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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Making pro sports better
« Last post by Phidippides on February 06, 2019, 09:58:47 AM »
I checked and it said that MLS has 23 teams in the league, and they want to keep expanding.  Yeah, this is one of those cases when a young league can promote teams.  Once the league is set and stops expanding, I wonder if they will adopt that promotion/demotion system for teams at the bottom.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Making pro sports better
« Last post by Donald Baker on February 06, 2019, 06:40:05 AM »
Actually Louisville''s minor league soccer team aspires to be promoted to MLS status.  It might work for promotion without fear of demotion in this case.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Making pro sports better
« Last post by Phidippides on February 05, 2019, 05:04:06 PM »
Yeah but you'd also have a devoted minor league team which sees its team rise to greatness.  For example, there have to to be a minor league teams for various sports in Louisville, right?  Imagine the fans once they hear their team is promoted to the Big Leagues.

One problem I see is money.  In the NFL, for example, all teams share in at least some of the NFL's earnings (I think around $250 million per year).  If a team were demoted, they'd lose out and would be at a severe disadvantage for rebuilding.  And when a team is promoted up, it's likely going to be very far behind the very top of the league.  I think that is why in English Premiere League, the same handful of teams tend to dominate the league year after year.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Making pro sports better
« Last post by Donald Baker on February 04, 2019, 06:54:30 PM »
I think it wouldn't go over very well here.  People would not remain loyal to a demoted franchise because they would have to demote their fan status with them.  So no the European model wouldn't fly here.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Making pro sports better
« Last post by Phidippides on February 04, 2019, 04:51:01 PM »
I've been learning more about soccer leagues over in Europe recently and how they are different from American professional sports leagues.  In particular, the English Premiere League is made up of something like 20 teams, and the lowest-performing teams in the league get demoted to B-league status, while B-league teams get promoted to the top league.  This means there is a real punishment for bad play, and even the worst teams are still playing hard for their very survival.  This is radically different from the way American leagues operate in which the worst teams not only don't get punished, but they also get rewarded via better positioning in the next draft. 

Is the demotion/promotion system something that could make American sports better, or would it not work?  It might be hard with American football (since they're no farm-system), but it could potentially work with MLB, the NBA, and possibly the NHL.  Good idea or not?
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Starting A New Job Monday!
« Last post by Donald Baker on January 29, 2019, 01:07:58 PM »
The classes are 3 hours a session for 5 sessions. I usually have 2 or 3 going on at the same time.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Starting A New Job Monday!
« Last post by Phidippides on January 29, 2019, 12:39:59 AM »
That's pretty intense.  Do you have multiple classes at the same time during a semester, or do you take single, three week classes, one after another?  It's good that you got to do this.  I'm sure the camaraderie was nice to experience.  That's really one of the best sides of grad school - fellow students to study with through the grudge match. 
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: The purpose of a business owner
« Last post by Phidippides on January 26, 2019, 02:38:58 PM »
I think for a long-term business owner you may be right, but not necessarily for all business owners.  For example, let's say that I buy a mediocre business that you used to own with the intent of changing things to make it grow (let's assume that I saw an untapped market segment that you failed to see).  I don't think I would need to have passion about the business' products in order to make the business successful, especially since I might decide to sell the entire company yet again in five years for a huge bonanza.

But even if a business owner aims at profitability, I think this is not the only concern.  Concern for the well-being of one's employees, for example, should be an aim as well.  I'm sure that there have been times (even today) when business owners have consciously taken advantage of their employees, and the employees are powerless to stop it from happening.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Black Hebrew Israelites
« Last post by Donald Baker on January 26, 2019, 09:11:59 AM »
I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject.  I've read along the way that the real Ark of the Covenant was supposed to be in Ethiopia hidden somewhere.  I don't know how true that is, but it is a possible connection that the Ethiopians claim gives them legitimacy as one of the lost tribes of ancient Israel.  I do know that Israel takes in many black Jews as part of the Aliyah or the return from the Diaspora.  So there is that.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: The purpose of a business owner
« Last post by Donald Baker on January 26, 2019, 09:07:45 AM »
I'm going to say that profit is one component.  I also think it is about passion and providing some meaningful product or service to people.  If it is just about money, I think most people would burn out and not succeed.  Successful business owners almost always love what they do, which means they do it well, and that reinforces itself.  Just my thoughts.
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