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Henchman of Santa posted:Is Verne calling basketball this year or is he officially retired after this Army-Navy game? During his goodbye speech after the game, Verne said he will be doing March Madness and the Masters.
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howe_sam posted:During his goodbye speech after the game, Verne said he will be doing March Madness and the Masters.
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If Verne really wants to sign off a hero, he should call Jim Nantz a mayo boy on the air during the masters
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ElwoodCuse posted:If Verne really wants to sign off a hero, he should call Jim Nantz a mayo boy on the air during the masters "Who the hell is Happy Gilmore?"
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Dec 11, 2016 19:52
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Think I've found an ESPN segment bad enough to dethrone "Who's More Now": http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18254774 Don't do this to Randy Moss you assholes.
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Simmons wishes his garbage show that nobody watched would have been monthly instead of weekly
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It would probably have been better but Every Fourth Wednesday doesn't have the same ring to it.
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You need a month to build up enough perceived slights by the Enemies of Boston Athletics to fill an hour though.
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Simmons became Rick Reilly. Older guy who just became out of touch with younger audiences. Grantland probably delayed people realizing it because he wasn't writing much and ESPN was filling his podcast with great guests. I'd say Pardon My Take has probably surpassed him as the top sports podcast these days.
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Probably? There's about a dozen sports podcasts I'll listen to before his show anymore.
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soggybagel posted:UFC desperately wants Paige Van Zant and Sage Northcutt to become huge stars...and hell probably marry and create super fighter aryan babies. I think they've given up on both and moved on tbh.They've got Northcutt going against Mickey Gall, who beat CM Punk. My guess is they like Gall a lot and used it as notoriety fight to give Gall some hype. Now he gets Northcutt who was the UFC's perceived golden child. If he beats Northcutt, they'll give him a few more cans and then move him on to gatekeepers and fringe prospects. Paige is going to fight Michelle Waterson (on the same show as Northcutt vs Gall) and..I have no idea who Michelle Waterson is. A quick wiki search shows her to have one UFC victory in one fight against Angela Magana who has a quite unremarkable 11-8 record while losing her last 4. I just don't know what they do with Paige. Putting her on TV is probably smart but she's not a good enough fighter to even crack the top 3 in that division. Do you put her in a ritual sacrifice against Rose again? Back on top, Simmons' show being monthly would be just as terrible if not worse. They went for a late night TV format and failed spectacularly. No changes short of a complete and total gutting of the format could save it.
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Niwrad posted:Simmons became Rick Reilly. Older guy who just became out of touch with younger audiences. Grantland probably delayed people realizing it because he wasn't writing much and ESPN was filling his podcast with great guests. I'll disagree with this at least in a certain fashion. Simmons at least is attempting to work and putting together things like Grantland and the Ringer, flawed or not. Reilly at some point decided he'd done enough work and phoned the last 15 or so years in, recycling his own poo poo when he decided even phoning things in wasn't worth the time. Simmons is also nowhere near the raging rear end in a top hat that Reilly is (at least outside of deflategate opinions). I guess in other words I may not want to read anything he writes and cringe at the thought of any of his takes involving Boston teams, but I can respect what Simmons is trying to do. I'm ok with him being around. I can't say the same about Reilly at all. e: I know Reilly is retired, but he still exists and tweets and has opinions, and I don't like any of those things. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Unmerciful posted:Probably? There's about a dozen sports podcasts I'll listen to before his show anymore. Are you saying you don't want to know which NFL teams this year are Goodfellas characters???
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DirecTV Now blacked out local NFL games in Atlanta, SF, and Tampa Bay, among other markets
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GobiasIndustries posted:Are you saying you don't want to know which NFL teams this year are Goodfellas characters??? Only if Bill Burr is doing it. Bill Burr had some of the funniest bits. Like he was comparing how Michael Douglas was walking on stage on an awards show to Montiana leading a drive in the Super Bowl. Normally when a guy like Simmons is doing it? it's hokie and lame. Burr? Hilarious. Also Bill Burr doesn't constantly whine about boston sports on his podcast all the time.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Only if Bill Burr is doing it. drat, that sounds so funny. I guess Bill Simmons really isn't like Bill Burr.
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https://twitter.com/shalini/status/809452728850255872 nbc sports online as is has plenty of winter/summer sports hope they don't block them unless you get the channel
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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/shalini/status/809452728850255872 This is a really clever idea. There could be some awesome stuff.
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What a pro. I really enjoy Oversharing Joe Buck, it's completely flipped my whole view of him.
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MourningView posted:What a pro. I really enjoy Oversharing Joe Buck, it's completely flipped my whole view of him. Yeah he seems to have become a ton more self-aware lately and it's pretty great.
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DJExile posted:This is a really clever idea. There could be some awesome stuff. Like, if it's basically year-round purestrain sport, then gently caress yeah. Include all the weird sports and treat every one of them as a competition of pan-dimensional consequence. This also makes me think that the Olympic channel should absorb the World's Strongest Man competition and basically become the new ESPN2.
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i was late for a meeting the other day because i couldn't tear myself away from premiere league darts. it was utterly gripping and i didn't even know it existed i'll prob never watch it again tho
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the talent deficit posted:i was late for a meeting the other day because i couldn't tear myself away from premiere league darts. it was utterly gripping and i didn't even know it existed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aKiDZRGRGo&t=134s quote:"If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone home." I mean look at that poo poo 
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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/shalini/status/809452728850255872 It's a good idea because the previous channel ruled but the branding of it sucked rear end. As I understand it, many of the contracts in the US for these sports are tied in with the Olympics so they have a wealth of poo poo they already have rights to without a significant place to showcase it.
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Dammit, rest in peace Sager  E: Rachel Nichols reported it live on "The Jump". Man she's doing her damndest to hold it together. 
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DJExile posted:Dammit, rest in peace Sager God damnit Side note, I'm glad that it was literally anyone other than Hannah Storm who had to break this news.
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GobiasIndustries posted:God damnit I can't think of another journalist who has had to go on the air and announce on live television that her friend died. Twice.
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Seriously, one of my first thoughts when i saw the news was "please don't let Hannah Storm have to report it"
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Josh Lyman posted:What's the context for this? Did Garnett just lose a tough game? Does he just always deadpan his smack talk? I was trying to find the humor but it just seemed mean. KG is the biggest trash talker of all time and clearly Sager thinks it's funny too.
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