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27 minutes ago, DG_Now said:

Wow.. I'm sorry for the background of that work, but the outcome is really impressive.

Indeed. That is some very impressive work. They really convey his mindset at the time - of course I mean that as a compliment. 

All three of you (Mings, D_G, and Oldschool) have some serious talent. I'd be proud to hang any of your work in my house. 

8 hours ago, DG_Now said:

What the hell. I've recently been teaching myself how to paint. It's mostly been a variety of landscapes, but the only immediately accessible photo I have is of this, where I was playing around with texture, tools and patterns:

 

I really like it. Very nice work, D_G. 

1 hour ago, CS85 said:

Deadspin confuses me.  

 

I don't know where the hell to turn for good investigative sports journalism that outputs consistently and doesn't water down its own brand with veiled hipster appeal and outright authorial bias.  

I think of Deadspin as snarky sports humor more than anything else. That's not saying they don't do some good work on occasion, but I can't take them entirely seriously. 

Take the shopping at TJ Maxx analogy I used for The Ringer and apply it to sports sites overall. 

On 7/2/2016 at 1:38 PM, DG_Now said:

Is anybody reading The Ringer?

I've been checking it out. It's a lot like shopping at a TJ Maxx - you have to dig through a lot of junk, but occasionally you find that really nice replica jersey on the rack for $19.95. 

2 hours ago, DG_Now said:

 

1997 chic. Like everything else he does.

 

EDIT: I should add that I like Simmons, think he's very smart, and appreciate a lot of the innovations he's brought to sports/pop culture writing. But there's some unintentional dorkiness about him that he could easily fix with some help. He's not a college student in Boston anymore.  His dreams have come true. He has really famous friends. He has an HBO show. He could, at the least, dress like an adult.

I'm always undecided on Bill Simmons. More often than not, I like his work, but there are also times when I think he's a bigger douchebag than I am. Either way, I can't imagine him dressing in any style other than 1997 chic. It's ridiculous, but it suits him. 

1 hour ago, DG_Now said:

 

Affleck has injected so much Botox in his face that his mouth can't move properly and he's slurring his words.

 

That slur doesn't sound like the result of botox. That slur sounds like the oxy slur. He sounds like he's high on painkillers.

19 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

Savvy businessman. That face alone will drive me to drink.

 

Also, I realize the business model on Cowherd's end isn't about the ratings, but his show averaged 52,000 viewers nationwide last week. 19,000 in the Adults 18-49 demo. That's dang close to "nobody's watching" territory. I wish the same success upon his and Whitlock's joint venture.

This isn't bragging, this is just an example of how truly small Cowherd's national TV audience is. In 1997-98, I in was working as the Program Director at a small market country station in Ohio. Our target market was a three county area with a population of about 150,000. I did afternoon drive (3-7p) and my average audience at any given time was about 18,000 people. That's 1000 fewer people than Cowherd's national TV audience in his target demo. I'm sure Cowherd's radio audience is a lot bigger than his TV audience, but still, 52,000 overall and 19,000 in the target demo is pathetic. Seriously, he's getting the same numbers nationally as some small radio station in podunk Ohio? 

Beautiful design, but it's way too big. In that picture of the player wearing one, it looks like he's wearing a paperweight on his index finger. I'd want a ring I could wear.

35 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

It's a stretch to say I was really IN sports radio, but I've been on-site producer / spotter / statistician (and off air color guy - feeding my observations to the PxP guy) for high school football on one of the sports stations in Milwaukee.  My on air broadcast partner is a real pro, and does PA for non-revenue sports at one of the Universities in Milwaukee (MU) as well as PA for the Lakeshore Chinooks.

Sounds like you were in sports radio to me. 

24 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Your take on Joe for MLB is the same as the take on Joe for NFL (at least as I've heard it).

 

Having worked in small time sports on radio, I take pride in preparation, and I'm not even on air.  I don't take issue with Joe/Troy from a preparation standpoint, and that same thing can't be said about the majority of broadcast teams.

My take on Joe Buck calling baseball wasn't serious. I think Buck does a great job on baseball games.

I worked in sports radio for a while too. What did you do at your station? 

3 hours ago, DG_Now said:

Joe Buck is paired with Troy Aikman, yeah?

 

My problem with the Fox #1 team is they always sound so disinterested in the (Cowboys) game they're broadcasting. They always sound so perfunctory.

 

I don't watch baseball, so no opinion on his MLB work.

Just take the NFL stuff and add the following - Joe Buck hates your team and he loves the team your team is playing. He's an unabashed Cardinals homer, except that Cardinals fans are convinced that Buck hates the Cardinals too. That's all you really need to know to get an idea of how he calls MLB. 

12 hours ago, the admiral said:

Joe Buck is technically sound (he once dropped in on a Blues telecast and just by wingin' it, immediately sounded better than the lower third of NHL pbp men), but the terse verbiage and silence that seemed momentous from Summerall and Scully here seem like a guy who's seen it all and would rather be someplace else. He's like the perfect #2 announce team guy, but always feels like a wet blanket on big moments in championships.

My opinion is there are maybe four or five PBP guys who make every game they call sound like a big event (which is something I enjoy) and Joe Buck is definitely one of them. 

On 6/2/2016 at 10:25 PM, McCarthy said:

I liked the Joe Buck article and that's mostly because I've never really gotten the Joe Buck hate. Once Tank became obsessed with incessantly posting about how much he hates him in the baseball playoffs threads I really took a liking to Buck. 

Same here. I think hating on Joe Buck is more fashion than anything else these days. Anyway, I can't think of a single time I've ever thought "wow, Joe Buck is doing a terrible job on this game." The guy is a real pro, but he doesn't scream his head off so I guess that means he sucks. 

47 minutes ago, CS85 said:

https://theringer.com/

 

The Ringer is live.

I read the Joe Buck piece. Not bad at all. Then again, I'm one of the few around here who likes Joe Buck. YMMV. 

4 hours ago, McCarthy said:

I'd also much rather my background noise be highlights than Stephen A going "The Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association were simply outhustled, outplayed, and outmanned by Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball association in the fourth game of the two thousand sixteen Western Conference Finals and quite frankly I don't know if there's ever been a more disappointing and demeaning postseason performance from a National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player in my lifetime than the one displayed by Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors in game 4 of the Western Conference Finals."

 

There's no way Stephen A. Smith would ever be that concise. 

53 minutes ago, McCarthy said:

Did sportscenter work in the 90's because we weren't informed yet or did it work in the 90's because they were best at showing sports highlights? I think it's more of the latter than the former. 

It was definitely the latter. Any game you watched back then reported scores from other games. It's not like this is a recent development. The reason we tuned in was to see how Dan and Keith (or whomever) did the highlights. We already knew the results. 

4 hours ago, Cujo said:

REPORT: Chris Berman retiring/leaving ESPN after 2016

 

(If true) Rejoice.

Odds are I'm one of the very few around here who likes Chris Berman. It's probably a generational thing. I'm old enough remember when he was really, really good.

In it's heyday, NFL Prime Time was the best part of the NFL weekend. 

On 5/26/2016 at 0:30 AM, Sodboy13 said:

 

That's two in each hole, right?

Not "insert coins in slot" but not bad. 

6 hours ago, Still MIGHTY said:

So what do you think? As consumers or readers, do you want verbatim quotes? Or do you not mind cleaning them up a little to make them read properly?

Sometimes you have no choice but to clean them up. Back in 1995, I was covering the Syracuse Chiefs. One night a Latin American player on the Richmond Braves had a helluva game. He hit a couple HRs and had 6 or 7 RBI. His postgame interview was the most hilarious interview I've ever been a part of. Long story short, he had been taught that "f***ing the ball" was english for just about any positive result. So...his postgame quotes consisted of gems like "I got a good pitch and I f***ed that ball right out of the park." "That pitcher got to f*** me with a breaking ball but I know if he throw it again I would f*** that pitch. He throw it again and I said you can't f*** me again and I f***ed that ball hard." And so on... 

Anyway, I think cleaned up quotes make for a better read. 

2 hours ago, the admiral said:

Yeah, I mean, who would edit a movie to fit time constraints by cutting the climax?

2 hours ago, HedleyLamarr said:

I've done enough radio and seen enough behind-the-scenes TV work to know that there's regularly scheduled programming already taking place and rolling, ready to be picked up as soon as live TV is over. 

And I've done more than enough TV to tell you that is not always the case.  Especially when you're waiting for a live event to end. I've been in plenty of situations where I had to "buy time" to make programming fit. Ideally, if you can avoid "joining in progress", you avoid it. I'm not trying to say that there was no way ESPN did this to mess with Schilling. All I'm saying is their excuse for what happened is entirely plausible. 

Seriously, which one of these sounds more likely...

a.) ESPN knew well in advance that the live event playing before the 30 for 30 was going to run long so they planned it out perfectly to make sure Schilling's segment would be the one to get cut just to screw him. 

b.) The live event ran long, the master control operator needed to cut one of two middle segments and chose Schilling's because his segment was a better fit for the time that needed to be made up.

According to ESPN, Schilling's segment was cut due to time constraints. As someone who worked in master control, I think that's probably all that happened. Considering the fact that live TV was involved, I seriously doubt it was anything more than a guy in the control room either having some fun or making a very poorly timed choice. Or it could have been a simple (albeit weird) coincidence - the master control operator needed to find 12 minutes and the Schilling segment fit the bill. In any case, as much as I'd like it to be, I'm reasonably sure that it wasn't some ESPN conspiracy. 

On 4/25/2016 at 5:14 PM, CS85 said:

I wonder if there's a way to get around that, but I can't think of one.

 

ublock origin, and/or ghostery for web browsers.  No known way of getting around it on mobile.

I get around the ads by not scrolling to the bottom of the page. The line of demarcation as it were is pretty obvious. Don't pass it and you won't see the click bait. Honestly, I didn't know the ads were there until people pointed them out. 

6 hours ago, CS85 said:

A friend of mine is a hardcore MGTOW (google it, it's awkard), so whenever I post something about women in the news in a positive light, he'll call me a "beta" and it's remarkably uncomfortable.

The MGTOW website is...ummm....interesting. People are weird. 

4 hours ago, DG_Now said:

 

What's your point? Or, what are you talking about?

I'm just guessing, but Brass could be referring to way back in the day when Tirico allegedly claimed he wasn't black. According to Syracuse legend, Tirico was up for some African-American based award in Syracuse but he withdrew his name stating he was not black but Italian. 

1 hour ago, CS85 said:

I agree insofar as that I hate when these videos (or other clearly feminist-leaning viral stuff comes into the mainstream) seem to hold some people hostage if they don't champion it as a victory for the internet.  

 

Sarah Spain is making herself look a little foolish right now, but honestly I feel trapped out of saying more, as I don't want to branded a sexist or misogynist for being critical of a woman.  It's confusing. 

Granted, I only know you through these here boards and the mighty BASS, but I'm pretty confident that you know where the line is with this stuff.