And three female guests in ten episodes.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Bill Simmons @BillSimmons 8h8 hours agoLong conversation with @KDTrey5 and @Nas on @AnyGivenWeds tonight - and we have @vincestaples talking sports, too. https://instagram.com/p/BKluTFhgr17/
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
vince staples segment was really bad. was kd part was p good. speed round at the end was p fun overall
― Spottie, Thursday, 22 September 2016 06:18 (seven years ago) link
whitlock!
https://twitter.com/TheTomasRios/status/779432658178899968
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 September 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
how does one man produce so much perfect content
― Clay, Friday, 23 September 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
lol i love how twitter drives successful journalists with better things to do completely insane
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 September 2016 05:12 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/10/28/ratings-for-bill-simmonss-hbo-show-have-hit-rock-bottom
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 October 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
"what’s with all the Michael Rapaport?" lmao perfect
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
it's a god damn awful show. caught a bit of it the other night because the great one was on it and because the great one is such a wooden borefest he had bill burr sitting next to him. still managed to be stilted and not particularly funny.
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
I like Billy but the first episode with Ben Affleck was enough for me
― frogbs, Friday, 28 October 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
it's a really dead show, idk why. i think it made sense in theory... like he's good at podcasts, let's put him and some guests in a room and not try and overthink it. but when i watch it i can't get over the fact that he GOT HIS OWN SHOW on fucking HBO and it's more or less completely identical in tone and look from the youtube videos he was making for grantland. idk i just feel like there was so much more opportunity there.
given the contract HBO gave him i feel like maybe they'll give this one more shot since it can't be that expensive to produce, and i think they can expand out the format a bit. i think one good option would be to produce documentary-style segments a la the 30 for 30 shorts they used to do. just something to break up the "stale simmons essay with old cultural references" + "stilted interviews with random guests" monotony.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 October 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
it really comes off as if he didn't put any thought into it at all
― Clay, Saturday, 29 October 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
i have to think there's a lot of people like me who still listen to his podcasts at the gym and maybe even click on ringer links here and there, but when it comes to the show he could have jesus christ himself as a recurring guest and there's still no way i'm watching a 30-minute talkshow about sports.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 October 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link
tv requires so much more attention than pods
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
What percent of people who make podcasts think "I should be on TV?"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 29 October 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
well bill simmons has been on TV plenty and there's an established history of sportswriters becoming successful TV hosts (on espn at least)
but yeah
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 29 October 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
yeah sports writer --> sports radio --> tv model is a million years old now
― Clay, Saturday, 29 October 2016 04:27 (seven years ago) link
but simmons is obv a different beast than, say, tony kornheiser
simmons was bad the other time he was on tv mightve been a sign that he wld be bad on tv
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2016 06:39 (seven years ago) link
even if he were good on tv it doesn't really seem like a great concept
a weekly sports show is never going to be timely, and whatever his strengths, he's not comedian enough to make old news funny (or even john-oliver-eviscerates 'funny')
― mookieproof, Saturday, 29 October 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
rip the bad show
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
;_;
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
does anyone know any bored vc guys asking for a friend
― Clay, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
wow that was quick
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah gotta be the fastest hbo has ever canned a show
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwb_s4vUkAAF5mA.jpg
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
i'll bet trump tv is against the DH too
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
signing a deal with fox sports like
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/fun107.com/files/2013/01/charlie_brown.png
― Clay, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
i like simmons on bball but can't really stand him on anything else and it seems like he's not paying much attention to bball anymore
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EmWwrI4.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
welp guess that finally proves my content is bad bye guys
― Clay, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
yep
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 4 November 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
imagining a simmons career where he realized the trade value column was his best work and proceeded accordingly
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
I was wondering a couple days ago if he was gonna do stuff like trade value for the ringer bc that like actually was good and interesting NBA context but realized he was prob too busy having dinner with celebs
― Clay, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
this years trade value column to be replaced by "daryl morey explains why all his decisions are good and nice"
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
hbo still has him under contract for the remainder of his 3 yr term, i wonder what will come of this
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
nothing good
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2016 2:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well aside from that David milch series about horse murder
― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
westworld always needs fresh bots xp
― Clay, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
This show was really godawful tho
The Lebron column he wrote recently was so lazy and bad I bailed about four paragraphs in, it was just instantly vanishing down a solipsistic rabbit hole where the only frame of reference was previous bill Simmons thoughts on the nba
― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
The other weird thing is I ended up liking a lot of grantland as basic semi entertaining lunchtime reading (aside from obviously essential z Lowe) but weirdly nothing on the ringer has ever seemed the right length to me, it's either 50k words of faux hot takes riffing on Russell Westbrook instagram post or 200 underdeveloped words on something really interesting
― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
ya theyre def doing something wrong over there even pieces on interesting topics by good writers arent quite right?
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
i read the latest network piece on there but thats one of maybe three articles I've read since it launched
― Spottie, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
seems like they're being weird about trying to publish shorter pieces even when it isn't warranted
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 November 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
The Ringer is absolutely fucking awful.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 4 November 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
ha otm
― Spottie, Friday, 4 November 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
its interesting bills philosophy for grantland "publish good stuff" was really noob and not nearly specific enough but then with the ringer it seems like hes trying to do something a more focused but it just doesnt make sense and is bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
the article about nba bench celebrations. could have been fun but i couldnt even get halfway through. and i like the writer generally
― Spottie, Friday, 4 November 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Friday, November 4, 2016 3:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*a show not involving the actual murder of horses
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
i've read very little, but i suspect i'd like the ringer better if it looked like grantland instead of medium
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 November 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link