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Is there more to that story than the fact that Kurkijan apparently cracks up when SVP uses goofy voices? I mean, that's amusing enough as is, just wondering if there's more to it.
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OctoberBlues posted:Is there more to that story than the fact that Kurkijan apparently cracks up when SVP uses goofy voices? I mean, that's amusing enough as is, just wondering if there's more to it. They're both from Maryland, Van Pelt does an exaggerated Baltimore accent it and makes Timmy completely lose his poo poo in the most adorable way every single time. It was a long running bit on SVP's radio show.
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ESPN Radio found someone to fill Le Batard's old slot: Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch 20 minutes ago Sources tell @SInow that @bomani_jones will be getting the 4-7 p.m. ET spot on ESPN Radio. Look for the official news soon.
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Sep 11, 2015 23:28
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Vertical Lime posted:ESPN Radio found someone to fill Le Batard's old slot: Awesome if it's indeed true. This likely means less Evening Jones and potentially no AtH appearances, as they'll have to shoehorn HQ tapings between 1-4, but I'm happy he's getting this opportunity.
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Sep 11, 2015 23:54
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Good, he deserves it and I miss his appearances on LeBatard's show
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Sep 11, 2015 23:59
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I haven't watched much SVP SportsCenter but the "Bad Beats" segment they do is really good.
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Sep 15, 2015 08:59
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MourningView posted:They're both from Maryland, Van Pelt does an exaggerated Baltimore accent it and makes Timmy completely lose his poo poo in the most adorable way every single time. It was a long running bit on SVP's radio show. It was the best. http://deadspin.com/supercut-scott-van-pelt-making-tim-kurkjian-giggle-lik-1446431617
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I legit thought Mark May got fired this year. Who keeps giving this man work? Does Satan run ESPN or something?
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FuzzySkinner posted:I legit thought Mark May got fired this year. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Sep 20, 2015 03:32
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Looks like more ESPN layoffs are coming: http://thebiglead.com/2015/09/21/layoffs-are-coming-to-espn/
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Vertical Lime posted:Looks like more ESPN layoffs are coming: I just finished reading These Guys Have All the Fun (great book, by the way), and it seems like ESPN is really suffering under Skipper's leadership and badly missing George Bodenheimer.
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I mean a lot of their issues stem from people dumping cable in increasing numbers in favor of various streaming services, which is not really his fault
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MourningView posted:I mean a lot of their issues stem from people dumping cable in increasing numbers in favor of various streaming services, which is not really his fault Admittedly, the larger problem is that Disney has had some movies bomb and actually budgeted Avengers 2 to out-perform the first one, and it's passing down those deficits to its subsidiaries, but still -- there really seems to be a leadership issue at ESPN. Like, I get the idea of giving Scott Van Pelt his own SportsCenter show is great, and the show has been great so far, but it's on at loving midnight. No one's watching that unless they're a college student, unemployed, or a semi-functional alcoholic.
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It really seems like ESPN got hosed on the MNF deal. If I remember right from the book, the guy the NFL used to negotiate the TV deal was a former ESPN employee with a grudge. Not only did he get them to pay a fortune, he followed it up by cutting the NBC deal and giving them the best games and killing their Primetime show.
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Niwrad posted:It really seems like ESPN got hosed on the MNF deal. If I remember right from the book, the guy the NFL used to negotiate the TV deal was a former ESPN employee with a grudge. Not only did he get them to pay a fortune, he followed it up by cutting the NBC deal and giving them the best games and killing their Primetime show.
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Niwrad posted:It really seems like ESPN got hosed on the MNF deal. If I remember right from the book, the guy the NFL used to negotiate the TV deal was a former ESPN employee with a grudge. Not only did he get them to pay a fortune, he followed it up by cutting the NBC deal and giving them the best games and killing their Primetime show. When you say book, do you mean Those Guys Have All The Fun? Is that worth a read?
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soggybagel posted:When you say book, do you mean Those Guys Have All The Fun? Is that worth a read? 100% yes
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It's a good book but I found it very dry until you get to the part where they hire Keith Olbermann. Then it really picks up.
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ElwoodCuse posted:It's a good book but I found it very dry until you get to the part where they hire Keith Olbermann. Then it really picks up. I actually really enjoyed all the Getty Oil time stories especially the Stu Evey stuff given how polarizing a figure he is. Frankly, a Getty Oil oral history is something that would really interest me but I understand that I'm in the minority.
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I enjoyed learning about the creation of the network since it's something that isn't discussed much.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I enjoyed learning about the creation of the network since it's something that isn't discussed much. Somewhat off-topic but you'd probably also enjoy the Nickolodeon and MTV books, too. The MTV book is particularly nuts. Any great sports books out this year in particular?
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soggybagel posted:When you say book, do you mean Those Guys Have All The Fun? Is that worth a read? Yes sorry. I think it's worth a read. Learned a lot about the company, it's history, and the people in it. The early stuff was actually fascinating to me too since I didn't know much about it. Then again I love the oral history format for anything in the entertainment industry. El Gallinero Gros posted:Somewhat off-topic but you'd probably also enjoy the Nickolodeon and MTV books, too. The MTV book is particularly nuts. Which books are these? I'd be all over the MTV one.
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Niwrad posted:Yes sorry. I think it's worth a read. Learned a lot about the company, it's history, and the people in it. The early stuff was actually fascinating to me too since I didn't know much about it. The MTV one is called I want my MTV http://www.amazon.ca/Want-My-MTV-Uncensored-Revolution/dp/0452298563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443047644&sr=8-1&keywords=MTV+book The Nick one http://www.amazon.ca/Slimed-Oral-Hi...on+book+history El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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We all take it for granted since we have always had it, but get some older sports fans to describe the first time they saw ESPN. My dad described seeing Sportscenter in a hotel in the NorthEast somewhere in the early 80's and it just blew his mind something that awesome existed. Back then you got 45 seconds of the local teams on the local news and boxscores in the paper. Now I can catch two FCS teams play on a stream online if I want. It is probably how I will sound in 20 years when I explain that once upon a time people actually would argue over something like what year Ric Flair won the Royal Rumble, the Celtics last won a title, or the name of an actor in a movie was instead of googling it.
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Ribsauce posted:We all take it for granted since we have always had it, but get some older sports fans to describe the first time they saw ESPN. My dad described seeing Sportscenter in a hotel in the NorthEast somewhere in the early 80's and it just blew his mind something that awesome existed. Back then you got 45 seconds of the local teams on the local news and boxscores in the paper. Now I can catch two FCS teams play on a stream online if I want. This is kind of a cool article on what people had to do to get scores before ESPN http://grantland.com/the-triangle/that-was-a-thing-sports-phone-the-1980s-way-to-get-real-time-scores/
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Yeah I need to get that Nickelodeon book, since I grew up with that era of shows.
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The Nickelodeon book sucks, it's very poorly edited and organized
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James Andrew Miller also wrote Live from New York and I bailed on it about halfway through. I just got over it I guess. I was 300 pages in and not even to the pictures in the middle yet and I just decided "I'm done here." The book is good and entertaining but I just decided "I've had enough SNL stories,we're on to Buffalo." I have not read the ESPN book yet but it is on my "someday" list. Amazon says the paperback is 800 pages. Even if I like it I'll probably bail just like the SNL book hah VVV That is a great explanation of the problem. The SNL book would have someone say something like "Eddie got so popular he would leave at lunch and buy a 50k gold chain, he was so rich" and then 7 other people say the same thing and you have two pages when it could be 2 sentences. Ribsauce fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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That's the problem with some of the oral histories, they are just too long. You end up having 4-5 different people telling similar versions of the same event. I skimmed a chunk of the SNL book for the same reason. Taking a look at that MTV book linked above and notice it's nearly 600 pages. I'm interested, just more 300-400 pages interested in the topic.
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https://soundcloud.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast/episode-0 Guess Cousin Sal will be a part of whatever he's doing.
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OctoberBlues posted:This is kind of a cool article on what people had to do to get scores before ESPN The example was what amounted to a single MLB box score in a Full Screen DOS Window, and it was treated like it was revolutionary.
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I used to work with a guy who had a baseball pager that told him score, runners on base, outs, inning, stuff like that. Also: 95 cents per minute Call 1-900-976-ESPN
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ElwoodCuse posted:I used to work with a guy who had a baseball pager that told him score, runners on base, outs, inning, stuff like that.
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In Moneyball (the book), Beane has some kind of device that gave him real-time scores in 2002. PalmPilot?
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OctoberBlues posted:This is kind of a cool article on what people had to do to get scores before ESPN quote:La Greca recalls getting a call one afternoon from a man claiming to be in a limo heading toward Atlantic City. He stayed on the phone for three hours while La Greca gave him the blow-by-blow of an entire Cubs-Astros game. La Greca remembers wondering, How much does he have on this game that he’s spending three hours on the phone at 99 cents a minute?
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Oh drat I can't remember who this was now but I remember some athlete had his dad hold the phone up to the TV for him for one of those old Florida State games and when the dude missed the field goal at the end he hung up on his dad without even saying goodbye.
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zakharov posted:In Moneyball (the book), Beane has some kind of device that gave him real-time scores in 2002. PalmPilot? My dad had a pager with sports scores that updated every 10-15 minutes or so.
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Speaking of scores, there are some hilarious betting stories in the ESPN book. And then people having to announce the result of the game on air with stuff like "and finally Auburn beat Alabama by a single point today. (slight sigh)"
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