i used the daily mail cause their url is the best, most shows never make a profit which is a group his web series is destined to join, which is why ppl tend not to self finance
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 06:03 (eight years ago) link
he's already made a profit selling it to weirdos in his site
― balls, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 06:04 (eight years ago) link
no way has he earned a profit yet
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 06:07 (eight years ago) link
louie self produced a stand up special that did really well then was all i have this notoriously difficult business figured out then went online and talked w bill simmons abt how content is king during the million consecutive tsunami hitting the industry simmons creates content for, moral of the story its good to be a star
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 06:07 (eight years ago) link
in rainbows redux
― balls, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 06:09 (eight years ago) link
tfw soup is the perfect food https://twitter.com/hbo/status/733032327966777344
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
the sport of conversation
― balls, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
that's dumb as fuck
― balls, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CixBBGUWYAAcPyJ.jpg
i have never seen this expression on a person in my life
― Clay, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
simmos' brand is v blazer + untucked shirt tho, way to nail it
― Clay, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
horrible 'shop job on his face man alive
― Spottie, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0d/4e/9e/0d4e9ec4ca11fe2fc997313a0eed4623.jpg
― balls, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
― Spottie, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 5:53 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark
seriously what is going on
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
ya thats an insane texas chainsaw face
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link
i would never attribute such shoddy work to noted ilx poster man alive
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
can't see the white and-1s tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 May 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
there is content on the ringer dot com
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tJuZQ93.png
lmao
The real Joe Buck — the one who drops f-bombs with abandon, is married to a former Broncos cheerleader, hangs with Jon Hamm, and just might be America’s most underappreciated sports broadcaster.
― nomar, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
o shit fbombs tiiite bro tite
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
man i've heard a lot of smart media ppl praise joe buck, enough so that when al michaels or whoever (maybe not al michaels, probably not al michaels) calls joe buck the best broadcaster right now i don't even blink. at the same time man fuck joe buck.
― balls, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link
joe buck is unbearable
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
yeah there's a lot of reasons i stopped following baseball (slowly getting back into it, like if i saw jake arrieta in a restaurant i would recognize him now) but buck/mccarver combo (w/ the occasional dose of joe morgan) definitely played a role. also don't think finding out he's married to a former nfl cheerleader is gonna make me like him more, you might as well tell me how much he gets paid while you're at it.
― balls, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
I kinda like him. He's nowhere near as bad as he was 7-8 years ago.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
xp mccarver is gone, thankfully, although his replacements aint exactly fun city (aside from tom verducci occasionally saying smart things and reminding the dips he's surrounded by that analytics exist)
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
of all the articles to launch with, jfc
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Joe bucks attempts to sound excited during football games after years of criticism are legitimately hilarious
― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
PASS IS....
...
...CAUGHT!
Otherwise he's just wallpaper and the best argument for cloning, so we could replace him on all networks with al michaels-es
― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
lol theyve also got an article abt obamas legacy by... an obama speechwriter, ringer is the anti gawk
http://i.imgur.com/jtDVmmF.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
seems like really good kinja to me
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
bet he's super pissed that he already used the 'grantland' name and had to come up with something new
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
he didn't like grantland iirc
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
ann coulter is pretty
― nomar, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
yeah favreau does the ringers politics pod whice praise jesus jacko didn't get that gig
― balls, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
deadspin's thirst to make a "DO YOU SEEEEEEEE" type article about how the ringer is funded is fuckin hilarious http://deadspin.com/other-than-hbo-has-anyone-invested-in-bill-simmons-and-1779909602
they couldn't find out who was funding it, apparently, other than HBO. but unless it was a troll post idk why they were literally asking vox fucking media and buzzfeed if they provided funding, other than the denton/petechesky types who assume all their competitors are out to destroy them at all times, but like...peter thiel is not funding yr newest sports-coverage-enemy, it would appear you have other more pressing problems gawkdudes
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
i agree whoever wrote this post shd be be working on the hulkster appeal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
actually who's funding the ringer is an interesting question lol their salary overhead is gigantic for a new website in 2016
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
whos funding the ringer is unquestionably an interesting and important question and the list of ppl who they asked seem to be reasonable collection of ppl who tend to invests in media companies, publishing a post thats all abt how u failed to find anything out is not that interesting except possibly to demonstrate that for some reason no one wants to talk abt the fact that theyre funding the ringer, but on the other hand the post was prob mostly made for tree shaking purposes and if it works i look forward to finding out this info, seems like medium/ev williams gotta be in the mix
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
it's not a bad question to ask prima facie but the inherent assumption, given the source of the question, is that it's gonna be a person or individual who's like 2 degrees removed from satan, when the truth is prob way more banal. like its prob HBO + ad revenue + maybe some wangbag tech/VC bros who jack up ticket prices at oracle arena but otherwise prob don't engage in the destruction of truth & justice. (as goon sez it's prob some higher-ups at medium, whose closet-skeletons i don't know of but could exist? idk)
if it ends up being like, idk, dan bilzerian or some shit (or lord thielzebub), then aight that's prob bad
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link
andreessen thiel and blodget and maybe cuban seem like the only enemies of gawk on the list the rest of them seem like p reasonable suspects tho obvs the list if u wanted to be comprehensive wld be much longer
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
he inherent assumption, given the source of the question, is that it's gonna be a person or individual who's like 2 degrees removed from satan, when the truth is prob way more banal. like its prob HBO + ad revenue + maybe some wangbag tech/VC bros who jack up ticket prices at oracle arena but otherwise prob don't engage in the destruction of truth & justice.
lol so all the people listed in the post are, as you describe, "wangbag tech/VC bros who jack up ticket prices at oracle arena" but somehow you believe the post is trying to imply that actually the ringer is funded by people who are worse than the people the writer states are the most reasonable sources of ringer funding?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cj9EKLjUgAEH8Wg.jpg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
lol
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
the Big Six of Content
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
missing BOSTON
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
that is the same thing as SPORTS
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
the post is trying to imply that actually the ringer is funded by people who are worse than the people the writer states are the most reasonable sources of ringer funding?
was more referring to the specific mention of ppl who invest in direct gawker competitors, bc c'mon, those people aren't solely being mentioned because they're VCs, but whatever
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
xp duh
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:20 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
there aren't many people who heavily invest in new media ventures and by nature those who do are investing in gawker media's competitors so i dunno what to tell you
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link