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Blake Bortles is old news. Its all about Decaprio Bootle now.
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May 14, 2021 03:30
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fartknocker posted:Blake Bortles is old news. Its all about Decaprio Bootle now. Did the defector do a Name of the Year contest yet? I'm pretty sure they did one before becoming the Defector because it had a former classmate of my wife in it (Voltaire Casino). Dicaprio Bootle would have to be on the bracket.
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No Safe Word posted:(Voltaire Casino). Is that not the name of a Bomberman64 bad guy?
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DildenAnders posted:Is that not the name of a Bomberman64 bad guy? It sounds like someone trying to reference Swingers in the most oblique way possible.
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No Safe Word posted:Did the defector do a Name of the Year contest yet? I'm pretty sure they did one before becoming the Defector because it had a former classmate of my wife in it (Voltaire Casino). Dicaprio Bootle would have to be on the bracket. Voltaire Casino is such an incredible name. Wow.
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NickRoweFillea posted:Voltaire Casino is such an incredible name. Wow. And yet it was a first round exit (it was 2019 apparently, not 2020): https://challonge.com/NameOfTheYear2019 I found last year's pre-Defector one as well: https://unnamedtemporarysportsblog.com/heres-your-2020-name-of-the-year-bracket/ and it was in April of last year, so it seems like we're overdue
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No Safe Word posted:And yet it was a first round exit (it was 2019 apparently, not 2020): Truman Peyote deserved a better first round seed than Storm Duck.
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My wife had Jizyah Shorts' business card waiting on her desk when she started a new job a couple years ago, right after that tournament. We take very good care of that one
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the NOTY tournament is actually the creation of Stefan Fatsis and his friends from college. It's been around for decades at this point.
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habeasdorkus posted:the NOTY tournament is actually the creation of Stefan Fatsis and his friends from college. It's been around for decades at this point. Dates back to about 1985 and them hanging around in a dorm collecting newspaper clippings, doesn't it?
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Sounding really bad for Jonathan Tjarks: https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/2021/5/20/22444532/long-night-of-the-soul
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Henchman of Santa posted:Sounding really bad for Jonathan Tjarks:
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Henchman of Santa posted:Sounding really bad for Jonathan Tjarks: The degree of metastasis is not a good sign.  It's also one of the best pieces of writing that I've read in years.
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May 22, 2021 04:27
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https://twitter.com/JPosnanski/status/1396922624723365892 Posnanski's leaving The Athletic for parts unknown. At least they forced him to finish the Baseball 100, and they'll stop advertising for cereal on the PosCast.
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I'm guessing he's getting out while he can and the Athletic is about to implode. Which is too bad.
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm guessing he's getting out while he can and the Athletic is about to implode. Which is too bad. Yeah, the writing has been on the wall for the Athletic for a while: Their subscriber base isn't nearly large enough to fund the aggressive expansion model they've had over the past several years, especially with establishing local beats for almost every team in every major league. That requires a ton of money not only to initially capitalize but also keep on going; there's a reason they're back to running $1 for 6 months promos and the like, because their entire model is predicated upon people not only subscribing, but being like the vast majority of people and forgetting to set a calendar reminder to drop their trial before the subscription auto-renews. I am sure there's still money dripping from the spigot, but it's not the outpouring that it once was back in, what, 2015 or so when they were founded? Here's some of their current high-profile writers: MLB: Ken Rosenthal, Jayson Stark, Peter Gammons, Jim Bowden, Eno Sarris, Joe Posnanski, Andrew Baggarly, Grant Brisbee, Emma Span, Keith Law, Molly Knight NBA: Shams Charania, David Aldridge, Sam Amick, Zach Harper, Marcus Thompson, Joe Vardon, Ethan Strauss NFL: Michael Lombardi, Lindsay Jones, Dane Brugler, Bob Sturm, Mike Sando, John Hollinger, Robert Mays NHL: Pierre LeBrun, Katie Strang, James Mirtle, Corey Pronman, Justin Bourne, Dom Luszczyszyn, Craig Custance, Michael Russo, Sean McIndoe NCAA football: Stewart Mandel, Bruce Feldman, Nicole Auerbach, Faux Pelini (anonymous parody of coach Bo Pelini) NCAA basketball: Seth Davis, Dana O'Neil, Brian Hamilton, Ken Pomeroy NASCAR: Jeff Gluck, Jordan Bianchi, David Smith, Alison Sneag MLS: Paul Tenorio, Pablo Maurer, Sam Stejskal, Matt Pentz, Felipe Cardenas, Jeff Reuter Women's soccer: Meg Linehan Media: Richard Deitsch A lot of those folks do not come cheaply at all.
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May 24, 2021 22:53
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This thread has been predicting The Athletic would die in the next few months for five years now
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Kenny Mayne's pending retirement conjured the memory of this video, which is as brutally unfunny today as the day it came out, but in some ways weirdly prophetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiFBOHUT0c4
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Timby posted:Yeah, the writing has been on the wall for the Athletic for a while: Their subscriber base isn't nearly large enough to fund the aggressive expansion model they've had over the past several years, especially with establishing local beats for almost every team in every major league. That requires a ton of money not only to initially capitalize but also keep on going; there's a reason they're back to running $1 for 6 months promos and the like, because their entire model is predicated upon people not only subscribing, but being like the vast majority of people and forgetting to set a calendar reminder to drop their trial before the subscription auto-renews. you're also missing their incredibly hard push into the UK and European soccer, which has also brought over lots of similar caliber of writers (a lot of the top respected 'national' and club-focused beat writers from a variety of sources) plus columns from a few select Famous Former Players as well. so that may have been positive growth for that business, it certainly widened out their subscription base further, but there aren't many more places they can keep repeating that same trick. Australia is the only similar market without going really multi-lingual.
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Kenny Mayne is absolutely one of the GOAT. I'd argue he, if not introduced, at the very least propagated dry humor in sports commentary.
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm guessing he's getting out while he can and the Athletic is about to implode. Which is too bad. well this looks like the end result https://twitter.com/axios/status/1397184275070529543?s=21
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That seems like a good fit for both the NYT and Athletic.
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Axios getting the scoop that somebody else is buying The Athletic is a little funny.
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Pretty good. The Times certainly knows how to run an online media organization. And I feel like that's about as good an outcome as you could hope for absent VCs willing to subsidize the whole thing in perpetuity.
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https://twitter.com/lalpert1/status/1397284298059915266 Rip the Tribune
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Losing the Trib would be alright with me.
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I get one of the smaller papers in the Tribune's portfolio (one that nevertheless contributes two sports writers to the annual baseball/football previews) and the rot has been setting in for years. It's been poo poo since they move the printing press to the Daily News' plant in Jersey. A ten pm deadline has made things even worse. I can't image the axe taking too long to fall.
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Inspector_666 posted:Axios getting the scoop that somebody else is buying The Athletic is a little funny.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Losing the Trib would be alright with me. It's also the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, Virginia Pilot and Hartford Courant.
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Henchman of Santa posted:It's also the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, Virginia Pilot and Hartford Courant. and the ny daily news they've already been gutted to the point where it's nothing
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The Trib already apparently had a 10% profit margin... that Alden wants doubled.
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habeasdorkus posted:The Trib already apparently had a 10% profit margin... that Alden wants doubled. Looks like its time to cut staff again!
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Henchman of Santa posted:It's also the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, Virginia Pilot and Hartford Courant.
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habeasdorkus posted:The Trib already apparently had a 10% profit margin... that Alden wants doubled. I'm sure saddling the company with $280m in debt will help the bottom line.
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Inspector_666 posted:I'm sure saddling the company with $280m in debt will help the bottom line. Didn't Great Hill Partners do the same thing to the Gawker sites?
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