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Didn't know in Japan an A is 80-90%.

https://apnews.com/article/rintaro-sasaki-japan-stanford-6bd2216e7347635a7944fd64a651e976

Sasaki, who hit 140 high school home runs and then made waves by opting out of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league draft, has been immersing himself in classes and a new culture on Stanford’s Bay Area campus for two-plus months. He’s learning English in impressively speedy fashion and getting settled in a baseball routine that has included road trips with the team before he begins his collegiate career in earnest this fall.

The 19-year-old prospect will make his U.S. debut Tuesday in the MLB Draft League, playing for the Trenton Thunder of New Jersey along with others hoping to one day develop into major leaguers.

lot of people complaining about the pricing 

I have checked for myself, the pricing is insane. 150 just for one person and that's before fees.

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2 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

Dude I’ve been watching this **** on Korean TV and it’s incredible 

That's great! They've really cut down on the ads too so it's not as bad as ESPN, which spent 15 minutes showing ads instead of analyzing the game during hafltime. Good to see you are also fed up and watching on SpoTV too!

54 minutes ago, Going Commando said:

Nobody is watching this Final and I think it's because Luka can't drive ratings like the other best players in the league because he's too much of an unlikable prick.  He somehow makes Kyrie Irving seem gracious and level headed.  But I don't really get why Tatum and Brown aren't drawing viewers.  Boston is a marquee franchise and Tatum has been on the cusp of top five player for years.  This is a legacy series for one of the players of the era.  Is it because the series is too much of a mismatch?

I think one of the big issues this final is that Boston got an easy path to the final and is pummeling Dallas. This series has not been competitive at all.

I will say I'm amazed a franchise as famed as Boston has only won one title since 1986. Not very Bostonny.

Interesting that finals ratings have been bad since Jordan retired. NBC averaged nearly 28M in ratings during the Jordan finals. After that, the Finals average dipped to as low as 9M. They are about 12M now which is about half of what they were doing during Jordan's reign.

But tell me about how everyone watches online now.

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40323843/christie-sides-blasts-fever-lack-effort-blowout-loss

UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- The Connecticut Sun trounced the Indiana Fever 89-72 on Monday, at one point leading by as many as 28 points and ultimately leaving Fever coach Christie Sides upset with her team's effort.

"I'm going to start with how you can't, at this level, coach effort," Sides said to begin her postgame news conference at Mohegan Sun Arena. "I felt like we were just trying to ask them to keep playing hard, play hard. You can't start there. You can't play in this league if you have to coach effort. It's just too hard."

How much longer will they trot Corbin out there every 5th day to get run, he should be in the bullpen

Wouldn't mind putting Herz up in his place and Cavalli is healing well. That and Gray in F-burg, why would you keep Corbin in the rotation?

Karina threw out the first pitch at the Lotte game this weekend

Been very busy out in DC and VA the last few days and ordering smoothies and teas at Wawa and Starbucks I notice these companies are starting to phase out straws. Then at the Nats game Friday I see the cups with the slot to drink through, they are phasing out straws too. I've seen some complaints on paper straws but eliminating plastic and paper straws just seems good to me.

Has anyone been watching Clipped on Hulu?

6-2 against those Atlanta bamas

Taking 3 out of 4 from the Braves is pretty big. Wish they had actually beaten the Mets who are a very bad team and had no business sweeping the Nats.

1 hour ago, tshile said:

The way you casually explain what you do and why is why you get away with it 

Every post like halfway through it takes a 90* turn and I’m lost for a second then I look at the name of the poster again and it’s like oh, yup

Me watching the finals on ABC

Clark had 30 points today.

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United passengers who toggle through the in-flight film and TV show options already see ads during programming. That includes a 30-second commercial that will now reflect the information United has compiled on individual travelers, like where they live and destinations they've traveled to.