More pie

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I though Gary Coleman was taller than that.

And black.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Hoagie.

Jesus. Twice in one week I've had to be a Philly food Timmy.

Wow, who knew that Labor Law had its own dictionary?

We don't hoagies out west. We have subs. I don't think I've ever had a grinder. Sandwich.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No. I'll walk.

I'd be an awesome barista.

Exactly. People love espresso in Boulder.

[Shape Shifter]

Best part of the football season? More TMQ.

• By Gregg Easterbrook
  Special to Page 2
  
  
  Man, let's hope you enjoyed that first-of-a-kind Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN. Airing those games cost ESPN only $129 million. And that's just for the rights fees. Cameras, techies and announcers are extra: ESPN had about 150 production personnel at each game. Typically, prime-time network programming costs a couple million dollars an hour. This year, ESPN is paying $1.1 billion for the Monday Night Football package, which works out to $65 million per contest and about $20 million per hour. Ten times the normal cost of prime-time programming. Sure hope you liked those games!
  
  
  All rights fees shot up in the new round of NFL network contracts in effect this season, reflecting the incredible popularity of professional football. For television broadcast rights, the NFL now gets about $3.7 billion annually from ESPN, CBS, Fox, NBC and DirecTV (which holds the odious monopoly on the wonderful NFL Sunday Ticket), plus advertising income from the league's upcoming self-published games on NFL Network, plus additional millions for radio and cell phone broadcast rights from Sirius and Sprint. Forty years ago, commentators were shocked when NBC and CBS agreed to pay about $340 million (in today's dollars) per year to broadcast NFL games. Now the same rights are selling for considerably north of $4 billion, a dozen times as much as a generation ago. This fall, just two weekends of games will bring the league the present-dollar value of all pro football broadcasting in 1966.
  
  The way the latest NFL-NFLPA agreement works, for all intents and purposes, broadcast fees go directly to players. Ticket sales cover the clubs' expenses (coaching, facilities, overhead), and owners make their profit on everything left over (local radio rights, tie-in marketing, parking and food sales). Let's stop to consider what this means to the average NFL athlete. This season, average NFL pay -- monies actually received, not contract paper value -- will be somewhat more than $1.7 million per gentleman. That's almost exactly the $3.7 billion in broadcast rights fees, divided by roughly 2,000 NFL players on rosters or on injured reserve.
  
  
  
  This represents 17 seconds of Monday Night Football. We hope you enjoyed it!
  Now think about the amount the typical NFL player will earn this year just from ESPN. Ready? An average of $550,000 per player. That's the amount ESPN is putting in the average NFL player's purse for the 2006 season, and for seasons to come. From ESPN directly to you, dear NFL player: $550,000. The sum works out to $32,000 per Monday Night Football game. If you are an NFL player, every time you tune in Monday Night Football this season, bear in mind ESPN is sending you $32,000 worth of thanks. The next-highest rights fee on the landscape works out to about $12,000 from CBS to each NFL player for each game the Columbia Broadcasting System airs. So guys, ESPN is being almost three times as nice to you and your families as CBS! Remember this when interview requests come in.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...erbrook/060912

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Wow, who knew that Labor Law had its own dictionary?

Who knew you'd have to search all the way to labor lawyer dictionaries to find hoagie spelled with a "y"?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I can't take this shit anymore. Fuckin' A I hate lawyering...

You get out. But you have to wait a few years.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
And black.

Nicely done.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Hoagie.

Jesus. Twice in one week I've had to be a Philly food Timmy.

Maybe the other spellings at issue are the British variants?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If we're all going to have to share, can we at least get our own straws?

oh, sorry. One or two or more EACH!! I am nice like that.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
More TMQ.

Can we rename the thread?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Who knew you'd have to search all the way to labor lawyer dictionaries to find hoagie spelled with a "y"?

Yeah. I had to scroll past a bunch of crap about Hoagy Carmichael first.
Is it his sandwich?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Purely so they can have a self-satisfied holier-than-thou smirk. There is absolutely no reason that the early admission program inherently creates barriers to disadvantaged. Rather, it was Harvard's greediness to increase its yield rates by taking loads of students early that creates the problem.

If they wanted, they could take fewer students early, and make sure that there were plenty of spaces left for students who might not want to apply early (or might not be aware or otherwise couldn't get in) and take them during the regular application process.

In other words, it's not a problem if its a small problem?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Plan B dude, before the kids come. The clock is ticking. Loudly.

I'd gladly take a ride in the time machine and trade my pie for a gold med....uhm.....a bronze...uh...some neat Olympic pins.

Quite contrarily, my friend, you will find yourself looking at that cute little kid and thinking two things:

1. Do I want this kid to know a father who's been a goddamned shoe-shiner for a pack of shysters?

2. Do I want to be around for the child?

3. Do I want my kid to think of me as another shakedown artist?

I want the kid to know a father with some balls, and one who took some risks.

You're going to die someday, Coltrane. And Penske's right. Every minute that goes by is a lost one...

You're only prolonging the inevitable. You know you'll quit. I can sense it in the way you write. You're not wired for the Office. You'd better go, before you get bitter.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You get out. But you have to wait a few years.

Now. I can't wait.

ETA: and I had corn last night, which means I could leave a glorious pile of steaming corn shit on a partner's desk.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
In other words, it's not a problem if its a small problem?

Not necessarily, Hank's wife still had him castrated.