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Down to their final out in the 7th we string together 4 base hits with 3 being infield singles to win. @burge_jenner goes the distance for the win and @WadeDuskey goes 2-2 including the single to ignite the 2 out rally. Up next a 2025 State Championship rematch vs Yeager Benson
ESPN just fired a guy who gave them 33 years. they're about to pay another guy $60M a year for a show they don't even own.
both moves are the same move.
everyone's calling this cost-cutting. it's not. the payroll isn't shrinking — it's moving. and where it's moving tells you everything about what happened to sports media.
Karl Ravech was an employee. SportsCenter's whole model was that the brand made the person — anchors were interchangeable parts in a machine ESPN owned. ESPN paid salaries and kept all the upside, because being on ESPN was the only way to get famous.
@PatMcAfee is not an employee. look at the actual contract: it's a licensing agreement. he owns the show. he pays his own staff. ESPN doesn't employ its biggest star — it rents him, the same way it rents the NFL.
that's the whole story. ESPN spent 40 years as a star-maker. now it's a star-renter.
and renting is forced, not chosen. the star-making machine ran on two things:
1. scarce distribution. ESPN owned the only beach. want to be famous in sports? you needed their airtime.
2. talent couldn't measure its own drawing power. THAT's where the margin lived. you paid a guy $400K who was worth $4M and nobody could prove otherwise.
social media killed both on the same day. now every personality sees their own numbers in real time and can monetize them directly. every homegrown star either reprices to market or walks — @BillSimmons left and built a company that sold for $200M. Le Batard built his own. Stephen A repriced to $20M.
growing a star at ESPN today is just running R&D for the talent's future company.
so ESPN keeps the only rational portfolio left: rights it doesn't own (paying the NFL with 10% of itself), personalities it doesn't own (McAfee), and cuts everything in between.
the layoffs aren't a strategy change. they're the accounting finally catching up to one.
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Genuine question-
Did Rory McIlroy cross the line regarding the R&A's Player Code of Conduct with his comments about Bryson? That Code of Conduct states that criticising another competitor is a breach, as is disrespecting another competitor. The penalty can be disqualification.
Did Wyndham Clark bend the rules here?!? He never touches the grass on this mysterious practice swing. I have never seen another player make this type of practice swing in my golfing days. You be the judge.
Seriously? @GolfChannel ? Why should a player "graciously" accept a penalty that they honestly feel that they didn't deserve? If someone shows me a DEFINITIVE camera angle that showed his swing path was improved then there should be a penalty. But for a commentator to state that he definitely did improve his situation is , in my opinion, more about their personal opinion of Bryson than the facts. There is no down the line video that I have seen.
“This is out of control” -Bryson as he walks away with the official. Likely will be hit with a 2 stroke penalty for what appears to be a nothing burger and something pros do every round…
A 67 at Royal Birkdale is a pretty good score for a player with "no idea of strategy" and who "went from chasing Scottie and Rory to chasing Grant Horvat."