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Still, the involvement of ticketmaster will scare off a lot of potential customers - that company is more toxic than saying "Brought to you by Comcast and Bank of America".
You can't book an event of any decent size in the USA without it being a required Ticketmaster venue, so unfortunately if you want to see any reasonably popular artist or a show at a big venue they are your only option.
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I personally don’t understand how to have a phantom like vendetta because of a person’s behavior, following them around with negativity their whole career. Like, they made something awesome and need to monetize it. Focus on the awesome thing. The entity is going to pay those involved and they might sell shares for a higher price, thats how our system works. Suddenly caring only because you dont like 1 of those stakeh…
Companies already are cancel-proof, unless they're dumb enough to alienate their biggest customers. Then they cancel themselves. The "toxic personality" stuff really does need to die though. Elon Musk is not invited to my birthday party, but I can respect what his companies have done. These parasocial vendettas are on par with cult disfellowshipping behavior. Unless the product is an asshole too, who gives a shit? Li…
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/nyregion/james-dolan-las-...
Has anyone else done something like this before?
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> notoriously combative CEO Understatement of the year. Dolan successfully destroyed 2 major sports franchises (Knicks and Rangers) he spent millions on acquiring and managing. He is also using facial recognition to ban all employees of law firms suing MSG (his company) from going to any of their properties, and NY State is considering pulling his liquor license as a result. The only reason he's solvent is because th…
Eh - the Rangers are doing ok this year. There's a question about if they were going in the right direction a few years ago, but they rebounded. The Knicks are a smoking crater, from what I understand, tho.
Do sports teams really have a limit on available names?
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Eh - the Rangers are doing ok this year. There's a question about if they were going in the right direction a few years ago, but they rebounded. The Knicks are a smoking crater, from what I understand, tho.
> the Rangers are doing ok this year True, but isn't he much more hands-off now compared to a couple years ago?
Dolan's Wikipedia page blames him for the post-94 dip, which may be fair, but if that's the case, then he's seen them through two rebuilds, one of which culminated with a Stanley Cup Finals appearance (2014, if I recall). I'll never forgive him for not getting Hank a Cup, but sometimes these things can't be helped. Hockey is fickle.
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Eh - the Rangers are doing ok this year. There's a question about if they were going in the right direction a few years ago, but they rebounded. The Knicks are a smoking crater, from what I understand, tho.
I had to look up "which rangers sports team" because the one from Texas just won the world series in baseball and Rangers FC doesn't seem to be doing too bad. Do sports teams really have a limit on available names?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Rough_Riders
These teams played in the same league.
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I had to look up "which rangers sports team" because the one from Texas just won the world series in baseball and Rangers FC doesn't seem to be doing too bad. Do sports teams really have a limit on available names?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Roughriders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Rough_Riders These teams played in the same league .
Toronto's soccer team in Major League Soccer is called "Toronto FC" or "Toronto Football Club". Calgary: "Cavalry FC" which seems extra confusing when spoken.
Sports naming is so weird.
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History has shown that it's a graceful balancing of carrot and stick that works the best with intelligent biological organisms. The field of psychology generally corroborates this, I think.
What were Einstein’s or Newton’s stick?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Roughriders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Rough_Riders These teams played in the same league .
Yeah, but it must have been a giant league with lots of teams. ...Right? (9 teams...) Now, their name is simple "the red-blacks" and is for the colors of their uniforms. Toronto's soccer team in Major League Soccer is called "Toronto FC" or "Toronto Football Club". Calgary: "Cavalry FC" which seems extra confusing when spoken. Sports naming is so weird.