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Joe Rexrode is a Tennessee based writer for the athletic who covers the Titans and today he wrote about the Sarah Fuller story. I feel like the first two paragraphs pretty much confirmed the subscription price was worth it. quote:“I’m so nervous for her,” my wife said, during an hour of SEC Network pregame coverage that preceded more than three hours of Vanderbilt-Missouri football watching that most certainly would not have been a shared family experience except for Sarah Fuller.
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Lockback posted:I'm on a free year of the Athletic from tmobile and I have to say it's real good. If you jumped on a free month a year or two back I think it's gotten a lot better especially on long form and national stuff. I will counter that I think it's gotten much worse, they care less about local and the national stuff is mostly the ESPN hacks I went to the Athletic to get away from. $12 is worth taking a dice roll on it I guess to see if one likes it.
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I don't follow or care about much of the national stuff. But I love the dudes who are covering the Bulls/Bears/Cubs/White Sox. And think they do great work. I think that's what it's going to come down to for people
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They’ve definitely gotten more national but I personally haven’t noticed that affect the quality of the local writing I follow on there any. I don’t think think a month has passed that I haven’t gotten more than double my moneys worth out of the athletic.
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Maybe now that LaMelo Ball is in Charlotte they’ll spend the money to hire a new Hornets writer
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Dexo posted:I don't follow or care about much of the national stuff. But I love the dudes who are covering the Bulls/Bears/Cubs/White Sox. And think they do great work. The Seattle beat guys are great, too. The Seahawks writer Michael-Shawn Dugar has been fantastic, in particular.
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They hired the good Blazers writer, they’ve got decent college football writers nationally and for Oregon, and their coverage of the Premier League is really good. I re-upped at full price and I’m perfectly fine with that.
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Bill Madden and the NYDN are at it again, this time running a claim that the Phillies lost $2 billion this year, then quietly changing it to a $145 million loss estimate.
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Every couple weeks the athletic busts out a piece like this and it justifies so much of the cost by itself "‘It was soccer on cocaine’: The brief, wild life of Socker Slam"
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DJExile posted:Every couple weeks the athletic busts out a piece like this and it justifies so much of the cost by itself I am continuously amazed about the depths of how terrible American culture got from about 1998-2003
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LionYeti posted:I am continuously amazed about the depths of how terrible American culture got from about 1998-2003 how dare you disrespect the legacy of soccer slam, butts up, get ready
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LionYeti posted:I am continuously amazed about the depths of how terrible American culture got from about 1998-2003 That was the peak of American society. It's all been downhill since then.
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How is rumor formed. Sweet throwback in this week's jambroo.
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The Ringer union is currently doing a two hour "walk out" --which as an aside seems weird, do they all log out of slack or something -- and hourly pay is at issue. https://twitter.com/RingerUnion/status/1337450127938621440 Cool company Bill.
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howe_sam posted:The Ringer union is currently doing a two hour "walk out" --which as an aside seems weird, do they all log out of slack or something -- and hourly pay is at issue. Log off of Slack with an announcement or away message of what you’re doing, stop writing, editing, etc. That’s all you can really do in the remote age but it does get management’s attention.
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That is insanely hosed up, someone there worked really hard to find a way around california labor law. Anyway Bill Simmons has 5 houses.
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"You're guaranteed to have to work 50 hours a week!" doesn't really seem like a selling point.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:"You're guaranteed to have to work 50 hours a week!" doesn't really seem like a selling point. it might be okay if it meant 10 hours of OT I guess (though mandatory OT sucks) but yeah this is just them artificially deflating their base pay and pretending to do them a favor, it is super hosed up!
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MourningView posted:That is insanely hosed up, someone there worked really hard to find a way around california labor law. I saw someone comment that it's a common pay structure for PAs. Hollywood, baby
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xbilkis posted:I saw someone comment that it's a common pay structure for PAs. Hollywood, baby They're working out of a studio lot and had HBO bankrolling them to some extent so that would make sense. I just know when I was living there hourly people got OT for every minute over 8 hours in a day OR over 40 hours in a week at every place I worked, but bending over backwards to enable shady hollywood poo poo is pretty standard
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It's been a while since I did PA stuff but generally if you're being hired as a one off or for some small project as a PA you're going to get a day rate. So it'll be like you get 175 for the day. And that includes the entire day...even if its 12 or 14 hours. Now starting out most PA's just eat it. However if you're working on an actual reputable job you can ask for your OT hours too because California state laws are pretty strict about working hours. So if you're an editor and you get hired and the verbal is like "500 for a guaranteed 10." Meaning you're going to be paid 500 dollars today for 10 hours of work. And if you exceed that then you're owed the OT hours. Now if you're working on a full union set even if you're not union the producers should be building in guaranteed meal times and everything. So even if you're the lowest on the totem pole PA you should be getting your time off to eat and whatever. Its very weird to me to be working in an office environment though and just not be straight hourly. Its curious to structure it the way they did especially given what we've heard about how they don't let people work outside of the Ringer on their own to make extra money or whatever. At Fox Sports when I started I was hired as a PA but I was not a freelance per se. I wasn't getting paid in 1099, i was being paid from payroll with taxes deducted and we would punch in and out and get 30 minute guaranteed meal time etc. And if you broke 8 hours in a day or 40+ in a week you'd hit OT payscale.
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Ben Strauss has one hell of a detailed account about the downfall of Manish Mehta. He sounds like a real peach.quote:After the season, the Jets turned to a law firm, Foley & Lardner LLP, for help. The firm compiled a dossier, according to two people who have seen it, that called out reporting the Jets said crossed the line from aggressive to inappropriate, including allegations that Mehta approached the 11-year-old son of Jets General Manager Joe Douglas at a baseball game and, later, threatened Douglas with bad coverage if he didn’t grant an interview.
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AsInHowe posted:Dwight Howard seems like the kind of person who would buy an exotic animal as a housepet (as a bad joke), not know how to take care of it, then have to get help, so that all makes sense. Hey, I have two things in common with Dwight Howard!
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The pivot to SBNation's blogger model from 10 years ago must not be going well because SI just announced a bunch of hires https://twitter.com/rynhnt/status/1338617321020121089?s=20
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morestuff posted:The pivot to SBNation's blogger model from 10 years ago must not be going well because SI just announced a bunch of hires Howard Beck had been lowkey hyping his hire for a bit so he must feel like he has some editorial support behind the push as well.
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morestuff posted:The pivot to SBNation's blogger model from 10 years ago must not be going well because SI just announced a bunch of hires Wasn't the thing always that they had a handful of big names to hide that they were mostly a free content farm? Which is kind of the model bleacher report was using when Beck was there
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https://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops/status/1338903159985504256?s=19 Seth Davis compares college basketball continuing to play in a pandemic to grocery store staying open.
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Katie Strang and Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic have a very heavy read about Omar Vizquel's history of domestic violence
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https://twitter.com/joevardon/status/1339209047275409408?s=21 Owners gotta negotiate shock collars into the new CBA
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The Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog is up. https://defector.com/the-2020-haters-guide-to-the-williams-sonoma-catalog/
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog is up. Oh no, I need to buy an account! Whomst has a discount or referral or such for me?
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