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seiferguy posted:Hell yeah that owns. I don't see Tim Marchman but I think he'd been gone for a bit. Timothy Burke isn't there either. E: Oh, Burke's got his own business now.
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DJExile posted:I don't see Tim Marchman but I think he'd been gone for a bit. I dont see Dom either.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 15:05 |
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Revivified Deadcast announced: https://twitter.com/DefectorMedia/status/1288092057748287489
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FMguru posted:Revivified Deadcast announced: That makes me happy. Means we'll probably see Roth writing there too.
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Akileese posted:That makes me happy. Means we'll probably see Roth writing there too. He’s on the list of writers on the site
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 15:55 |
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Adun posted:He’s on the list of writers on the site Ahhh I didn't see him initially. Whoops.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 15:59 |
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So hyped. I was beginning to think the calls for them to make their own site were just wishful thinking.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 16:08 |
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It's a hefty price to pay but I'm willing to try it out for a year, since I probably went on deadspin 10 times a day at work.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 16:33 |
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SI keeps chugging along https://twitter.com/themantz/status/1288128939634851840?s=20
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 16:47 |
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It's $6 or $8 a month for something I'll use literally every day. I've got zero problems with the price.
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DJExile posted:Good to see them back, but paying an extra $30 to comment is... something. SA is the best commenting community I've ever been part of, and it is entirely due to two things: 1) that it costs a small amount of money to be able to post, hugely reducing the shitlord numbers and 2) there's actual moderation of the forums. I fully support them doing this, and think more sites should. (edit: went and put money where mouth is) Sarcastro fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jul 28, 2020 |
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AndrewP posted:It's $6 or $8 a month for something I'll use literally every day. I've got zero problems with the price. I dunno, I've been burned before. Committing to a year right now at that price is a lot. I'm sure they'll do a 14 day trial or whatever and I'll give it a shot. If it's good then, yeah, that price is fine. Although I never like being tied to these things for a full year, so I may just do month to month at first.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 16:57 |
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Drew is already in midseason form:quote:Frankly, we've had Defector planned since December so we've been loving dying to tell everyone. So it's just a massive relief to finally be able to start yammering about it publicly. I have a HUGE mouth so keeping that poo poo in was like holding back a dump on the highway.
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morestuff posted:SI keeps chugging along that’s why the current owners bought them can’t wait for the next embarrassing si product
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morestuff posted:SI keeps chugging along Now I'm imagining an obese 35 year old Buzz Beamer who only does racist sports reaction streams.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:09 |
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I wasn't sure what brain formula to buy but then I found comfort in the familiar journalism brand from my childhood that now only exists as a hollowed out digital platform.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:17 |
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https://twitter.com/MyBookieCFB/status/1288136462442139650 lmao holy hell i forgot about espn phone
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/MyBookieCFB/status/1288136462442139650 Even better: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBoredShow/status/1288145948737040387
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:21 |
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god i wanted one of those football phones somethin' fierce as a kid
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:25 |
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The football phone was just a novelty phone that sucked. ESPN's thing was a super expensive flip phone that texted you score updates and came out right as smartphones were working on coming out. It'd be like releasing a super specialized VCR in 1997.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:27 |
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ESPN Phone also led to this great Steve Jobs storyquote:The story goes that ESPN president George Bodenheimer attended the first Disney board meeting in Orlando, Florida, just after the company had bought Pixar, the innovative animation factory, and spotted Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a hallway. It seemed like a good time to introduce himself. “I am George Bodenheimer,” he said to Jobs. “I run ESPN.” Jobs just looked at him and said nothing other than “Your phone is the dumbest loving idea I have ever heard,” then turned and walked away.
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FMguru posted:ESPN Phone also led to this great Steve Jobs story hahahahaha goddamn
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:42 |
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Was that the final straw to spur him to make the iPhone?
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AndrewP posted:Was that the final straw to spur him to make the iPhone? Nah it came out like a year later so it would have been in the works for a long time. Like Kalli said, that's part of the reason the ESPN phone was so dumb.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:46 |
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E:
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:47 |
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Let's not forget this signed photo for those of you who have $25k/month to fork over:
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:54 |
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Weird of them to have an autographed photo from Sam Darnold’s senior prom, but there’s stranger memorabilia out there I guess.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 18:03 |
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AndrewP posted:It's $6 or $8 a month for something I'll use literally every day. I've got zero problems with the price. tbh as much as I would enjoy the content it would be great to see a worker-owned journalism project succeed, so think of it as $4 a month for each
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FMguru posted:ESPN Phone also led to this great Steve Jobs story This made me miss and respect Jobs more than any other story has.
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tinstaach posted:tbh as much as I would enjoy the content it would be great to see a worker-owned journalism project succeed, so think of it as $4 a month for each Does this take air out of the room for athletic somewhat I wonder, or is there not much cross over between rabid "covers my teams in minute details" and "snarks on sports in gener'?
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 19:22 |
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Scaramouche posted:Does this take air out of the room for athletic somewhat I wonder, or is there not much cross over between rabid "covers my teams in minute details" and "snarks on sports in gener'? They fill really different niches but I'm sure there'll be at least a little competition for bucks
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 19:24 |
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If I do anything it'll be cancel the Athletic, but realistically I'll probably keep both yearly subscriptions are easy to forget to cancel
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 19:33 |
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:This made me miss and respect Jobs more than any other story has. His daughter wrote a book two years ago about how abusive he was as a father, he sucks
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uggy posted:His daughter wrote a book two years ago about how abusive he was as a father, he sucks In that case it was funny, that he did the exact same thing to his Oncologist is funnier.
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uggy posted:His daughter wrote a book two years ago about how abusive he was as a father, he sucks Yeah. Exactly. Which is why him telling the head of ESPN that their phone is dumb is the only good thing he ever did.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Yeah. Exactly. Which is why him telling the head of ESPN that their phone is dumb is the only good thing he ever did. Ah got ya, carry on!
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 21:33 |
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seiferguy posted:Hell yeah that owns. Someone mentioned Dom and I just noticed Laura Wagner isn't on there either. She's at Vice now.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 21:54 |
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General Dog posted:Can’t wait for lots of incisive commentary along the lines of “Goodell Doesn’t Care if Any of Us Die” I know most people here are smart enough to ignore you but please shut up.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 22:53 |
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Scaramouche posted:Does this take air out of the room for athletic somewhat I wonder, or is there not much cross over between rabid "covers my teams in minute details" and "snarks on sports in gener'? I started an Athletic subscription in January when I was mad about losing Deadspin and wanted an alternative to ad-supported writing. The problem has been that once the NFL season ended I really stopped caring about the in depth articles they were putting out. I don't think I've checked it in months (the lack of sports doesn't help). I used to read Deadspin year round, and I'm sure I'd still be reading them through the COVID sports drought. Today I subscribed to Defector and canceled my Athletic subscription.
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Basticle posted:I know most people here are smart enough to ignore you but please shut up. C'mon, that's 100% an on-brand Deadspin headline. I should know, I read it constantly right until it shut down.
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