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the jabaal abdul-simmons stuff is legitimately hilarious. i mean like the stuff where as a kid he liked basketball so much that he wanted to be black is kind of (maybe) normal kid stuff
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If we are about to pile on, I just to remind people for a Boston guy, his formative years were in Connecticut and went to high school at Choate.
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Mooseontheloose posted:If we are about to pile on, I just to remind people for a Boston guy, his formative years were in Connecticut and went to high school at Choate. As an extremely non new englander is this supposed to make Bill look better or worse?
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Apr 11, 2023 16:07
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If Law and Order has taught me anything it's that we should most certainly assess people based on their childhood drawings.
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projecthalaxy posted:As an extremely non new englander is this supposed to make Bill look better or worse? Choate is an elite boarding school that charges annual tuition around $65,000 a year.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:the jabaal abdul-simmons stuff is legitimately hilarious. i mean like the stuff where as a kid he liked basketball so much that he wanted to be black is kind of (maybe) normal kid stuff ever even considering wanting to be black would put you in the most tolerant 1% of Massachusetts residents.
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projecthalaxy posted:As an extremely non new englander is this supposed to make Bill look better or worse? Worse.
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Cool. And yeah I'm not like cancelling the dude its just funny that he had a blacksona in first grade and then to try to figure out what athletes think during the combine he didnt like ask any of the hundreds of athletes he knows he just put on his blacksona hat (i hope it was a hat) and made something up idk its a bizarre thing to read
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i think primarily it's just really funny op
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projecthalaxy posted:Cool. Nah I get. I grew up in Massachusetts's, went to college in Boston and when he does this poo poo it just makes me let out a heavy sigh that he got so popular as a Boston guy. And then when he does the racist poo poo, it's like see here is this guy and he is what you all are and I want to to stuff him down a hall and say you aren't helping man. Think of a kid from Poughkeepsie, NY claiming to be a real New Yorker. I also feel bad cause I REALLY liked his stuff in college, he was new and kinda broke out of the old system but then he just replicated it.
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Full disclosure: in second grade I signed a lot of my school papers Yoda and tried to get that over as my nickname (which thankfully didnt work) so I am really in no place to speak
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projecthalaxy posted:Full disclosure: in second grade I signed a lot of my school papers Yoda and tried to get that over as my nickname (which thankfully didnt work) so I am really in no place to speak Was this before or after episode 2?
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Bip Roberts posted:Was this before or after episode 2? This was before episode 1. I just thought he was cool in Empire lol
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speaking of weird racial bits in old popular booksFeels Villeneuve posted:does anyone remember the chapter in Freakanomics where they just went on a digression presenting well-known urban legends about "ha ha black people have the craziest names" as if they were facts
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Feels Villeneuve posted:speaking of weird racial bits in old popular books Freakonomics was a weird book that one of my management professors was so sure was like The Key to understanding things. That and The World Is Flat. Also just noticed the thread title lol
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Bird in a Blender posted:This is a good discussion on the satan page. My brother in Ames, you should have scrolled up: Dr_Strangelove posted:Seems appropriate that we’re on Page 666 for this discussion
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Feels Villeneuve posted:speaking of weird racial bits in old popular books i do i also remember that weird bit at the end of the book where they were like "adopted children are doomed to fail" but went on to clarify that one of the authors of the book had adopted a child so actually shoot your shot and economics aren't everything
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projecthalaxy posted:Full disclosure: in second grade I signed a lot of my school papers Yoda and tried to get that over as my nickname (which thankfully didnt work) so I am really in no place to speak Whatever, Yoda
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The most insane Bill Simmons take will always be that Memphis sports crowds get more tense than in other cities because MLK was shot there.
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So It Goes posted:The most insane Bill Simmons take will always be that Memphis sports crowds get more tense than in other cities because MLK was shot there. Lmao
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Kalli posted:The Bill Simmons subreddit uses that name for Bomani Jones because anyone who'd post on a Bill Simmons subreddit.... Yep, those are his readers...
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So It Goes posted:The most insane Bill Simmons take will always be that Memphis sports crowds get more tense than in other cities because MLK was shot there. that rules lmao
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So It Goes posted:The most insane Bill Simmons take will always be that Memphis sports crowds get more tense than in other cities because MLK was shot there. He's so good
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Feels Villeneuve posted:speaking of weird racial bits in old popular books The podcast "If Books Could Kill" does a really good breakdown of that book. It's a great pod to listen to and quietly seethe.
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https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1648357227961384963
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Just gonna leave this here https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1649372549115936768?s=20
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No wonder he’s so red-rear end
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That explains a lot about Jason, actually.
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I would be grumpy and think God cursed my people as well
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Dexo posted:Just gonna leave this here The fact that he think of 8 bucks in those terms is probably why he uses so much toilet paper
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So ESPN 30 for 30 Podcasts did a 4 part series on the pay to play scandal in College Basketball from 2018. They've absolutely adopted the 'Serial' style top to bottom for this, but it's still a really good listen.
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Dexo posted:Just gonna leave this here https://twitter.com/hainystyle/status/1649509350992388097?s=46&t=8273Ur5gqnx9UDbflKnZww
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https://twitter.com/THR/status/1650897558477176834?s=20 Hopefully Nate can spend some time off visiting the Sudbury-Thunder Bay Metropolitan Area
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The Thunder Bay moment was definitely a “shine is off the apple” for me and a lot of other sports analysts I know - it exposed him trying to do quick hits with data without inspecting a map and then blaming it on the data provider. It took much longer for 538 to finally fall, probably thanks to the Trump election and a lot of their coverage, but him going full covid truther probably didn’t help. Also creating a newsroom that was too toxic that Mona and other brilliant women of color wanted no parts of, so they never had a better idea than trying to predict elections.
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What's the Thunder Bay thing a reference to? I've never heard that one and a Google search doesn't turn anything up
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Cognac McCarthy posted:What's the Thunder Bay thing a reference to? I've never heard that one and a Google search doesn't turn anything up he went in on the idea that Sudbury-Thunder Bay was a viable market for an NHL expansion team https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-cant-canada-win-the-stanley-cup/ basically everyone in canada was like "you loving moron, here's all the reasons you're wrong and your numbers are poo poo."
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Maybe he just really got into Letterkenny and wanted to make it happen
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I'm not going to shed any tears for Nate Bronze losing his job. The other people who worked at 538, sure. But I'm surprised it lasted this long under Disney where it's almost certainly not making any profits.
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Cognac McCarthy posted:What's the Thunder Bay thing a reference to? I've never heard that one and a Google search doesn't turn anything up To sum up the article quickly: his brilliant methodology for determining the best markets for the NHL to expand to was population x % of people google. So his Thunder Bay-Sudbury Metropolitan area of 500k people where 52% of people googled NHL is a better expansion market than Houston where only 2% of it's 6 million people did. So that's dumb enough, but while the Sudbury-Thunder Bay amalgamation he used can be described as "Northern Ontario", the two cities are 623 miles apart, which would make going to games just a little difficult for half the fans even if games took place in perfect summer weather and not in the middle of winter.
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