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  1. He is still a Friday afternoon/evening tradition (for now) to listen to his two or three podcasts of the week, so I guess I'll update you on his "me-itis". We're in football season, so at least Cousin Sal puts Bill in his place once a week.
  2. He is 65 and outside of The Athletic and 95.7 The Game, he's basically taken a check from every Bay Area media outlet. He's an Oakland native, so isn't relocating. The Ringer profile of him right after being let go from NBC Bay Area is good writing.
  3. I'll start watching College GameDay again if they keep on cursin' He later apologized
  4. True, but after Univision's experiment with failed their acquisition of Gawker, The Onion, and The Root, they all were easy pickings for private equity. That also coincided with Disney divesting from Fusion as both media companies tried to be woke. That said, Great Hill Partners, the new owners just seem to be waiting for the union contract to end for them to really gut the various sites. Everyone there should be looking for another gig. I know that some folks here dislike Richard Deitsch, but his conversation with WaPo's Ben Strauss was a nice discussion of Greenwell's departure and its impact. As for Barstool, a "Variety" story this week claimed a third of their revenue (35%) is podcast-related. In February, Digiday reported $15M in revenue from podcasts in 2018.
  5. I'm not sure you can do much more with a dragon and not go kiddie cartoonish, especially if you are hellbent on using green. They all generally face the right too. Dragons and snowcapped mountain peaks are a one trick operation.
  6. Yea, with all of 20 followers. I'm not saying he is incorrect. His skills on TESS might be stellar, but there is no "Los Angeles Archangels" on TESS.
  7. Those two could be a nod to three of their cities. Seattle for Boeing Los Angeles for Lockheed, Douglas, Northrup, and Hughes. Not to mention the JPL St. Louis for McDonnell
  8. I wouldn't even say months ago. However, we are a week from college football starting its Week 0 and the NFL is in Week 2 of Preseason. America's focus has already moved. Nobody cares about their first QB signed in Landry Jones. And they still MUST SELL TICKETS! Even if every one of y'all buy a tee for $25, they'll just see 10-15% of what you paid in a licensing fee. That $hit ain't keeping the doors open long even if Vince can still sell stock.
  9. Oh, I understand. She was positioned to be the quirky blonde one for sports aka a Jenny McCarthy but nearly a decade later* from Jenny's . There could be bits or a podcast for her to do, then again, they have Katie Nolan and Julie Foudy who both do of those and one is younger and the other is a former athlete who can get better guests. *-Beadle is three years younger than McCarthy.
  10. Exactly. They need to decide what it is because "Inside the NBA"-Lite doesn't workm. Either mimic the NBATV version but add a writer (Windhorst, Ramona, Jackie Mac...) or just have a host and Jalen. Going back to "SportsNation" I've never gotten her shtick. She just likes the Spurs since that's where she was the in-arena host and Pops has courtside tickets.
  11. Michelle Beadle off another show as Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor replace her on "NBA Countdown". https://thebiglead.com/2019/08/16/rachel-nichols-and-maria-taylor-replacing-michelle-beadle-on-espn-nba-countdown/
  12. https://www.ocregister.com/2019/08/14/anaheim-hopes-to-see-stadium-lease-proposal-from-angels-by-october/
  13. In December 2017 (months after his drunken Wyoming incident), Russillo said on air that the extension he was offered was at the same money as his current contract.
  14. The Ringer staff is larger that one would think, between 80-100. DAZN was basically an ad read for him. His interview with John Skipper was on April 3rd. D AZN needed to sell the Canelo Alvarez fight on May 5th and the GGG fight four weeks later. He got a new HBO deal last summer but the length wasn't specified. Last Monday it was announced that Rusillo was joining full time. That news had to have quickened the vote to unionize.
  15. Have he hit peak revenue already? I say that because they're now partnering with Luminary for "Premium" podcasts of Rewatchables. No HBO money now, right?
  16. And today, Bill Simmons woke up to this.
  17. So after the XFL adds 320-350 players the AFL wants Cleveland to have those who cannot even make the XFL? Then again, there are thousands of dudes like Wello Songz, who think they should "go Pro". Time to get more cats from the RPFL.
  18. The Dragons weren't the Streets and the Streets are the current business. Your paragraphs on the Dragons history don't matter. Each fail to draw folks and generate money.
  19. So you expected "Amazon Prime" service from the jump from a Mom&Pop operation which had little to no money to begin with. $hit was never in inventory, You're an alt-football mark.
  20. TLDR. Short story: A small business cannot afford to create and pay to have someone hold merchandise inventory, so they order JIT (Just In Time). As a result, they only processed orders after a certain number was met, like shirts are generally ordered in a gross (gross = 144 items regardless of size). So few bought merchandise over months, thus the order took months to be received
  21. They play in the f-n National Arena League, which four walls and a ceiling equate to a proper arena. It is basically the 3rd Tier League. If they are not making money now, you think going to a larger facility will help? A "street team"...OK. Let's have sign flippers in Times Square too. Corey Galloway already told a fib once, stating that two game this season would be at MSG and a pipe dream. I've posted this before, but even in the mid-2000's, renting MSG cost a lot!!! And it is a Union house. Nassau won't be much cheaper when a playoff Islanders team would have weekend priority as well as Brooklyn Boxing/PBC
  22. The Dodgers had Jaime Jarrín do Spanish Radio solo until 2015 when they brought in his son. He was 79 then and has a contract through the 2020 season.
  23. John Ourand's sports media blog post from Monday is not behind their paywall.
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