The Amazingly Suck Theodore Leonsis Thread

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Missing point is that they are trying to cut a deal to be on youtube tv -- which costs $60 or 70 a month but might have enough other stuff a person would want to make it a more attractive choice than a Monumental subscription at $20/month.

But the whole thing is gross: Monumental makes a ton of money on the Wizards (on the NBA overall) from every other angle. Charging people to watch their local team's games is simply a gross thing to do.

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Two years ago I could buy a single, sports-oriented cable package that brought me every local team plus a whole bunch more. That's flexibility based on differing consumer tastes.

Unrelated to the entirely new idea of making me pay just to see the local team.

Ted Leonsis is a billionaire who's greedy for more. As I wrote, he's shown himself to be a gross individual.

As a season ticket holder you can’t expect me to have but so much sympathy for folks who don’t want to pay $20 a month to support our guys.

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Now, Zards... not everyone is as wealthy as you! Not to mention as hip!...

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The dumbest aspect though is that bars are not likely to spend extra for the add-on. Leastways not until the team is winning and gets popular. It’s an extra detail to keep track of, not just a common channel that comes with the usual sports package. So your bartender can’t just click over if it’s not something the manager thought to buy with the cable package.

If your favorite bar is not willing to pay $20 a month to show the local team you need to find a new bar.

Less about willing to pay and more about MSN being removed from the standard package so a couple times in the past couple years staff at 2 different bars looked for it and couldn’t get it. Joe Bar Tender dude is not the guy buying the cable.

But yeah. Mr Season Ticket has a different set of issues than me. Probably needing medication and therapy kind of issues. That’s a whole nother level of diehard madness.

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But yeah. Mr Season Ticket has a different set of issues than me. Probably needing medication and therapy kind of issues. That’s a whole nother level of diehard madness.

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Watch on YouTube

Would a vpn combined with league pass work?

Yes, but last I checked all of the decent VPNs are somewhere between $10 and $20, so if you're goal is to get LP to watch the Wizards that's obviously not going to be cost efficient.

If you're getting LP and want to watch the Wizards it makes sense to go the VPN route just to keep the money out of the little weasel's pockets.

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If Baby Zacky were deviously smart they’d have a pay per game streaming fee that looked dumb cheap. Like $2.99 per game. Maybe have occasional free games salted into the schedule as teasers. Even add-ons like extra cost $ to choose different camera angles or a stat feed that gives you the synergy sports calculations that the team has access to. Or live feed of a player who’s willing to be mic’ed up. (With cut outs during coaching / time outs).

What you miss in monthly subscribers you’d make up for in casual viewers. And degenerate gamblers trying to game the system. The price point would be cheap until you realized you’re watching 4-5 games a month plus features so you might as well get a package.

Obviously it works best when the wiz start winning and are fun. But you got to start somewhere. You take a loss early. The 21st century version of AOLs free discs.

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I remember the Wiz had a handful of games on channel 20 every season. That was cool, especially for kids without cable. Definitely a big part of why I'm a fan of this team today. More than the championship-level basketball we've seen over these last several decades, anyway.

Can't imagine Mr MLK Potomac Yards Leonsis doing that, though.

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Truth is there's enough good stuff on youtube TV that if Monomaniacal Spurts Notwork cuts a deal with them I'm sure I'll get it.

In fact... I probably already have it.

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Thanks for the absolute terrible ideas doc. Some mod should delete that post before milellie, I mean, Zack, reads that basura.

[dobrojim]

Watch on YouTube

Would a vpn combined with league pass work?

Yes, but last I checked all of the decent VPNs are somewhere between $10 and $20, so if you're goal is to get LP to watch the Wizards that's obviously not going to be cost efficient.

If you're getting LP and want to watch the Wizards it makes sense to go the VPN route just to keep the money out of the little weasel's pockets.

Buying a VPN is not a monthly bill. One and done.
EXPRESS VPN

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Thanks for the absolute terrible ideas doc. Some mod should delete that post before milellie, I mean, Zack, reads that basura.

Thenk yew. Devious is in my repertoire. Can’t help it.

My deal is there’s no way at this point Zack/MSN is going to give away the product for free to the local networks and go back to an old school broadcast advertising model. They want to look innovative and fancy and next level. No way they’re going to scrap the monumental app. Sunk cost, they have to make something of it.

So might as well make it something even more innovative, useful, interesting, and impressive.

Frankly they should hire me for my ideas. I got million$ of ‘em.