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I was an awkward attempt to humanize both sides, but he didn't really do a good job making a point so the whole thing was pretty weird. I think its mostly a non-story than anything else though.
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MourningView posted:Every version of Whitlock ever has sucked Definitely not the version that went on KC radio after getting fired from the Star and burned every bridge in the world.
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MourningView posted:Every version of Whitlock ever has sucked Not the version that annihilates crappy "journalists" like Charles Robinson and has his barber on his podcast to talk poo poo about Tebow for an hour. His podcast at Fox News was on fire. Easily my favorite sports podcast. At ESPN he does like one a month, and while it is still good, it is not the same. He will never have a groupie on to talk about getting paid by athletes again. Too bad, Whitlock ruled. The first time he insulted a journalist at ESPN (the bullshit Oklahoma State hit piece) he had to apologize and has never tweeted anything controversial since 
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Nice companion piece to Craig Calcaterra's "Baseball isn't dying you idiots" piece on Grantland today. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-dead-ball-century-mlb-baseball-playoffs-john-thorn-mlb-historian-baseball-decline-articles/
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Nice companion piece to Craig Calcaterra's "Baseball isn't dying you idiots" piece on Grantland today. I really hate baseball but that's a great article. Deadspin put out a very mature job offer for Simmons http://deadspin.com/hey-bill-simmon...dium=socialflow
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Oct 9, 2014 20:25
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Its Miller Time posted:I really hate baseball but that's a great article. this is great
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Its Miller Time posted:I really hate baseball but that's a great article. Great pitch to Simmons, but: quote:A system of checks and balances in place to ensure one of the pieces on your vertical doesn't result in a suicide! 
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howe_sam posted:Great pitch to Simmons, but: aaahahahaha I missed that
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howe_sam posted:Great pitch to Simmons, but: What's that referencing?
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Lockback posted:What's that referencing? The transgender person a writer for Grantland outed. Simmons later had a write-up and apologized for the screwup and outlined steps they were taking to stop it from happening again.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:50
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Kibner posted:Simmons later had a write-up and apologized for the screwup and outlined steps they were taking to stop it from happening again.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:55
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No one knows for sure why that person committed suicide and it's really lovely to lay blame at other people for 'driving them to kill themselves'.
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howe_sam posted:Great pitch to Simmons, but:
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davecrazy posted:No one knows for sure why that person committed suicide and it's really lovely to lay blame at other people for 'driving them to kill themselves'. It's also really lovely to out transgendered people after numerous appeals not to do so, especially as evidence that a person is being deceitful in order to break a 'gotcha!' style click bait piece, and that writer should feel extremely bad about what they did regardless.
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There were multiple level of fuckedupedness about the Dr. V story. In the balance I think it was probably fair game for the writer to out her bogus credentials to the investors, but not he react that Dr. V was trans. And whoever edited the final piece sure as hell should've cut the line about "I felt a jolt" or whatever it was the writer said when he found out Dr. V was trans.
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howe_sam posted:There were multiple level of fuckedupedness about the Dr. V story. In the balance I think it was probably fair game for the writer to out her bogus credentials to the investors, but not he react that Dr. V was trans. And whoever edited the final piece sure as hell should've cut the line about "I felt a jolt" or whatever it was the writer said when he found out Dr. V was trans. The line was literally "A chill actually ran up my spine." It was a baaaaaad article.
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Someone apparently tried to peddle info on Gurley's autographs to SBNation and they turned him down. The article is maybe a touch self-righteous but I respect the editorial decision.
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It's Wednesday, October 15th, which means that Simmons' suspension is over. It'll be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
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MechaFrogzilla posted:It's Wednesday, October 15th, which means that Simmons' suspension is over. It'll be interesting to see if anything comes of it. less Instagram pics of him golfing and getting pedicures
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howe_sam posted:There were multiple level of fuckedupedness about the Dr. V story. In the balance I think it was probably fair game for the writer to out her bogus credentials to the investors, but not he react that Dr. V was trans. And whoever edited the final piece sure as hell should've cut the line about "I felt a jolt" or whatever it was the writer said when he found out Dr. V was trans. The only amusing thing about the situation is that it proved the old maxim of people only reading the beginning of articles: so many journalists linked to that piece on Twitter, telling people to go read it for how great it is, until people actually read the thing.
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I chalk that up more to a lack of sensitivity towards trans issues. The story itself was fairly well-written in a New Journalism sort of way. Personally, I just wanted to know if the loving putter worked or not.
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NYT has a piece up on Simmons: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/sports/bill-simmonss-return-sets-intrigue-in-motion-at-espn.htmlNYT posted:Simmons declined to comment. Since his suspension, he has surfaced only in snapshots on his Instagram account — Simmons at the beach, Simmons on the golf course — seemingly designed to let ESPN know that he’s enjoying his time off. But people close to Simmons say he is furious and has been talking a lot about whether ESPN is still the right place for him. He has threatened to leave ESPN before, but this is the most pitched moment yet in their fraught relationship. "I dared them to suspend me, and they went and suspended me! I've never felt so betrayed and angry!"
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AsInHowe posted:The only amusing thing about the situation is that it proved the old maxim of people only reading the beginning of articles: so many journalists linked to that piece on Twitter, telling people to go read it for how great it is, until people actually read the thing. I think it's just as likely they read it and didn't really grasp the problems until others started pointing them out. That's how it got published in the first place.
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http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/ NBC getting into the longform game with their new SportsWorld site. It appears to be mostly built around Posnanski, as you would expect. Hopefully for them he doesn't bail on this one after a few weeks.
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FMguru posted:NYT has a piece up on Simmons: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/sports/bill-simmonss-return-sets-intrigue-in-motion-at-espn.html I dunno. I see it more as: "I tested a boundary I thought I should be safe crossing (though my dare made it evident I thought something would happen) and they came down very hard in an out-or-proportion way. I don't think I am the right fit for ESPN any longer." Which is probably true.
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Lockback posted:I dunno. I see it more as: "I tested a boundary I thought I should be safe crossing (though my dare made it evident I thought something would happen) and they came down very hard in an out-or-proportion way. I don't think I am the right fit for ESPN any longer." Which is probably true. I still think it's all just part of the chessboard that is his contract renegotiation (or his pitch for his next gig).
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MourningView posted:http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/ Both nbcsports and that just look terrible. At least at sportsworld when you're in an article it looks alright but there is way too much whitespace on the frontpage. And the NBCsports site is just a cluttered mess. Finding the videos you want of say, a highlight package from the latest EPL match is confusing and stupid.
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MourningView posted:http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/ This venture obviously has nothing to do with Simmons directly, but it kind of goes to show his value. He really championed the 30 for 30 thing and now most of these other channels are going the doc route, albeit less frequently, but it's happening. Then Grantland came about and everyone started to push longform sites. He's keeping his company on the leader side of things rather than on the follower side.
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Hopefully he can lead ESPN back into showing sports highlights and less arguments on Sportscenter. Its starting to go the MTV route
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The Glumslinger posted:Hopefully he can lead ESPN back into showing sports highlights and less arguments on Sportscenter. Its starting to go the MTV route I've got fond memories, but it lost 90% of its usefulness once streaming video stopped being a chore.
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But if Sportscenter stopped being a thing, what would idiots put on signs to hold up at games?
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I think this Blake Griffin piece on Jeter's site is pretty cool. I know people are making fun of it for basically just being a blog platform with editors but I think the two pieces so far feel relatively unique, especially as being from active players.
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The next insightful comment The Players' Tribune posts will be the first.
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Deadspin ran a story the other day accusing a Colorado Senate candidate of lying about playing football in high school. Well they apparently really loving stepped in it trying to start a campaign controversy because the Cory Gardner campaign produced pictures of him in uniform and a statistician/historian at the school said Gardner played football from middle school through his junior year of high school. The source Deadspin used for their original story said that his quotes were pretty much completely misinterpreted.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:The next insightful comment The Players' Tribune posts will be the first. so you're saying you have a lot in common with them
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Crazy Ted posted:Deadspin ran a story the other day accusing a Colorado Senate candidate of lying about playing football in high school. Well they apparently really loving stepped in it trying to start a campaign controversy because the Cory Gardner campaign produced pictures of him in uniform and a statistician/historian at the school said Gardner played football from middle school through his junior year of high school. The source Deadspin used for their original story said that his quotes were pretty much completely misinterpreted. Ooooooops.
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