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DeimosRising posted:C) Tinder and Instagram changed the loving game, literally I need to hear more of this theory
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Metapod posted:I need to hear more of this theory Easier to bring the ladies to you, less energy expended on road bangin
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Metapod posted:I need to hear more of this theory You used to have to go out to the clubs, throw money around, find girls or have them found by some weirdo local power broker, show them a good time and go back to your hotel room. Now you just go on Tinder or Instagram a few days before and you've already got a date coming to your room before your plane even lands. Probably turns two hours of music and drinking into two extra hours of sleep.
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Wade is the worst complainer because he will actually complain while the other team is playing 5 on 4 on the other end.
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Wade and Draymond are way worse than LeBron. LeBron did complain more with the Heat, though. Which I just blame on Wade's influence.
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Patrick Spens posted:Home teams win 60 percent of NBA games. Dismissing the crowd as a factor is dumb. There are lots of reasons for this beyond crowds having magic abilities that make their players play better and as noted it's become much less dramatic recently LeBron doesn't care and can't hear you, sorry
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It's more fun to believe it's true though. Sports are about joy, idk why people try to suck the joy out of them sometimes tbh.
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corn on the cop posted:https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/865595343131426816 you guys somehow this didn't work
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lol the celtics just couldn't score on a 4 on 2 fast break e: Wrong thread but gently caress the Celtics anyway
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MourningView posted:you guys somehow this didn't work I'm not paying attention to the game. what's the sco.... 
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Eric the Mauve posted:This is because NBA refs exert more direct influence on games than in any other sport, not because basketball fans are magical So what influences the refs?
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General Dog posted:So what influences the refs? Gambling profits?
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This is the best Tebow related writing you'll ever see https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/866111351156092928 quote:The fan was distracted at the time and didn’t notice the ball heading for his, shall we say, man zone. Which is where the ball hit him. In the man zone.
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Before you click on this link, guess how 538 described Manu Ginobli in the title of a career reflection on him.
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trem_two posted:This is the best Tebow related writing you'll ever see Seems like he was potentially incredibly accurate/precise
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Coco13 posted:Before you click on this link, guess how 538 described Manu Ginobli in the title of a career reflection on him. I got it. Turns out all i win is a 3 hour podcast of Bill Simmons debating whether Vin Diesel and Kobe are overrated or properly rated, and 20 minutes of him constructing falls equivalencies about airplane restrictions/accommodations.
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BWV posted:I got it. Turns out all i win is a 3 hour podcast of Bill Simmons debating whether Vin Diesel and Kobe are overrated or properly rated, and 20 minutes of him constructing falls equivalencies about airplane restrictions/accommodations. I thought you would've gotten the Unicorn Play-In Bracket, which decides a few spots for The Ringer's Unicorn of Unicorns Bracket.
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Some real hindsight gold there, like when he shits on Memphis for the Pau Gasol trade, then ALSO says he would never bring in Zach Randolph or Vince Carter. If the Bucks had the Grizzlies' roster they'd have been in like 4 or 5 straight ECFs and maybe won in 2015.
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So, a Japanese driver won the Indy 500 last night. This was one a columnist in Denver's response: https://twitter.com/erikmal/status/868960962014924800 He got fired
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iospace posted:So, a Japanese driver won the Indy 500 last night. His apology was incredible
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Henchman of Santa posted:His apology was incredible  Apology He'll have fun times looking for a job now. As said elsewhere, hopefully he doesn't have a family to raise!
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https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/869521304172605441 looking forward to his smug tweets about how his great content always wins out
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trem_two posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/869521304172605441 Medium killed off their ad services earlier this year and cut a lot of sales/support jobs earlier this year so The Ringer moving to a different platform was an inevitability. I imagine they probably get some ad revenue, but not nearly as much as when they were hosting direct to Medium. Seems like a pretty good deal since Vox isn't getting a piece of the company, just the ability to add it to their portfolio of bad sports sites. I've seen some really good video and long form content on Vox but it's not some place I go out of my way to visit. They're better than Buzzfeed so that's something.
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Akileese posted:They're better than Buzzfeed so that's something. that bar is buried far beneath the earth
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Akileese posted:Medium killed off their ad services earlier this year and cut a lot of sales/support jobs earlier this year so The Ringer moving to a different platform was an inevitability. I imagine they probably get some ad revenue, but not nearly as much as when they were hosting direct to Medium. Seems like a pretty good deal since Vox isn't getting a piece of the company, just the ability to add it to their portfolio of bad sports sites. I've seen some really good video and long form content on Vox but it's not some place I go out of my way to visit. They're better than Buzzfeed so that's something. Are you saying SB Nation is bad? Because it's pretty good, at least the mothership is.
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General Dog posted:Are you saying SB Nation is bad? Because it's pretty good, at least the mothership is. Quite the opposite. Their separate entities are pretty awesome but the main Vox content I can take or leave. I thought it's a good move for The Ringer (and Simmons specifically) because he maintains ownership and they get to run as a separate entity. With Medium shutting down their ad services, they didn't have a lot of leverage. I was pretty shocked he managed to keep the whole company and not have to offer even a small piece of it for a good ad rate.
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Akileese posted:Quite the opposite. Their separate entities are pretty awesome but the main Vox content I can take or leave. I thought it's a good move for The Ringer (and Simmons specifically) because he maintains ownership and they get to run as a separate entity. With Medium shutting down their ad services, they didn't have a lot of leverage. I was pretty shocked he managed to keep the whole company and not have to offer even a small piece of it for a good ad rate. So what does Vox get in the deal, just a cut of the ad revenue?
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General Dog posted:So what does Vox get in the deal, just a cut of the ad revenue? That appears to be the case from what I read in the article. Like I said, I'm pretty loving shocked. The Ringer's platform literally discontinued their ad service division, which means they had virtually no leverage over Vox. That leads me to believe they're getting a pretty big chunk of that sweet ad revenue.
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iospace posted:So, a Japanese driver won the Indy 500 last night. Is Frei at all a respectable journalist/author? The book he plugs hardest seems to be historical fiction with a pro-Leni Reifenstahl bent.
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Inspector_666 posted:Is Frei at all a respectable journalist/author? The book he plugs hardest seems to be historical fiction with a pro-Leni Reifenstahl bent. Toronto's very own hot-dog conspiracy theorist Steve Simmons thinks he is one of the best.
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Captain Internet posted:Toronto's very own hot-dog conspiracy theorist Steve Simmons thinks he is one of the best. So no, then.
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Inspector_666 posted:Is Frei at all a respectable journalist/author? The book he plugs hardest seems to be historical fiction with a pro-Leni Reifenstahl bent. No, not really. His writing is incredibly heavy on bootstrapping themes and anytime he's writing about actual, real history, it's incredibly slanted. The book he co-wrote about Patrick Roy's return to the Avalanche was nearly unreadable.
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I'm a bit confused about the whole Ringer thing/ad service/platforms. This is my understanding. Please correct. The Ringer was running on Medium. Medium let them keep all the ad revenue in exchange for The Ringer showing people that Medium was a legit good site to use as a website platform? Medium then then discontinued letting them keep the ad revenue? Or Medium stopped wanting to share ad revenue? Or Medium did something? And then they switched to Vox's platform, which will they will now share ad revenue on? And just to fill in all my ignorance, the reason they want to be using these platforms and not build their own (like with Grantland) is that it's really expensive/annoying/difficult to build one from scratch? Help a geezer out fam.
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BWV posted:I'm a bit confused about the whole Ringer thing/ad service/platforms. This is my understanding. Please correct. Medium flat-out stopped selling ads, which left The Ringer responsible for developing its own sales force to get ads on the site. This prompted The Ringer to look for a new home.
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