Three years ago, I sat at the boisterous Margaritaville bar on the Las Vegas Strip, admiring the lady pirates walking by on stilts, and contemplating the noxious battle between Fox and its affiliates over retrans sharing that was best summed up by the U2 lyrics cranking through Margaritaville's relentlessly loud speakers: I can't live/With or without you. A different couplet, bouncing around my head while resting some tired feet with a beer at a little Strip-side cantina near Caesars, captured the latest Sin City battle between Fox and its station partners. Adele, her voice smoky as the casino floor at the Flamingo, warbled: Just 'cause 1 said it/Don't mean that 1 meant it.
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