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DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

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simmons to hbo would own. he's great at managing his own poo poo, and hbo knows how to handle creative types

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DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

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i read that conde nast thing yesterday and i kept thinking how is this news, glad to see they took it down but uh, cat is kinda it off the bag now

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Jul 20, 2010

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Mozi posted:

Somewhere, Barry Bonds' ears perk up...

barry bonds is the greatest baseball player of all time, he wouldn't be concerned about whatever chucklefuck comes in second

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Jul 20, 2010

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i watch sportscenter generally when I'm going to bed because i like to have a tv on while I'm reading at night. if i could get nhl network i would watch that.

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Jul 20, 2010

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xbilkis posted:

I love that someone bought the url http://blackgrant.land to redirect to the archived version of this terrible article that had to be taken down

lmao

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Jul 20, 2010

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Found the weirdest coat at a second hand store the other day:



Which immediately made me sad that Grantland doesn't exist anymore (despite its flaws) because they wrote a great article about Sports Phone like a year ago.

e: holy gently caress breaking tables

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Jul 20, 2010

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Crazy Ted posted:

If you wanna find some weird American second hand clothes, go to retro/second-hand stores in foreign countries. I went to one in London for shits and giggles and they had things like American high school varsity football jerseys from the 1980s (you could tell because they were those high cut midriff ones) on one of their clothing racks.

ayn rand hand job posted:

or 3rd world countries



oh yeah that same store + it's sister stores have racks of football/cheerleading/field hockey/etc. varsity jackets from the 80s-00s and it's vaguely creepy to me to imagine walking around in someone's high school jacket that says JEREMY 02 03 04 05 on it

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

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peter thiel is a weird dude. i saw him give a talk where he praised karl marx endlessly and said that most of what he wrote is true. the main focus was the idea that capitalism always produces markets that end in monopoly. thiel agreed with this but thinks that just means that investors and business folks should only work on or invest in things that they can monopolize because that's how to make money.

afterwards he did a book signing and i asked him if he could make it out to my old lady and his little gay dwarf helper looking guy said "no special requests!!" and moved in between me and thiel like i was going to attack him or something. but thiel just said "what's her name" and did it.

he told people to pitch him a fifteen second idea that sounds crazy but is true so i told him that i get super hungry when I sneeze a bunch from allergies and he said "I'm not sure how you can make money on that."

anyway that's my Peter thiel story. he has really dead eyes.

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Jul 20, 2010

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I think it's good he's caring more about women's issues now that he has a daughter. I didn't care about Boston area townie assholes until I read his stories about Sully, Murph, Turd, Boob Dog, Cuntass, Seath the Scaleless, etc.

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Jul 20, 2010

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good to see pareene at deadspin. i wonder how much political stuff he'll do over there

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Jul 20, 2010

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i like watching people play pro cs:go, some of the recent tournaments have been very exciting. watching high level NHL is also fun but hard to find and not nearly the level of competition because there's no money in it yet

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Jul 20, 2010

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C. Everett Koop posted:

i really hope NHL stands for National Hockey League here

yeah i meant the game, not the league. league gaming had (has?) a pro series but the stakes were absurdly low, like a $150 buy-in per team.

the talent deficit posted:

competitive rocket league is absurdly good to watch

yeah forgot about this, that's very fun

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

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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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Jul 20, 2010

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ElwoodCuse posted:

He has two daughters already

so he screwed his beard in front of a mirror twice. big deal. hell, he's a man with needs

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

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there was a second hanger

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Jul 20, 2010

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jon bois is very good, i like his videos a lot

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Jul 20, 2010

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you can nPIN IT ON THE BROAD. YES!

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Jul 20, 2010

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Glad to see Carp's getting work again but they should really just poach Andrew Gross from Fire & Ice and put him back on the Rangers beat

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Jul 20, 2010

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"electronic" sports are cool

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Jul 20, 2010

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a false posted:

hmm.... they're not

no, they are

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Jul 20, 2010

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i will say that I have tried to watch League of legends and hearthstone and some fighting games stuff but I rarely understand it, so I'm not sure where the appeal is for people that don't actually play the game like i do with overwatch. but i've never played anything other than backyard football and like watching that so i don't know. but there seems like a difference even though football is very hard to understand for people who haven't grown up watching it.

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Jul 20, 2010

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as a Deadspin reader who watches e sports, that's exactly the type of content that I Want

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Jul 20, 2010

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fast cars loose anus posted:

My favorite was the person who wrote a whole article basically going "oh NOW I get sportsball fandom" after she started rooting for the NY Overwatch team

why is that bad. i thought that was a good article

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Jul 20, 2010

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sportsgenius86 posted:

I will probably pay for this just for full access to the 30 for 30 archives any time I want it.

yeah pretty much, there's been a ton that i haven't been able to watch since i never catch them live and they went off netflix

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Jul 20, 2010

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I mean, I would pay 4 bucks a month or whatever it is if Andrew Gross covered the Rangers again since he was their best beat guy, but they hired Rick Carpinello who is just very bland so I read more of the other stuff on the site. so it depends on the beat writer for me

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Jul 20, 2010

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Dexo posted:

I must be missing something obvious...

it's an "all asians look the same" joke

e: fb

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Jul 20, 2010

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fairly sure felix lurked/lurks the psp threads so this could be interesting. and i think everyone likes jon bois so that's exciting.

there's a fuckload of MMA history that is super fertile ground for longform stuff. Pride-era/any of the insane kickboxing criminal stuff

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Jul 20, 2010

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Fauxhawk Express posted:

there are many other candidates, but every MMA/pro wrestling fan on the planet needs to know the story of Yoji Anjoh getting his rear end beat by Rickson Gracie

yeah or mark hunt trying to throw that dude out the window or any of the hammer house-chute boxe stuff.

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Jul 20, 2010

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Declan MacManus posted:

any good resources to read about this stuff? i only know boxing stuff

the kickboxing thread in psp is honestly one of the best ever threads on the forums. there was a link in there not long ago to a guy who ran a blog about the dutch underworld which is a complete venn diagram overlap with the Dutch martial arts scene, but i can't find it

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Jul 20, 2010

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Ramadu posted:

There was a thread where an employee of one of these was talking about it and the questions they got. The angriest people got were if they had black people in their past or jews. it was pretty amazing.

i would love to read this. know what it was called?

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

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so incredibly hyped for that

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Jul 20, 2010

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http://deadsp.in/6oOnnND

Really good article about Tyson Fury

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Jul 20, 2010

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Stephen A is funny and about as entertaining as you can expect for someone in that role, until he gets serious like telling pro athletes that they don't want to make an enemy of him, then he's extremely funny

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Jul 20, 2010

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Redgrendel2001 posted:

The "Honk if you're carrying Steve Garvey's child" bumper stickers were popular in SoCal for a long time.

lmao

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

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Henchman of Santa posted:

David Roth is at Deadspin

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Jul 20, 2010

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yeah i was really upset when i thought they were gonna close, deadspin in particular tends to have some of the most required reading of any site period coming out imo

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Jul 20, 2010

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even if their ARPU is fairly low it still bizarrely will almost look better for investors since it will be easy to show somewhat stable growth. they will raise prices or not offer as many deals next year to bump it up a few dollars, then more the next year, etc.

they'll probably have good retention rates since people have short term memories and the investors are probably on board with that growth plan.

not that it might be as great for us in 5 years when we're paying 10-15/month but they give a lot of freedom/pay to a lot of really good writers and their interface is clean, so the price point before i cancel would be pretty high

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Jul 20, 2010

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the fact that deadspin's writers routinely write poo poo like that (their interview with Univision after they bought them, eg.) is one of the reasons I trust them 100x more than basically any other publication

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Jul 20, 2010

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California's about the only state that could pull out of the ncaa and have good leagues with juat their in state teams so i hope they do that.

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Jul 20, 2010

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then how come I'm 900lbs despite being masters in overwatch

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