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Mahoning posted:Nah man, McNulty and Bunk go to an Orioles game with his kid and see his ex-wife sitting behind home plate with her new boyfriend. I think there's another Orioles game maybe in the season about the school district? Could be wrong about that one. The Sopranos holds up a lot less well on rewatch. There have been more great TV shows in a similar mold since so it doesn't stand it the way it did when it started, and there are a LOT of just outright bad episodes. I tried to go through it not that long ago and stopped in like season 3
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They probably should've ended the show when Livia's actress passed away, she was the one holding it all together and it feels like they had no ideas left when the character just died with no closure. But Furio does indeed own.
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MourningView posted:The Sopranos holds up a lot less well on rewatch. There have been more great TV shows in a similar mold since so it doesn't stand it the way it did when it started, and there are a LOT of just outright bad episodes. I tried to go through it not that long ago and stopped in like season 3 Another big problem is the pacing. When a show starts, the showrunner has no idea how long it's going to run, at any moment he could be told that this is the final season and suddenly have to cut short all his long-game plot points and wrap them up. Or worse, that the show is a hit and is going to run seven seasons and now he has to stretch (or less charitably, dilute) the show's original vision to cover the extended time. Either way, the whole thing ends up feeling really disjoint when you sit down and watch it all at once.
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There was an episode of Homicide filmed during an Orioles game. Scott Erickson and Armando Benitez were guest stars. Another time, Kellerman's drunk brothers broke into the Babe Ruth museum.
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So It Goes posted:A decent read about ESPN's new sportscenter, the six. i firmly believe all hatred of anyone involved with that hour is 100% racism like not even bringing back hank williams jr is gonna shut them up
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Vertical Lime posted:i firmly believe all hatred of anyone involved with that hour is 100% racism I like Michael and Jemele but that show thinks it's way funnier and much more clever than it actually is.
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sportsgenius86 posted:I like Michael and Jemele but that show thinks it's way funnier and much more clever than it actually is. Same, but I have basically zero patience for any TV talking-head stuff
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sportsgenius86 posted:I like Michael and Jemele but that show thinks it's way funnier and much more clever than it actually is. I like that show, anytime it happens to be on I enjoy it. I just don't watch ESPN much anymore.
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sportsgenius86 posted:I like Michael and Jemele but that show thinks it's way funnier and much more clever than it actually is. Yeah I'm not a fan of it. I liked their old show because everything felt natural. Maybe because there was no pressure. The new show just feels forced.
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Niwrad posted:Yeah I'm not a fan of it. I liked their old show because everything felt natural. Maybe because there was no pressure. The new show just feels forced. Exactly. His and Hers was great because it was conversational and it felt like they were just hanging out. They're trying way too hard to be entertaining on The Six, but I put that more on the producers than them.
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Mahoning posted:Nah man, McNulty and Bunk go to an Orioles game with his kid and see his ex-wife sitting behind home plate with her new boyfriend. I think there's another Orioles game maybe in the season about the school district? Could be wrong about that one. One of the journalists in season 5 is sent to Orioles opening day and makes up a story about a disabled kid trying to score tickets, which might be what you mean
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:One of the journalists in season 5 is sent to Orioles opening day and makes up a story about a disabled kid trying to score tickets, which might be what you mean Yes! Thank you, I knew there was something about Opening Day.
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howe_sam posted:I didn't know Mitch Albom was in The Wire. Hahaha goddamn
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I thought we had a society had agreed to never discuss season 5 of the wire again.
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So judging by the continuing "controversy" that's been unfolding ESPN really hosed the pooch on the whole Jemelle Hill thing. I wonder if she feels like she can stay an ESPN employee given that she's publicly received zero support from them.
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if there's one thing espn proved it's that it should continually kowtow to the insane people who are constantly talking about its LIBERAL BIAS and yelling about boycotting it instead of the much larger number of normal people who tune in to watch sports games
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R.D. Mangles posted:if there's one thing espn proved it's that it should continually kowtow to the insane people who are constantly talking about its LIBERAL BIAS and yelling about boycotting it instead of the much larger number of normal people who tune in to watch sports games And if you'll remember Max Bretos, who has a Chinese wife and thus half-Chinese kids, getting suspended for a month for saying that Jeremy Lin had a "chink in his armor", sometimes nobody even has to complain. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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Crazy Ted posted:ESPN has a long history of basically bending its knees to anyone will complain loudly enough about it, right or wrong. Didn't ESPN refuse to let Simmons interview Obama?
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Didn't ESPN refuse to let Simmons interview Obama? Yes I think so Marc Maron got the pod iirc
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Didn't ESPN refuse to let Simmons interview Obama?
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Simmons wanted to do the interview during primary season and ESPN thought it was too early to give air time to candidates, though I dimly recall that after Obama got the nomination ESPN let Rick Reilly interview him, which really chapped Bill's rear end.
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howe_sam posted:Simmons wanted to do the interview during primary season and ESPN thought it was too early to give air time to candidates, though I dimly recall that after Obama got the nomination ESPN let Rick Reilly interview him, which really chapped Bill's rear end.
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Crazy Ted posted:Yeah that drove Bill nuts. For a long time.
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Crazy Ted posted:So judging by the continuing "controversy" that's been unfolding ESPN really hosed the pooch on the whole Jemelle Hill thing. I wonder if she feels like she can stay an ESPN employee given that she's publicly received zero support from them. I don't agree with how they've handled it but I also don't think they need to be publicly supporting an employee who says that regardless of the accuracy of it. If you wanna say "hey, she did that on her own time, that's her thing" then fine. But "we support Jemele in this situation" is probably too much IMO. The absolute best thing they could have done is just let it roll however it rolls since it wasn't said during a network thing.
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Tangential, I remember whenever I worked at the college radio station, any and all "sensitive" (read: where opinions came into play) topics got the disclaimer in front (the long and short of it: "The following views and opinions are not necessarily the views and opinions of the school, board of regents, and the station itself"), including the sports show. Except once which, go figure, was a pre-recorded show regarding the recent bigoted graffiti on campus and explicitly saying it wasn't going to be tolerated.
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R.D. Mangles posted:to be fair, if i lost an interview to rick reilly i'd also grind my teeth, it would certainly be hard to chew on
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Crazy Ted posted:ESPN has a long history of basically bending its knees to anyone will complain loudly enough about it, right or wrong. Man I forgot they actually printed that, Jesus Max and his editor should have been suspended.
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Charles Pierce Status:  https://twitter.com/SeanFennessey/status/908198367326437376
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Honest question because I can't remember: why did curt schilling get fired? Was any reasoning ever given by ESPN? I mean I know it was because he's a piece of poo poo and made bigoted Facebook posts or whatever, but I don't know if ESPN ever gave formal acknowledgement about it. I'm sure the situation is already being compared by twitter users with stoner frog avatars.
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So It Goes posted:Honest question because I can't remember: why did curt schilling get fired? Was any reasoning ever given by ESPN? I mean I know it was because he's a piece of poo poo and made bigoted Facebook posts or whatever, but I don't know if ESPN ever gave formal acknowledgement about it. I'm sure the situation is already being compared by twitter users with stoner frog avatars. It was never really just one specific event, they just got fed up with all the flak he was bringing upon them over and over.
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He kept posting blatantly racist poo poo after being told not to. They gave him way more chances than he deserved too. And yes in the minds of dumb racist rear end in a top hat being racist and calling a person racist are the exact same thing so this is a terrible double standard
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