Used to enjoy Cowherd on ESPN but listening to some of his recent podcasts at FS1 and all he talks about is Lebron

no mike and mike
no mike francesa

2018 gonna be great

lacks grit ^

Do you guys think a show like SportsCenter, but told with the narrative of the spread would work? So instead of showing the highlights of who won, the drama would be in that last second meaningless three that covered.

listened to pardon my take for the first time in a long while when i saw they interviewed jim harbaugh.

man, harbaugh is the real deal. i miss him

SVP has a segment showing this every night on his midnight SC

Oh didn't know that. Do they do every game on the board?

He'll do like 5 games or so across various sports on all sorts of lines (not just final score). Usually does it with one of his producers Steve. Pretty funny and enjoyable.

latest simba/closterman podcast is just embarassing for bill.

"Singles was the first movie that had a soundtrack that was like a big thing"

"it's easier to come back nowadays because you can make threes. But it's also easier to keep a lead because that team can make threes too"

Jesus christ bill do you even The Big Chill?

That's probably not even the first movie that fits that criteria but its obvious enough that it's just a scorching hot take.

edit: jesus it's worse than I thought. Thinking/googling for a couple of minutes yields

Purple Rain
Saturday Night Fever
American Graffiti
The Graduate
Easy Rider
Breakfast Club
Goodfellas

and I'm sure many many many more

I mean ffs Purple Rain sold like 2 million copies in a week and is one of the greatest albums in history.

Simba/Klosterman pods are always an embarrassment because Klosterman is a worthless pseudo intellectual hack with the world's most annoying voice.

That's really funny. I guess it encapsulates the idea that 3s have increased the variance.

Yes, except increased variance only hurts the team ahead, so the second sentence is nonsense

Saturday Night Fever was the most obvious one of those, like everyone in the late 70s had that thing in their collection.

Yeah don't even know wtf Singles is.

What?! You don't know Singles? Tate, have you seen Singles? Oh come on Tate! Typical millennial. There's all these young guys at the Ringer, none of them have seen any movies!

You see more comebacks in the regular season because a good defensive possession is correlated with a good offensive possession because of transition opportunities. In the playoffs getting a defensive rebound doesn't lead to the transition opportunities that it does in the regular season -- which means leads are harder to evaporate.

I actually don't think Bill's second comment is that bad. I think the second part of his statement was supposed to mean but it's also easier to blow a team out. More 3s equals more variance in scoring which results in a lot of blowouts.

Singles had some great tunes but the movie was pretty meh imo, the Seattle grunge band cameos were more interesting than the plot

Simba is of course being typically hyperbolic in his way, but the point about the Singles soundtrack is that it had previously unreleased material from a bunch of those bands that were popping off at the time. 2 new BANGERS from Pearl Jam & Soundgarden/Cornell, new songs from Alice in Chains & Smashing Pumpkins, and also Mudhoney, Screaming Trees. and those Westerberg songs were fresh too?

most soundtracks didn't tend to feature NEW material afaik, but this on the other hand had a bunch of new jams from all these bands during PEAK GRUNGE (mid-1992). and the songs were actually good. contrarily, The Big Chill, for example, was a movie released in 1983 with a bunch of songs from the 60s, weeeeeeeee!!!

in context it felt like he was appeasing Klosterman's terrible take by saying "yeah it also has the effect on games you were saying", because it's not in his nature to tell someone like chuck that his viewpoints are stupid and have no connection to reality.

which is still bad i guess, but it was more klosterman's badness dragging bill down.

Chip Kelly hired by espn as a college football analyst.

He'll be coaching college within a year I'm guessing

Purple Rain was all new stuff. The Graduate had new stuff. Saturday Night Fever had new stuff.

Going through the top 15 soundtracks OAT, the following were released by or before 1992 and had significant new material:

A Star is Born (1976)
Flashdance (1983)
Grease (1978)
Dirty Dancing (1987) 42 million copies worldwide
Purple Rain (1984) 22 million copies
Saturday Night Fever (1977) 40 million copies
The Bodyguard (1992) sold 45 million copies

But hey Singles sold like 2 million copies soooooooo

in summary, Bill:

ya the ~concept album scoring a film has been around for a while

seems like SNF basically made The Bee Gees?

you have to adjust for deflation


anyway, you know what he means

you can still be MAD about it if you want tho

Well, it kept them stayin alive.

Have never heard of Singles