Someone on my Twitter feed retweeted something from Rembert and I nearly puked. I thought I was freed from him.

David Shoemaker, Cousin Sal, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, Shea Serrano are all Ringer talents that I enjoy.

I like Cousin Sal. He's great. But along with Mallory Rubin, Chris Ryan and Shea Serrano are easily the most insufferable people on there and in sports media in general

I really only consume Ryan with Fennessey and Andy Greenwald and I think their TV/movie stuff is much better than anything else I get, much closer to Grantland content than anything else on the Ringer imo. Fennessey's movie stuff is quite good imo.

I guess that's not entirely fair since this is a sports media thread. I can see how Serrano would be polarizing. I do not care for Rubin and netw3rk but I can see they likely have an audience that the site doesn't otherwise capture.

Shoemaker is still the GOAT wrestling journalist.

Every time someone links a Shea Serrano piece itt I get secondhand embarrassment. No idea how anyone can enjoy his shtick

how could you not be into his "Fact Checking the Red Pill or Blue Pill Monologue from the Matrix"???

https://www.theringer.com/movies/201...pill-monologue

I still can't believe they let the public see that embarrassment.

Oh it's that guy? Lol. He also just made like a kajillion dollars on his book. Oh man.

Wouldn’t ya know it people have different preferences on the content that they consume.

still not as bad as "Fact Checking the Glen Gary Monologue"

Oh wow

Need to hook these guys up with Jose canseco

The "Belluminati" commercials are so obviously done by a marketer that if there was an actual Illuminati, this would be terrible evidence and I question your intelligence for thinking this is evidence for the Illuminati existing.

That article is unbelievable. I mean:

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what is truly unbelievable is that this is like the fourth such article the Ringer has published. HOW

the only editor is Simmons, who probably only turns up like once per week max?

WTF is going on at Duke??

Think I have to agree. Not familiar with Rubin but Serrano is horrendous. The thing is I can at least understand the brain dead idiots that Serrano caters too and why they like him, and he does put in a lot of work/volume.

Chris Ryan legit has no talent and is a dumbass chuckle**** moron. No idea how he’s even alive let alone employed. The guy is a complete hack.

I have no idea how Serrano caters to anyone. I've been told his basketball stuff is ok but I don't really follow the sport, but the pop culture stuff that's been linked in here is ****ing horrific. isn't he also the 'is Ryan Reynolds actually Ryan Gosling' guy?

I didn't like any of the Matrix movies so I never had reason to read that. Agreed it is not good.

I really liked him on a few of the Rewatchables podcasts. I think Point Break was the first one where I noticed I was liking him.

FWIW The Rap Yearbook Serrano wrote is pretty great. One of the best reviewed books I've seen on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Rap-Year-Book.../dp/1419718185

I like Alison Herman and Claire McNear as well.

The Simmons article is so brutal though. So many Pats fans can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea of Kraft meddling since he's ostensibly never meddled before. Brady is on a completely different level than guys like Milloy, Welker and Willfork. He's legitimately in the conversation for greatest athlete in the history of pro sports and Kraft probably likes him more than his own son.

Kraft is 76 now. His wife is dead and he'll be lucky if he has another five years left. He's gotten more out of the Patriots than he ever imagined getting out of them when he bought the team. You think he gives a **** about how competitive they are in the AFC East 4 years from now? He wants a few more good runs and for Brady to give him a glowing eulogy at his funeral.

The Drew Magary article is terrible as well though. Basically, he's bitter because Bill has gotten a bunch of lucrative opportunities and other writers haven't. For all his faults, Bill has been pretty great when it comes to giving women and PoC opportunities in the world of sports media. Kind of surprising it hasn't bought him more cred from lefty sites like Deadspin.

Damn. That's savage but it's true.

Life is like Pro Wrestling - we all go out on our back.

Doesn't matter how much money you have, you still gotta wake up in the morning at look at yourself in the mirror just like a peasant does, and one day you're gonna die too.

Never thought of it that way but it makes sense, Kraft care more about the feels of being around Brady than he does about the equity of the team 6 years from now.