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Henchman of Santa posted:She's part of the refreshing wave of young sports pundits who understand that sports are ridiculous. So she's this generation's Sports Guy
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exploded mummy posted:So she's this generation's Sports Guy Except actually funny and not up her own rear end
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exploded mummy posted:So she's this generation's Sports Guy Bill Simmons takes himself and Boston sports way too seriously to make this comparison.
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Oh no the meme is self aware.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Except actually funny and not up her own rear end So was Simmons once upon a time.
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iospace posted:(they'd go to a couple of the major races though, such as Monaco and Monza) the races that the NBC team actually went to were US, Canada, Mexico*, and Monaco. Those are also the races they aired live on NBC as opposed to NBCSN/CNBC/MSNBC. *Brazil before Mexico was on the calendar
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exploded mummy posted:So was Simmons once upon a time. Go read an old Page 2 Simmons column sometime. If anything he was a worse writer back in the day
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MourningView posted:Go read an old Page 2 Simmons column sometime. If anything he was a worse writer back in the day For reference.... http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/subject/archive
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this is an interesting development https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/972132076374953984
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Vertical Lime posted:this is an interesting development Huh. World Wide or US only?
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Katie Nolan owns if only because she doesn’t let her fandom of Boston teams completely color every opinion she has. If she didn’t say she was a Sox fan I wouldn’t have even guessed it
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How am I supposed to watch baseball at work now?????
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Perhaps it’s telling I most connected with Bill Simmons writing when he did page 2. Also I was 15.
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Everyone connected with Bill Simmons writing when he did page 2. Thats why he's massively successful.
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I poo poo on him nonstop here but I was a big time Simmons fan between 2003-2010 (maybe even later). I think one thing that isn't captured in re-reading those page2 articles is how vibrant and energetic his writing style felt compared to the stuff out there. Now every writer adopts a more conversational style* so those older articles just seem bro-y and stupid but when the other options I had access to at 17 were long form SI or very dry gamestory/columns it made a big difference. I think the last five years has shown Simmons to be a massive tool, and the generation of writers who emerged online over the past ten years put him to shame. But his early stuff was so appealing (at least to younger men 17-25) because of its affect and not necessarily because its content was so interesting. * I'm not saying he caused this shift or influenced all these people to be like this, even though he's clearly the most successful/popular out of the bunch. Lots of Gen Xers in early to mid 2000s were doing the same thing. If anything the basketball bloggers during that period were equally influential in bridging the gap between the growing interest in analytics and more literary-influenced sports criticism. BWV fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Yeah they're nothing special now but at the time it felt like a revelation to hear about D-Boz, Skaggs, and Beanbag all watching wrestlemania with our man B Simms because your only other option was a 400 year old man complaining about people disrespeting the game and the whole thing is written in single sentence paragraphs. For additional focus at what the writer feels are strong points but when taken out of the context of a tiny width newspaper column and put online instead just makes it clear that the writer doesn't have anything to say. And is spacing everything out like the article version of loving with the margins on your history paper. But Not Bill Simmons.
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The best guy on page 2 always was and will always be DJ Gallo, and the fact that Simmons got like two TV shows and three different online outlets while SportsPickle never became as big as The Onion is a travesty of the highest order
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I won't dispute that he was different and influencial but he can be those things and also be really loving bad
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Teemu Pokemon posted:The best guy on page 2 always was and will always be DJ Gallo, and the fact that Simmons got like two TV shows and three different online outlets while SportsPickle never became as big as The Onion is a travesty of the highest order lest we forget it at one point also had David Halberstam and Hunter S Thompson writing for it! What a weird loving time.
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well then https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/972264953313816576
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BWV posted:lest we forget it at one point also had David Halberstam and Hunter S Thompson writing for it! That Hunter Thompson "we are at war now and always will be" column from after 9/11 being on ESPN Page Two is the damndest thing, and still one of the most accurate things written in the aftermath
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I never really noticed him calling college games but holy poo poo last season I noticed this man has something like anti-charisma. I'd imagine if you ate dinner with him everything would taste bland no matter what.
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He was generally really good with college games.
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and they already named his replacement https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/972276706345091072
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Tessitore rules
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Henchman of Santa posted:He was generally really good with college games. Yeah he and Speilman were awesome together.
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I really like Sean McDonough.
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Vertical Lime posted:and they already named his replacement Every game will go to overtime now
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Mahoning posted:I really like Sean McDonough.
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Robnoxious posted:Even Bryant Gumbel would say Sean McDonough was dullness personified. Nah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqv48MwEbaQ
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I saw that live. I couldn't believe it.
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iospace posted:I saw that live.
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Grittybeard posted:I'd imagine if you ate dinner with him everything would taste bland no matter what. I've never even heard of Sean McDonough, but this is a really hilarious way to describe someone and now I'm curious about him.
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I'm watching some Rugby thing and its super cool the ref is mic'd up and you can clearly hear what he says during the run of play I wish US sports would do this
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I'm watching some Rugby thing and its super cool the ref is mic'd up and you can clearly hear what he says during the run of play Players and refs are mic'd up commonly in all 4 big sports.
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Bip Roberts posted:Players and refs are mic'd up commonly in all 4 big sports. But you only really hear them during breaks in plays. Refs only turn their mics on to announce penalties. I wish they were on constantly.
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Do you have any idea how much swearing that would pick up?
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ElwoodCuse posted:Do you have any idea how much swearing that would pick up? And?
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Yes networks and advertisers would love every sports broadcast turning into an early 80s Eddie Murphy routine
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iospace posted:I saw that live. It is one of my favorite sports events ever. I was on the phone with my dad watching live talking about how it sucked to lose and then......magic happened
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