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John Saunders was one of the good ones  At least he died before ESPN cut him due to budget cuts. Went out on his own terms. LIKE.A.BOSS.
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Unrelated to the terrible news but to just throw my two cents in: there is no ESPN original programming worth watching. Watch for live sports if you must but all the studio shows and personalities are terrible. I can't remember the last time I even turned ESPN on for a non sporting event. Probably years ago. Also to touch on Bill Simmons chat: launching a weekly sports talk show in the middle of the summer is not a great idea. Baseball is the only active sport and nobody is watching a weekly baseball show. Should have launched during football season because football anything seems to do well - including over analysis of training camp and practice.
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Harlock posted:Unrelated to the terrible news but to just throw my two cents in: there is no ESPN original programming worth watching. Watch for live sports if you must but all the studio shows and personalities are terrible. I can't remember the last time I even turned ESPN on for a non sporting event. Probably years ago. How about Outside the Lines and 30 for 30 documentaries? They are original programming are pretty good.
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C. Everett Koop posted:Serious, non-trolling question: Lester Holt?
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psyer posted:How about Outside the Lines and 30 for 30 documentaries? They are original programming are pretty good. Highly Questionable is amazing, Pardon the Interruption is ok, and Around the Horn is good if folks like Bomani Jones and Sarah Spain are on there.
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I have really fond memories of Cheap Seats so I watched some episodes on youtube the other day and well, it kind of sucked.
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psyer posted:How about Outside the Lines and 30 for 30 documentaries? They are original programming are pretty good. joshtothemaxx posted:Highly Questionable is amazing, Pardon the Interruption is ok, and Around the Horn is good if folks like Bomani Jones and Sarah Spain are on there. 
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Aug 11, 2016 17:54
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Holy gently caress Byron McDonald  http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/cbc-announcer-on-hot-mic-that-little-14-year-old-from-1785151159
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I haven't listened regularly to PTI in like 5 years, but goddamn if i'm not comforted by its presence.
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I haven't watched since I was in high school but PTI was really really good when it started. Tony and Wilbon always had dumb old man opinions but the chemistry between them was great, the format was really smart (which is why every show like that rips it off now), and it was generally really fun. I imagine it hasn't aged that well now that there are a million clones but it felt genuinely fresh for the first two years.
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Kornheiser at least brought a degree of self-awareness that none of the other shows had or have
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MourningView posted:I haven't watched since I was in high school but PTI was really really good when it started. Tony and Wilbon always had dumb old man opinions but the chemistry between them was great, the format was really smart (which is why every show like that rips it off now), and it was generally really fun. I imagine it hasn't aged that well now that there are a million clones but it felt genuinely fresh for the first two years. It's still pretty drat good because of the chemistry of Tony and Wilbon. Tony is still the same awesome old man. Wilbon is just ok now, kind of gotten a bit older and kind of full of himself... but still better than 95% of sportsball people on tv. PTI also selects pretty good substitutes (they used to select Whitlock ffs) since both of the guys take at least one day off a week.
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joshtothemaxx posted:It's still pretty drat good because of the chemistry of Tony and Wilbon. Tony is still the same awesome old man. Wilbon is just ok now, kind of gotten a bit older and kind of full of himself... but still better than 95% of sportsball people on tv. PTI also selects pretty good substitutes (they used to select Whitlock ffs) since both of the guys take at least one day off a week. The substitute shows used to be dire. I remember one week it was Whitlock and loving Marriotti
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I love Kornheiser but I'm sick of Wilbon. See: his article that black people don't care about analytics.
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gently caress I used to love Lebatard fill ins. BAM.
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DJExile posted:Holy gently caress Byron McDonald God drat, is right
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Speaking of CBC, they totally hosed up Michael Phelps' gold medal run from last night http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/cbc-calls-entire-race-confusing-ryan-lochte-for-michael-1785184150#_ga=1.242200450.1464726217.1468701751
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LordPants posted:gently caress I used to love Lebatard fill ins. BAM. Oh yeah those were really good and turned me around on LeBatard after years of hating him.
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Josh Lyman posted:I love Kornheiser but I'm sick of Wilbon. See: his article that black people don't care about analytics. WIlbon is bad now and everytime he says "slurpin'" it grosses me out. And he says it all the time now. "Oh everyone is slurpin' on him!" Yeah, I don't need you telling me how the media is sucking a guy's dick. Thanks.
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I don't watch PTI, but I once sat near Kornheiser at a chinese restaurant in Rehoboth Beach. Seemed like a nice guy.
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kittenmittons posted:I don't watch PTI, but I once sat near Kornheiser at a chinese restaurant in Rehoboth Beach. Seemed like a nice guy. My sole source of NFL news and views were his Monday Radio shows with the recap with the guy from the NFL network (Maske?) and then the Jaws prediction show on thursday. I'm sad that I can't do that again this season.
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MourningView posted:Oh yeah those were really good and turned me around on LeBatard after years of hating him. I used to watch PTI and ATH a lot back when what was then NASN showed them in the UK, and LeBatard getting verbally beaten down by Tony in every answer never, ever got old. Highly Questionable is also loving awesome
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I used to watch PTI and ATH a lot back when what was then NASN showed them in the UK, and LeBatard getting verbally beaten down by Tony in every answer never, ever got old. Highly Questionable is also loving awesome
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LordPants posted:My sole source of NFL news and views were his Monday Radio shows with the recap with the guy from the NFL network (Maske?) and then the Jaws prediction show on thursday.
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LordPants posted:My sole source of NFL news and views were his Monday Radio shows with the recap with the guy from the NFL network (Maske?) and then the Jaws prediction show on thursday. He'll probably still do that on the podcast.
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I just got a hell of an email from the local TV station I do play-by-play for "Good Afternoon, If you use twitter already please send me your twitter handle so the [channel] account can follow you (if you haven’t already). For those of you who do not use twitter please consider it as we are moving to have a big social media presence. The [channel] account will monitor your posts about games/fans/schools/stories and they will retweet and share the best of those. If you need help setting one up or have any questions please let me know. Also, make sure you are following the twitter, Facebook page, and Instagram. Thanks!" #1: If you want me to tweet for you; gently caress you, pay me. #2: Do they realize how goddamn awful an idea to connect peoples' personal twitter accounts to the channel? 
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DJExile posted:#1: If you want me to tweet for you; gently caress you, pay me. Apropos of nothing in particular I really love Goodfellas.
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Grittybeard posted:Apropos of nothing in particular I really love Goodfellas. This and "Casino" are two of my favorite mob movies ever.
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As the great philosopher Heath Ledger once said, "If you're good at something never do it for free."
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Benne posted:As the great philosopher Heath Ledger once said, "If you're good at something never do it for free." He never tried to make it as a fantasy football writer but we are all actually bad
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DJExile posted:I just got a hell of an email from the local TV station I do play-by-play for Make a dummy account.
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davecrazy posted:Make a dummy account. Oh yeah that's the simple solution, although quite honestly it's not worth the time, and they're not paying us extra to do it so they can piss off. I'm just surprised they seemed so casual about it.
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How hard/much time is it to take a photo of the field from the press box and tweet: About to call the 'team nickname' game LIVE on KXYZ @ 'game start time'
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DJExile posted:Oh yeah that's the simple solution, although quite honestly it's not worth the time, and they're not paying us extra to do it so they can piss off. I'm just surprised they seemed so casual about it. Yeah, that's seriously audacious. gently caress 'em.
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So the NFL is forcing almost 72-year old Al Michaels to call NBC's Thursday Night games instead of MIke Tirico https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/767026991510028288
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Filthy cable tv talent has no business calling prime Thursday night network tv programming, send him back to the forbidden lands of Bristol. Now Bryant Gumble, that's a man we want to represent our product in front of a national audience!
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Apparently part of the pitch was the networks involved would send their top teams to call the games (never mind that CBS is involved and that actively makes me not want to watch games). Either way, if so I can kind of understand. But I'd rather have Al Michaels happy so he sticks around as long as possible.
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Vertical Lime posted:So the NFL is forcing almost 72-year old Al Michaels to call NBC's Thursday Night games instead of MIke Tirico Is Al also doing SNF? I remember him saying that doing SNF and TNF on the same week is always bad because between the travel and double preparation you always end up with two bad broadcasts.
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Bip Roberts posted:Is Al also doing SNF? I remember him saying that doing SNF and TNF on the same week is always bad because between the travel and double preparation you always end up with two bad broadcasts. Yeah, usually he has all of SNF plus opening night/Thanksgiving night. Now he's forced to do 5 more games. Look at how Nantz/Simms really deteriorated from the extra games
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