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Christ Pseudoscientist posted:I was under the impression that Grantland was using sponsorships from companies more so than advertisements for their revenue stream. Considering some of the writers involved with the site I'm thinking it is more of a vanity project for ESPN which they can afford to take a loss on. Sponsors still want to know that a site has eyeballs on it, though.
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Ribsauce posted:I hope they don't add them. User comments are worthless, I have never seen a website improved by them. I hate them because even though I know they will be horrible I can't not click on them. AVClub can be funny sometimes. But sports websites comments are usually worse than YouTube.
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Christ Pseudoscientist posted:I was under the impression that Grantland was using sponsorships from companies more so than advertisements for their revenue stream. Considering some of the writers involved with the site I'm thinking it is more of a vanity project for ESPN which they can afford to take a loss on. The real money most sites get from advertising online is through sponsorships, that is not something outside of the norm. They probably get a guaranteed number of impressions for their units, nobody is sponsoring the site or sections of it just for the Hell of it.
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Steve Kelley is at it again! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/stevekelley/2015304408_kelley13.html quote:But this season's sharp decline poses two questions: How will he handle this autumn of his career? And how will the Mariners handle him? It's more subtle "Ichiro is selfish" bullshit that the Seattle media always likes to throw out for some reason. I also love the assumption of "Ichiro can hit 20-25 HRs" because Ichiro can mash 60mph BP balls over the fence. Ichiro has been one of the best athletes in Seattle history and our media always wants to crucify him.
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seiferguy posted:Steve Kelley is at it again! I hate that Bill Plaschke style of paragraphs only being two sentences or less. Steve Kelley hasn't improved in the 20+ years I have lived in Seattle. Get Ron Judd off the fish count because at least he writes good columns.
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Ian O'Connor is beside himself because Derek Jeter pulled a muscle. http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/columns/story?columnist=oconnor_ian&id=6658934 quote:… if Jeter were available to comment after his MRI he surely would’ve said he would return to the lineup the only way he knows how—ASAP. No captain who busted up his cover-boy face on a teeth-first dive into the stands against Boston in 2004 and then played against the Mets the following night would ever allow a silly little calf strain to keep him down for long … It was something that reminded all witnesses of Jeter’s extensive wear and tear, and of a noble willingness to play hurt that reminded Monahan of certified ruffians the likes of Thurman Munson.
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Captain Charisma posted:Ian O'Connor is beside himself because Derek Jeter pulled a muscle.
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I hope A-Rod strains a calf tonight, so we can do a compare-and-contrast.
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seiferguy posted:Steve Kelley is at it again! On the plus side, he is literally never right and I look forward to Ichrio hitting .350 from here on out 
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Zifnab posted:On the plus side, he is literally never right and I look forward to Ichrio hitting .350 from here on out IIRC he is a notoriously slow starter and this season is (hopefully) just an extension of his normal "i need four months to hit like i'm the beast that i am" trait
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:IIRC he is a notoriously slow starter and this season is (hopefully) just an extension of his normal "i need four months to hit like i'm the beast that i am" trait Ichiro's worst OPS by month is in April but his best is in May and his second best is in June. This is all probably noise anyway.
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Grant Brisbee knows how to write a metaphor.quote:The Pirates won’t get a flag for finishing over .500, but they’d avoid another patch on the quilt of shame. Also, the thesis of that article is "the Pirates should be in win-now mode...except when they shouldn't. I guess GMing is hard!"
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http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6657523/so-cricket-maybe I didn't know Schur was writing for Grantland, but hey! Here he is.
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Crosspost from the NBA thread, but here's a great piece on Dirk and what his championship means.
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Deathlove posted:http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6657523/so-cricket-maybe It was good until they went into "cricket actually sucks" mode.
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zakharov posted:It was good until they went into "cricket actually sucks" mode. I never got "it sucks", more "holy poo poo this game is long and one of us is on vicodin". (which they could've stood to mention about 200% less) And now I know what the duck means!
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zakharov posted:It was good until they went into "cricket actually sucks" mode. But this is the first thing I have ever seen/read that successfully taught me the how cricket works.
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Drew Magary does not like LeBron James.quote:LeBron James Is STILL A Cocksucker
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GoutPatrol posted:But this is the first thing I have ever seen/read that successfully taught me the how cricket works. that, and it's the first time I've heard someone admit in a public forum that cricket does indeed suck. I thought that piece was really funny, especially their initial shock to what the hell is happening.
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GoutPatrol posted:But this is the first thing I have ever seen/read that successfully taught me the how cricket works. The first thing I think of when I hear "Cricket" is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0jPaTmWF5I There's a tiny clip of this in Take Him to the Greek, this is the full skit. Now that I have a rough idea of how the game is played, I think of this: http://www.videodetective.com/movies/trailers/the-fantastic-mr-fox-whack-bat-trailer/533796 They cut off the end of the play though. And The Fantastic Mr. Fox rules.
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Cricket owns and you all need to watch a game surrounded by rowdy Indians if you don't agree
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Crazy Ted posted:Drew Magary does not like LeBron James. I think why I don't buy into the Lebron hate at all is that I automatically assume the majority of athletes are basically megalomaniacal self-entitled assholes who are unbelievably narcissistic. I just figure they lie to the media during press conferences and interviews when they "say the right thing" and whatnot. I actually find it refreshing that Lebron just acts like himself and doesn't hide behind a wall of bullshit and boring platitudes and cliches. It's cool that he says spiteful and vindictive crap after losing a huge playoff series - that's how most athletes would feel, after all, for gently caress's sake.
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A line for the ages from Chris Jones about last night's Bruins victory:Chris Jones posted:Plenty of Canadians would have been rooting for Boston last night because, contrary to international opinion, we have our fair share of assholes up here, too.
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re: Grantland The site looks very good so far, and I'm impressed by it. The piece on The National was literally one of the best things I've read in a very long time; the information about Deford and making GBS threads on Mike Lupica had me enthralled the whole time. I really enjoyed Klosterman's piece on the JC basketball game in North Dakota as well. The fact that they let Simmons curse himself a blue streak is also appealing. I have not touched any of the pop culture stuff (except the HBO recycling piece, which was interesting but ultimately fluffy) because that does not interest me. I also thought Jay Caspian Kang's piece on Ichiro was a 5,000-word exercise in how to produce fascinating vignettes that do not tie together well at all. So far, so good. Looking forward to reading more.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:I have not touched any of the pop culture stuff (except the HBO recycling piece, which was interesting but ultimately fluffy) because that does not interest me. You haven't missed much (except for the LA Noire piece, which was excellent).
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This is not bad or good sportswriting but instead an example of the scourge of journalist on journalist legal violence.quote:ESPN's Chris Sheridan has sued New York Post writer Peter Vescey over an article Vescey wrote in December of 2010 for the post.
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morestuff posted:You haven't missed much (except for the LA Noire piece, which was excellent). Bissell hit it out of the park with "I wondered if the single most damning thing about video games is the fact that one could argue, legitimately, that 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is a better game than L.A. Noire."
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Anyone else getting a placeholder page instead of Grantland? edit: the link from the ESPN main page works but grantland.com is expired
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I heard their server was down earlier, but it's working for me.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Anyone else getting a placeholder page instead of Grantland? GGrantland.com is taking be to some typed-the-wrong-address type commercial site too. edit- oh there's the note in the corner about the site expiring 6/13/11?
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Groucho Marxist posted:A high profile pet project website ran by a major media conglomerate forgot to update their domain that expired under a month after the hyped launch of said website. It says that the site expired in 2008 when I load it.
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Site never went down for me. I have to say that once Simmons was able to get out from under being ESPN's Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy, he has continued to be the exact same writer. So I'm pretty excited about all the other people contributing to the site, who have been mostly excellent. I even liked Jimmy Kimmel's article.
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Badfinger posted:Site never went down for me. I have to say that once Simmons was able to get out from under being ESPN's Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy, he has continued to be the exact same writer. He gets to swear now! But yeah, if you read his first book, he was the exact same guy before he got to ESPN, so it's not too surprising that he hasn't changed. The rest of the site is really good though, so at least he has a eye for talent.
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So, uh, that article about "baggy uniforms and the post-steroid era" was supposed to be parody right? I mean, I can't imagine that this: quote:What proliferates across the sport now is the same discomfort with sartorial common sense that afflicts men across the country. There are bankers, doctors, and attorneys who arrive at the office looking like Casey McGehee in the sixth inning. There are men McGehee-ing at weddings and on second dates.
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I looked up the guy and he writes about uniforms and stuff on his personal blog (which I assume is what he was recruited from, not his film reviews) so...who knows? Fashion writing is mostly terrible because it's super classist and elitist and has very narrow views on acceptable vs not.
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Is it Paul Lukas? I can't see because Grantland still doesn't work for me. He digs up a lot of great information on uniform design and manufacturing and minutae but his opinions are pretty awful.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Is it Paul Lukas? I can't see because Grantland still doesn't work for me. He digs up a lot of great information on uniform design and manufacturing and minutae but his opinions are pretty awful. No, it's Wesley Morris, a reviewer for the Boston Globe who makes tons of catty comments on his blog about sports-related fashion (like leo said). leokitty posted:Fashion writing is mostly terrible because it's super classist and elitist and has very narrow views on acceptable vs not. This is the vibe I got from that article, along with a lot of creepy pseudo-fetishizing of muscly guys (that would still be creepy regardless of the author's gender, btw).
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