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it’s $5 to $6, which is a 20% increase but isn’t backbreaking i don’t think a lot cheaper than a lot of other a la carte journalism
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Yeah I'm going to stay on for that price, they've done really well lately
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I just went to "cancel" my membership and when I pushed the cancel button they insta offered me a new sub at 21.59 a year so I did that.
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Jul 16, 2021 21:00
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I'm currently on the $1 a month for a year, and I can reliably find a few things a week to read, so when it rolls over, I'll re-up to full price
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Declan MacManus posted:it’s $5 to $6, which is a 20% increase but isn’t backbreaking i don’t think Also, if you really like what The Athletic offers in terms of journalism $72 for a whole year isn't a bad price if you can afford it. My new local newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune, went online-only (except Saturday) shortly after I moved here and if you want to sign up for their stuff their miminum prices are $15 for one month or $150 for a year. That, and you hit the paywall after three articles in a month.
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Jul 16, 2021 23:26
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Read the Athletic every day so I’m pretty happy to keep supporting
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They started posting a bunch of Football Manager stuff last season, so not surprised they have enough for a proper gaming vertical. $6 a month for a site that has very good content and only house ads is still a steal.
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I don't necessarily read as much of The Athletic content as I used to but their MLB beat writers are pretty much my go-to people for all of their respective teams when I need to know anything, so I'm glad to support them.
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poo poo, I don't find myself reading the athletic as much as I used to so I think this kinda tips me off their boat. Defector's been worth it though.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I just went to "cancel" my membership and when I pushed the cancel button they insta offered me a new sub at 21.59 a year so I did that. I did this too since my free T-Mobile year was coming up and got the same 21.59 deal. That is an easy decision.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I just went to "cancel" my membership and when I pushed the cancel button they insta offered me a new sub at 21.59 a year so I did that. Thank you for this.
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Jul 19, 2021 16:17
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The combo of Defector and The Athletic is a sweet spot but not one I want to pay full price for both. Thankfully one is much easier to support and the other is desperate for subscriber numbers.
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https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1417659452770107401?s=20 There's a lot of teams that would make a great miniseries, but personally I would love to see a Jon Bois series on the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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HMS Beagle posted:https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1417659452770107401?s=20 We were talking about it on Discord, and I think he might be doing a larger piece on the Chargers
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I'd love to see the Expos but Chargers would be p. good too.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:We were talking about it on Discord, and I think he might be doing a larger piece on the Chargers I'll never forget my first year living in San Diego when the Cowboys came to play the Chargers. I expected to see a home crowd. The game, parking lot, and city in general was 90% Cowboy fans. Poor poor Chargers.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:I'll never forget my first year living in San Diego when the Cowboys came to play the Chargers. I expected to see a home crowd. The game, parking lot, and city in general was 90% Cowboy fans. Poor poor Chargers. I went to a chargers cowboys game when I was living in the area and my section literally had more people in raiders gear than people in chargers gear, it was nuts.
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Jul 21, 2021 16:56
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https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1417926652169007109 oh man ooohhhhhhh man
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Oh no. There are going to be some rough episodes of that thing but I am very excited.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1417926652169007109 With the exception of the first Super Bowl season, the Falcons have been unbelievably consistently underwhelming. It doesn't matter if it was a season when they had no talent or in seasons they did. Atlanta has always been worse than they should have been. Bois could fill seven episodes on just their draft history.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:I'll never forget my first year living in San Diego when the Cowboys came to play the Chargers. I expected to see a home crowd. The game, parking lot, and city in general was 90% Cowboy fans. Poor poor Chargers. Raiders fans always considered the game in San Diego to be a ninth home game (for what that was worth).
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RC and Moon Pie posted:With the exception of the first Super Bowl season, the Falcons have been unbelievably consistently underwhelming. It doesn't matter if it was a season when they had no talent or in seasons they did. Atlanta has always been worse than they should have been. Probably an episode alone for Deion
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Jul 22, 2021 00:01
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I hope they do an episode on Left Eye setting Andre Rison's house on fire.
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As a Falcons fan, nooooooooo. I don't think I'll be able to watch that.
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CVagts posted:As a Falcons fan, nooooooooo. I don't think I'll be able to watch that. Be proud. Plenty of teams across all sports are awful, but how many had a coach make an illegal phone call because he didn't know all his playoffs scenarios, followed by a coach who straight up abandoned them? Sandwiching their quarterback running a dog fighting ring? And how many franchises brought back Marion Campbell after an initial 6-19 run thinking it'd actually work this time? Just Atlanta. RC and Moon Pie fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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I wonder how much time they'll dedicate to Eugene Robinson
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I wonder how much time they'll dedicate to the running back the Falcons had in the early 80s who was on track for a big bonus for a thousand-year season, went into his last carry of the year with 1,006 yards, promptly fumbled the ball for a loss of seven, and finished with 999.
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Crazy Ted posted:I wonder how much time they'll dedicate to the running back the Falcons had in the early 80s who was on track for a big bonus for a thousand-year season, went into his last carry of the year with 1,006 yards, promptly fumbled the ball for a loss of seven, and finished with 999. Dave Hampton! I don't think it was a bonus, 1000 yards was just really rare back then so they stopped the game, gave him a game ball for being the first falcons back to ever crack 1000 yards, and then almost immediately after that his quarterback slipped handing it off to him and he got crushed for a loss of 6. Then the next year he came into the last game like 80 yards short of 1000 and rushed for like 75 or something like that and came up just short again. Finally the year after that he got it with like 50 seconds left in the last game of the year and they took him out. MourningView fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Jul 23, 2021 |
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I think Jon mentioned that as an aside in one of his early videos- I definitely remember hearing about that and I don’t really watch football outside of his videos
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tinaun posted:I think Jon mentioned that as an aside in one of his early videos- I definitely remember hearing about that and I don’t really watch football outside of his videos Joe Posnanski wrote about it a couple times too, that's where I know it from.
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It’s also popped up in various NFL Films pieces over the years, whether it was follies or weird stories or wherever, which is where I first learned the story.
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Yeah, Bomani Jones has definitely talked about it and every other Falcons lowlight a bunch as well. Man I can't wait for the Bobby Petrino section
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Kalli posted:Yeah, Bomani Jones has definitely talked about it and every other Falcons lowlight a bunch as well. I encourage Jon to show zero mercy. I'm not even a Falcons fan and that was such a grimy, hosed up thing to do.
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Kalli posted:Yeah, Bomani Jones has definitely talked about it and every other Falcons lowlight a bunch as well. if they're smart (and there's no bad blood still left from the Banner Society debacle) they'll have brought Jason Kirk in to do his Bobby Petrino Voice
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Context: Montreal drafted a kid that asked not to be drafted in light of his criminal conviction of sharing an explicit photo of a woman without her consent. https://twitter.com/globekpd/status/1418912691398324226?s=21
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