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He was from the later years of One Day at a Time. He tried to trade in his lukewarm heartthrob status by releasing an album of "music."
Takes a little bit to get going, but you get the double whammy of Glenn singing, and Ann Jillian of "Mr. Mom" fame, pretending to enjoy it in the most uncomfortable way possible. The best thing about it is there is no autotune, so you really hear how awful he is.
Plus I just loved that album cover. I bought the album for my wife back in the day.
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Obviously they were on a Jennifer Slept Here junket.
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In the series, Ann Jillian plays Jennifer Farrell: a once-popular movie actress who made the unfortunate mistake of chasing an ice cream truck near her <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles, California</a> home. When the ice cream truck accidentally backed up, it ran her over, killing her. Years later, the Elliot family from New York City moved into Jennifer's home. Father George was a lawyer who had handled Jennifer's posthumous affairs, including the house. George's wife, Susan, was a concerned and understanding figure. Daughter Marilyn was a typical 8-year-old.
The driving story behind the series was that Jennifer haunted the Elliot house—ostensibly to mentor and befriend the family's teenage son, Joey, who was the only person to whom she made herself visible. Naturally, Joey had a hard time convincing his family and friends of Jennifer's ghostly existence. They not only refused to believe Joey's claim, but often concluded Joey needed psychiatric or other help. In one episode, they hired a phony exorcist (played by Zelda Rubinstein in a parody of her <i>Poltergeist</i> character Tangina Barrons) to rid the house of Jennifer's spirit by capturing it in a jar.
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Cousin Eddie's son, right?
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What's the Scarpelli connection to Jennifer Slept Here?
I'm ashamed to say that I remember that show.
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He played "Marc." I was love with Ann Jillian since Making/It's a Living. I remember JSH well.
And, yes, that's Cousin Eddie's son. He also played "Ox" in the Mr. T episode of Silver Spoons.
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I will definitely be investing in this IPO if it happens.
Quote:MLB's acclaimed tech division mulls going public
By Josh Kosman | NY Post
June 24, 2015 | 7:47pm
Major League Baseball's vaunted technology division is talking to bankers about taking itself public, but the multibillion-dollar enterprise would be making the move without its flagship MLB.com or any other baseball assets, including ticketing, The Post has learned.
It's an odd position for MLB Advanced Media and the 30 team owners that control the 15-year-old entity whose technology is used to stream a slew of non-baseball content, from HBO and Sony programming to World Wrestling Entertainment events and NHL games.
MLBAM boss Robert Bowman has hired Goldman Sachs and Evercore to explore options for the non-baseball entity, including an IPO or the sale of a minority stake to an outside investor, sources said.
This is the non-sports related stuff [that] Bowman is talking about with bankers, one source confirmed.
The owners would love to cash in on what has turned out to be a very lucrative investment. Each team chipped in $4 million to fund MLBAM in the late 90s. MLBAM values the non-baseball division, which would be called BamTech, at around $3 billion, according to a source. That's roughly a third of the overall entity, which is assigned a $10 billion valuation.
Still, flipping the switch on what could be a very profitable initial public offering for the team owners won't be that easy.
That's because MLBAM has been going to bat against various regional sports networks over an extremely valuable piece of business - the rights to stream baseball games in local markets.
Big market owners have been siding with the regional sports networks, believing they should be able to sell the rights to the RSNs. The RSNs and MLB have been in ongoing negotiations for several years over the contentious issue.
MLBAM broadcasts all games except those involving teams in their local markets to protect cable-rights deals and feels it owns the rights. Currently, MLB doesn't stream games and only picks up and distributes broadcasts from the RSNs.
The RSNs half of which are owned by Fox Sports own the rights to air games in their markets via traditional cable and local broadcast methods. They contend local streaming is a logical extension of those rights, and are pressing MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred for a decision.
With streaming being the preferred method for consuming video content worldwide, the value of those rights could go through the roof. Currently, because of these high stakes, streaming of local games isnt available.
If the decision were to swing to the RSNs, thousands of baseball fans who now pay roughly $110 a season for every out-of-market game to be streamed to their TV or portable device would drop the service in exchange for one that just streamed their local team, which would drastically lower the value of MLBAM.
That is the crux of the problem facing team owners: Take MLBAM public now or wait until the streaming-rights issue is settled, whenever that might be.
By doing the non-baseball IPO now, it would allow MLBAM to raise money so it can bid for more streaming contracts, sources said.
MLB announced a deal this year with Dish Network to stream in-market games, but for now none of the RSNs is sharing their content with Dish.
MLB declined to comment.
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Quote:I went to HS with a Scarpelli. Total douche.
If Angelo had picked McClellin, I would have been expecting to hear by training camp that kid has stage 4 cancer, is actually 5'2" 142 lbs, is a chick who played in a 7 - 0 defensive scheme who only rotated in on downs which were 3 and 34 yds + so is not expecting to play a down in the NFL until the sex change is complete and she puts on another 100 lbs. + but this is Emery's first pick so he'll get a pass with a bit of questioning. - 1060Ivy
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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena. ![[Image: ITgoyeg.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ITgoyeg.png)
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In that battle between Chicago and Philly for Sandberg, I would say things worked out for the best for us.
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I'm not really sure why I'm feeling a little schadenfreude about this. I love Sandberg. I guess it's more about the people who wanted Sandberg to be manager for the Cubs just because it would have fulfilled some deranged nostalgia fantasy where all the ex "Cubbies" can lead the team to the world series and get the ring they really deserved when they were playing so it can be 1984 forever and ever.
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This is precisely why I didn't want Sandberg to manage the team when Quade took over. There's no way he'd have made it through those shitty teams. That and the fact that he's a small ball, old school manager.
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Quote:I'm not really sure why I'm feeling a little schadenfreude about this. I love Sandberg. I guess it's more about the people who wanted Sandberg to be manager for the Cubs just because it would have fulfilled some deranged nostalgia fantasy where all the ex "Cubbies" can lead the team to the world series and get the ring they really deserved when they were playing so it can be 1984 forever and ever.
I think many Cubs fans saw it work in the southside 10 years ago, and were hoping the Cubs could replicate it.
I was one of them who wanted Sandberg, but in hindsight I'm glad things worked out the way they did. I'm not sure Theo pulls the plug on Sandberg to get Maddon...like he did with Renteria.
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I feel bad for Sandberg. I'd like to think we could find a place for him in the organization somewhere, but I doubt that would work.
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