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    I think that's mostly accurate -- partially because the writers with more of a brand name are also more annoying, partially because they also give space to a lot of freelancers/excerpt type pieces that are interesting and not picked up elsewhere. Drew Magary has always gotten on my nerves. I don't see the appeal. Maybe it's just that the readership can strongly identify with his reformed-brodude act. He has no real insight into much of anything, but I suppose a lot of people read these just to feel like part of a community. Every now and then he craps out a needlessly aggro column as fresh meat to his aggressively straight audience, I guess to keep that cred. Burneko and Roth aren't as bad because they both clearly know a lot of :censored:, but I can't handle the Arbitrary Capitalized Nouns thing anymore and the general desperation to coin a style in their writing, and in 2019 I hoped that we were done pretending that David Foster Wallace was any fun to read. The new soccer guy they've got is fantastic. Legitimately insightful pieces for the know-nothing-but-trying American soccer audience, treats MLS exactly how it ought to be treated (which is "fine"). I think the deranged MLS-hating guy who didn't know what a bicycle kick was is still, somehow, on the payroll, though -- have always wondered who he blackmailed to keep that position for five years.
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    I was thinking a TV show -- Streaming-only doesn't count, I'm old. Well, I've thought Simmons's Boston was too old for me but Nolan's Boston I can relate to (chiefly, horrible Allston dive bars).
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    They still haven’t even given Katie Nolan a real job at ESPN, have they?
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    I think of Nichols as more of a reporter/interviewer than a host, but she should be good there. Countdown’s problem is that the players try too hard to emulate the yelling and talking over each other parts of the TNT crew while rarely offering much else. It gets old.
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    Deadspin forced out their editor over some “stick to sports” nonsense. The idiot manbabies on team Barstool will crow about this regardless of how sensible it is. https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadspin-editor-quits-rails-against-bosses-ive-been-repeatedly-lied-to-and-gaslit
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    How very Veeck of them.
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    As someone who loves the local delicacy of the stuffed quahog but thinks Seth MacFarlane is possibly the very bottom of American culture, pretty torn up about this one.
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    The TV/radio switcheroo always felt weird to me. What's the point of it? Seems like yet another weird thing that accidentally became tradition in baseball. I like it when the radio guys can switch off play-by-play and commentary over the course of the game. WEEI's Red Sox broadcasts have always done that, pairing Joe Castiglione with whomever happened to walk by the office that day, so it's a crapshoot there. (This year they're having Chris Berman do some games and I cannot listen.) But the concept works well when you manage a fully competent booth.
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    I thought it was Paris
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    Believe the Miami Dolphins stadium reno was wholly privately funded (and, of course, turned it into a strictly football (and soccer) park).
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    If you squint the “elb” could kind of be a stingray shape.
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    Someone who actually listens to the radio would probably be able to answer better than I could. But basically it's been a 10-year spiral since CBS launched The Sports Hub. CBS brought over Toucher and Rich from the rock radio station to Sports Hub for their morning yell-fest. Still not something I'd ever want to listen to, but they're more Stern than Hannity, for what that's worth. In general they still have a lot of your typically miserable Boston yokel being :censored:s about sports, but they manage to Stick to Sports better than WEEI did even back then, and they've nabbed a few other WEEI voices through the years. This has positioned them as the smarter, hipper of the Boston sports stations (again, low bar). Obviously WEEI has since leaned even further into political sludge than they always have been. In terms of live rights, CBS already had Patriots and Bruins rights (WEEI lost the Bruins in the 90s if I recall) and mostly launched Sports Hub so they could put those two on a dedicated sports channel instead of preempting the rock or news stations. Since then they've also siphoned away Celtics and Revolution rights directly from WEEI; I'd imagine those are by far the two least-listened-to teams in the market, but the Red Sox are all WEEI has left. Last thing was that Sports Hub launched on FM, so it just had that clear signal and reach where it matters most. WEEI eventually launched an FM simulcast but I suppose it was too late. Combine all that and I think that mostly explains why WEEI has leaned into its basest non-sports instincts, especially in the current political climate. Maybe they wanted to be the radio version of Barstool but a.) they're too scummy even for a lot of Stoolies, in Stoolie City USA, and b.) that's probably giving the management too much credit. Anyway Minihane is too much of a mental trainwreck to ever get a reputable job again, but either way he says he doesn't want to do sports anymore, so I'm glad I'm rid of him as long as I don't run into him yelling into a speaker phone at CVS.
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    Per the Boston Globe... Shot: Chaser:
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    Same is true of Deadspin and Barstool and Bleacher Report and whatever SI is doing now and Fansided and Also don’t use the term “fake news”, it’s embarrassing.
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    Deadspin contains multitudes, relax.
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    I’ve never clicked on a deadspin video but once these thumbnails started popping up I learned that their office is basically the men’s room line at a National concert.
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    Why are these stadium developments always packaged alongside the most garbage of retail/dining developments? Does anyone need L.A. Live on steroids? It's a couple crappy restaurants and a Lucky Strike that just has an ESPN office attached, who cares?
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    This is the only good thing I've ever read about stunt concessions. Appetizing photo below. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2017/04/12/fenway-park-meatball-cone/
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    I think they have a point on this one. It's gross for SI to get in bed with a team like this; at least there's not really a real serious sports conflict or whatever over a dumb hot dog, but it's still so exceptionally stupid as to hold the audience in contempt. And I don't want to make it personal with Charlotte Wilder (she wrote some good things for SB Nation back in the day) but it does feel like SI is just forcing it in an attempt to have their own Katie Nolan.
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    Not to mention it coulda been a throwback to the days of Derek Rae and Tommy Smyth. My formative soccer-watching years!
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    I think they rebranded it! To like the CBS Sports Grill or something like that. Try the Gumbelburger. Your choices are limited now because Tony Keith’s Bar and Grill, famous for being the source of the most DUIs in the Commonwealth, has recently closed. And yes, Patriot Place is horrid, nothing but an outdoor mall with a couple generic stores that counts as “going out” for rural M:censored:s with no taste. But it seems like a reasonable use of space when there’s plenty more room to park for those days a year. I know the Angels play more frequently than the Patriots but I would’ve guessed they could sacrifice some of that gigantic sea of parking for another SoCal mall.
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    Could they have the best of both worlds, e.g. fund a stadium renovation by subleasing or selling part of the parking lot to create the SoCal's next generic high-end outdoor mall?
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    I had no idea Stadium was a Sinclair production. I take it back!
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    Odds that Sinclair sticks to sports?
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    The WSBK / NESN split brings me back. The Red Sox did the same thing for a while, if memory serves, though they also moved their OTA games to the local Fox and local WB (haha) stations at various times before both teams moved fully over to NESN. I had no idea about the Whalers owning a stake in SportsChannel; I always thought that was just Spectacor's attempt at an RSN network. But I guess it makes sense since the Celtics still have a stake in its successor to this day. I assume that nearly every non-MLS team with a local RSN deal has ownership as part of the deal at this point, right?
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