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 (seven years ago) link
he didn't like grantland iirc
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
ann coulter is pretty
― nomar, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:11 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cj9EKLjUgAEH8Wg.jpg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
lol
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
the Big Six of Content
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
missing BOSTON
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
that is the same thing as SPORTS
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:15 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
xp duh
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:21 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
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
― balls, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
im not really seeing where they cast it as conspiracy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
you're not tricking me into reading some gawker article goon
― balls, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
who me i just think u might find it... interesting
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
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
― balls, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
a lot of those guys prob love the DH too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
um bill yeah i just wrote a thousand words on drakeok so u wrote an article about drake?no...
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
― 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?
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
gotta watch the good hbo show to find out
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
hah those were just the best challenging opinions he cld come up with
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
motherfuckers always talking about salads and sandwiches well GUESS WHAT JABRONIS
― balls, Thursday, 2 June 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
i'm a big soup fan so I was like "i'm liiistening..."
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 2 June 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
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?'
― balls, Thursday, 2 June 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
any given wednesday
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 2 June 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
wait there's special lentil soup for millenials why did no one tell me about this
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 June 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
its v popular among our demo
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 June 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
http://overstuffedprincess.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CampbellsGo.jpeg
― slam dunk, Friday, 3 June 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
each now to be replaced w bill simmons face
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 June 2016 11:11 (seven years ago) link
just skimmed it but there appears to be no indication that this branded content is branded content https://theringer.com/jennifer-garner-capital-one-commercials-are-best-show-on-tv-94480055758d#.wnnk8dt1u
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 June 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
disclosure rather obvs theres a ton of indication
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 June 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
damn that article is long
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bill-simmons-breaks-free-his-900291
― schwantz, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
he never really bothered me until that promo. now everything he says and every face he makes annoys me.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
bill simmons is good
― k3vin k., Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
when he is writing
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
ill get over it I'm sure ill check the ringer every day
― Spottie, Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link