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Well, not exactly the "shitter", but, if any one company can be blamed for higher cable costs, it's ESPN. So, justice served, slow and deep. If only America wakes up and realizes how much they are spending to subsidize sports they could give a fuck about.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
a wsj link that requires a subscription to read the article. fuck them too.
Cut and paste into a search engine and read all day.Quote:
Originally Posted by HansJob
Losing SVP on the radio was a bummer.
I do like Coach and Co. though, and I have to admit, Lebatard has me laughing pretty often.
However, I pretty much hate Bomani Jones new program. Just put Steven A in there, he does that schtick better at least.
No more Grantland. Bullshit. I admit I didn't read it much once Simmons left, but it was still quality shit!
Paging Zach Lowe...
I'm going to miss Grantland. I hope Zach Lowe resurfaces somewhere - his NBA analysis is the best by far.
ESPN continues to get rid of anything good they have done and focus on what makes them horrible.
I'm not a Twitter person but I'm now following Zach Lowe on Twitter
First Simmons, then this year, Tuesday Morning Quarterback and Grantland. I liked a lot of the long form analysis and commentary provided by each of those sources. Now they are all gone. ESPN.com has now lost 70% of the clicks that I gave it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TahoeJ
Only thing is that those clicks didn't mKe them much, if any, money.Quote:
Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
Not a fan of Clay Travis but this is a good read. http://www.foxsports.com/college-foo...s-media-110215
Not true, it's short-sighted. I never visit ESPN.com but I visited grantland, so I was included in their overall audience media packages. I'm not alone there, either. It's hard to put an exact number on it really but it has some affect.Quote:
Originally Posted by montanaskier
By all accounts, Grantland lost money for ESPN. But that doesn't necessarily absolve ESPN. For one thing, Grantland provided a good product. I think one can blame ESPN for failing to be able to figure out how to make that product profitable and giving up early. Also, it's not uncommon for huge corporations like ESPN to have prestige products to heighten the brand. For example, many believe that The New Yorker is unprofitable, but Conde Nast keeps it because it adds to the brand values. ESPN is a $50 billion behemoth on which Grantland was financially little more than an ass freckle. In short, ESPN could have kept it going if was important to the company and its core values. It's wasn't. If it wasn't readily apparent, ESPN is giving up on journalism and focusing on (1) huge partnerships with the NFL and NBA and (2) low-cost shtick:
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Sitting in the Delta lounge having a drink (it's after noon you pansies) and ESPN is on talking college sports. Both talking heads keep saying athELete. Nails on a fucking chalkboard. THERE'S NO EXTRA VOWEL IN THE MIDDLE OF ATHLETE.
Aren't these people supposed to be pros?
Wrong thread?
Another one like this I hear is decath-a-lon.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Passed a TV tonight showing Pardon the Interruption and blasted across the screen is a permanent advertisement for something called Captain Morgan Cannon Blast. Sounds like something enjoyed exclusively among dudes and pairs nice with ookie cookie.
google: apparently this is it. Yet another bro shot in the mold of Fireball, Goldschlager, and other flavored shit like honey-Jack Daniels. Fuck that. (Jager will always be legit though)
http://www.breakthrubev.com/~/media/...273F6D101B589D
Nice job ESPN, you've managed to sink a little bit lower. Seriously, what intern over at the Ocho came up with that copy?
Just wait, it's almost time for around the clock NFL draft coverage. Lord knows we all need more Mel Kiper.
A few things. First, there's this: http://deadspin.com/espns-curt-schil...-on-1771868863
Dear Lord, what an asshole. It's like, the only time you hear about the guy, he's either sick or fucking up again.
And, I looked up at one of the flat screens in the gym, I think, yesterday, and ESPN was broadcasting a Spring practice game from some big name college. April practice. The white shirts vs the starters, I guess. Not the highlights of the game, like there would be any highlights of such a game, but, the actual fucking game. The apocalypse is almost upon us.
Schilling's a clown.
the "game", it's just cheap content, they need to fill airtime.
haha, they just ran this commercial, this may be the most ridiculous commercial ever made. Male models hammer spikes into mountains! And drink whiskey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rUyld6KTi4
So that's what my ever increasing cable bill buys me?
Things are coming to a head in sports programming. I get back to NY, and Comcast has dropped Yes, the Yankee channel. I can't watch Yankee games. Well, me, and millions. It's absurd. There oughta be a law. This is what happens when 250 pound infielders make a kings ransom. It's all too much fucking money.
the espn app is good for killing time, you can watch what's on any time. Yeah it might be a spring training game but if you're in a doctor's waiting room it's better than a 2-year-old magazine.
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Originally Posted by iceman
That's the best cheap whiskey out there. 29 bucks in Colorado. Looks like they're going big time. That is a stupid ad, though.
That dumb spring practice game drew a better rating than any NHL playoff game. Ratings.....that's what they care about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Things Benny doesn't do:Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
1. Ski
2. Watch the Yankees
3. Visit
You should totally see if you can get that dude fired.
They routinely get 100,000+ morons to show up for a spring practice game in Columbus, OH.
TMZspn is just monitizing their stupidity.
If 100,000 show up for a spring practice game- which I think is insane but whatever- no shit they televise it. Everyone in the south watches it.
Weird espn is only worried about ratings. As if they're a television/content company. Psshh
ESPN goes full retard.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ees-30-for-30/
How in the fuck do they cut out the bloody sock game? It's probably the most iconic game between the Red Sox and Yankees ever, not to mention the sock is displayed in the Hall of Fame. Just when you think they can't get any dumber...
They should have a draft recap show where they go over the 3 or 4 picks Kiper and Mcshay got right.
2017 NFL Mock Draft Version 1.0 coming soon!
Kipper almost nailed the mr irrelevant slot. Missed it by one spot. Thought that was funny.
Schilling is an asshole. He probably said something at the final meeting that resulted in this. And now he's doing his little bitch thing, like STFU, just to seal the deal. Fuck him.Quote:
Originally Posted by TahoeJ
Yes, Schilling is a huge asshole. But so what? You can't rewrite history just because someone was a dick. A solid one third of pro athletes are assholes.
ESPN sucks in every way possible. Cutting Schilling out is a total joke.
And apparently now they have a thing for DUI offenders. Melrose (or some other hockey analyst), Jalen Rose, and now Abby Wambach. Way to set the standard low.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/04/medi...yst/index.html
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Originally Posted by TahoeJ
I would think that about 100% of media executives are major assholes, so, don't sit across the table and tell them to go fuck themselves in creative ways as you're being fired if you want them to glorify you in stupid documentaries about the glory days.
Maybe said executive was a Yankee fan. It is Conneticut, after all.
espn claimed they cut pieces of that particular showing because the previous show (a live softball game) went long.
Yeah, Digitaldeath was posting the other day about how good the softball coverage has been.
Holy fuck, TMZspn has gone full retard clickbait. Saw this on a colleague's desktop today.
Which NBA Team Are You? TAKE THE QUIZ!
It was the LEAD story.
Is Dunfee moonlighting over there?
"Stabbin" Ray Lewis and Cris Carter out.
I couldn't believe they ever employed Stabbin Ray in the first place.
Why? They built of statue of him in Baltimore.Quote:
Originally Posted by milton
Triscuit Tirico out too. Going to NBC.
Murderin Ray Lewis commenting on the moral implications of Ray Rice was tv comedy gold. Only TMZspn could pull that off with a straight face.