Phat Watts

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[Owen Krepps @OKrepps85]

Every other NHL Award presentation:

“Haha we surprised you at this cookout with your friends and family!”

Vasilevskiy:

[Phat Watts @ohrm24]

@ds1874 @JakeAllonar The cool thing about time zones is I can watch both and don’t have to choose!

[Brian Rosenworcel @Bri_Rosenworcel]

My friend Steve ran into Dominique Wilkins at a pizza place in Georgia, went home to show him the sneakers ‘Nique gave him forty years ago, and it was just as meaningful a moment for Wilkins as it was for Steve.

Beautiful.

[Phat Watts @ohrm24]

@JamB360jam @ikdvo @adamkeys_ @SimonBrundish Spurs vs Newcastle there was a penalty against Bentancur on Burn for grappling

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@domluszczyszyn @brandon__alter Agreed I think it was a more impactful absence than Hedman as a bolts fan, at least how the 2 were playing this season

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@domluszczyszyn @brandon__alter How much did holmbergs injury affect the lightnings numbers? Would assume the model accounted for his impact

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@BOGBackup1 I would say 10 but there’s a handful of equally terrible refs

[Phat Watts @ohrm24]

@BDub4Short @burnsieoriginal @spittinchiclets Would need a second call to make up for that

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Phat Watts @ohrm24]

@JhanHky Did they not switch up the lines from games 1 and 2 going into game 3? Moved Dach to Texiers line.

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@NJTHabs22 @ericjones1776 @Bedsy4Hart @jpolly22 Did you say the same about the call against Gourde in the first period?

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@a_golden12 Only if you’re wearing red

[Talia Baia @taliaontv]

“Maybe some celebratory stuff, you know, pop the confetti. No drinks involved, no drinks involved. I don’t do that, I’m only 20 years old”

I couldn’t help but reference the legendary 2006 Shaun White quote … I hope at least one person watching live got it 😆

[Phat Watts @ohrm24]

@BriShaw81 @cscott0620 @DaleJohnsonBBC Oh yeah it could’ve been really serious like a significant knee injury and a gash to the head. Good thing that didn’t happen!

[Got CTE from playing Peek-a-Boo @doulbedoink]

The real issue with russini and vrabel kissing was that those pictures were from march 2020 and they were not practicing social distancing

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

I’m gonna rant a little bit here because Josh’s clip accurately explains the dynamic that’s happening right now, and it is sad, frustrating and disappointing…

Let’s first remember that this entire current round of expansion talks has turned into a proxy war between Fox (who wants to trigger the games coming back up for bid) and ESPN (who wants to keep the rights they already won)… If the B1G was in business with ESPN I doubt they’d be pushing for 24 teams… What a terrible way to decide the future course of a sport.

The revenue projections for more games are inflated because people don’t have the same interest for the #23 team vs the #17 team as they do for the top tier. Putting that aside, the projections are also based on people continuing to care about this sport.

Keep devaluing the regular season and that’s not going to happen. NASCAR is a perfect case study on how to alienate your base. College football’s inability to look at that lesson tells you that they don’t think they need the fans to make the money they want. That will be true the first time these games are bid on, but it won’t be the second time. They are trying to grab extra pennies now without realizing they could break their entire longterm business model.

It’s short term thinking that just kicks the can down the road and solves none of the real problems that are creating these discussions to begin with. The way to fix the sport is to fix the sport. They think they can be like the NFL, but nobody asked themselves why people are emotionally attached to cfb and why people cultivate that same love in their children. People like tradition and nostalgia, and you can’t tap that when the stakes for a regular season rivalry game become diminished so much that they no longer exist.

They think they’re going to be the NFL, but they’re in danger of turning themselves into a mostly one month viewing experience like March Madness. The NFL is a better pure football product, and taking out the roller coaster effect of the regular season makes cfb closer to every failed spring league than the NFL.

If they go to 24 they’ll be trying to shrink it again within a decade. The problem is that you can never get that lost generation back. Once you lose it you lose the kids that they don’t pass the sport down to.

It took 150 years to get the sport here. You can’t just undo these types of errors. Ask NASCAR. They hit 20 million AVERAGE viewers during the 2006 Daytona 500 and peaked at 37 million total viewers. They were the second most watched sport. They abandoned their base in the Southeast to capture new markets in the Midwest and West. It failed miserably. 30 years since they last held a points race, NASCAR is going to North Wilkesboro in 2026 in an effort to recapture the diehard base they once thought they owned.

College football is way closer to this than anyone wants to acknowledge. You can’t devalue the regular season in an era where the emotional relationship between fans and players has been lessened because of player movement AND the perception that guys are only choosing schools for the biggest bag.

Fans love college football because their dads and moms loved it and the underlying belief that the players chose the same school they did. The magic trick doesn’t work quite the same now. Flush the traditional stakes of the appointment viewing rivalry games and kill the most meaningful regular season in sports, and you don’t have much of a connection left.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in any business is failing to understand why people buy your product and engage with your brand. The people in the room who want 24 teams in the playoff have zero understanding of why fans engage with college football. It is like sending a guy to congress from New York City and asking him to represent the people of a rural Kentucky county. Of course it’d be a disaster… The problem in cfb’s case is that these people don’t know that they don’t know.

[Phat Watts @ohrm24]

@KiyanLalani @OverDrive1050 @patmaroon He literally injured a Tampa defensemen on a hit in game 1 that he was penalized for. Thats not playing clean lol

[Phat Watts @ohrm24]

@bmonellacollege @sebastiangereau @GinoHard_ I am not, I think he was rightfully penalized with a 2 min interference. Anderson should have his head on a swivel and maybe he’d avoid it next time, I guess he’s lucky he didn’t end up like D’astous in game 1