The Goat Pen

I, like Bklyn, am going to a friend's house for free. Sorta.

So Mayweather Promotions is blocking Michelle Beadle and Rachel Nichols from the fight. Seems pretty dumb and pretty counterproductive way to not seem like a total scumbag.

Mayweather is a total ass. He doesn't like people calling him on the 7 times (that we know of) that he beat the shit outta his woman (and in front of his kid).

I hope Manny pounds his brains out.

Oh well. Floyd likes being the bad guy, it increases the take as people watch to see him lose.

It wasn't a close fight. I had it at 9 rounds to 2 with one draw at best.

I had it at 7-5. Regardless, Mayweather was better.

The best part about that boring fight was Jimmy Kimmel

I watched the fight on SNL. Pacquio was just out of shape

the friend that bought the fight doesn't have a lot--there were 4 of us who chipped in ----having the host pay for it all would have hurt--I don't think he makes he makes more then 50 k a year plus his wife had a stroke very young so she cant work. I didn't mind chipping in.

fight sucked--everytime paquio got him in the corner or against the ropes with a combo he seemed to let him loose. mayweather is a master at his craft but nobody wants to pay to see a defensive specialist show his craft at a hundred dollars a pop

LMAO. They do, they don't care, they're all lemmings who just want to see something if everybody else says they are going to see it. Boxing is all hype, no substance when it comes to the governance of the sport and its popularity.

a friend of mine owns a bar/restaurant and was advertising on Facebook that he was going to show the fight and have a live band, all for a cover charge of $5.

He's several hundred miles away so I wasn't going but I couldn't figure out how he was covering his costs. I didn't say anything to him because I didn't want to sound like an ass but the morning of the fight he was posting that someone from the promotions company called him and told him that it was $4K for him to show the fight and he was all pissed and canceled, blaming them for being greedy.

I think he honestly thought he could just buy the package as an individual and then let everyone see it at his bar

Yeah, up the cover to $20 and ditch the band.

I was hearing on the radio that for commercial establishments there are rate tranches based on fire code seating capacity. It works out to about $20 a customer if the guy sells out. He just has to make sure he gets more than $20 of profits out of each customer. It helps the East Coasters more because people will want to settle in earlier and eat and drink until midnight when the fight starts.

I keep reading about McDonalds slumping sales with interest

It seems to me that both McDonalds and WalMart are suffering from the same problem - they are last resort/last moment retailers

No one - not even the people with very limited means gets excited about going to either one - you shop/eat there for convenience and price, but not because you value the goods they sell, so consequently, when you have an opportunity to go somewhere else, you do - as often as your budget allows. They are retailers that almost universally in America people shop at but wish they were somewhere else.

I'm not sure how you'd fix it but people need to feel good about shopping/eating there - for Wal-Mart, I think the solution is pretty straight forward - go back to buying American made goods - push your supply chain to relocate back into America and generate more American jobs - then people would tolerate buying shit products because they'd feel some patriotic response for buying at those concrete wastelands of human despair. Personally I'm even more anti-walmart now than I was 5 years ago - and its more a "who shops there" kind of thing than it is what Wal-Mart represents as a company. The only way I'd tolerate going back is if I felt they were helping my community or nation as a whole. My goal now is to avoid shopping at places where I may see people in pajamas at 3:00pm.

For McDonalds - you have to get past that whole supersize me thing. People want to be able to order off your menu and not think they are slowly killing their selves by heart disease. They want to think they are buying quality food that is nutritional - but still has the appeal of a quarter pounder with cheese combo.

I'm not sure what the answer is with McDonalds. Clearly there is still a market for greasy burger combos as Five Guys and In/Out Burger are (or were) doing well. But I have to say that going to McDonalds and paying upwards of $8 for a drink , fries and a sandwich for their "premium" chicken or burger makes me look for alternatives. If I"m gonna pay $8 a McDonalds, I might as well pay $10 for Chipotle or Five Guys - or go to a sit down mexican place where I can get a lunch special, drink and leave for tip for $10 (plus all the salsa and chips you can eat) . If I could eat at McDonalds guilt free - a veggie burger, baked fries and a natural ingredient cola - and still think I"m close to what passes for taste as a quarter pounder, I'm gonna eat there alot more if its $8.

But that may just be me. I"m not sure American really cares, they're just tired of McDonalds. Its the restaurant equivalent of a $2 package of Bologna you pick up at the store to make sandwiches for the camping trip or school lunch.

Here's the answer: McDonald's sucks. They always have. I eat there very rarely and as soon as I bite into it, I wish I had gone somewhere else. Even the Big Mac, which really doesn't have a competitor anywhere else, just doesn't appeal to me anymore.

Walmart is what every other discount chain has been: cheap and dirty. People go there because it's cheap but nobody really wants to go there. I think even the slugs who populate it would rather go somewhere else.

I remember when our little town had a handful of discount chains: Rose's, King's, Cook's, Nichol's Discount City. I guess Walmart was one of those in the '70s in Arkansas until it started eating up all the others. I miss having lots of choices to shop and I'm part of the problem because I do go to Walmart, mainly because it's cheap but we don't have that many choices and Rose's doesn't sell anything that will last more than a few months.

Breakfast all day will save McDonald's

as a little kid I used to get excited about going to McDonalds, partly because the closest one was 17 miles away. I guess in a way I'm still conditioned to have that same excitement when I see the golden arches, but now the only time I consider McD's is when I only have like 10 minutes for lunch. I can go at noon and there is seldom a line at our local one.

After my kids got past the happy meal stage, they hated McDonalds. They refuse to go there and would rather eat a ham sandwich at home if McD's is their only option.

Turns out Pacquio had a torn rotator cuff and hid that little detail. Problem is, he signed forms testifying to his good health and Nevada is considering criminal charges. Later this week Pacquio is scheduled for rotator cuff surgery and the surgeon copped to everything.

Another reason I'm glad I sat that one out.

wonder if fans have any legal recourse on this one

imagine paying 5 figures or betting 5 figures where one guy hid the truth from the world for a pay check

NFL used to do it now its the questionable doubtful etc etc, I think college hides behind the privacy thing and will not release anything

boxing always was shady.

wonder how many people having that inside information bet their whole world on mayweather

"I'm not sure what the answer is with McDonalds."

Hot pepper/lemon water. That's the answer to everything...

I doubt anybody who knew what they were doing bet on Pacquiao regardless of knowledge about an injury.