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Yeah it’s like are you that desperate for a less famous Skip Bayless?
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The guy who's more famous for "bet the opposite of this guy" than anything he's said or did
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yeah it’s like are you that desperate for a less famous Skip Bayless? That’s extremely unfair to skip
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Jason Whitlock somehow sucks MORE than Clay Travis if anything. How this is possible, I do not know.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Jason Whitlock somehow sucks MORE than Clay Travis if anything. How this is possible, I do not know. Greater mass generates greater gravitational pull
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On an absolute scale, everyone in sports is more beautiful or handsome than Whitlock.
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I got COTD on Defector today, making me journalistically interesting!!
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Scott Hines, formerly known as ActionCookbook of EDSBS (and maybe some other SBNation sites), has a thrice-weekly newsletter and oh my god this description of Whitlock is just perfectquote:Let’s talk about jobs.
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Remember when Whitlock said Serena Williams was fat?
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Article about Defector in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/159461/defector-future-media Mostly interesting for this bit of data: quote:Editor in Chief Tom Ley told me that the site was expected to hit 30,000 paying subscribers on Monday, which at the base rate would amount to over $2 million a year.
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FMguru posted:Article about Defector in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/159461/defector-future-media Indeed, and that's just if they were at base rate, so it's likely significantly higher than that.
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Whitlock ultimately has made a career out of being a dipshit and thats all he knows now. He also clearly has an issue with any woman. https://alexflanagan.com/jason-whitlocks-sexist-schtick-is-shocking-but-all-too-familiar/
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https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1308857118561366016 well that's a new one
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Speaking of new ones. https://twitter.com/franklinleonard/status/1308887836502958082
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Dunno, Whitlock bragging to Congress about how much he owned Katie Nolan seems on point for 2020 to me.
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https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1309220726206017536 secret base out here doing very important secret base things
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NFL 2K5 is the best football game ever made
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sportsgenius86 posted:NFL 2K5 is the best football game ever made I loved how little that game cared for realism, I was putting 200+ points up on the computer
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sportsgenius86 posted:NFL 2K5 is the best football game ever made That's a funny way to spell "Blitz: The League II" The RPG football game where you had to survive a prison game where if you got tackled once it was Game Over
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sportsgenius86 posted:NFL 2K5 is the best football game ever made eternal truth
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Best twenty bucks I ever spent, twice because I had to buy it again for reasons for the life of me I can't remember now.
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Someone make a vr mode for the PS2 emulator for the ultimate football experience.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Someone make a vr mode for the PS2 emulator for the ultimate football experience. There's a football game for the Quest that's actually pretty fun. It's extremely basic but you can draw out plays on a whiteboard yourself. I guess in some ways it's the most realistic football game ever made
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Declan MacManus posted:i think it’s okay to hold a thing that you are a direct subscriber and supporter of to a higher standard, especially considering that they have their own editorial standards and aren’t beholden to anyone except for (wait for it) the subscribers I was happy to give money to Defector because I thought they would be inclusive and interested in women's sports based on what I'd seen at Deadspin. When they weren't, i asked for my money back and they gave it back. When and if it's what I want, I'll be happy to pay again. I do think missing half the world's population AT LAUNCH is a signal of attention if not intention, and it was a bummer. You only send the wrong representation to Churchill's funeral once. Right now, both Defector and I are more satisfied without each other. I find a lot of coverage of women's sports through Twitter; it'll do for the time being.
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Was Taters posted:I was happy to give money to Defector because I thought they would be inclusive and interested in women's sports based on what I'd seen at Deadspin. When they weren't, i asked for my money back and they gave it back. When and if it's what I want, I'll be happy to pay again. I do think missing half the world's population AT LAUNCH is a signal of attention if not intention, and it was a bummer. You only send the wrong representation to Churchill's funeral once. Right now, both Defector and I are more satisfied without each other. I find a lot of coverage of women's sports through Twitter; it'll do for the time being. FWIW you missed a really good piece this week about the women’s gymnastics all around final and the infamous vault horse that was set too low at the 2000 Olympics.
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Declan MacManus posted:i think it’s okay to hold a thing that you are a direct subscriber and supporter of to a higher standard, especially considering that they have their own editorial standards and aren’t beholden to anyone except for (wait for it) the subscribers One more point on this, and I'm not calling you out for it because your points here are good. I just want you guys to realize the way that you think. This is the Defector masthead: https://defector.com/masthead/ There are five women on staff. Out of nineteen. That is not a "high number of women on staff." A "high number" would be more than half, i.e. disproportionate to the population. Defector has a high number of men on staff.
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Mahoning posted:FWIW you missed a really good piece this week about the women’s gymnastics all around final and the infamous vault horse that was set too low at the 2000 Olympics. I'm sorry I missed it, but I'm glad the coverage is coming. That's awesome.
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Huego posted:One more point on this, and I'm not calling you out for it because your points here are good. I just want you guys to realize the way that you think. yeah, that’s fair. the bar is extremely low for sportswriters where 25% of a staff registers as good, either consciously or subconsciously and that’s a bias that i should work on
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Declan MacManus posted:yeah, that’s fair. the bar is extremely low for sportswriters where 25% of a staff registers as good, either consciously or subconsciously and that’s a bias that i should work on Thanks, that's really all I ask. Here's that excellent gymnastics article from the other day for anyone interested: https://defector.com/the-greatest-clusterfuck-in-womens-gymnastics-history-two-decades-later/ And while looking for it I spotted half a dozen other articles I wanted to read, so on the whole I'm still getting my eight bucks' worth from Defector even though IDGAF about football. Great sports writing can make a sport interesting and even create new fans, and I do believe Defector will do that for a lot of women's sports even though they got a slow start.
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Also, FWIW during their open thread yesterday they admitted they have a ways to go on the diversity front. They only have one black writer and are actively looking to add more (I believe they said they are hiring a black senior editor in the next week or two, leading to speculation it was gonna be Bomani Jones after he was a guest on the Distraction podcast last week. That’s probably wishful thinking but it would be super cool.)
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He just signed a new deal with ESPN. He couldn’t leave there if he wanted to.
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Yeah like I said I don’t think it was anything more than wishful thinking. But it would be a good fit if it actually was happening.
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Bomani Jones probably knows people however, lots of black people fired from Bristol recently
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