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ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends
Pretty sad day in the UK if you watched the NFL or NBA on Sky in the last ten or fifteen years

https://twitter.com/NFLUK/status/919853785635270656

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Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

The best thing about Al Michaels is his absolute hatred of vegetables.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

howe_sam posted:

Are we assuming they take a run at the NFL and/or Trump?

More because I knew that loving idiot Portnoy would do something like this

https://deadspin.com/barstool-sports-founder-asks-if-harvey-weinstein-should-1819516366

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
In one of the journalist/broadcasting threads I forget which one I defended skip bayless


I'd like to apologize.

I was wrong, gently caress that bitch nigga

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Dexo posted:

In one of the journalist/broadcasting threads I forget which one I defended skip bayless


I'd like to apologize.

I was wrong, gently caress that bitch nigga

what'd he do?

Jota
May 6, 2003

uga-booga uga-booga
Made this tweet right after Gordon Hayward fractured his ankle

https://twitter.com/DeMar_DeRozan/status/920449519770157056

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Skip gonna be Skip.

Unrelated, great quote from Charles Barkley in the NY Times


NYT posted:

Looking ahead to his broadcasting duties with Turner Sports, Barkley didn’t hesitate to voice his frustration with the perceived gulf between the Warriors and the 29 other teams, even after all the summer shuffling.

“The toughest thing for me is I have to get on TV and fake it for seven months that it’s not going to be the Warriors and Cavs in the finals again,” Barkley said.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
Barkley loving sucks, stop putting someone on TV who has actively hated the product for at least like half a decade. He has never had anything interesting to say about basketball and now he's not even fun because teams winning by doing something he was lovely at turned him into a bitter old man.

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd
Yeah but Barkley is the guy who tells Shaq to shut the hell up and that's extremely necessary

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Shaq is better than Barkley at this point in time

gently caress Charles Barkley

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


Charles Barkley is completely oblivious to the world around him and 2 years away from being hired by Fox News as "that black guy who says stuff about black people we wish we could say"

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

BWV posted:

Charles Barkley is completely oblivious to the world around him and 2 years away from being hired by Fox News as "that black guy who says stuff about black people we wish we could say"

Damning with the faintest of praise but that's an upgrade over Whitlock.

Cash Monet
Apr 5, 2009

MourningView posted:

Barkley loving sucks, stop putting someone on TV who has actively hated the product for at least like half a decade. He has never had anything interesting to say about basketball and now he's not even fun because teams winning by doing something he was lovely at turned him into a bitter old man.

Bitter old men are great for TV. More bitter old men. Their tears give me sustenance.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Barkley isn't wrong in that instance either. Barring some injuries to Lebron or... well ANYONE in GS, these last few years have been foregone conclusions.

I mean yeah it sucks when broadcasters get jaded but it's also not easy to sell a game on national TV when the regular season literally does not matter at all.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

DJExile posted:

Barkley isn't wrong in that instance either. Barring some injuries to Lebron or... well ANYONE in GS, these last few years have been foregone conclusions.

I mean yeah it sucks when broadcasters get jaded but it's also not easy to sell a game on national TV when the regular season literally does not matter at all.

He doesn't care about it being non competitive. The NBA has always been dominated by a couple teams, that's not a new thing. It's the nature of basketball as a sport, especially in a league that does seven game playoff series. The Lakers and Celtics have like half the titles in the history of the league. He's mad because he doesn't like the style of play anymore, and he has the typical old guy thing of being super insecure about his generation potentially being overshadowed or forgotten and is compensating by making GBS threads all over the modern game. He's also lazy as gently caress, so his complaints and analysis are all the same like four outdated cliches about how no one plays defense and how you can't win shooting 3s.

It's fine if he doesn't like watching NBA basketball now, but if that's the case then just go away. It's bad for the league to have its most prominent television personality constantly talking about how bad the NBA is now, and it's no fun to listen to every night.

MourningView fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Oct 18, 2017

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN

DJExile posted:

Barkley isn't wrong in that instance either. Barring some injuries to Lebron or... well ANYONE in GS, these last few years have been foregone conclusions.

I mean yeah it sucks when broadcasters get jaded but it's also not easy to sell a game on national TV when the regular season literally does not matter at all.

Welcome to literally every year in the history of basketball

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


regular season basketball only "doesn't matter" if you think the point of regular season basketball is to determine playoff seeding. The point of regular season basketball is to watch professional basketball.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
DeMar DeRozan always comes off as a good dude.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/920838163521777664
lol

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Benne posted:

Welcome to literally every year in the history of basketball

Yeah, I suppose that's fair the more i think about it


lmao good

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Katie Nolan debuted on HQ today. Don't know if it's permanent or just a short-term thing (Le Betard's had a constant rotating cast since Bomani left the show), but it was good as you'd expect.

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013




Benne posted:

Katie Nolan debuted on HQ today. Don't know if it's permanent or just a short-term thing (Le Betard's had a constant rotating cast since Bomani left the show), but it was good as you'd expect.

Did Papi get her with the handshake?

This is very important.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

Troy Queef posted:

Did Papi get her with the handshake?

This is very important.

https://twitter.com/ESPNprDScott/status/921120395289391105

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


that is beautiful :allears: god bless Papi

E: https://twitter.com/RMNarrative/status/921130134320578560

DJExile fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Oct 19, 2017

iospace
Jan 19, 2038



loving :rip:

Papi is a national treasure and you can not convince me otherwise.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/921119604033933312

:allears:

She's gotta be a full time replacement for Bo right?

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

Apparently ESPN wanted Katz and PFT without the Barstool name which makes sense. Surprised they didn't hold out. Also the article is about how Portnoy is an afterthought at Barstool and has to be insanely jealous that the other two are becoming stars.

https://deadspin.com/espn-wanted-barstool-sports-but-without-the-stench-1819664413

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/921119604033933312

:allears:

She's gotta be a full time replacement for Bo right?

Holy poo poo, the expressions on their faces at the end is gold.

Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

I don't know where to put this, but it needs to be seen.

https://twitter.com/MikeBeauvais/status/921048188726980608

Trast
Oct 20, 2010

Three games, thousands of playthroughs. 90% of the players don't know I exist. Still a redhead saving the galaxy with a [Right Hook].

:edi:
Does HQ have any place to watch episodes online?

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

Trast posted:

Does HQ have any place to watch episodes online?

Not that I can see. They do offer it up in podcast format.

http://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/archive/_/id/6962629

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

Trast posted:

Does HQ have any place to watch episodes online?

I think they might put their stuff up exclusively on Facebook for whatever reason? Or that was the only place I could find video of Boozer talking about his shoe polish hair day

Trast
Oct 20, 2010

Three games, thousands of playthroughs. 90% of the players don't know I exist. Still a redhead saving the galaxy with a [Right Hook].

:edi:

Niwrad posted:

Not that I can see. They do offer it up in podcast format.

http://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/archive/_/id/6962629

Good enough I want to hear Katie and Papi.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Redgrendel2001 posted:

I don't know where to put this, but it needs to be seen.

https://twitter.com/MikeBeauvais/status/921048188726980608

Gandalf the Grey. That was what they called me. I am Gandalf the Wide.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/921119604033933312

:allears:

She's gotta be a full time replacement for Bo right?

Papi is our finest television personality, how dare she :mad:

Trast
Oct 20, 2010

Three games, thousands of playthroughs. 90% of the players don't know I exist. Still a redhead saving the galaxy with a [Right Hook].

:edi:

MourningView posted:

Papi is our finest television personality, how dare she :mad:

Papi got the last laugh. :allears:

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

Niwrad posted:

Apparently ESPN wanted Katz and PFT without the Barstool name which makes sense. Surprised they didn't hold out. Also the article is about how Portnoy is an afterthought at Barstool and has to be insanely jealous that the other two are becoming stars.

https://deadspin.com/espn-wanted-barstool-sports-but-without-the-stench-1819664413

Well, deadspin's article may be right, but it is also (like most articles on that family of sites) about how you're a terrible human being if you consume any media other than deadspin et al. It's just their increasingly desperate schtick.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Mukaikubo posted:

Well, deadspin's article may be right, but it is also (like most articles on that family of sites) about how you're a terrible human being if you consume any media other than deadspin et al. It's just their increasingly desperate schtick.

Hulk Hogan account spotted.

Jackie D
May 27, 2009

Democracy is like a tambourine - not everyone can be trusted with it.


Mukaikubo posted:

Well, deadspin's article may be right, but it is also (like most articles on that family of sites) about how you're a terrible human being if you consume any media other than deadspin et al. It's just their increasingly desperate schtick.

no it isnt

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Mukaikubo posted:

Well, deadspin's article may be right, but it is also (like most articles on that family of sites) about how you're a terrible human being if you consume any media other than deadspin et al. It's just their increasingly desperate schtick.

Yeah the gawker family of sites largely sucks these days but....what?

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