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Nate Silvers gonna sit in an arm chair while an ESPN executive throws heaps of money at him from one side and Skip Bayless just yells incoherent gay slurs at him from the other side. This would be a 22 minute format show.
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Jul 22, 2013 16:23
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The broken bones posted:Writing a few articles on ESPN.com won't justify bringing him on board. Yeah but I don't care about that part. If I get more Silver-ized sports articles, that's a win for me.
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Jul 22, 2013 16:26
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Put a competent host with Silver and Barnwell and give them a show
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Jul 22, 2013 17:21
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Peter King's MMQB has its own site now: http://mmqb.si.com/
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Jul 22, 2013 18:06
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It's debatable whether writing about baseball cards counts as Sports Journalism, but I don't care. Have Sam Eifling on The Rise and Fall of Upper Deck.
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Jul 22, 2013 19:03
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:It's debatable whether writing about baseball cards counts as Sports Journalism, but I don't care. Have Sam Eifling on The Rise and Fall of Upper Deck. The book Card Sharks that's referenced there is a good read if you're into the collectibles industry. I just read it about a month ago.
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Jul 22, 2013 19:35
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Peter King is doing an AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1itqoc/i_am_peter_king_sports_illustrateds_senior_nfl/ It's going about as well as you'd expect
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Jul 22, 2013 19:43
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Benne posted:Peter King is doing an AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1itqoc/i_am_peter_king_sports_illustrateds_senior_nfl/ What's the backstory to the "lofty" jose everyone is making?
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Jul 22, 2013 19:45
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Dusseldorf posted:What's the backstory to the "lofty" jose everyone is making? One time he wrote "Good X. Lofty X." about something dumb and Kissing Suzy Kolber (in their weekly FJM-style takedown) made it into a meme. It's basically about how he (and other sportswriters) doesn't seem to have much sense of proportion regarding sports and sports players.
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Jul 22, 2013 20:05
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jeffersonlives posted:As I understand it he's basically going to build FiveThirtyEight as a news/politics oriented version Grantland This sounds really interesting. CJR has a little more detail: quote:The ESPN incarnation of FiveThirtyEight won’t just focus on sports, but rather on data-driven reporting of all types, including the political coverage that brought the Times a massive amount of Web traffic during the 2012 election season.
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Jul 22, 2013 22:16
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morestuff posted:This sounds really interesting. CJR has a little more detail: Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jul 23, 2013 |
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Jul 23, 2013 13:25
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morestuff posted:This sounds really interesting. CJR has a little more detail: If anyone here hasn't read The Signal and the Noise, they should. I can't help but imagine that's pretty much what his work with ABC/ESPN is going to end up being. GET YO' BAYESIAN MODELS READY
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Jul 23, 2013 13:28
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 Patrick Hruby AlertHe's got a podcast now quote:Here's what I can promise: the guests will be interesting. The conversation will be candid. The opinions will be informed. I won't offer hot "first takes" (ahem) -- but I will listen and try to learn something, so that you can, too. The show will never, ever, ever cover athletic legacy, power rankings, draft boards, quarterback eliteness or quien es mas macho, Kobe or LeBron? It will feature authors, experts, people like Victor Conte -- spoiler alert: coming soon! -- and in-the-know guests who are allergic to brain-dead talking points and shallow soundbites. The first one is a discussion on the NFL concussion lawsuits.
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Jul 23, 2013 15:27
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uublog posted:
I like some of Hruby's stuff, but that self-congratulatory sniping (and the endless rehashing of concussions as a go-to "serious" issue) kind of puts me off. More quality podcasts are always welcome, though, so I'll give it a shot.
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Jul 23, 2013 16:23
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Bored and got to thinking about the broadcast rights with the recent announcement of NASCAR going to NBCSN. Fox now has the Daytona 500, The Super Bowl, The UFC, The Big 10 Title game (plus half a network), The PAC 12 Title game, Presumably the PAC 12 Title game, The World Cup, and the World Series NBCSN now has the "The race for the chase", Tour De France, Premier League soccer, Golf, Formula 1, Super Bowl, Olympics, Stanley Cup Finals, Notre Dame Football (cringes) and The Triple Crown CBS has the Masters, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, SEC title game. ESPN/ABC has the College Football tournament, Indy 500 (which I believe could one day be on NBC), Wimbledon, and NBA Finals. Is it just me or does it seem like FOX and NBCSN are possibly poised to be the new leaders in sports coverage very soon?
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Jul 24, 2013 05:19
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At least half of the stuff on NBCSN you just listed is poo poo people don't care about. And ESPN also has the NFL (which is the most popular sport but several thousand miles), tons of college football and basketball, regular season MLB and NBA, etc. They're not going anywhere. MourningView fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jul 24, 2013 |
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Jul 24, 2013 05:30
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MourningView posted:At least of the stuff on NBCSN you just listed is poo poo people don't care about.
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Jul 24, 2013 05:48
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Which is fine, but showing F1 and people riding bikes is not going to suddenly make them the new Worldwide Leader in Sports or whatever.
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Jul 24, 2013 05:53
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MourningView posted:Which is fine, but showing F1 and people riding bikes is not going to suddenly make them the new Worldwide Leader in Sports or whatever.
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Jul 24, 2013 05:56
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Crazy Ted posted:Just wait until NBCSN brings back Slamball. Then you'll be wrong. Ugh, BASEketball or get the gently caress out, NBCSN e: On the topic of ridiculously awesome sports I saw this on FSN one day a while back, so they win automatically https://vimeo.com/59253029
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Jul 24, 2013 05:58
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Every team should be required to have at least one fat kid in glasses, and hitting him in the face should be worth 20 points. And how do you get to be a Professional Dodgeball Analyst? That is all I ever want to do in life.
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Jul 24, 2013 06:03
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I for one am happy that racing is getting moved to niche networks
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Jul 24, 2013 14:15
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I think the best part about that dodgeball tourney was that it was played in a goddamn super-romper room covered in trampolines and padding, complete with players doing totally unnecessary and impromptu flips off the walls. It's seriously like an 8 year old plugged their brain into a virtual reality generator and the recording is what we see there.
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Jul 24, 2013 14:19
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toadee posted:I think the best part about that dodgeball tourney was that it was played in a goddamn super-romper room covered in trampolines and padding, complete with players doing totally unnecessary and impromptu flips off the walls. It's seriously like an 8 year old plugged their brain into a virtual reality generator and the recording is what we see there. That's just nonsense. If they did that, there would be dinosaurs.
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Jul 24, 2013 14:21
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MourningView posted:Every team should be required to have at least one fat kid in glasses, and hitting him in the face should be worth 20 points. Get Jon Gruden in there as an analyst.
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Jul 24, 2013 14:25
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I don't think Fox and NBC will be the leaders, but I think the hierarchy will tighten up significantly now. ESPN and Fox are still 1-2, but closer, with NBC even closer behind Fox. CBS brings up the rear by a significant margin.
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Jul 24, 2013 16:08
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AceFace905 posted:CBS brings up the rear by a significant margin.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:18
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AceFace905 posted:I don't think Fox and NBC will be the leaders, but I think the hierarchy will tighten up significantly now. ESPN and Fox are still 1-2, but closer, with NBC even closer behind Fox. CBS brings up the rear by a significant margin. NBC really isn't close to FOX at all. Unless they significantly gently caress up the launch, NBC won't be much of a threat to FOX.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:22
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Crazy Ted posted:CBS is too happy being the network that old people watch. Well CBS proper is the only network that people in general watch in any significant number, but I don't get the sense that they really care about their lovely cable sports network.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:28
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MourningView posted:Well CBS proper is the only network that people in general watch in any significant number, but I don't get the sense that they really care about their lovely cable sports network. They've also got NFL rights and the most popular CFB conference on their network. They're sitting pretty.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:33
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Tom Ley has a nice profile at Deadspin on the recovery clinic that Diamond Dallas Page is running out of his house.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:42
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morestuff posted:Tom Ley has a nice profile at Deadspin on the recovery clinic that Diamond Dallas Page is running out of his house.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:54
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Moe_Rahn posted:DDP should be canonized for what he did for Scott Hall and Jake Roberts. I'm not being a snarky rear end in a top hat here when I say I am truly amazed Scott Hall is still alive.
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Jul 24, 2013 17:56
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Moe_Rahn posted:DDP should be canonized for what he did for Scott Hall and Jake Roberts. Wow, I haven't watched wrestling in over 20 years, so having that mental image of Jake Roberts and Scott Hall (he was Razor Ramon? neat) with what they look like now is pretty drat amazing.
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Jul 24, 2013 18:01
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toadee posted:I think the best part about that dodgeball tourney was that it was played in a goddamn super-romper room covered in trampolines and padding, complete with players doing totally unnecessary and impromptu flips off the walls. It's seriously like an 8 year old plugged their brain into a virtual reality generator and the recording is what we see there. As someone who used to own a trampoline before those stupid walls were invented/mandated, I can assure you that dodgeball on a trampoline is the idealization of both sports. (Though we played it without teams, with two or three players on the outside of the trampoline trying to peg one or two people who were on it.)
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Jul 24, 2013 18:53
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sportsgenius86 posted:NBC really isn't close to FOX at all. Unless they significantly gently caress up the launch, NBC won't be much of a threat to FOX.
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Jul 24, 2013 19:11
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Just a reminder, this is the "if I had a vote" ballot that Keith Olbermann put out in 2009: http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/2009/11/28/hall-of-famers-and-numbers-without-wings/ Excerpts: quote:Don Mattingly: Sigh, no. I wish. The back injury killed his chances – he dropped from superior to slightly-above-average. For competitive fire, diligence, class, yes. But we don’t do it that way. Get ready for more of the same at ESPN.
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Jul 24, 2013 20:32
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"I used to flinch at a 3.90 ERA. But a 3.54 ERA in a hitters' era is good enough. Therefore a 3.90 ERA is also good enough."
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Why is baseball the sport where, much more than the others, the people voting for Hall of Famers want more attention than the actual athletes? The amount of self-serving lazy articles that get spewed out every year is so incredibly awful.
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