Archie @ Belleville

Grew up in Chicago (suburbs) but Michigan native。Former Band Kid。 #RepDetroit #DNMW #FreetheWhales

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@Buddy_The_Uni "It's an original movie where an animatronic for kids goes crazy and kills them!"

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@cozyplup @Dexerto

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@CespedesBBQ Heck yeah go buffaloes

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Astros : We knew when a fastball was coming and hit a trash can

Dodgers :

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@mrmikebones Rage on behalf of the machine

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

Work to bring back the Expos is temporarily on hold while we start up several life insurance companies

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@tigers I'm tired of this grandpa

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@LyingWrongAgain If you need this "UM, ACKSHUALLY" replies to make your point, maybe just admit it wasn't a great point in the first place

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"There's nothing stopping your team from spending like ours" dodgers fans shouldn't be allowed to speak for 20 years

[Jake @EconomPic]

How do the Dodgers carry an unlimited payroll?

Filings uncovered by @NickNemo17 show roughly $1.45 billion in debt for American Media Productions, the entity behind SportsNet LA and the Dodgers' 25-year, $8.35 billion Charter deal, sitting on the balance sheets of 5 life insurance companies tied to or controlled by the Dodgers' own ownership group.

i.e. the Dodgers get a sweetheart deal on their TV rights from a media company their owners co-own, financed by insurance companies those same owners control.

Because ownership sits on both sides, as borrower and lender, the setup functions as a closed loop:

-When RSNs hit turbulence, banks enforce covenants or force restructuring. Here the lenders are insurers the owners manage, so the capital stays patient and cash flow to the team never gets choked.
-MLB taxes net local revenue at 34% but allows deductions for debt service and interest tied to running the network. Carrying $1.45 billion in media debt on AMP's balance sheet generates interest expense that shrinks reportable net TV income and the resulting revenue-sharing bill.

Then there's the payroll itself. Over $1 billion of it is deferred, owed to 9 players through 2047. Pushing that cash out frees up money today, some of which is going toward servicing that same debt, and kicks the actual bill to a stretch of decades many of today's owners won't be around for.

LA built a (seemingly illegal) structure that captures its own interest yield, shelters TV income from league revenue sharing, and helps fund payroll dominance in the process.

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@mazetheseraph

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@Jeff_in_3D Hbox clearly doesnt touch Cody. Hbox moves away from Cody and you never even see Cody in Hbox's player cam
Maybe Cody should hit his jump cancels and not try to stop the final game of the tournament mid-game

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@jeff_brooks1 @itsJohnRocker We don't blow ourselves up

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@midwestern_ope Hot take : state fairs are not worth going to. Been to Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
It's basically a million booths selling crap with pushy salesmen and overpriced deep fried "foods"

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Name something that hits harder than Dan Dickerson saying "HOW 'BOUT IT?!" After a big play

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@Eyebbot @worstall Most animals have an infant mortality rate of over 50%

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@TheGoodRyan96 @WeWatchedAMovie Yeah he was exposing child predators, but was his heart in the right place?

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@BAngarone @MLBNetwork Only 3.5 games behind the 3rd most popular team in Chicago

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Quick rant for those who care

The GameCube game boy player needing a disc to use is stupid. Why can't it just be a switch? My GameCube always takes like 15 tries before it reads it

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@CodifyBaseball WAR is both the most useful and most useless stat in sports. Mostly worshipped by people who've never had an at bat past 3rd grade

Miggy 80 more HR's and hundreds more RBI's but that .03 more OBP

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@jasonbenetti @andydirks12 https://t.co/eSbJOZOasR

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@MLB Soap is soap