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    AGW had an incredibly rough start. However, the Nas/Durant and Michaels/Costas interviews were really really good. Simmons was figuring out what his show actually was, which was giving time for outside-the-ordinary questions with entertainment leaders. Some of his skits were actively bad, but the interviews really shined. It's too bad when something different gets canceled. Nothing gold can stay. (I'm being melodramatic, obviously. Just kind of bummed.)
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    That's a shame. I grew to like it.
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    I think my favorite podcast of all time was the Zach Lowe podcast where Sam Hinkie got himself fired. I also have saved on my phone the BS Report where Bill Simmons got himself fired. What a fun medium.
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    I listened to early Ringer NBA shows but the hosts talked all over each other, treated everything like a big joke, and made some assumptions that their audience liked them without them having to earn it. Simmons talks NBA on his Thursday show with Joe House and that's worth listening to. Same with his weekly NFL chat with Mike Lombardi. Between that and TrueHoop, I'm covered. I've given up on Vertical, at least until the season starts. I should give the Reddick show a chance though. Speaking of Simmons, the Any Given Wednesday show this week was very good. He spoke about kids these days with Al Michaels and Bob Costas. Nothing groundbreaking, but at least it's two guys who know how to be on TV. Vince Staples continues to be very good on the show as well.
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    Much of the Simmons interview with Nas and Durant is online:
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    Nas and Kevin Durant were on Any Given Sunday, and it was really good. If Simmons becomes the Roy Firestone, or maybe Tom Snyder, of this Content Era, it might be a good thing. He might be onto something really interesting.
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    That mid-2000s Piston concept looks like every bad design from the early to late 2000s - weird panels, dumb swooshes, and other unnecessary design elements that were quickly added and later quickly dumped. I think the Atlanta Falcons Arizona Cardinals are the only teams still championing the dream of early 2000s bad design.
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    Ooooooh....I didn't know this happened. How sad. How embarrassing. Bill Simmons needs to put on 30 pounds before I can take him seriously.
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    TrueHoop did a great podcast this week about Colin Kaepernick and race in general. They did a deep dive on white privilege, liberalism, support for the troops and more. It was a really good listen. Amin Elhassan, Ethan Sherwood Straus, Pablo and Big Woz were the hosts. Worth looking into. Speaking of Amin, he got into it with pro wrestling today: Kind of lame burns, but also weird in the context of the WWE/ESPN relationship. No one would know who Amin was if he showed on WWE (yet, at least), but maybe that's where this is headed? EDIT: I lifted those from 411mania, but his feed is all wrestling burns. IWC can take a joke never; pretty easy marks for a guy like Amin.
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    Oooh...Peter King made some new enemies today. I already hated him. You don't need to tweet everything. He shouldn't have tweeted that...what a dick.
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    I listened to the first 10 minutes, but got tired of Bill Simmons talking like a MOVER AND A SHAKER. It comes off so phoney, especially when his frame of reference is like 1986 to 1997. Good for him for branching out, but he almost comes across like the Chris Farley "Remember when...." character.
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    Caity Weaver was excellent too. I guess she's with GQ now? I didn't follow her there, but good to know now!
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    They acted improperly through the entire Hogan deal, plus a couple of other outing campaigns. They also provided a valuable service doing reporting and commentary on a variety of issues. They struck a nice balance between snarky and earnest that most other organizations fail at; most go too far on snark as wannabe Daily Shows or they go too far on earnest to be Mother Jones blah blah blah thinkpieces that never go anywhere. Plus they had some genuinely talented writers and likeable staff, like Hamilton Nolan and, recently, Ashley Feinberg. This piece, for example, is really funny!
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    Gawker deserved some repercussions to the Hogan sex tape stuff. They doubled down on some very bad reasoning and their legal defense was horrid. They laughed off a serious threat to their business and are paying the price. I'm glad Deadspin will remain, but it clearly won't be the same. Reporting on the interests and injustice of our new gilded age can still happen. Talking about their penises, vaginas and undisclosed sexuality can't. That's probably OK. Of course, Hogan was the smokescreen for Thiel's bigger beef. But they had their chance to do right by Hogan and they blew it.
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    Igor? GTFO. He was "Juan-Gone." But yes, definitely the preeminent Ranger.
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    So is Gawker media dying out this week or what? Their top nav has been full of "greatest hits" for the past month or so, and this week they've been doing retrospectives on the main sites. It sure feels like it's winding down. I'll be sad when Gawker, Deadspin and Gizmodo are gone. The writers will likely land elsewhere, but the Grantland/Ringer experience has shown us it's never quite the same.
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    My answer for right uniform for the Rangers was Ruben Sierra...until I looked up his Wikipedia entry. He played for half the damn league!
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    When you click on a thread with new posts since your last visit, it goes to the most recent post. Now, when you click on a thread without new posts, it takes you to the very first post. It feels like, until recently, it would take you to the last page. Can it be reverted to taking you to the last page? Sometimes I open tabs in phone or whatever and forget to actually read them. Have other people noticed this experience?
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    Speaking of digital networks, Sling TV just kind of became the perfect cord-cutting solution. Earlier this year, they introduced an option for ESPN or FS1 and NBC Sports. Now they have an option for both. It comes at a price -- $40, which includes things like USA, Disney, CNN, Bravo, AMC, and a bunch more -- but it's what I've been looking for to bridge soccer, basketball and football. You can also add beIN Sports and other ESPN networks for an additional $5, but I think having the big three cable sports networks is good enough for me.
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    Wow.. I'm sorry for the background of that work, but the outcome is really impressive.
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    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:
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    Is anybody reading The Ringer? I got to the site and I'm immediately overwhelmed -- especially on mobile. There's no organization; it's just CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT with no unifying theme other than a general sense of snark. I did read their NBA free agent preview and it was pretty dumb. The comments (!) weren't very supportive either. The Simmons profile of Pat Riley was good, however, with the exception of putting Brad Stevens on the same level as Gregg Popovich -- though I bet that's just Simmons being insufferable for insufferability's sake. The site isn't in my rotation yet, in large part because I don't really get it. Besides being the new Bill Simmons thing, I don't know why it exists. SBNation is generally measured analysis. Deadspin is snark that's sometimes funny, plus the race talk that I love. Bleacher Report works hard to shed its slideshow past. Yahoo Sports has Woj and those terrible autoplay videos with that big guy in bad clothes talking baseball. ESPN is ESPN. What the hell is The Ringer?
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    Plus he took their shoes!
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    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.
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    Affleck has injected so much Botox in his face that his mouth can't move properly and he's slurring his words. This is a bad sports take. No one is going to cry for the Pats who are the best team in sorts since 2000...I mean, "they are the best :censored:ing team in all of :censored:ing sports since 2 :censored:ing 000." Get it together guys.
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