Really big opportunity for Bagent over the next few weeks (assuming Caleb’s timeline is still 2-3 weeks away) to establish himself & get teams interested enough in him that the #Bears will be happy enough with the return to actually move him (likely next offseason).
Your Smart TV cost $500–$2,000.
You plugged it in. You clicked "Agree" 6 times without reading. You connected WiFi. You opened Netflix.
In the 10 seconds it took you to accept those terms, you gave your TV permission to screenshot your screen, track everything you watch across every input, listen through a microphone you didn't know was active, and sell your viewing habits to advertising networks.
You also left it running on picture settings designed for a Best Buy showroom floor with fake motion processing that makes every movie look like a soap opera, oversaturated colors, and an energy saver that dims your $1,500 panel by 40%.
A home theater installer who's calibrated over 3,000 TVs across every major brand Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, Roku, Fire TV told me:
"Every Smart TV in America is doing 3 things right now: showing you a worse picture than it's capable of, spying on everything you watch, and running a microphone you forgot existed."
"The picture is wrong because it shipped in showroom mode. The spying is active because you clicked 'Agree' during setup. And the microphone is listening because the voice assistant defaulted to on."
"In 3,000 calibrations, I've never walked into a home where a single setting had been changed. Not one."
Here are 10 Smart TV settings you should change tonight regardless of which brand you own:🧵
Pete Crow-Armstrong on his friendship with Caleb Williams and the new era of Chicago sports: "We've definitely talked about what we want to build here ... it's agreed upon by all of us that we want to give people something to look forward to."
I asked Pete about the importance of the support between all the Chicago athletes.
“I think it’s just huge having guys show up and support each other, and then what I think everybody doesn’t see is that we genuinely like each other, as well.
Pete Crow-Armstrong says it was awesome having Caleb Williams, Matas Buzelis and Caleb Wilson in attendance:
“Chicago’s got a lot to look forward to with those three.”
Some records were made to be broken.
Some might never be touched again.
The highest level of baseball immortality lies in the pursuit of these magic numbers.
Presenting the Top 10 Records that define baseball in our continuing celebration of #250for250.