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  1. Sport
    It's the brown helmet. When they went to navy they switched the S to white and left the D in orange. In the brown and orange set the whole logo was orange. There's clearly no white in the logo. The other clue is the word mark. The Blue set used a white outline and an orange drop shadow. The brown set used an orange outline and a brown drop shadow. It's clearly the latter in that photo.
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    I've asked that question of The Ringer before. "Who is this for?". That podcast popped up on my phone and I couldn't delete it fast enough. His Patriots bubble has made him really tone-deaf to the rest of the NFL fans. He's constantly complaining about Belichick NOT picking up an available player or spending two solid years bitching about deflategate. Even when they post something negative about the Patriots it's about how they didn't always have it so good: https://www.theringer.com/2017/8/9/16119282/new-england-patriots-belichick-brady-2000-team Suck a fart.
  3. Sport
    A friend of mine asked me to paint a picture of Lebron for him. Wacom tablet, Photoshop, round fan brush used in various sizes with smoothing and wet edges turned on.
  4. Sport
    "Prestige" sportswriting is done this way ---> Grandiose and/or Overly Ambitious Premise, bonus points if the premise is false or based on a vocal minority, "a lot of people are saying" topic (the Dave Lozo Special). Large black and and white photo in the header, type is left justified center and in an 18 point font so you know you be scrolling. It's laid out like this so you think it looks important. Start with something cloying like "HOPE. It's a four letter word. For Buford Thompson's son Maxwell growing up in the projects of INSERT CITY hope was the only four letter word he didn't hear" or some s*** like that. Every so often pull a quote from the article and blow it up way big and place it a few paragraphs before it shows up in the article. People love this because it's like foreshadowing for the thing you're reading. The other option is you "Memento" the article and jump around from present to the past. Also remember to drop an enormous photo in every few paragraphs so those of us reading at work can't copy/paste the article to an email so it looks like we're working. When you're ready to wrap it up "land the plane" and callback whatever stupid device you used in the opening paragraph. Easy joke for the "prestige" sportswriters: Parody all of the above by following those steps, but making your entire article about something trivial like "Worst Sports Movie Athletes: Where are they Now?". And then when you tweet the link you say something like "J school prepared me for this" or "this is the most important thing I've written in my career". The Athletic poached the two best Blue Jackets writers from the Columbus Dispatch and I'm thinking about subscribing because my other options for coverage of the team are fan blogs written by people without knowledge, writing ability, or access, Or, worse, blogs written by non-fan hacks who somehow have access, but also can't write.
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    He got injured a lot. He also hit his 500th and 600th home runs with the Reds. I remember his time with the team better than most I suspect.
  6. Sport
    It's a way better experience when travel to and fro is made as easy as possible for the majority of people in the metro area. It's such a basic concept and this is the reason any Seattle arena proposal not in the downtown core is a bad idea. I only went to see the TBirds in Renton once and I probably would not have often gone to Tukwila to watch the Seattle NHL Hockey Pucks play and I'm the target demo. NFL teams can get away with playing in the burbs, but almost all of those cases would be better for the team if they were downtown. I love when I go to a Bengals game I almost don't even have to think about travel. I just hop on a bus and it delivers me right there.
  7. Sport
    Fewer terrible Dave Lozo articles, at least.
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    This isn't sports media, but it involves the Ringer so I thought I'd put it here - Tried to listen to The Ringer's Game of Thrones podcast (maybe my first mistake) to hear some recap on season 7 episode 1 and I couldn't make it 10 minutes. It's more of the same reasons I don't like their other podcasts. Two gleeful dorks overly impressed with how nutty it is that they're this gulldarn dorky about a TV show and look how silly it is that they're taking it this seriously aren't we smart smart nerds? WE HAVE A WHOLE PODCAST ABOUT GAME OF THRONES WE ARE SO KOOKY The one woman, Mallory Rubin, has this voice that carries at a frequency that tickles my eardrums in such a way that makes me want to say "please stop yelling" even when she's speaking at a normal volume.
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    I listened to that podcast and it got pretty real. That part about ESPN being slow in the digital space actually felt correct to me. They STILL have problems with video on their website and no real podcasts that I've found worth subscribing to. And they were slow to recognize cord cutting. Everyone was, but that doesn't mean it's not a valid criticism of their management as well.
  10. Sport
    I don't think anyone's comparing either city, but you can go out and get hammered and lose money in a casino the night before a game in Pittsburgh also.
  11. Sport
    Teemue Selanne became so well known for his time with the Ducks that it's almost hard to believe he had some stopovers with their arch rival Sharks and then one with the Avs. and here's a rare photo of him without his Jofa bubble. That time Selanne and Kariya reunited for a season on the Avalanche.
  12. Sport
    I've never clicked on a link to a sports article and hoped a video would automatically play and I've never actually watched one of those autoplay videos. Furthermore, in the rare cases that I actually want to watch the video on espn.com it takes forever to load. I think Fox fired their writers because they have to honor Skip Bayless' albatross of a contract. That will end up being the Bobby Bonilla contract of sports television.
  13. Sport
    This logic makes all the sense in the world and I still don't like matte helmets. I guess I'm just not used to them or my hatred for matte football helmets is so strong that any application of it is upsetting to me.
  14. Sport
    There is already a logo for Quebec City to use. La Flammes
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    Mike & Mike was "The Odd Couple". It worked because they had two points of view on any given sports topic. He's a big football player, and he's a whimpy dork, what a wacky pairing! I liked them when I was still listening to sports talk radio, but that was over a decade ago. Since then they both turned into corporate shills and Greenberg started getting a little Hot Takey once that proved to be a useful way to get heard.
  16. Sport
    Question I've had for a while: Why do entire soccer leagues all use the same number font and why do they put the league's logo in the numbers?
  17. Sport
    I was half joking about this on twitter, but it's just crazy enough to maybe work. So we're going to have 31 teams on the draft floor for the foreseeable future. They used to have 5 rows of 6 tables, but now they'll have an odd number. I propose they still use 5 rows of 6, but the team who finishes with the worst record, regardless of what happens in the lottery, has to sit on the stage. We could call it the "Shame Pedestal" or something. You want to tank on purpose? Well then you're gonna have to sit in the corner with your dunce cap. Again, half serious idea here.
  18. Sport
    :censored: this league. This is why the World Cup had no juice. They don't hold it at regular enough intervals for it to mean anything. You can't just have a tournament whenever you feel like it and expect people to care. In 04 the only reason I watched the World Cup was because I knew it'd be the last best on best hockey we'd see for the next goddamn year. Won't even have that this time around. Scheduling lockouts, knowing a lockout is coming on the horizon is the single most annoying thing about being a hockey fan. "Hey honey, you wanna finally take that honeymoon? The NHL isn't playing in two winters. Maybe instead of spending thousands on season tickets we can go see Europe. Booked."
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    I thought about him for this thread, but came to the conclusion that the closest wrong uniform for him would be the short lived red alternates they wore when GABP first opened. every other uni he wore during his time with the team looks right. He wore the pullover uniforms in 4 all-star games and a World Series, the vested uniforms in his MVP year, the black heavy uniforms the last 6 years of his career which included 3 all star games.
  20. Sport
    It's a smart move on his part from a marketing standpoint too. Giancarlo Stanton is way more recognizable and unique than Mike Stanton. There were already 2 guys to play in the majors named Mike Stanton before the third one got there. I don't blame him for making the change.
  21. Sport
    Britt McHenry got laid off too. She's the sideline reporter that got suspended a couple years ago for berating a tow lot employee on camera. I can't really feel too bad for her.
  22. Sport
    I remember hearing him say that he was never allowed to have anyone guest on the BS Report podcast who worked for another sports media network, which is dumb in the same way that Bill Wirtz not televising home Blackhawks games was dumb. That really limits the amount of people you can talk to about sports. It all funnels to the same place. Podcasting is the little engine that could and has a good future. I don't know why anyone listens to sports talk radio anymore. I accidentally listened to Mo Egger here in Cincinnati the other day. Mo is really good as far as radio sports guys go, but it was like 1 minute of advertising for every one minute of discussions and there's no skip 15 second button for me to mash. Plus, they take calls from listeners which is the fastest way to lose me. Podcasting, though, the listener can curate subscriptions that perfectly align with their interests, the discussions are more in depth, more casual and relaxed, and there's fewer gatekeepers. And I have purchased some meundies so the ads on podcasts work
  23. Sport
    People are gonna want to find reasons for this. There's two - 1. cord cutting and 2. their product is not good enough to make people not cut the chord. The sad irony is that all of the reasons people hate ESPN - Stephen A Smith, contrived debates, over coverage of the NFL and NBA, driving the same stories into the ground over and over - those are all staying. The actual good things are the victims. I've cut the cord and gone back a couple times and currently have a cable provider, but I never watch ESPN because I don't need to. First of all they don't do a good job, they don't cover the two sports I'm most interested in, and the networks that do cover those sports do a way better job than ESPN ever did even when it wasn't a 24/7 NFLNBA channel.
  24. Sport
    This is extensive. They're firing people like Jayson Stark. All the actual journalists are getting canned while Stephen A Smith still has a job and they offered 4 million dollars to Skip Bayless. :censored: ESPN. They're even deader to me than they were before and they were pretty dead to me before.
  25. Sport
    Danny Kanell, the concussion truther and bad take artist, is out.
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