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BWV posted:It also sounds like Bill is the worst employee ever. He basically said he complained constantly about bad leadership I mean, I think John Skipper is directly responsible for much of ESPN's problems, but the last person anyone should take advice from is loving Simmons.
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DJExile posted:I will always love that he spent months daring ESPN to fire him, then was shocked when they did That was the best part. I mean, he knew that Skipper hated him with the fury of a blazing sun, and yet he still went out of his way to antagonize him.
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Peanut President posted:From pages ago but how mad are rugby people that they're on the same channel with American Handegg and Pro Wrestling? sporting synergy or something, though none of those share a competing timeslot, so it works
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DJExile posted:I will always love that he spent months daring ESPN to fire him, then was shocked when they did There's a TV news graphic that makes the rounds MAN WHO GOT STABBED: "What are you going to do, stab me?"
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https://twitter.com/LeBatardShow/status/885593560757792768 Curt Schilling has a thought or two.
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ElwoodCuse posted:There's a TV news graphic that makes the rounds 
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reminds me of quote:Niyiah McConnell, 33, a Mattapan woman who works in the area, said she was smoking a cigarette when the man pulled up in his car and asked her to “play the ax song.”
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Jul 13, 2017 23:00
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Timby posted:I mean, I think John Skipper is directly responsible for much of ESPN's problems, but the last person anyone should take advice from is loving Simmons. I think he was right about California though to an extent. You're not going to attract anyone in Bristol Connecticut. I'm from Connecticut and I've been to Bristol. It's nothing but Cows and that giant ESPN campus. At the same time, you can't just write that place off as a sunk cost.
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This was posted on Deadspin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WmMj4lfpdc
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Arnold Layne posted:https://twitter.com/LeBatardShow/status/885593560757792768 As does new brother-in-arms Michael Rapaport: https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/885597337921347584
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Akileese posted:I think he was right about California though to an extent. You're not going to attract anyone in Bristol Connecticut. I'm from Connecticut and I've been to Bristol. It's nothing but Cows and that giant ESPN campus. At the same time, you can't just write that place off as a sunk cost. He was right about California (sort of like how so many bigger stars would do appearances on The Tonight Show instead of Late Show, because Tonight Show was in LA), but, my God, he did not have to sign off on that juggernaut of a studio they have there, as well as the additional improvements that have happened. And Skipper was basically writing the "we're coming to you from LA" inserts in the shows, because he felt the need to show off that they were in downtown. It's ridiculously easy to fabricate remote appearances as being on-desk (I mean, the the Clayton commercial even made light of that), which means you can get pretty much any on-air talent as long as they're willing to toss up a $50 green screen in a room in their house and send them a $300 Canon handheld.
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Anals of History posted:As does new brother-in-arms Michael Rapaport: https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/885597337921347584 Who are the people that like him, and barstool sports? I've also yet to understand why barstool sports is a thing and why they've gained in popularity. Come to think of it? I've yet to understand why boston dominates in terms of bringing so many sports talks types to life.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Who are the people that like him, and barstool sports? I assume there are others like me who subscribe to Pardon My Take but have never been the Barstool Sports website
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Getting started in Boston is easy. Step one: Fellate any of the big four teams, more so Pats or Sox. Step two: say questionable poo poo, especially in regards to race. The more of a dog whistle the better. Step three: ??? Step four: PROFIT
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Adun posted:I assume there are others like me who subscribe to Pardon My Take but have never been the Barstool Sports website I can understand the appeal of pardon my take and pftcommentator. But the rest....goddamn, what a bunch of loudmouths.
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FuzzySkinner posted:I've also yet to understand why barstool sports is a thing and why they've gained in popularity. When civilized society has figured out you're an rear end in a top hat, you need to find other assholes to be an rear end in a top hat with. Plus you can tell each other that it's *everyone else* who is wrong.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Who are the people that like him, and barstool sports? Are you from the East Coast? Were you in a fraternity, or grew up with a bit of money in your family? Do you currently work in finance, sales, or a related profession? Then boy howdy do I have a site for you! (I only read it because their main hockey guy is quite good.)
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Troy Queef posted:Are you from the East Coast? Were you in a fraternity, or grew up with a bit of money in your family? Do you currently work in finance, sales, or a related profession? Then boy howdy do I have a site for you! I just can remember their "president" trying to heckle LeBron James, and one of their fans being pissed that a poster of LeBron was being put up at a Dunkin Donuts coffee shop in China. That and Rappaport doxxing people on twitter like a sociopath.. I'm more on the Dan LeBetard side of things I guess. He has imperfections, but he seems to enjoy mocking those with poo poo takes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCb5Ji6ueQ8
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Thing to remember is barstool has kind of become a go to landing site for young guys. It's perceived as funny so a young 16 year old guy is going to eat their dumb poo poo up. Plus they post pics of "smoke shows" and they do post general pop culture poo poo too. They have podcasts with porn stars and all that stuff that appeals to a young horny male. Then you just stay with the site into college and so on. Believe me, I work with "adult" men who are beyond idiotic.
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soggybagel posted:Thing to remember is barstool has kind of become a go to landing site for young guys. It's perceived as funny so a young 16 year old guy is going to eat their dumb poo poo up. Plus they post pics of "smoke shows" and they do post general pop culture poo poo too. They have podcasts with porn stars and all that stuff that appeals to a young horny male. Then you just stay with the site into college and so on. Believe me, I work with "adult" men who are beyond idiotic. So Maxim: The Sports Site?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:So Maxim: The Sports Site? That sounds about right, yeah. I mean, there's a clear market for it, so different strokes for different folks and all that.
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soggybagel posted:Thing to remember is barstool has kind of become a go to landing site for young guys. It's perceived as funny so a young 16 year old guy is going to eat their dumb poo poo up. Plus they post pics of "smoke shows" and they do post general pop culture poo poo too. They have podcasts with porn stars and all that stuff that appeals to a young horny male. Then you just stay with the site into college and so on. Believe me, I work with "adult" men who are beyond idiotic. Yeah I guess I don't run in that general circle? Like my friend whom I think they'd try to target with it listens to things like Rogan and the like. My other friend listens to NPR of all things. I guess I'm blessed.
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Kalli posted:That sounds about right, yeah. That, and the dudes who insult others about being sensitive and needing safe spaces increasingly need their own safe spaces.
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exploded mummy posted:I listen to podcasts by a 40 year old audiophile with poor pattern recognition. So it's you who listens to Bill Simmons
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C. Everett Koop posted:So it's you who listens to Bill Simmons I said audiophile, not wirefile.
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Well AT&T turns things into poo poo what a shocker
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Crazy Ted posted:Well AT&T turns things into poo poo what a shocker Their new scorebug for baseball is gigantic too
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The Mariners bought a controlling stake in ROOT Sports Northwest, so we're sticking with that name while the rest of the nation rebrands to AT&T. I'm actually kinda nostalgic for the days of weird local broadcasts airing your local teams. Before ROOT and FSN, we up here in the Pacific Northwest had Prime Sports Northwest, which had exactly zero ambitions about anything but showing M's games. It was a comically low-budget production, but as a kid you can't help but feel a connection to the channel being "one of us, talking about our crappy team." Prime got bought out by Fox Sports and we had FSN Northwest for a while, which kept the same announcers but didn't feel the same. More corporate, more generic with the "Fox Sports baseball music" we already heard on every national broadcast. I kept watching, but it never felt the same for years on end. Then FSN Northwest eventually spun off into ROOT Sports Northwest, and as corny as the production got, it was the first time in years where I felt like the channel truly belonged to "us," just the idiot fans tuning into lovely M's baseball every night, hearing Dave Sims and Mike Blowers tell the same stories. It really felt like that local flavor again, the kind of bizarrely compelling TV you can only get from a shoestring local broadcast covering a crappy team every day. It actually kinda got me back into the M's even though they still sucked.
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I had hoped that the combo of the M's and DirecTV owning Root would have meant that we could get it on DirecTV Now. I live in the "home area" for the M's for MLB.tv purposes (which is three freaking states btw) but my only option for getting Root is paying $120/month for some crazy satellite package that I can't get anyway because I live in an apartment. They're loveable losers, but they're not that loveable.
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golic and wingo officially starts november 27th the last mike and mike is november 17th http://deadspin.com/mike-finds-new-mike-named-trey-1796985689
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straight up brolic posted:Pardon My Take is the best podcast It really is. I avoided it for awhile because I never cared about Barstool but it seems completely different from that brand. It's basically the Daily Show but for sports. Just a parody of traditional sports media. Their loving with JJ Watt for a year culminated in a pretty cool interview. https://twitter.com/PardonMyTake/status/886905458581221376 https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/886982599549231104
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I was looking at the TV schedule for college football, and holy poo poo FS2 has a live game! And they're both FBS teams! People in Appalachia get FS2, right?
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AA continues to be fantastic in their investigations on Jamie Horowitz. They got a video of his presentation of his vision for FS as a whole. You can see what he was trying to get at, and he's really not wrong about what audiences are being drawn to... and then...quote:But primarily we think that credibility tends to be from writers. Skip has a long career as a writer to complement other networks. Kornheiser and Wilbon made their careers as writers. Basically all those guys on Around the Horn are writers. 
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DJExile posted:AA continues to be fantastic in their investigations on Jamie Horowitz. They got a video of his presentation of his vision for FS as a whole. You can see what he was trying to get at, and he's really not wrong about what audiences are being drawn to... and then... When was the last time Skip sat down and actually wrote an article? All the ATH dudes still write regularly.
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