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I've enjoyed Lex Pryor's work, like this piece about the history of the yam. And certainly getting somebody like Joanna Robinson from Vanity Fair was a bit of a coup. But having said all that, yeah the ringer website is not part of my daily routine.
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howe_sam posted:I've enjoyed Lex Pryor's work, like this piece about the history of the yam. And certainly getting somebody like Joanna Robinson from Vanity Fair was a bit of a coup. But having said all that, yeah the ringer website is not part of my daily routine. Yeah you get something like that once a month and it is nice to get a super long piece compared to infinite bachelor/ette and succession recaps
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General Dog posted:I think it was basically Simmons’ stated vision for the site when it started that it would be short, light articles you could scroll through while taking a poo poo. The Quibi of written content, basically. Every single episode of the Rewatchables, Bill Simmons:. "You know...this movie could have been 15-20 minutes shorter." L.A. destroyed his attention span as well as his morals/ethics.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:L.A. destroyed his attention span as well as his morals/ethics. How long did he work for Jimmy Kimmel before it fell apart? He was in show business for a really short time compared to how much he talks about it.
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i haven't listened to much bill simmons over the past several years, but i put on one of his NFL podcasts with "cousin sal" for background noise while doing some busywork and he was complaining that a kirk cousins implosion that lost him some idiotically complicated bet made him so angry that he went to his cryochamber spa where he has a membership, lmao. Unironically wish this dude was still writing his dumbass columns.
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The X-man cometh posted:How long did he work for Jimmy Kimmel before it fell apart? He was in show business for a really short time compared to how much he talks about it. Less than a year according to IMDB. He started and left in 2003. In other news: https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1471850936616292355
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Imagining Simmons texting Jackie Mac about, I dunno, Kevin mchale or something
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Personally I'm waiting to hear from Jabaal Abdul-Simmons, Bill Simmons's blacksona he brings out occasionally, to tell me if the Ringer is good or bad.
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I was a fan of Simmons for a long time but I really would like to know what it was like having him in a real comedy writers room. And yeah the way the ringer was built from the ground out just meant that in every respect it was a lovely Diet Grantland as previously stated. The other thing is while Grantland was grabbing a mixture of younger writers and some more established ones and really letting them do wild poo poo with long rear end word counts, The Ringer was forcing short articles and early on the most frustrating thing with the Ringer for me was me just starting to get into an article and then it would end....and I would be like, wait, why are we cutting it off now? And its not just The Ringer but the fault of the content beast that it makes more sense for clicks/eyeballs to have 15 short articles on Game of Thrones or Succession or whatever is the thing of the moment than a 6000 word thoughtful essay on something.
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Jabaal is actually who wrote those Jimmy Kimmel in blackface as Karl Malone sketches.
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soggybagel posted:I was a fan of Simmons for a long time but I really would like to know what it was like having him in a real comedy writers room. I’m guessing Simmons in a real-rear end writer’s room went about as well as his less-than-a-year IMDB credit would suggest. The real issue with Ringer is that ESPN and Grantland still had money to put behind their work, so not only were writers traveling and taking time to source the articles, but they also probably still had a fuller copy edit desk there as well. The Ringer feels more like people writing into the CMS and having one person check quickly.
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projecthalaxy posted:Personally I'm waiting to hear from Jabaal Abdul-Simmons, Bill Simmons's blacksona he brings out occasionally, to tell me if the Ringer is good or bad. "I mean sure it's good, but it doesn't compare to the 86 Celtics "
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This just makes a lot of sense to me, combine the subscription. If prices are about the same that's an easy subscription for a lot of people.
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It’s like an adult with cancer adopting a child with cancer. It’s kind of sweet.
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There is really nothing you can say or do to Darren Rovell to make him look worse than he does himself on a daily basis. Man really not only bought, but bragged about buying, an old, dead man's boner pill bottle. smgdh
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I want to know how brand twitter managed to constitute into a human being in Rovell some thirty years before twitter even existed. How does this man exist
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TheFlyingLlama posted:I want to know how brand twitter managed to constitute into a human being in Rovell some thirty years before twitter even existed. How does this man exist
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The most important annual sports journalism just dropped (or more appropriately got stuck): https://defector.com/what-did-we-get-stuck-in-our-rectums-last-year-2/
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:The most important annual sports journalism just dropped (or more appropriately got stuck): All of these awful things but the worst thing I learned in that article was that there’s such thing as a “rat tail comb”
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DC Murderverse posted:All of these awful things but the worst thing I learned in that article was that there’s such thing as a “rat tail comb” Olbligatory "million to one shot, doc": “WENT TO SIT DOWN IN THE BATHTUB AND SAT ON A PLASTIC BOTTLE OF BUBBLE BATH THAT WENT INTO HIS RECTUM”
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Barstool’s bowl got cancelled and Dave Portnoy is having a day https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1475642857918803969?s=21 https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1475643263713525762?s=21 Covid is gonna kill those kids but also nobody is dying from COVID https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1475618575713030144?s=21
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TheFlyingLlama posted:I want to know how brand twitter managed to constitute into a human being in Rovell some thirty years before twitter even existed. How does this man exist Emperor Palpatine is mighty in the force.
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Vertical Lime posted:espn's bears reporter died 
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Crazy Ted posted:Apparently it was only two years after his wife died and in the same hospice facility. Looks like he also had a young son too Yup. Incredibly nice guy too. Cancer sucks and feel terrible for that kid.
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Godddd gently caress a cancer https://twitter.com/dickersonespn/status/1100556611020644353?s=21 His tribute to her when she passed is just soul crushing https://twitter.com/jacobinfante24/status/1475957491192188934?s=21 That is so unbelievably unfair, that poor kid. DJExile fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:And John Madden too I realize what you're actually referring to, but on first blush it looks like you're saying that dude and his wife dying is unfair to John Madden and that makes me giggle.
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Ugh, I didn't know about Dickerson's wife passing a couple years ago and them having a pretty young kid. That's a tragedy.  Madden at least got his innings in, he lived a pretty great life and was undeniably one of the best coaches in the game as well as the best color commentator to ever work in any of the big North American sports. Ray Ratto at Defector had a good post on how Madden's coaching career showed exactly who he was.
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