in your face at the front door". I was not drinking anything at the time thankfully.
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Listen, don't mock him, every time Old Pio went to Target he ended up in the store room blowing some guy, and I tell you that was totally Target's fault.
 
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