We know what you are, we’re just haggling over the fee.

All I can figure is that the heat must be doing something to the connection between Jim Delany’s brain and his mouth:

“When the cable company decides to send 70 channels — the food channel, and the dog channel and the bike channel and the jewelry channel — into your home, (we believe) that the Big Ten Network deserves to be in that grouping,” Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said. “Everything else is pretty negotiable.”

We’re scraping dangerously close to self-parody here.

Maybe they can merge the Big Ten Network with the Home Shopping Network to come up with a winner.