Still MIGHTY

And who said Vegas added 23+ jobs to the league was a bad thing?

44 minutes ago, ninersdd said:

Isn't Jared Boll still in the league?

Sigh. Sadly, yes.

They're also going to have SIX alternate captains, three at home and three on the road.

The A's are Deryk Engelland, Jason Garrison, Luca Sbisa, Reilly Smith, James Neal, David Perron.

Because of Rams/Chargers scheduling, quirky NFL broadcast laws and London, the LA market will get 6 NFL games on local TV Sunday.

- 6:30 a.m., Saints vs Dolphins, London, Fox 11 (everyone gets this one)

- 10 a.m., Rams at Cowboys, Fox 11

- 10 a.m., Steelers at Ravens, CBS 2

- 1 p.m., Eagles at Chargers, KCOP My13 (Fox game because NFC at AFC. Fox's sister station. Has to be here in case of the Rams game going long. Every minute of every local team's game must be shown.)

- 1:25 p.m., Raiders at Broncos, CBS 2 (This week is CBS's mandated doubleheader. So we get a Raider game directly up against a Charger game on LA TV. That'll be fun.)

- 5:20 p.m., Colts at Seahawks, NBC 4 (ugh, really? That's SNF this week?)

Plus add in Thursday and Monday, LA gets 8 games to watch 16 teams. Half the league. Strange little thing.

Seriously, who hasn't joined the Athletic yet? And how are they funding this? And how long until that bubble bursts?

I'm very much for writers getting paid, but yowza.

36 minutes ago, DG_Now said:

I understand the idea of hate watching shows, but does anyone hate listen podcasts?

 

I asked because Bill Simmons just published a podcast ranking the Patriots' 25 all time best wins. Who, besides Pats fans, would possibly want to listen to that?

 

It seems like a really stupid move for the Ringer's most visible talent, especially in light of the website relaunch.

I was just coming to post about this

Like just ing kill me. Oh my god.

Whats next? Top 50 Pedro Martinez pitches of all time? Top 33 Larry Bird dribbles of all time?

I almost want to do a hate listen, as you said, but I really don't think I could bear it. He's been insufferable enough the last few years with Deflategate on his regular podcasts. I'd probably self-combust trying to listen to that drivel for TWO GOD DAMN HOURS.

No thanks.

Also, I forgot, this is all part of the PATRIOTS WEEK on the Ringer. With such other garbage as Top 16 Dynasty Era Pats and How the 2007 Patriots Changed Football. So not only is he doing it, he's getting his lackeys to write a week's worth of content about it. 

Just unbelievable. A step too far for the Simmons enterprise.

LZ Granderson on ESPN's SportsNation says that the Nashville Predators moved from Atlanta and were the Thrashers. No one on the panel corrected him. (LINK)

ESPN and hockey, folks.

17 hours ago, the admiral said:

Looking forward to Colorado (Denver) assigning players to Colorado (Fort Collins)

Still better than: San Jose assigns Cam Gord to San Jose

53 minutes ago, DG_Now said:

The Ringer's NBA podcast coverage features way too many frat douches complaining about UNC and Duke.

I like the Ringer's podcasts when they're talking about anything other than the NBA. And they talk aaaaaaaaa lotttttttttttt of NBA.

Three hours of Mike Greenberg, two hours of First Take, 90 mins of NFL Live, 30 mins of OTL, ATH, PTI and the like.

So quality is an inverse of time at the 4-letter now.

For all the flack ESPN deservedly gets for not talking hockey on air, their online writing was some of the best. Losing LeBrun and Burnside and even MacDonald on the day the 2nd Round starts is a downright criminal thing. Now they're not even pretending to care about the sport. Not even a cursory effort.

Losing Ed Werder the day before the draft is gross too. I'd hope the NFL Network or someone scoops him up by the end of the day.

And Baseball Tonight is going to be significantly downsized. From staff to actual shows during the week. Richard Deitsch basically said to expect ESPN to outsource some MLB shows from the MLB Network.

As someone making their way through the low level/early stages of the business and someone that grew up with the thought and dream that ESPN is the pinnacle of the profession and everything I should aspire to be, this is kind of disgusting and disheartening. ESPN will never be what it once was to me in that way.

It happened to me exactly one time.

So the recurring issue seems like a personal problem.

For reference, they're tarping off the four upper level corner sections 205, 211, 220, 226. And for an arena that really has no bad viewing seat, those would be my choice for worst aesthetically. You're right up against a wall (they have these suite "towers" in the four corners). You feel slightly less connected with the rest of the arena. Of course any pro team tarping off seats sounds bad and it'll probably look bad, but idk if this will affect anything really when it comes to the game watching experience there.

6 minutes ago, BeerGuyJordan said:

I don't like fighting, for fighting's sake, and the league needs to minimize it. 

Ryan Kesler one-punching Jeff Carter... I like.

Jared Boll doing whatever it is he does... I don't. He didn't even fight in that fight-filled Ducks/Kings game. And if Jared Boll doesn't get in a fight in a game, I don't know what his purpose in the Ducks' or any line-up is. Even when he does fight, I don't know why he's in the Ducks line-up.

4 hours ago, the admiral said:

The Ducks tweeting that one-punch on Jeff Carter like “haha this was so cool” is a pretty good illustration of which fighting in hockey and is anyone who likes it are so stupid.

I mean, it was pretty cool. Who doesn't like (love) a good punch to Jeff Carter's face?

And I know when you're posting these things I can just assume it was a Ryan Lambert post, but it'd also be nice if we cited our sources so we don't have to look them up or ask.  

Honestly, that's probably a reason Barstool has had such a recent rise. Fans talking about sports as fans. Not trying to talk smarter than anybody else. (Maybe acting like it and getting a laugh, but anyway.)

I have a lot of other issues with Barstool, and overall I don't really care for it. But I do understand it's appeal to some people.

Je. Sus. Christ.

Coyotes to Tempe was going to be such a good idea too. Now what? They try partnering with the Suns again? They go back and plead for Glendale's forgiveness? This'll be rich.

I'm gonna... I'm... I'm gonna... vomit... I'm gonna vomit. I'm gonna...

Ask anybody under 30, hell 40, who George Halas, Lamar Hunt, Or Larry O'Brien were ad you'd probably get plenty of blank faces.

I'd assume most fans know who Vince Lombardi was, but I'd also assume I'd be surprised how many don't.

On 11/25/2016 at 9:21 AM, ltjets21 said:

Did the Clippers ever hang their division championship banner?

They put them up in their practice facility.

19 minutes ago, BShaw20 said:

Who "owns" the Taylor Swift banner? Lakers, Clippers, or Kings?

AEG owns Staples Center. AEG owns the Kings. The Kings get the Taylor Swift banner.

10 hours ago, Bucfan56 said:

It's going to be on the corner of Rio Salado and McClintock? My goodness, that's basically on the ASU campus (sort of). Right across from Tempe Marketplace, which is basically empty other than a water treatment facility (and a spot I always wished had something there). I'm shocked to say this, but the Yotes look to finally be making a good move with this one. That would've been pretty cool to have while I was there. 

 

Also, if I'm not mistaken, that's smack dab on the new light rail line, too. Why didn't they do this a decade ago? That basically links all of the major entertainment options in Phoenix on the public transportation lines. 

It's pretty perfect, right? Not that I didn't already go to plenty of Yotes games when I was there too (because they were cheap as hell and I had family within shouting distance of Westgate), but if I could have walked (see: drunkenly stumbled to and from) or taken a cheap cab? I would've sprung for season tickets lol

Two blocks from ASU, right next to the Marketplace, right off the 101/202 interchange. (No new light rail there as far as I can tell. There's the Tempe Streetcar coming in 2020, but it doesn't go that far down Rio Salado. Stays in the Mill District. Unless you know something I don't haha.) It's almost all you could want from a demographic access standpoint. College kids (plenty from the Midwest too), majority of the population, majority of the hockey-watching population. If the Coyotes can't make THIS work, then they'll have no one to blame but themselves. No other excuses at that point.

10 hours ago, Bucfan56 said:

Now watch the D Backs murder it all by moving out to Queen Creek or something. 

The only people moving to Queen Creek are Donovan McNabb, real housewives of Phoenix, and Mormons.

Matches the aesthetic about pretty much every other ASU building. Makes sense.

As a big consumer of the Ringer podcasts, I agree with a lot already said. I listen to Simmons' regular pod, The Watch (TV/Movies w/ Greenwald/Ryan), Jam Session (General pop culture w/ Littman/Dobbins), Keeping it 1600 (Politics), and The Press Box (Media w/ Curtis) and I've tried just about every other option they have.

• Simmons and Littman are the best hosts, no doubt. Even when I'm only tangentially interested, like with most of Jam Session, Littman keeps the discussion tight, rolling, and interesting she's good. However on the same lines, when Simmons has a bad guest (or goes just too hard into basketball or Boston), I skip or tune out.
•  I've listened to Greenwald/Ryan since the Grantland days and enjoy most of their takes, skip over others, but they can get lost on a very specific, in-joke tangent quickly and I can zone out. (Also, I think the show was better back at Grantland when they had their weekly recaps to pull from and frame a conversation, and when they didn't have their Thrones TV show which now essentially keeps those conversations off the podcast. (And puts them through a condensed TV filter, which doesn't help that side at all either.)) And when it comes to Chris Ryan hosting other pods, he falls into the sports geek. Like I've tried their Euro2016 podcast with Ryan at the helm, and I have no idea who the other two guys are, and they definitely sound like eggheads thinking too hard about the sport. Same with his earlier stints on NBA pods.
• Keeping It 1600 has been a pretty good follow through this election season, but with the two hosts being former Obama staffers, their biases do show through and the "Well this is what happened in Obama's staff" or stories about such can really turn me off. (And that has nothing to do with the poltiics of it, just, don't be insufferable about it.)
• The Press Box can be kinda of interesting and take compelling angles, but it is a highly almost overedited show. It's not a conversation, it's dropping in voiceovers around edited clips of interviews to write a narrative. It's like an audio written feature piece. That's fine and honorable on NPR or an angle on a news website, but it's a turnoff for me. I much rather hear a organic conversation about a topic rather than a spoken article. But there's been some good topics, so I hear it out.

So there's my thoughts on the Ringer podcast network. Not that you asked.

I actually listen to way too many podcasts... (In addition to the Ringer shows listed, I listen to the Solid Verbal (College Football), Marek vs. Wyshynski (Hockey), Puck Soup (Hockey), Puck Podcast (Hockey), SI Media Podcast (Sports Media), Jay & Dan Podcast (Sports, etc), Jonah Keri (Mostly sports), The Nerdist (Pop Culture/Comedy), Star Wars Minute (minute by minute breakdown of the Star Wars films), How Did This Get Made? (Bad movies), Kanzenshuu (Dragonball/Z/GT/Super)... Yeah... I skip/delete/miss some, but I drive a lot. So that's what I have on usually.)

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Anybody check out Any Given Wednesday tonight? I'm about to sit down and give it a watch.

Tucson should just be happy we haven't asked for a refund on the Gadsden Purchase.

Tucson Roadrunners, it is