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Aussie Rules Football.  Some channel could cover some of those odd events and get folks watching a bit.  I have 200-300 "channels" on my TV, many of them shopping channels, amazing how many, and I rarely find anything worth watching.  BBC America has occasional nature shows I like.  The History Channel is history.

Maybe it says something about American tastes in TV?

I'd note also having a show with two dudes talking about sports is pretty inexpensive in terms of filling time.

We must have 35 channels of just music, fortunately 2 are classic music which I usually put on during dinner.

The cabinets are almost all installed and looking good, or the wife likes them anyway.  I think they are fine, pricier than I would have done but whatever.  They do have tongue and groove joinings and a lot of roll out drawers.  The "ventless" range hoof has a vent.  The installers were puzzled by that one.  Well, the air has to go somewhere.  That was expensive, and I think they are nearly useless.  It has a carbon filter of rather dubious efficacy.

I don't mind the smell of cooking unless something burns.

They're ripe for a rival to dominate...if a new channel came out that was what ESPN used to be, it would be #1.  Tractor pulls at 2am, and actual sports coverage instead of deliberately foolish talking heads.

Sigh.

You know, I think this is a very popular take, but don't you think that if ESPN could make more money showing actual sports than talking heads, they'd be doing it? 

I'm not a fan of our economy type...it's leading to something and it's going to have a really ugly ending...like inner-ring of a black hole - ugly.  

I'm not calling for Bernie Sanders to be made supreme ruler tomorrow or anything, but yes, the income inequality of our country is obscene.  Many conservatives who want to go back to the good ole days of the 50s might be surprised by the buying power back then compared to now.  CEOs weren't paid like gods back then.  Exponential growth isn't feasible on a long timeline.  Perpetual growth isn't feasible.  Monopolization is inevitable.  Hell, it's basically here already.  

The modern music industry is basically catered to what 14 year old girls like.  Well, ESPN's programming is catered to some similarly inept population.

Maybe that's not a great long-term plan.  Maybe it is.  But for those of us possessing prudence, it's basically something to avoid.  We can't compete with the toothless masses.

It's funny, but name something in which poor people having far greater buying power than the super rich.  Lottery tickets.  Used cars.  Rich people could have greater buying power, but they didn't get rich by throwing their money away.  
ESPN is catering to lottery ticket buyers.  It's gross.

Hey, maybe the mouth-breathing, unsavory masses shouldn't be the ones dictating the content we're all exposed to.....but that's crazy talk, right?

Hey, I'm the guy who quit politically blogging after getting burned out watching reasoned discourse lose out in the market because most readers don't go past the headline  or if you're lucky, the first paragraph. 
But giving the masses what they want is always an easier business model than telling them what they're supposed to want. 

Or that FS1 would have launched as that sort of alternative?  Instead they decided it made financial sense to be #2 doing the same thing ESPN was doing than being the best at what we all claim to want.

Agree with these points.  I only tune in to ESPN for live sports broadcasts, and even that has become more and more rare.  But people like me are clearly the minority, because losing me as a customer obviously hasn't affected their business model even one bit.

Agree with these points.  I only tune in to ESPN for live sports broadcasts, and even that has become more and more rare.  But people like me are clearly the minority, because losing me as a customer obviously hasn't affected their business model even one bit.

Yeah, ESPN used to have a whole spectrum of in game PBP and color guys.  Some you loved, some you hated, but the fact that you could talk to different people, and they would have different ones they liked/hated was evidence that their personalities ran the gamut, and some struck different chords with different fans.  Now, the only guys they have with personalities are the guys everyone hates, and everyone else is bland and forgettable.  Because bland and forgettable doesn't get offered a pay raise to leave.

Yeah,  the black quartz is not flat black, it has some speckles in it.  The cabinets are really white with no hardware externally.  The backsplash is a veined white quartz.

I think it'll work.  

I saw three recent accidents on the freeway coming back.  The downtown connector was coded red so I went around.  The backstreets I took had flooding in several places.