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BWV posted:I really liked this article although this paragraph was cringe worthy...like something a journalist in a movie says. Any attempt to use Meltzer's ratings as some objective metric or bar is utterly asinine to begin with. Meltzer knows they're subjective and doesn't push then as anything but such. He has actually said he'd like to stop doing them since they're entirely vestigial at this point, but it would piss so many of his paid readers off that he keeps at it.
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A fun collection of tony romo hot takes through the years Also this is a drop in the ocean of reasons that Bill Simmons is garbage but jesus christ quote:Tony Romo dumped Jessica Simpson for either partying too much (the rumored reason) or gaining too much weight (the real reason, or at least the one I’d wager on in Vegas), followed by Simpson partying even more and gaining even more weight. We might have a new Kirstie Alley on our hands; poor Jess suddenly is built like Kirby Puckett with breasts. (Not that this is a bad thing. I’m actually attracted to Zaftig Clingy No Self-Esteem Jess, my single strangest celebrity attraction since Renee Zellweger put on her Bridget Jones weight.) Did you ever think an NFL offseason could shape about 20 future Us Weekly covers? It’s happened, my friends. Sneaky weird.
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DJExile posted:A fun collection of tony romo hot takes through the years Bill Simmons wants to be Adam Carolla when he grows up.
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I love the idea that Barnwell somehow invented the concept of taking bad contracts to get draft picks. It didn't happen much in the NFL but that was like 75% of NBA trades until very recently when the cap blew up and teams started putting way more value on first rounders
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I can't wait for the scene in Football Moneyball where the Browns execs finally buy into the idea that fumble recoveries are really just random chance, propelling the team to the Super Bowl
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I just came across this article about Is Jerry Crasnick known for being an idiot, or is this article just exceptionally pointless?
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MourningView posted:I love the idea that Barnwell somehow invented the concept of taking bad contracts to get draft picks. It didn't happen much in the NFL but that was like 75% of NBA trades until very recently when the cap blew up and teams started putting way more value on first rounders It's kind of surprising that it took an NFL team so long to use this strategy when the NBA has been successfully doing it for over a decade.
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This was a fluke and not some new strategy. NFL teams can just cut dudes without giving up a draft pick on top of it. This was just the perfect storm of an immediate disaster. If Brock wasn't so bad they would have tried one more year and there would have been zero reason to tack a draft pick on any trade and more likely would just cut him. NBA has guaranteed contracts and there's no reason for the NFL to backload guaranteed money.
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ESPN has a piece on Forest Trail Sports University, a for-profit school whose ideal was to have sports front and center, with an online cooperation with another college for academics.quote:"There" was Forest Trail Sports University, which promised a new kind of college experience, focused on athletics. And these players -- they have named themselves the Renegades, but Refugees would be just as accurate -- are survivors of its collapse. Arriving last August at the for-profit program, which charged a tuition of nearly $33,000, they were consigned to an old hotel, without adequate facilities, staff or supervision, on a campus where the threat of violence turned out to be more common than classes. Tuition was $33,000. I can understand young athletes being hoodwinked, but it's odd to me that so many families trusted this school. Or were willing to pay installments to total $33,000 for their kid to hang on to a dream. I can understand being hoodwinked by Full Sail because success in those industries are harder to track with less of a clear-cut path. Any high school coach would be wary of this. If your kid can't catch on for baseball at even a junior college level, your kid isn't going to make it. I'm watching junior colleges give scholarships to players who can't hit .150 at a high school level because of what might be for his body type. Even Strasburg was able to walk on collegiately after being an admitted awful (and lazy) high school player. Hope the athletes can make peace with the likely end of their athletic careers. RC and Moon Pie fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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So, the motorsports world has been buzzing since a week ago when two-time F1 Champion (and F1 thread favorite) Fernando Alonso decided he'd be skipping the Monaco Gran Prix to race in the Indy 500. Cue the hot take: http://racing.ap.org/article/column-so-what-alonso-racing-indy-500 Needless to say, some of the people who will be racing with him are not happy: FuzzySkinner posted:Bryan Herta, Michael Andretti, Josef Newgarden and Graham Rahal are lighting her up right now.
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Have we gotten the "if she was a man, they would've called her first" takes yet?
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They all managed to disagree with her in a very polite manner, even saying they normally like her work, and she still got salty. drat. It's pretty sad that this is the exception to how most women in sports journalism/media are treated rather than the rule.
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The new Brian Windhorst/Dave McMenamin book on the Cavaliers championship is pretty skippable if anyone was wondering. You can read excerpts of the two most interesting sections here and here without having to slog through the blow-by-blow recaps of LeBron's Twitter. It's also just surprisingly badly written in parts, stuff that should have been caught in the first round of editing.
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morestuff posted:The new Brian Windhorst/Dave McMenamin book on the Cavaliers championship is pretty skippable if anyone was wondering. You can read excerpts of the two most interesting sections here and here without having to slog through the blow-by-blow recaps of LeBron's Twitter. It's also just surprisingly badly written in parts, stuff that should have been caught in the first round of editing. Are any of these kind of books ever good? They've always seemed like very slapdash things just thrown together for a quick cash-in.
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DJExile posted:Are any of these kind of books ever good? They've always seemed like very slapdash things just thrown together for a quick cash-in. Not usually but every now and then you can get something worth reading like Seven Seconds or Less or A Season on the Brink.
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Windhorst is such a weird journalist. He's not a particularly good writer and he doesn't really have much insight into what happens on the court. He's a great reporter but doesn't really break transaction news. Basically he's a very accomplished gossip reporter who writes about body language, instragram posts, flight records and narratives.
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Yeah, it makes sense given his background, basically just a small-town beat writer that rode a wave. His access is useful (people killed him for giving weight to LeBron's early comments about going back to Cleveland even though he was right to) but he's better off on TV. The book has basically no insight to it beyond "here's what happened"
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DJExile posted:Are any of these kind of books ever good? They've always seemed like very slapdash things just thrown together for a quick cash-in. For the life of me I can't remember who wrote it or what it's called, but somebody wrote a book about the Pistons winning in '89 that I enjoyed, it was basically a step by step detailing how Jack McCloskey put the team together. And I've never given a poo poo about the Pistons (although I enjoyed them stomping the Lakers in 2004). Fake edit: this is the one https://www.amazon.ca/Franchise-Building-Champion-Detroit-Basketballs/dp/0688095739
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A good book might be a book that encapsulates LeBron leaving Cleveland, then returning, losing the championship followed by winning it. The story already sounds fictional if you didn't know it was true. But I could do without the vitriol of something like The Whore of Akron. Just a book about LeBron, the Cavs, and the city of Cleveland from like 2009-2016.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:ESPN has a piece on Forest Trail Sports University, a for-profit school whose ideal was to have sports front and center, with an online cooperation with another college for academics. I read this the other day and was blown away by it. I mean, did no one think "maybe I should drive down and take a look before dropping this huge check on it." Also, that knucklehead running the place couldn't spell for poo poo.
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https://twitter.com/ryanhatch/statu...a-rod-kids.html what the gently caress, SI?
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morestuff posted:The new Brian Windhorst/Dave McMenamin book on the Cavaliers championship is pretty skippable if anyone was wondering. You can read excerpts of the two most interesting sections here and here without having to slog through the blow-by-blow recaps of LeBron's Twitter. It's also just surprisingly badly written in parts, stuff that should have been caught in the first round of editing. He was hired because he was close to Lebron and would get the scoop on stories. He isn't that knowledgeable about basketball, doesn't break much news, and a poor writer. His ceiling should be beat writer in a third tier city. These books aren't meant to be masterpieces. They are quickly thrown together by team-friendly writers that locals recognize for a quick buck. The Cubs have a couple books just hitting the shelves too like that.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/ryanhatch/statu...a-rod-kids.html Is there a massive  because I need it now
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Niwrad posted:He was hired because he was close to Lebron and would get the scoop on stories. He isn't that knowledgeable about basketball, doesn't break much news, and a poor writer. His ceiling should be beat writer in a third tier city. Yeah, but even with his flaws as a writer you'd hope that access would produce something a little more interesting than what we got.
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like alex Rodriguez would gently caress anything other than a blowup doll that looked uncannily like himself
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:like alex Rodriguez would gently caress anything other than a blowup doll that looked uncannily like himself One part  Three parts 
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Oh gods, this can only end well
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iospace posted:Oh gods, this can only end well Well they got relegated to the deuce so I've learned the only way to even listen to First Take is when Le Batard abruptly goes to them Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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The only ads that make a shot less appealing than Undisputed are the ones for First Take. It's literally Stephen A Smith getting increasingly mad/constipated for 30 seconds.
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Take a LOOK, y'all:
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I'm just wondering what angles Stephen A Smith, Ace reporter at large, has uncovered that the rest of the sporting media haven't
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I want SAS to become a conspiracy theorist. Imagine him narrating Loose Change 
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I'm just wondering what angles Stephen A Smith, Ace reporter at large, has uncovered that the rest of the sporting media haven't "Have you considered that murder is in fact really really good? I love to murder."
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morestuff posted:(people killed him for giving weight to LeBron's early comments about going back to Cleveland And apparently that weight was returned to him.
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