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i haven't watched around the horn in forever, but jay mariotti being a smarmy prick and making everyone hate him and still winning was my favorite part of the show.
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What Simmons said is good for him and everyone at Grantland, you guys are unreal sometimes
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Dutchy posted:Lol has anyone paid a single thought to Jay mariotti in like ten years?
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May 8, 2015 18:47
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Deadspin hates Simmons because he 'poached' people from them, so I wouldn't count on getting a fair take from them
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Niwrad posted:He would be their best writer but he'd be buried on the site because he's not a personality like Stephen A Smith. I just don't see him doing the kinds of thing he is doing now (TV, podcasts) with Simmons and Grantland out of the picture.
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Simmons is almost certainly going to talk poo poo e: Cowherd and Simmons out leaves the ESPN radio realm in tatters. Those guys were probably their two biggest gets outside of Scott Van Pelt
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hcreight posted:So, yeah, anyone hoping for Simmons to do an ESPN bashing guest column or something for Deadspin, don't hold your breath.
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Badfinger posted:He really doesn't though. It's right on that his shtick hasn't changed in 15 years but his access has. poo poo he talks about isn't particularly relatable to me, and wasn't ever particularly something I was attempting to strive to be. The perception of who he is also changes his writing. I remember being enamored with him writing about the Patriots winning the Super Bowl. Boston sports being an absolute powerhouse for the last decade plus is extremely bad for him in his writing, because instead of sad douche he's now incredibly entitled douche. Putting so much into showing who you are as a person through the writing is what made him, but also hurts him badly.
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Grantland does really good traffic for a long form niche website that isn't SEO/social media driven
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lmao this guy
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it's insanely good when you get a homegrown hot take in the hot takes thread
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Crazy Ted posted:Stalin totally cheered for the Cincinnati Reds.
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chris connelly is great and would never say a bad thing about anyone which is probably the logic of his interim appointment
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this is the funniest article of all time http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/page/BelmontPharoah/2015-belmont-stakes-american-pharoah-triple-crown-horse-not-humans
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the problem with simmons tv show was that the podcast's convivial format didn't gel well with the more buttoned up espn tv expectation. having seen maher, he could basically take his podcast shtick to a weekly sports show with people like Lowe and Keri, J-Bug et al and just get into the banter zone. i'd definitely watch.
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euphronius posted:It's true kids do not watch tv at all anymore. based off everything i'm hearing and the research in the field, traditional format tv will die in the next 20-30 years.
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exodus movement of jah people
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Eric the Mauve posted:Well that would be because it pretty clearly IS about to be shut down, right? I'm not sure how much sympathy I can muster for people who apparently are working hard to convince themselves it isn't so. I mean I know it sucks but lashing out at people isn't constructive, work on your resume.
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it would be chill if some of the higher ups at ESPN were held accountable for the poo poo show that's occurred over the past 2 years across all their properties rather than just the low-level employees that really have nothing to do with the relative success or failure of a media conglomerate this size
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Patrick Spens posted:Do you have a good one to recommend?
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African AIDS cum posted:Burn rate means the amount of money they are "burning" each quarter without showing profit. Grantland was a vanity project subsidized by the network.
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grantland traffic over last 6 months the site's been going steadily downhill for awhile now and it'll be good to see their talent on new platforms sooner rather than later
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jyrka posted:Why not?
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Niwrad posted:Is Simmons actually starting a website? I got the feeling that it's just going to be a TV show and his podcasts from here on out. He kind of joked about being retired from writing.
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So It Goes posted:Taking the article at face value, he told the people to not tell anyone they were leaving until they left. This is, in fact, a "douche" move regardless of at-will employment. The standard is to submit a two-weeks notice when employees leave at-will employment to let the company find/hire/train a replacement. Simmons apparently demanded they not submit a notice.
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i cannot overstate how little you need to leave a notice if a company doesn't respect you enough to put you under contract
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it's very much against the law for an employer to give an inaccurate poor reference.
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soggybagel posted:ESPN is getting out of the pop culture business. Sports is pop culture.
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Noctone posted:bruh
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smart people dont spend money on television or digital properties because they know how to get them for free so the market corrects to the lowest common denominator
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Crazy Ted posted:Remember that time ESPN dedicated an entire episode of SportsCenter to Tim Tebow's birthday even though he wasn't a starting quarterback anymore?
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's become pretty clear in the last 6 months that Disney is basically ordering ESPN to cut back on things that aren't related to live sports. Almost everything else at the network has been affected. So far they haven't let go of any prominent TV people unless Simmons counts. They decided to let Cowherd and Olbermann walk instead of re-signing them to new deals. yet they're investing in 'the undefeated'
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zakharov posted:I left my last job on amicable terms, and gave notice so I could prepare for the next person to take over and make sure that my coworkers were ready for the interim period. Maybe the nonprofit world is less full of assholes?
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So It Goes posted:"gently caress you, got mine." straight up brolic fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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gawker is the worst and its perverse 'invade and recap everything' existence is one of the things that keeps me from being a media optimist.
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Jota posted:He...he would...gently caress a GIRL
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tinstaach posted:Katie Nolan deserves credit for being a Boston sports fan who isn't insufferable, and that's no small feat. Even Charlie Pierce couldn't go two paragraphs without whining about Deflategate in the last days of Grantland.
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