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Ratings don't always equal money. Like I said, if you can't sell the advertising to high payers, then you're not generating money. The article didn't talk about how much that 25% pay cut came out to, did it? For someone has experienced as Tom Selleck, and Donnie Wahlberg, I can see being up there on a per episode basis, even after a 25% cut. And if I'm CBS, I'm not selling the show either. The residuals from having Blue Bloods in syndication and/or on streaming platforms is a way for them to keep revenue coming in without having to actually pay to produce more. 14 years is a crazy large catalog of episodes people will probably be willing to watch for a long time to come. At this point, CBS may have just wanted to make money on their 14 years of investment without putting any more into it due to diminishing returns.

I'm guessing budget cuts came into play. Networks are burning cash, and the talent density on Blue Bloods couldn't be cheap. I'm also wondering if all the older, conservative tilt of the audience limited advertising revenue to offset the costs of the show. Great ratings only matter if you can tell companies the people they want to buy their products are watching.

Hoping his family can come through their grief soonest as possible. Glad he didn't have prolonged suffering. Cherish the time you have with people, you never know how fleeting it can be.

I work for a physician practice. Patients come to our business office from time to time with questions and frustrations over their bills because our outsourced billing company has issues. They're usually all friendly enough and most are just confused by a Byzantine system. Some are sorta rude, I get it. None have ever been threatening, but I always wonder if one will come with a weapon some day because a clerical error of some type just pushed them over the edge. Nobody deserves to be shot, even the shady dealers of United Healthcare. Arrested or tried in civil court... absolutely. But this will accomplish nothing. It's just gonna be more overhead paying for executive's security details.

The money potential from Alabama going to Notre Dame in the first round of the expanded CFP is too good to pass up. Anytime someone thinks the CFP is supposed to be all for merit, I remind them to think of the CFP as television executives before anything else, and their choices make a lot more sense.

Ohio State showed more passion and grit in the post game scuffle than they did in the four quarters before it.

If everybody's done watching Vanderbilt get pasted, switch over to the Michigan-Ohio State game. Pretty snug late.

No matter what happens in the final two minutes of this Georgia versus Georgia tech game, I feel bad for the police officers in Athens. Either result is gonna have plenty of people going to jail tonight.

Three pistols in different calibers, pocket .380, .40, & 9mm in standard size; one shotgun; one fun gun .22LR rifle; and two ARs, one 16" & one 10.5" SBR.

Not really, but during my time in, food was at least plentiful if not fine dining. I remember being a new soldier to post, having no car, and walking to every meal. Thankfully the chow halls were only a few blocks away. But that was when before consolidation became a thing with military dining facilities. DoD can't pass an audit at the department level, so maybe they can start small and answer why funding for the chow halls on an Army post aren't at or above what's being collected from BAS pass through via meal card holders, or off post soldiers eating on base (this was usually breakfast 9/10 times I did it). Those kiosks mentioned in the article are a joke. Little more than what you see at a Twice Daily or a Speedy Cafe. They're a horrible try and look good solution to a real problem. It's telling these issues keep coming up for the Army. I don't recall hearing any Navy/Marine Corps bases having issues, and I'm damn sure the Air Force isn't having chow problems. This is an Army leadership problem. General officers and SES civilians should be getting fired, but I'm not holding my breath.

With Ole Miss, Alabama, and Colorado all taking an L this weekend, the real winner is Paul Finebaum with all the content in the world to talk about.

Ole Miss especially and Indiana to a degree both helped Tennessee when it comes to rankings today. Billy Napier probably salvaged some reputation too.

My opinion of him aside, he's proven not to need much of anything else in his day to day.

Alabama best Georgia and LSU. Tennessee's loss to Arkansas combined with a weak showing against Florida are being held against them I'd guess. Will be interesting to see where the CFP sorts this out for the week.