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MourningView posted:We as a society really need to just quit paying attention to Darren Rovell.
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MourningView posted:We as a society really need to just quit paying attention to Darren Rovell. I unfollowed him after the Jaime Edmondson incident and have essentially tried to delete his existence from his mind. So the SOE article ended up being a hilarious trip down memory lane.
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Feb 11, 2013 22:48
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I've been pretty impressed with Sports on Earth as a whole since its launch. It's weird that they're already losing Posnanski to NBC but the guy's been a nomad over the last two years.
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Feb 11, 2013 22:53
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Hint: NBC has a shitload more money than USA Today
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Crazy Ted posted:I admire the guy and detest him at the same time. He gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to namedrop and baselessly speculate about endorsement opportunities. "Sports business reporter" is certainly a useful position in this day and age but it would help a lot if the person best known for doing it wasn't a PR shill and also an egotistical boop beep sperglord
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Feb 11, 2013 23:28
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Do you think a guy with 300,000 twitter followers in going to hold an elevator for a guy with only 20,000 twitter followers? C'MON.
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I acknowledge the fact that Darren Rovell has to exist while hating the fact that he does.
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The Prisoner posted:I've been pretty impressed with Sports on Earth as a whole since its launch. It's weird that they're already losing Posnanski to NBC but the guy's been a nomad over the last two years. Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. I find myself going to SOE a lot more often than Grantland these days.
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barkingclam posted:Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. I find myself going to SOE a lot more often than Grantland these days. My perspective might be a little skewed because I don't care about anything but basketball, but it doesn't seem like the editors at Grantland care about anything but basketball.
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morestuff posted:My perspective might be a little skewed because I don't care about anything but basketball, but it doesn't seem like the editors at Grantland care about anything but basketball.
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The Prisoner posted:I've been pretty impressed with Sports on Earth as a whole since its launch. It's weird that they're already losing Posnanski to NBC but the guy's been a nomad over the last two years. It's good but not great. Leitch, Patrick Hruby and the Chuck Culpepper piece on Ayanbadejo are the best they've produced.
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Feb 12, 2013 06:32
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/icehockey/9861061/Watching-TV-sport-is-just-horse-play-on-ice.html Briton fails to understand hockey and, I suspect, Paul Romanuk. Chooses to blame modernity(?) quote:Likewise, I was content to plead ignorance of the sport as a whole. In an ideal world, I could devote hours and months to studying and appreciating the game: its nuance, its lexicon, its characters. Should ESPN continue its ice hockey coverage, I could even become a regular spectator one day.
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Feb 12, 2013 13:34
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Reading that, I got this strange feeling it was some avant-garde piece about how people that intentionally don't understand baseball stats seem really stupid.
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Crion posted:Patrick Hruby owns The new Patrick Hruby piece is amazing - ESPN/OTL on George Visger, CTE, brain damage, you know, NFL stuff: http://www.patrickhruby.net/2013/02/the-damage-done.html
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Yeah, it's a great piece, and links to an old SI report on concussions from '94 that's rather amazing to read.
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Does podcast stuff count here? Because Baseball Today with Eric Karabell and (usually) Keith Law is over. It was really good, and they were really great at addressing advanced stats and they had a lot of insight. It was replaced with Buster Olney and the Baseball Tonight Podcast. The first one featured him talking about his childhood and a like 5 minute story about how Deion Sanders called him a loser once. loving A. What a difference.
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Spoeank posted:Does podcast stuff count here? Because Baseball Today with Eric Karabell and (usually) Keith Law is over. It was really good, and they were really great at addressing advanced stats and they had a lot of insight. Well I mean he is a loser so good on Deion for calling him out on it
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uublog posted:Well I mean he is a loser so good on Deion for calling him out on it Buster got off light http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO9jo8XkOfA
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Feb 14, 2013 06:43
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Spoeank posted:Does podcast stuff count here? Because Baseball Today with Eric Karabell and (usually) Keith Law is over. It was really good, and they were really great at addressing advanced stats and they had a lot of insight. So it's going to be Buster Olney and probably Tim Kurjikan rambling for about 30 minutes now? You'd think ESPN of all media companies would be able to line up some interesting former players or coaches to do some podcasts for them. Hell, if Herm Edwards did their NFL podcast I'd listen everyday. ElwoodCuse posted:Buster got off light Hahaha. Why the hell was he criticizing him for playing two sports in a day to begin with? Isn't that the kind of stuff analysts love to go on about?
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Feb 14, 2013 06:59
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When I think "voices totally suited for podcasting and radio" I think Tim Kurkijan!
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ElwoodCuse posted:Buster got off light Deion's gotta criticize, like, Delmon_Dogg to complete the trifecta now
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Klaw's mentioned a few times a mystery project which sounded to me like a new podcast so there may be hope still for some sort of listenable baseball-related podcast. Seriously, first Up and In and now Baseball Today. Boo.
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dshban posted:Klaw's mentioned a few times a mystery project which sounded to me like a new podcast so there may be hope still for some sort of listenable baseball-related podcast. Seriously, first Up and In and now Baseball Today. Boo. UGH, yes, there must be some curse on cool baseball podcasts or something. At least Up and In had to go because KG was hired by the Motherfucking Astros, this just feels like ESPN doing a dumb thing... just because, I dunno. Taking the bets on what will leave us next. Better not be Effectively Wild. There are not enough cool people at BP who aren't Lindbergh or Miller. FanGraphs, maybe? But where else would I be able to avoid Dave Cameron?!? (I actually like Cistulli, for the record.) There hasn't been a PRodcast in a couple weeks, *concern*! ...And now I'm imagining what a SAS podcast would be like and I think my head just exploded 
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uublog posted:...And now I'm imagining what a SAS podcast would be like and I think my head just exploded This was tried once. We got Gendo as an old timey newscaster, KJI's Voice, and a whole lot of awkward. Then it died after about two weeks.
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We also did a football-centric podcast that was fun as hell but sputtered out because Fiz got bored and stopped yelling (and no one was willing to organize topics).
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uublog posted:...And now I'm imagining what a SAS podcast would be like and I think my head just exploded Lana's roundtables are probably a reasonable enough facsimile.
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leokitty posted:When I think "voices totally suited for podcasting and radio" I think Tim Kurkijan! quote:Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN
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SB Nation's Padres blog posts an article celebrating the injury of a player who chose to go to college rather than sign with them.quote:That leaves us Padres fans with some nice schadenfreude. Whitson will sit out this season and either enter the draft as damaged goods (unlikely), enter next year after returning from injury (more likely) or redshirt this year in order to play 2 more seasons and enter the 2015 draft. In any case, Whitson could have already had around $2 million of Padres money, but played hardball in contract negotiations. He either may never see that kind of money or delayed seeing anything close to it for a significant period of time. It would be trite to say "Stay classy, San Diego", wouldn't it?
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Here's the writer of the Whitson piece bragging to the site owner about how much traffic it will bring. I've seen some disgusting poo poo posted about baseball prospects but this is above and beyond.
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More evidence for my theory that any time you see someone use the word "schadenfreude" on the internet, you can immediately stop reading (it is a corollary to my iron law that you must immediately discount the opinion of anyone who uses the phrase "karma is a bitch" unironically with extreme prejudice.)
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Feb 15, 2013 04:50
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Fauxhawk Express posted:Looks like the article's been yanked now. With a bogus apology and still defending the meat of the article. If these guys still have a blog tomorrow SBNation should probably not get much more traffic.
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jeffersonlives posted:Here's the writer of the Whitson piece bragging to the site owner about how much traffic it will bring. He deleted this tweet too. 
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Heaven forbid someone go to college instead of getting stuck in the rigors of minor league ball getting paid $19k or less a year and be consistently on the road.
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uublog posted:(I actually like Cistulli, for the record.) he's an insufferable jackass who writes his own wikipedia article
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If you want to read the terrible Gaslamp post in full I saved it  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6c4QTMoPrdtWGw5RzJXRzZfRjQ/edit
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