MOAR Dinosaurs, GM Auto Strike, MoviePass Shuts Down and QB Injuries

  Jurassic World released Battle of Big Rock Short Film

• https://twitter.com/jurassicworld/status/1173461348069650432?s=21
• Shows humans and dinosaurs living amongst one another. 
• Family of four encounter dinosaurs in the woods that turns into fight of their lives
• I've always loved Jurassic Park movies. Dinosaurs fascinate me. 
• Could this ever be a reality?
• Let's talk dinosaurs for a minute.

  Ash Ketchum finally wins Pokemon League Championship 

•  First time in the 20 year history Ash has won
• He has traveled across the land, searching far and wide, in an attempt to catch 'em all
• Twitter 
• • Well damn, the kid finally did it… 
  • "Which was bigger? LeBron coming back 3-1 against the Warriors or Ash Ketchum winning his first Pokemon league after a 22 year drought?"

  United Auto Workers kicked off a strike at GM's U.S. factories at midnight

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-15/union-set-to-let-gm-contract-expire-raising-odds-of-a-strike
• GM faces losses of $50M/day
• GM's first major work stoppage in 12 years.
• A reminder of the UAW's firepower: The 84-year-old union represents almost 150,000 workers at GM, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler factories in the U.S. It's got a $750 million war chest to keep paying members while they're on strike. 
• After tenuous recent discussions, GM made the unusual move of publicizing what it had offered the UAW in negotiations: $7 billion in new U.S. factory investments, 5,400 jobs, higher pay, and a proposal for idled plants.
• • The union wasn't impressed. It wants GM to a) accelerate entry-level workers' paths to peak wage b) invest more in U.S. factories and c) potentially add models to four plants without future products to produce.
• The UAW's dealing with internal chaos, too. A federal corruption investigation has targeted sitting officials, including president Gary Jones.

  MoviePass shuts down after disrupting the movie industry

• Founded in 2011, MoviePass offered a $40/month subscription that let you into any theater to watch any movie. Worth it only for the very lonely and movie-crazy.
• Mitch Lowe was hired as CEO. There were only 20K customers, so he cut the price by 75%.
• • At $10/month, the breakeven price for MoviePass was 1 movie per month, so people signed up. 3M people binged 5% of all movies watched in late 2018.
• Theaters still charged full price for each ticket, forcing MoviePass to pay the difference — and lose $21M/month ("Amazon lost money for 20 years" — the CEO). So it had to raise prices/add a bunch of restrictions.
• This Saturday: It's over. The parent company doesn't know when or if it will come back.
• Globo-theater-chain AMC now offers something like MoviePass. MoviePass "pulled a Napster": it changed the industry even though it didn't survive.

  Segment 2: Weekend Wrapup  

• We got absolutely slaughtered on the books this weekend. 
• No need to go pick by pick, we pretty much got beat on all of em this weekend.
• Only Winners:
• • Kansas City -7 // 28-10 over Oakland
  • Buffalo -2 // 28-14 over NYG
  • Dallas -5.5 // 31-21 over Washington
  • Pitt +17 // 10-17 loss to Penn State
  • OSU -17.5 // 51-10 over Indiana

  Antonio Brown got to play (even though Robert Kraft said he wouldn't have signed him if he knew about this lawsuit)… he caught a TD   Bad day for old QB's not named Tom Brady: Big Ben (elbow) and Drew Brees (thumb) both getting looked at today.    International football back in action:

• Spurs spanked Crystal Palace 4-0
• Roma took care of Sassuolo 4-2
• Norwich beating Man City 3-2
• Chelsea over Wolves 5-2
• Milan beat Verona 1-0 in a game where each team had a man sent off 
• Juventus stymied by Fiorentina 0-0

  Monday Thoughts: Could possibly quickly make a joke here about getting slaughtered in gambling this weekend.    Blake: Axe throwing conspiracies - all the videos online of axes bouncing off the wall and narrowly missing people. Where are the injuries?   Are the companies in bed with the insurance agencies?    Vincenzo:   Security lines at airports   These photos are from ATL this Monday morning at 7am, an airport I hate with all my soul.    But there has to be a better way with TSA and travel security. I don't know what it is, but the process should be streamlined, especially for frequent travelers.