Anybody think they will do a commemorative stamp for McBeth's time with Innova. Those seem to be all the rage.
Count on it.
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Anybody think they will do a commemorative stamp for McBeth's time with Innova. Those seem to be all the rage.
How long before PMB MFC T3s go up in value?
i'm surprised how many people are assuming PMB will get a company stake at Discraft.
they're a big company and disc golf is just a small part. the best-selling Discraft disc is the UltraStar. i highly doubt they are giving away company stakes just to lure a player to sponsor. it's far more likely that the deal was a better offer on royalties and a promise of a full time, salaried position upon retirement... Director of Disc Golf Operations?
i think it's a real smart move on the part of both Discraft and PMB. Paul should be thinking about his legacy and decades of royalties off signature discs... and if Discraft offers a better deal in that regard then it's a no-brainer. and Discraft knows that PMB will be a household name in disc golf for at least a generation. having a future Hall-of-Famer on the playing team and then eventually on the corporate team will guarantee their relevance for a long time.
I'm surprised how many people are assuming he's going to Discraft at all
I mean I know it was the early rumor
We could easily speculate 5 different good options
I didn't ask this question directly, but people at Innova have told me that his contract runs through 12/31/18 (sorry that's 31/12/18 for our European friends), and Paul is abiding by that. I'm interpreting two things out of that:
1 - this gives context to the lack of announcement by Paul (I've also been told that both Paul and Innova are leaving off on good terms and that the proverbial door will always be open to him).
2 - the contract as signed will remain in effect until the New Year, including all royalties, etc.
This is my understanding as well.
JV, you are underestimating queue times for a company that size. They don't wake up in the morning and figure out what they're gonna mold. The queue's are months long, as all of the discmaniacs understand quite well...because when a Discmania mold takes off and they run out, people essentially end up waiting until a) more can be stamped or b) more can be molded. The wait for the latter is usually a few months.
You could make a quick change and cheaply pump out extra product...but I think consumers would frankly see through that and it would end up being product left on shelves.
My interpretation of that video (and post circa 2014) - and this is just my .02 here - is that it needs the context of baseball. I think baseball was always his first love, and when we filmed some stuff with him a few years ago (that didn't release...yet...but that's a rabbit hole), we were at a little league diamond where he was fielding grounders from his brother and lasering them to the fence behind first base. His grandpa was there telling me, "watch the way he moves to the ball" etc.
I think the original dream destiny for Paul was the MLB. Disc golf popped up as an opportunity in his teens, and he pulled the thread to get to where he is.
Without that context, it seems like he was saying, "nah I'm not really into it" - but I think he was meaning that (referring to the 2014 post here) he was realizing that he was at the end of the road as far as his talent alone could take him, and he would need to make it a bigger priority in order to turn (at the time) a shock-the-world pair of World Championships into a long-term career at the top.
Remember that in 2014, the last time we saw back-to-back world champions was Barry Schultz in 03-04, and nobody since Climo had gone 3-in-a-row.
I believe Climo to that point in 2014, was the only player to go 3 in a row for World Championship wins but went more then that. Could be wrong and might have a player in the late 1980's- early 1990's who won 3 in a row.
Climo was the only winner of the USDGC for a long time as the tournament is only from 1999 but won the USDGC longer then people had expected. Before 1999 PDGA did not have an official USA Tournament since the 1980's with the US Open ending in at latest in really early 1990's and before the US Open the American Fly Disc Open or AFDO for short, dating back to 1974.
I don't understand how people still don't get that he's going to Discraft
I don't just blindly believe unsubstantiated rumors from the internet.
I don't understand how people still don't get that he's going to Discraft
I'm surprised how many people are assuming he's going to Discraft at all
I mean I know it was the early rumor
We could easily speculate 5 different good options
Even rumors confirmed by existing Discraft team members?
Let's just pretend that we don't already know he's going to Discraft. I'd like to hear your take on 5 good options.
Well, looking at lists of top selling discs is pretty dull these days - Innova has most of the top 20 - Buzzz, Judge, are usually the only regular interlopers in this charts, courtesy of Infinite and DGC. Spreading the wealth is good with me.
Even rumors confirmed by existing Discraft team members?
Think I'll play with this comet thing for longer