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Forget about Skip, we're just 8 and a half hours away from the premier of the motherfucking Bill Simmons Program!
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Niwrad posted:Getting mad at Skip Bayless is like getting mad at a wrestler for saying mean things. Wrestlers being mean doesn't actively change sports discourse for the worse.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:59
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Lets stop talking about wrestling.
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Badfinger posted:Wrestlers being mean doesn't actively change sports discourse for the worse.
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Jun 22, 2016 21:44
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What is a passion play
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General Dog posted:Forget about Skip, we're just 8 and a half hours away from the premier of the motherfucking Bill Simmons Program! How excited was Billy boy saying the f word in the teaser. Lmao its gonna stink
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Jun 22, 2016 22:29
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General Dog posted:Forget about Skip, we're just 8 and a half hours away from the premier of the motherfucking Bill Simmons Program! Judging from that dumb poo poo trailer it will likely be so edgy we will need gauze to watch.
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Jun 22, 2016 22:30
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tenspott posted:And neither did Skip. Sports discourse suffers not when people make outlandish claims regarding on the field performance, but instead spend too much time focusing on "the issues". That's not new. We've always had pretentious, sticks up their asses sportswriters casting every single moment of every single person to ever play a sport lives' as a passion play. Skip does that a bit, but I believe it is/was largely at the behest of ESPN. I disagree pretty categorically with basically all your points. It doesn't matter if it's new or original, or ESPN was literally writing and scripting every rant, the point is that it's bad and Skip and SAS honed it to a razor's edge. Tim Tebow being a Winning Winner Who Wins distracts from things with impact like actual reporting or analysis. Even the things like everyone who covers football feeling like it's required to say The National Football League like there are any other professional football leagues that matter are bad for the sport. It's all sugar and no substance.
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Jun 22, 2016 22:41
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With all fairness to Bill, he did recently state that the shots of him for the promo were filmed before they had completely finalized what the show was going to be. That being said, the show's probably gonna suck anyway, it sounds like it's gonna be some hot takes up front followed by 1-1 interviews and/or group discussion, so....basically a filmed version of his podcast which who cares, I never once thought his podcast would be improved with video. Though I'm guessing the show is going to steal some interesting guests that could have had a much better/more in-depth interview on the podcast, so that's just great.
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CharlestheHammer posted:What is a passion play It's literally a name for any play about Jesus' crucifiction, dating back to the middle ages (which is where the Mel Gibson movie gets its name), but in this context I believe it would connote overwrought player narratives.
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Jun 23, 2016 01:53
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GobiasIndustries posted:With all fairness to Bill, he did recently state that the shots of him for the promo were filmed before they had completely finalized what the show was going to be. Bill Simmons never has hot takes, everything in that promo was room temperature at best.
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Jun 23, 2016 01:56
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Bill has hot takes, but they all involve trades.
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Jun 23, 2016 02:46
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This STINKS. What a waste of the creative freedom of hbo
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Jun 23, 2016 03:11
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I'm falling asleep right now. This is pretty awful.
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Jun 23, 2016 03:12
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DID HE AT LEAST SAY gently caress!!
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Jun 23, 2016 03:13
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Stick to writing Bill.
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Jun 23, 2016 03:17
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who says no
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cant believe I ever listened to sports talk that didn't say gently caress. Game changer.
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davecrazy posted:Stick to writing Bill. Disagree, people will quote that instead of linking videos I don't watch.
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Jun 23, 2016 03:24
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I thought the Barkley interview was okay, but it felt heavily edited down. And then Affleck's deflategate rant was just funny for how lengthy and vociferous it was. Oh and considering all the ways in which this year has sucked giving it the "belt" felt off. All in all, it was perfectly fine, but not something I'll tune in for week to week.
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Jun 23, 2016 03:39
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Thank god Bill Simmons has a premium cable show so a famous person can deliver the average drunk Boston moron rant against Deflategate Afflect literally calls Brady "loving classy" twice
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xbilkis posted:Thank god Bill Simmons has a premium cable show so a famous person can deliver the average drunk Boston moron rant against Deflategate Awesome, I've got a new Wednesday comedy to look forward to!
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:This STINKS. What a waste of the creative freedom of hbo Give his show to Katie Nolan.
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Trast posted:Give his show to Katie Nolan. A woman's place is in the Fox family
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Jun 23, 2016 04:31
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Hes not good on TV, he's never been good on TV.
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Jun 23, 2016 04:38
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I dunno, watching it now it's exactly what you think a Bill Simmons talk show would look like. Basically 70% ranking things and arguing about said rankings. As someone with a pretty high BS tolerance, the show isn't horrendous, it's just nothing. I'm not sure what the good version of this show looks like, but I know that Simmons should never monologue for more than 60 seconds. edit: does Affleck have a lazy eye? Something seemed off with him edit 2: it's a nice set though edit 3: I think you could hide Simmons' shortcomings as a tv presence best if you switched to a panel format where he's basically the moderator and he can talk to Chuck Klosterman and Wesley Morris and his old friend Jackie "Turd" O'Malley from Holy Cross all at once about race and the NHL or the latest dead wrestler or whatever. General Dog fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Jun 23, 2016 04:40
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I think what it boils down to is Bill Simmons is not a personality that people will pay a subscription to watch for half an hour on a Wednesday night. He was an entertaining writer and I like his podcast, but if his show is just more of the same in video format, who cares?
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Badfinger posted:I disagree pretty categorically with basically all your points. It doesn't matter if it's new or original, or ESPN was literally writing and scripting every rant, the point is that it's bad and Skip and SAS honed it to a razor's edge. Tim Tebow being a Winning Winner Who Wins distracts from things with impact like actual reporting or analysis. Even the things like everyone who covers football feeling like it's required to say The National Football League like there are any other professional football leagues that matter are bad for the sport. It's all sugar and no substance. I don't think we're as far apart as you indicated. We both agree that "all sugar and no substance" is tiresome. I just think it's unfair to pin it on 2 people who are overtly performing caricatures when there are others who are much more culpable. I'd rather point the finger at the Mitch Alboms and Rick Reillys of the world. They are idiots who actually believe their awful work is of merit. I'd also blame the people at ESPN who decided that showing actual sports isn't nearly as good as another outside the lines. As much as I loved watching some early 30 for 30s like The U, do we really need a 6 part movie about OJ? You can hate Skip and SAS all you want, but at worst they are symptoms, not the cause, of bad sports broadcasting.
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tenspott posted:do we really need a 6 part movie about OJ? Without addressing whatever this argument is about, yes, we do. Go watch it.
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tenspott posted:I don't think we're as far apart as you indicated. We both agree that "all sugar and no substance" is tiresome. I just think it's unfair to pin it on 2 people who are overtly performing caricatures when there are others who are much more culpable. I'd rather point the finger at the Mitch Alboms and Rick Reillys of the world. They are idiots who actually believe their awful work is of merit. I'd also blame the people at ESPN who decided that showing actual sports isn't nearly as good as another outside the lines. As much as I loved watching some early 30 for 30s like The U, do we really need a 6 part movie about OJ? You can hate Skip and SAS all you want, but at worst they are symptoms, not the cause, of bad sports broadcasting. But sometimes Outside The LInes does actual reporting?
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Jun 23, 2016 08:20
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GobiasIndustries posted:I think what it boils down to is Bill Simmons is not a personality that people will pay a subscription to watch for half an hour on a Wednesday night. He was an entertaining writer and I like his podcast, but if his show is just more of the same in video format, who cares? No one is paying for an HBO subscription just for Bill Simmons and I don't think anyone at HBO honestly thinks that. However, if you've got HBO NOW or are sharing an HBO GO sub/login and you like sports you'll probably at least check it out.
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soggybagel posted:No one is paying for an HBO subscription just for Bill Simmons and I don't think anyone at HBO honestly thinks that. However, if you've got HBO NOW or are sharing an HBO GO sub/login and you like sports you'll probably at least check it out.  When does his show air on HBO again? It will end exactly as this.
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Jun 23, 2016 10:13
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Iceland's PBP guy lost his goddamn mind at their stoppage time goal to beat Austria https://twitter.com/danmari83/status/745694539738943488/video/1
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Jun 23, 2016 12:34
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Here's 6 minutes of Mike Frances trying to figure out if Zach Wheeler actually hurt the same thing twice. He got confused seeing an SNY recap. http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/mike-francesa-reports-mets-injury-only-to-realize-half-way-through-it-was-an-old-report.html
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Jun 23, 2016 14:42
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Hate to go back to Simmons talk, but they officially posted the whole first episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL0ouwGCnu4
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Jun 23, 2016 16:18
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this new first take is such a loving trainwreck. it's so amusing
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Vertical Lime posted:Hate to go back to Simmons talk, but they officially posted the whole first episode Arguing with Charles Barkley seems like one of the most pointless endeavors in human history. edit: the interview does seem to get better as it goes along though Nolan Arenado fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Vertical Lime posted:Hate to go back to Simmons talk, but they officially posted the whole first episode Legitimately a zero out of 10. I love Simmons in writing and podcast but Jesus Christ
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Robnoxious posted:It sure worked for Joe Buck! Which guest will be Simmons's Artie Lange?
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