bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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.

I kinda like him. He's nowhere near as bad as he was 7-8 years ago.

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)

of all the articles to launch with, jfc

Joe bucks attempts to sound excited during football games after years of criticism are legitimately hilarious

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

lol theyve also got an article abt obamas legacy by... an obama speechwriter, ringer is the anti gawk

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seems like really good kinja to me

bet he's super pissed that he already used the 'grantland' name and had to come up with something new

he didn't like grantland iirc

ann coulter is pretty

yeah favreau does the ringers politics pod whice praise jesus jacko didn't get that gig

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

i agree whoever wrote this post shd be be working on the hulkster appeal

actually who's funding the ringer is an interesting question lol their salary overhead is gigantic for a new website in 2016

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

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

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

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?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cj9EKLjUgAEH8Wg.jpg

lol

the Big Six of Content

missing BOSTON

that is the same thing as SPORTS

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

xp duh

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, 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

i don't think it's crazy they ran that story cuz we know that bill simmons can't fart w/o deadspin doing a post on it (as this board has demonstrated lol) but i also don't think it's interesting or that they're performing a public service looking into it like omg this shadowy cabal is secretly shaping how we think about game of thrones gifs

like i know everyone knows this but the history of media is billionaires throwing away money so they can some kind of ancillary thrill. this is also the history of the arts. we've all seen citizen kane.

im not really seeing where they cast it as conspiracy

you're not tricking me into reading some gawker article goon

who me i just think u might find it... interesting

the size of that writing staff is kinda amazing, like i thought for sure at a minimum he would scale down post grantland esp since he said that whole 'i don't like longform' thing and that this site was meant to be read on yr phone

i wonder how many of his billionaire backers know what he really thinks about public funding of stadiums

a lot of those guys prob love the DH too

esp since he said that whole 'i don't like longform' thing and that this site was meant to be read on yr phone

― balls, Thursday, June 2, 2016 1:22 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh

http://i.imgur.com/X9tWCvG.png

um bill yeah i just wrote a thousand words on drake
ok so u wrote an article about drake?
no...

a lot of those guys prob love the DH too

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 2, 2016 1:23 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa whoa whoa why we gotta hate on dudes who do nothing but mash baseballs?

gotta watch the good hbo show to find out

i don't believe for a second he actually hates the dh, the dh is totally the kind of cockamamie idea he would come up w/ plus no dh means no ortiz. i don't seem to recall him ever going on about soup before either and he's had plenty of opportunities.

hah those were just the best challenging opinions he cld come up with

his soup thing is the oddest mic drop moment in that ad, I mean I believe my 94 yr old great grandma at the end there felt the same but she just was extremely chill about it.

motherfuckers always talking about salads and sandwiches well GUESS WHAT JABRONIS

i'm a big soup fan so I was like "i'm liiistening..."

i ordered like a whole box of those campbell's bag of lentil soup for millenials off of amazon cuz the grocery stores around here stopped carrying it and now i'm like 'when the fuck am i gonna eat all this soup?'

any given wednesday

wait there's special lentil soup for millenials why did no one tell me about this

its v popular among our demo

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each now to be replaced w bill simmons face