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Peanut President posted:i mean you're the guys willing in the water bitching its wet neither commercials nor video replay are an inherent part of watching sports so this analogy doesn't hold up at all.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:That's the exact type of complete marginal poo poo that replay shouldn't be used for. entirely this, this is a good idea and a good post
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really, i barely want to see it at all, cricket is the sport which comes the closest to that system (a borderline hawk-eye ball-tracking call results in the original call standing, but the challenging team retaining their review) but even that's caused review usage to become part of the strategy of the sport, and arguably affect calls (e.g. umpires calling close calls against teams with replays remaining, because gently caress it, if I screw up they'll challenge/being more lenient toward teams with no replays left), which is something I always hate about review rules. basically, it's unavoidable to some extent, but changing the nature of the officiating will change the tactics of the sport, and that's something which shouldn't be taken lightly unless you think teams gaming the officiating is compelling viewing. see also: soccer, where because of the 2-yellow-card = red card rule, you get situations where officials will treat carded players with kid gloves, because they don't want to eject someone over something which would ordinarily be a yellow Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Oct 28, 2019 |
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Nate Silver is ESPN adjacent enough that I’m going to post this real doozy of a take https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1188563803174137856?s=21
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so inevitable https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1188897954284949507?s=21
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the order also clearly commands the use of autoplay video with sound because goddamn the site has been awful with that lately
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Vertical Lime posted:so inevitable We all know that “stick to sports” means “don’t criticize conservative politics”, but wouldn’t the overall mandate (assuming they actually enforce it) eliminate the majority of Drew Magary’s columns? The funbag, Williams Sonoma catalogue, the writing about his personal life. That’s some of the more popular stuff they have, going off the fact that Magary has his own byline on the site.
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DJExile posted:the order also clearly commands the use of autoplay video with sound because goddamn the site has been awful with that lately Yes https://twitter.com/deadspin/status/1188900956848697346?s=21
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Blast Fantasto posted:We all know that “stick to sports” means “don’t criticize conservative politics”, but wouldn’t the overall mandate (assuming they actually enforce it) eliminate the majority of Drew Magary’s columns? The funbag, Williams Sonoma catalogue, the writing about his personal life. Nothing the owners have done so far suggests they are interested in making money
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The political stuff was getting the most views. This is a company that doesn't want to make money.
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Also the balls to tell your staff "we have plenty of sites to write about politics" two weeks after shutting down your politics site is impressive
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Henchman of Santa posted:Also the balls to tell your staff "we have plenty of sites to write about politics" two weeks after shutting down your politics site is impressive They’re basically saying “we’ve permitted the blacks over at The Root and the women over at Jezebel to continue existing. Let them take care of it!”
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Deadspin is about as successful as it's ever been in terms of page views in large part because of the non sport stuff but David Roth (one of like four people on the internet who can actually write about Donald Trump well) saying mean things about the president makes my rich friends mad 
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roth is the only person who should be allowed to write about the big wet president
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The day they stopped reporting on Oddibe McDowell's water bill is the day the site died.
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I honestly don't know what the point is of Deadspin if they have to cut all politics out. That's sort of the crux of the site.
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Vertical Lime posted:so inevitable https://deadspin.com/nationals-fans-didn-t-stick-to-sports-1839424010 It appears this is their response.
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Have Roth write the exact same columns but make sure they all refer to Trump as a "former USFL owner"
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Holy poo poo, they made them take down that post about the auto play videos https://twitter.com/mckinneykelsey/status/1188945179362893828?s=21
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Akileese posted:https://deadspin.com/nationals-fans-didn-t-stick-to-sports-1839424010 Apropos of nothing else, this is a bit weird: quote:Mattress Mack is off oxygen and walking the hospital corridors like he will survive I guess they don't know he was placing all these large bets on the Astros as a hedge against his business deal where he LOSES money if the Astros win the WS, because he is going to refund a bunch of furniture purchases if/when that happens. He's probably leveraged in such a way at this point that he doesn't care either way from a financial standpoint. He does want them to win on a personal level though, he's a Houston icon/fixture/pretty good dude for the community.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Holy poo poo, they made them take down that post about the auto play videos In addition to being super scummy pulling the post is a violation of the GMG union contract, so things are really going great
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In text:quote:We have received a great deal of feedback from you, our readers, about the sound-on autoplay videos that have been inundating our sites. We want you to know that we hear you, that we take those complaints seriously, and that we, the writers, editors, and video producers of Deadspin, are as upset with the current state of our site’s user experience as you are.
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In a perfect world, a rich dipshit who wants a public profile as a socially-conscious renegade would swoop in, dump a shitload of money on the current GMG staff to sweep them all up, and let them run a site as they want to. In a perfect world.
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Teddybear posted:rich ... socially-conscious These are fundamentally incompatible
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Teddybear posted:In a perfect world, a rich dipshit who wants a public profile as a socially-conscious renegade would swoop in, dump a shitload of money on the current GMG staff to sweep them all up, and let them run a site as they want to. you have a low loving bar for perfect
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Jordan's Furniture in Massachusetts did the same giveaway with the Red Sox. They aren't at risk for losing money, they buy an insurance policy against paying it out that costs far far less than if it cashes in, and they get advertising and sales either way.
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Yahoo sports is a dream job if you're an aspiring cop who wants to tattle on 19 year olds getting paid
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Ha! I just noticed that the 4 featured stories at the top of the Deadspin home page are all non-sports stories that racked up a poo poo ton of views: Woman Furiously Shits on Floor of Tim Horton's, Throws It At Employees The Night the Lights Went Out (Drew Magery's story of his stroke or whatever it was) The Adults in the Room (Megan Greenwell's takedown of the new ownership) What Did We Get Stuck in Our Rectums Last Year?
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Mahoning posted:What Did We Get Stuck in Our Rectums Last Year? this one is still my absolute favorite recurring feature.
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MourningView posted:Deadspin is about as successful as it's ever been in terms of page views in large part because of the non sport stuff but David Roth (one of like four people on the internet who can actually write about Donald Trump well) saying mean things about the president makes my rich friends mad Right on cue... It's Absolutely Fine That Donald Trump Got Booed At The World Series https://deadspin.com/its-absolutely-fine-that-donald-trump-got-booed-at-the-1839425624
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Boredumb posted:Right on cue... Ahahahahaha the “stick to sports” label on the image
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I miss when Deadspin was about making fun of ESPN and Kyle Orton’s drinking habits The Obama/Daulerio era basically
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Blast Fantasto posted:Ahahahahaha the “stick to sports” label on the image They are doing a thing today with articles specifically not about sports, all with that label Check Out The Wheels On This Pumpkin Thief There Are Only Two Acceptable Wedding Dress Codes Three Good Dogs I Met
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Boredumb posted:They are doing a thing today with articles specifically not about sports, all with that label This is not only the best outcome possible, but the one I think we all expected. Good on them.
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