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Justin Higgins retweeted
"The owners want a cap because they want a line on a graph to go up. And since baseball always reflects the American reality, we now get to sit back and watch as a small group of billionaires prepare to make life worse for everybody else." - @MattGross87
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Free media advice: don’t lie publicly. And if you do, don’t lie about something that will 100% become public proving you are a liar
Kirk Herbstreit headlined GOP fundraiser weeks after claiming he doesn’t ‘get into politics’ awfulannouncing.com/espn/kir…
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Justin Higgins retweeted
Down -7% is better than most were predicting and 11m viewers for Games 1 & 2 is better than anything out there that’s not the NFL.
More important, this “small market” series affirms one of the bedrock appeals of sports: Everyone has a chance.
No Time Like October: FOX Sports opens #WorldSeries with strong start highlighted by 12,259,000 viewers for Game 1 and 10,854,000 for Game 2. ⚾️📺
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12.2 Million viewers for game one of the World Series between the Rays and Brewers is far better than most were projecting and speaks to the overall health of the sport.
Sources: Rays-Brewers Game 1 preliminary audience outperforms expectations sportsbusinessjournal.com/Ar…
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Justin Higgins retweeted
In the end it’s just sports TV ratings but the false number for Game 1 that’s circulating today is a depressing case study in the new AI-generated misinformation.
The real number will be out shortly. It’ll be better than most people expected.
Use trusted sources.
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Justin Higgins retweeted
As the NBA season begins this week, remember:
26 out of 30 NBA owners are billionaires — getting richer every day.
Meanwhile, the average ticket price to see the Knicks play the Sixers last night cost $1,894.
No. You should not have to be rich to take your kids to a ball game.
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The owner of the New York Yankees, the most valuable franchise in MLB, is is full support of a salary cap
This should raise far more questions regarding the owner's driving purpose for implementing a cap (It has never been about competitive balance)
Hal Steinbrenner is asked if he'd be in favor of a salary cap in MLB:
"I helped craft the proposals that we have given at the bargaining table, and I support those proposals in their entirety. That should answer your question."
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Justin Higgins retweeted
It’s seems crazy to me one would assume this would work and not backfire. An estranged mom from a rough childhood going straight to camera to trash her daughter as a trustworthy messenger?
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Justin Higgins retweeted
Orioles' David Rubenstein admits what MLB owners don't want fans to know: They're making a ton of money
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Justin Higgins retweeted
He just single handedly decimated one of the owners biggest arguments for a salary cap
Orioles' David Rubenstein admits what MLB owners don't want fans to know: They're making a ton of money
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Justin Higgins retweeted
Hes the man
Joe Mazzulla wanted your live calls today and the listeners did not disappoint😂
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Justin Higgins retweeted
When they tell you sports gambling is harmless: no it isn't. Nicole Noren on why she left ESPN.
An important and poignant perspective on ESPN's embrace of sports gambling
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Justin Higgins retweeted
More brutal numbers for prediction markets in the Reuters poll:
75% of adults say it's gambling. Now we have the crosstabs: 81% among GOP, 79% among Dems, 69% with indies
45/9 support stricter regulation of prediction sites
90% say they've never used a prediction site
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Justin Higgins retweeted
This "dynamic pricing" stuff, and secondary-market algorithms wreck the atmosphere in stadiums too. Not only does it price real fans out, it's solely about making the absolute most money—even if that means selling, say, 80 seats instead of 100. Which leads to empty seats.
Professional sports leagues have raised ticket prices to the point that the average fan cannot afford to attend, especially as a family. They also compete with an in-home product that is vastly improved. Regionally, salaries aren’t as high in this market as others. Lots of reasons but the bottom line is people do have to choose between entertainment, gas and groceries and that’s just a fact. It’s not
a lack of passion. It’s practicality. I never felt comfortable telling someone else what to do with their money.
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Justin Higgins retweeted
We've reached the point where the polls have told the same story for several weeks running (Dems rising, but maybe now nearing plateau) and now people are bored with that. All harmless fun. But under these conditions, the narrative can get detached from the data.
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Justin Higgins retweeted
The Bruins are making their Halloween visit to Boston Children's Hospital this afternoon.
To infinity and beyond! 🚀
ALT Michael DiPietro and JJ Peterka (aliens), Sean Kuraly (Buzz Lightyear), Tanner Jeannot (Woody), Jonathan Aspirot (Mr. Potato Head), James Hagens and Frederic Brunet (Slinky) pose for a photo ahead of the B's Halloween hospital visit.
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Justin Higgins retweeted
In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
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Justin Higgins retweeted
Systematic polling errors can occur. But the last two midterms featured significant regional and thematic fluctuations, even though forecasts/polls were reasonably well calibrated overall. No guarantee that repeats, but this is more common in midterms than POTUS years.
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Don’t let that summer heater fool you, this season wasn’t a success for the Red Sox cbssports.com/mlb/news/unsuc…
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