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06-09-2011 , 10:23 AM

#651

jonnyd

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Klostermans dvr piece was way good

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06-09-2011 , 02:21 PM

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NhlNut

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Klostermans dvr piece was ridiculously good

And I still tape delay games for various reasons.

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06-09-2011 , 02:24 PM

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areaman

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i find it odd they dont have a comments section on this grantland site.

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06-09-2011 , 02:26 PM

#654

72off

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as seen in the SCF thread:

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06-09-2011 , 02:38 PM

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Bad Beat Bill

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i find it odd they dont have a comments section on this grantland site.

i don't, simmons is pretty notoriously thin-skinned, his espn articles don't even have comment sections

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06-09-2011 , 02:56 PM

#656

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It's prob a good idea for major sports sites to not have comment sections for opinion pieces; the comments are usually equal parts of typos, curse words, and racial slurs.

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06-09-2011 , 03:02 PM

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it's amusing to me how fast they're putting out the content. in a week it's presumably going to be nowhere near this pace and people will get annoyed.

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06-09-2011 , 03:27 PM

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it's amusing to me how fast they're putting out the content. in a week it's presumably going to be nowhere near this pace and people will get annoyed.

They have to start quick though. One piece a week or so from the columnists will be more then enough, I think their will be quite a few podcasts as well eventually.

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06-09-2011 , 03:32 PM

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Yeti

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ya i just think it's a hair too quick. i mean bill has another one coming up later today, 3 in 3 days? heh, but ya they will have a lot of podcasts on the way and presumably more writers coming soon.

i really enjoyed the la noire article. it's also very long.

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06-09-2011 , 04:45 PM

#660

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From the site intro:

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We will eventually have a sports blog and a pop culture blog (launching next month), user comments (later this summer), a podcast network (ditto), a quarterly publication we're doing with McSweeney's (four a year, starting this winter), and who knows what else. Y

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06-09-2011 , 05:00 PM

#661

TheNoodleMan

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Article comments are generally awful. The only reason to allow them is to help build a following. If you are Bill Simmons and already have a following, then why bother with such trash?

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06-09-2011 , 05:02 PM

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Article comments are generally awful. The only reason to allow them is to help build a following. If you are Bill Simmons and already have a following, then why bother with such trash?

Agreed. Just check out the comments for any ESPN article. They're so laughably garbage.

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06-09-2011 , 06:21 PM

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ESPN would occasionally allow comments on Simmons' stuff, and usually the Deadspin commenters would take a field trip and they'd be closed hours later.

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06-09-2011 , 06:54 PM

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deadspin comments are pretty much comparatively elite

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06-09-2011 , 07:43 PM

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On Deadspin yes, when they're trolling the dicks out of ESPN, not so much. (I mean funny, but it was a total cluster****)

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06-10-2011 , 10:37 AM

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Reading the story about The National right now. It's pretty good.

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06-10-2011 , 10:58 AM

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Who cares about comments? Does anyone actually ever read those abortions? They never actually add anything to the discussion on any mainstream site.

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06-10-2011 , 11:02 AM

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i'm not fully getting what grantland is exactly

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06-10-2011 , 11:37 AM

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i'm not fully getting what grantland is exactly

a website where bill simmons and his cronies can wax each others *****.

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06-10-2011 , 11:43 AM

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I was in 5th or 6th grade when the National came out, I was probably among their most loyal customers. They had full league stats for MLB every day, which in the pre-internet days was amazing.

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06-10-2011 , 11:54 AM

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Reading the story about The National right now. It's pretty good.

I figured this was a Chuck Klosterman article about music.

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06-10-2011 , 12:49 PM

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a website where bill simmons and his cronies can wax each others *****.

it does seem pretty like that and egotistical

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06-10-2011 , 01:21 PM

#673

Dids

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Who cares about comments? Does anyone actually ever read those abortions? They never actually add anything to the discussion on any mainstream site.

Nobody- it's just slightly amusing that they think allowing them in Simmonsland will be anything other than a circus.

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06-10-2011 , 02:27 PM

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I figured this was a Chuck Klosterman article about music.

Thankfully no. Hopefully Simmons/CK don't see this and get any bright ideas.

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06-10-2011 , 02:27 PM

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I generally like Simmons (although he was much better 6-8 years ago), but this line in his Bruins column yesterday made little sense:

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In baseball, you can't throw at anyone even after they've just taken 20 seconds to complete a home run trot.

Well Bill, it's 360 feet, or 120 yards, to complete a trip around the bases. Doing that in 20 seconds is by no means dogging it.

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