James Shade

Top shelf corporate commando. Devoted follower of TV ratings and the shows that produce them. Also ponders Gaming and Music. NASCAR ramblings by request.

[James Shade @TV_In_The_Shade]

@taytaycodes @netflix And now the original Tweet is gone. Et tu, Netflix? #FuckCopyright

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@taytaycodes @netflix The performance probably faded like it did because the IOC decided to abuse copyright to erase footage from all social media platforms like it was Leon Trotsky...

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@pottacoffi @IceTitan80 That's cool. I'm sure his girlfriend (later wife) agreed while she was paging through documents for her boss at the time, Ghislaine Maxwell.

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@PorterTravis08 @BrianLVickers An idiot who was previously unaware of how The Streisand Effect works...

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@Mark_Sutton2 @MikeChaseYT @TVGrimReaper The teams will almost certainly care when all their sponsors ditch them because their US sales figures went spiraling into the ninth circle of hell. Just look at the last two decades of NASCAR - F1 crammed that plot arc into five years.

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@stormfly998 @IceTitan80 Probably because of the divestiture.

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@IceTitan80 Too bad they're dipping him into a tank of raw sewage...

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@lmm2996

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@lmm2996 ...is completely unfixable or NASCAR isn't willing to spend the money necessary to bring top-flite physicists on who can work out viable solutions. And given how both NASCAR and the RTA have behaved since the latter came into existence, well...

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@JaguarGator9NFL I'm just gonna point out that JP Morgan has a direct-to-consumer division in the form of Chase. If ordinary hacks like you and me suddenly move our deposits to Bank of America in protest, it could endanger the entire company depending on how leveraged their portfolio is...

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@stingbee30 @TVGrimReaper @InterMiamiCF @espn @TheEconomist Have you examined who paid for these surveys? If there's one thing I've learned from being a NASCAR fan, it's that you can make any survey say whatever you want by correctly cherry-picking your sample to bias it towards people prone to agree with your desired outcome.

[James Shade @TV_In_The_Shade]

@TravisRockhold Based on the responses to the embedded Dirty Mo tweet, it seems like a lot of fans want it.

The reason I'm linking to the tweet quoting Dirty Mo is because I think Beard makes a good point about why people in the industry may want it as much as the fans. https://t.co/HvIwQrFj4B

[Brock Beard @LASTCARonBROCK]

YES. As I said on my stream last night, pretty much everyone in the back was dealing with an issue that could have been at least diagnosed in practice.

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@ekylef @DirtyMoMedia The millionaires (with a few low-end billionaires in the mix, even) are spending money - on a financial instrument that's doesn't generate profit until you go to sell it.

Why does this general concept sound so familiar?...

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@fuller_grif @LASTCARonBROCK It's because of the RTA - they don't want practice because it consumes resources and increases the wages they have to pay to their crews. More money spent on track means less money to go into the questionable financial structure known as the Charter System...

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@BrianManzo20 @Jordan_Bianchi I would guess as such. They're certainly not constrained by aggressive slotting like more traditional outlets would be.

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@WWIIIDodger @TommyHouse101 @UrinatingTree There have definitely been attempts to tank in the NFL, but the Dolphins from 2019 on are a cautionary tale about all these dangers (esp. since they got undercut for the first overall pick by a team that was originally planning to rebound from a poor record the year before.)

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@TommyHouse101 @UrinatingTree You also need to consider the number of rounds in each league's draft:

- NBA Draft: 2 rounds (~17% of gameday roster)
- NHL draft: 7 rounds (35% of gameday roster)
- MLB draft: 20 rounds (~77% of active roster)
- NFL draft: 7 rounds (~15% of gameday roster)

[James Shade @TV_In_The_Shade]

@TommyHouse101 @UrinatingTree That's not actually true, but tanks also don't work as well in the NFL as the other leagues because of roster size:

- NBA gameday roster: 12
- NHL gameday roster: 20
- MLB active roster: 26 (couldn't find a specific gameday number)
- NFL gameday roster: 46

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