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MourningView posted:They should dump Booger too and grab Kurt Warner as the sole color guy. He's been doing MNF on the radio and is really good at it. He was also the best part of that one NFL Network game that had like 12 people in the booth for some reason. I don't know, if they fire Booger, I imagine he'll just stick around no matter how many times they try to get rid of him.
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this doesn't sound good https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1101878911573639168
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I realize he didn't invent it but "pathological shithead" is a quality insult
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Vertical Lime posted:this doesn't sound good Imagine looking at the dumpster fires that Zucker made of NBC and CNN and wanting him to run your sports division in addition to still running CNN.
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MourningView posted:They should dump Booger too and grab Kurt Warner as the sole color guy. He's been doing MNF on the radio and is really good at it. He was also the best part of that one NFL Network game that had like 12 people in the booth for some reason. Had to pick up my in laws from the airport during the Super Bowl so was stuck listening to the radio broadcast of the game and Kurt Warner was surprisingly good. I was wondering why he didn’t get a TV job
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zucker running turner sports is official you've been warned
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Vertical Lime posted:zucker running turner sports is official Well, there goes any hope of TBS and TNT sports being even remotely decent. God, Jeff Zucker is such a loving idiot on every level and yet he keeps getting work. Remember, this is the guy responsible for the Leno / Conan fiasco and it getting completely out of hand.
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Timby posted:Well, there goes any hope of TBS and TNT sports being even remotely decent. He is also responsible for our idiot baby President since he is responsible for putting The Apprentice on the air.
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yeah nobody had heard of donald trump before the apprentice E: I mean yeah, Zucker's a clown, but c'mon
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DJExile posted:yeah nobody had heard of donald trump before the apprentice His level of fame skyrocketed from it. If he was just some real estate rear end in a top hat he wouldn’t have had a cult of celebrity.
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I think I'd argue that having a cult of celebrity is what got Trump the apprentice show. I also think I'd argue that Jeff Zucker is a jackass if we lived in a world where Trump didn't exist.
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Nah he had pretty much fallen out of the spotlight relative to his heyday in the 80s and early/mid 90s, and was at a financial low point when he got that show. It is harder to remember now because he is literally all anyone talks about but it actually played a really big role in reviving his awful brand and making people view him as a successful business tycoon again (even though in reality his business was pretty much a disaster by that point). His primary appeal is that he's willing to be overtly racist but being viewed as a successful businessman and master dealmaker is also part of it and a lot of that mythology comes from the show presenting him that way. He also made a shitload of money off it
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MourningView posted:Nah he had pretty much fallen out of the spotlight relative to his heyday in the 80s and early/mid 90s, and was at a financial low point when he got that show. It is harder to remember now because he is literally all anyone talks about but it actually played a really big role in reviving his awful brand and making people view him as a successful business tycoon again (even though in reality his business was pretty much a disaster by that point). His primary appeal is that he's willing to be overtly racist but being viewed as a successful businessman and master dealmaker is also part of it and a lot of that mythology comes from the show presenting him that way. He also made a shitload of money off it Yea, The Apprentice likely saved his businesses from a total collapse. His casinos in Atlantic City had individually gone through bankruptcies in the 90's, but in 2004, Trump Hotel Casino & Resorts as a whole filed for bankruptcy, they changed the name to Trump Entertainment. That company filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and Trump pretty much got sidelined by creditors. The Apprentice let him sell of licenses for his name, that probably has kept him going way longer than he should have. The guy has always been salesman first, competent businessman way down the line. He's really good at scamming people, including large lenders, out of money.
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Timby posted:God, Jeff Zucker is such a loving idiot on every level and yet he keeps getting work. Remember, this is the guy responsible for the Leno / Conan fiasco and it getting completely out of hand.
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Crazy Ted posted:Not just that, but at the time NBC was not only stone-cold last among the four networks in Prime Time ratings, but IIRC on some nights they were also being beaten by Univision. Correct. And CNN has become the lowest of the three cable news outlets since he took over
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sportsgenius86 posted:Correct. And CNN has become the lowest of the three cable news outlets since he took over Yes but you see he has executive experience with multiple TV channels in a variety of genres therefore
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Yes, but have you considered the... profits?
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I really want to know what sneakers Bomani Jones is trying to buy off a co-worker, but I think I have a correct guess.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, The Apprentice likely saved his businesses from a total collapse. His casinos in Atlantic City had individually gone through bankruptcies in the 90's, but in 2004, Trump Hotel Casino & Resorts as a whole filed for bankruptcy, they changed the name to Trump Entertainment. That company filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and Trump pretty much got sidelined by creditors. Not like anyone ever accused Trump of being smart but isn't this just money laundering for the Russian mob?
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ElwoodCuse posted:Not like anyone ever accused Trump of being smart but isn't this just money laundering for the Russian mob? Most everything Trump has ever done has just been money laundering for the Russian mob. His properties are mainly used to function as chips to circulate amongst the mob, cleaning up money with every purchase. There's a ton of his buildings that have never been used, just for this reason. That is the business model.
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AsInHowe posted:Most everything Trump has ever done has just been money laundering for the Russian mob. His properties are mainly used to function as chips to circulate amongst the mob, cleaning up money with every purchase. There's a ton of his buildings that have never been used, just for this reason. That is the business model. See that part I didn’t know. Why was this not getting blared on loud speakers through all of 2016?
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its Ash Wednesday, so cant wait for people to watch people freak out about Tony Reali again
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Bird in a Blender posted:See that part I didn’t know. Why was this not getting blared on loud speakers through all of 2016? Because things like that Don't Fit The Narrative, and Trump's fanbase (outside of Republicans) is the douchebag suburban Boomer who owns a poorly-run business and acts like he's in a mob movie. The Clinton campaign was too busy running as if they already won, with all the score-settling and grudge maintenance that it entails. They weren't worried that Trump would win, and treated him as a sideshow joke.
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I doubt Bernie or anyone would have hit that angle much harder or more effectively without some smoking gun (which is why some people wanted the tax returns in hope there'd be one in there). Stuff like Trump U and the ties to Russian money circulated during the campaigns but they never had as much traction as Trump's naked racism and misogyny. But yeah, ultimately Trump's voters don't care that he's a dirty crook who wants to be a mobster. That's a feature to them.
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Tl;dr kill all boomers Also between LeBatard talking to Action Bronson and Bomani having 2 Chainz on The Right Time tomorrow, this is a good-rear end podcast week.
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https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/1103754736568885248 whole bunch of good stuff in here
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DJExile posted:FSN North play-by-play announcer Doug McLeod was yanked off a broadcast mid-game during a Minnesota high school hockey tournament game for... well... It’s alright guys, since it’s not explicitly racial in the dictionary definition there’s no issue https://twitter.com/rr_reports/status/1103880384545091584?s=21
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https://twitter.com/cgasparino/status/1103866853032513536?s=21 now there’s still the issue of the other fox regional channels
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Bracket show might suck slightly less this year: https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/1104817911057788928 I'm sure it'll still be at least an hour longer than it needs to be, if not more, but there you are.
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March madness broadcast teams as follows:AA posted:Jim Nantz / Bill Raftery / Grant Hill // Tracy Wolfson* Man, what the hell did poor Kevin Harlan do to get saddled with loving Reggie Miller?
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DJExile posted:March madness broadcast teams as follows: Choke a woman, iirc. Or am I confusing him with another announcer?
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Kibner posted:Choke a woman, iirc. Or am I confusing him with another announcer? You are thinking of Marv Albert, who should just retire already.
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Reggie is Harlan's regular NBA partner on TNT so they're just keeping them together, but yeah it sucks that the best post-Gus March madness play by play guy is stuck with the worst color commentator on Earth. It was kinda fun to have the Inside the NBA guys involved the first time but at this point I am pretty much over having a bunch of people who don't actually watch any college basketball involved in the broadcast every year. Barkley hasn't been consistently good on TV in like a decade now. MourningView fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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MourningView posted:Reggie is Harlan's regular NBA partner on TNT so they're just keeping them together, but yeah it sucks that the best post-Gus March madness play by play guy is stuck with the worst color commentator on Earth. And the best color commentator is stuck with Jim Nantz.
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If I ever meet Kevin Harlan irl, I'll probably just start crying and hug him
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What's super disappointing is that CBS manages to rent Bill Raftery from Fox Sports but not Gus Johnson.
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