Sports Media Discussion (RIP ESPN) - Page 322 - Sporting Events and Fantasy Sports

Scott foster has been considered as a top three terrible ref in the nba for a few years now right? I feel like bobs been killing that dude for a long time. Bills dad wants credit for letting people know he was bad.

Quote

03-10-2016 , 02:01 AM

#8027

GBP04

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 7,941

Quote:

Originally Posted by 72off

Simba not having his pops hooked up with League Pass is just weird

haha true

Sent from my SM-G900V using 2+2 Forums

Quote

03-10-2016 , 10:50 AM

#8028

TheNoodleMan

Wet Noodle

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 16,566

Quote:

Originally Posted by lloyd45

Foster was circumstantially implicated in the Donaghy scandal, but managed to beat the rap.

Quote:

The records show Donaghy placed 134 calls to referee Scott Foster — more than the 126 calls Donaghy made to his bookie — between October 2006 and April 2007, the period during which he has confessed to either betting on games or passing on game information to gamblers. The majority of the phone calls lasted no more than two minutes and occurred prior to and after games Donaghy officiated and on which he admits wagering.

LINK

Quote

03-11-2016 , 01:41 AM

#8029

shaft88

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 6,569

simmons firing shats at ESPN 28:45 of todays pod.

i wouldnt cry too much about not having windhorst on his pod; he would just recycle the same garbage he says on mike and mike/sportscenter or wherever.

Quote

03-11-2016 , 02:11 PM

#8030

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,224

Funny you say that, I was listening to a LeBatard podcast from a week ago and they had Windy on.

After he left the texters informed Dan that Windy gave the exact same interview as with M&M earlier that day, almost verbatim answers.

Dan was not pleased. Mainly with the producers for booking him on a day where he appeared on M&M two hours before, but also w/ Windy for ngaf about it. Really intellectually lazy.

Quote

03-11-2016 , 02:40 PM

#8031

mullen

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 17,664

Not a huge Windy fan but what is he supposed to do there assuming questions were similar? Answering differently to the same question would be weird.

Quote

03-11-2016 , 02:43 PM

#8032

Dudd

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 54,241

Yeah, Windhorst is pretty much the least interesting man in the world, what do you expect?

Quote

03-11-2016 , 02:46 PM

#8033

MacGuyV

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 22,298

These gasbag blogs who write about the media could no be anymore worthless. Why are they pretending it's news that espn doesn't let their talent on other shows? Francesa talked about this like six years ago.

Quote

03-11-2016 , 06:43 PM

#8034

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,224

Quote:

Originally Posted by mullen

Not a huge Windy fan but what is he supposed to do there assuming questions were similar? Answering differently to the same question would be weird.

Well I posted that Dan was mainly mad at his own producers. If he'd known that Windy had been on M&M he likely would've scrapped the interview altogether.

The main point was that it was basically verbatim so when this post was made

Quote:

Originally Posted by shaft88

simmons firing shats at ESPN 28:45 of todays pod.

i wouldnt cry too much about not having windhorst on his pod; he would just recycle the same garbage he says on mike and mike/sportscenter or wherever.

it's just too apt to not comment on.

Windy also repetitively prefaces answers with "in all my years covering the NBA" like he's John Clayton of hoops or something. In all my years listening to radio I've heard him say it multiple multiple times. You're not fooling anyone Brian.

Quote

03-11-2016 , 07:04 PM

#8035

lloyd45

grinder

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 678

Legitimately thought Bill misspoke when he asked the guys what they'd do if trump offered them a job and then did a Bernie impersonation. But no, no, that was a trump impersonation.

Quote

03-11-2016 , 08:08 PM

#8036

Biesterfield

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 8,042

politics pod with Simmons was great imo

Quote

03-12-2016 , 02:29 AM

#8037

Wheel Gunner

temp-banned

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 922

Quote:

Originally Posted by Biesterfield

politics pod with Simmons was great imo

I enjoyed it. He had a couple of young Obama communication directors who had a few good anecdotes about working with Obama and then Hillary as Secretary of State.

https://soundcloud.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast

(Ep. 75)

Quote

03-14-2016 , 12:28 PM

#8038

mmbt0ne

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 22,077

The Ringer announcing a bunch of new hires today, including NBA-twitter favorite netw3rk

Apparently they're gonna be doing tech coverage as well.

Quote

03-16-2016 , 02:10 PM

#8039

thedinergetsby

veteran

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 3,154

the march madness pft commenter podcast is amazing

Quote

03-17-2016 , 10:20 AM

#8040

EddyB66

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 26,767

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedinergetsby

the march madness pft commenter podcast is amazing

any link to this?

Quote

03-17-2016 , 10:28 AM

#8041

thedinergetsby

veteran

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 3,154

http://www.podcastone.com/pardon-my-take

Quote

03-17-2016 , 12:47 PM

#8042

vinivici9586

Breakfast?

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,621

Mays bailing on SI after only a few months to join the Ringer. almost as if sports journalism is a business.

Quote

03-17-2016 , 05:56 PM

#8043

lloyd45

grinder

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 678

Bills obsession with Tate is so uncomfortable.

Quote

03-17-2016 , 06:08 PM

#8044

uptheirons

adept

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,106

during the (fantastic) pod with Jim Lampley, Simba says non facetiously "wow, you have a great memory, maybe even better than mine!"
GTFOH
Lamps is known for having near photographic memory and is one of the smartest dudes in sports
Simba can't remember basic facts and gets half his details wrong
oh, except for every single detail about every game he saw at the garden when he was four

Quote

03-17-2016 , 06:59 PM

#8045

Conz

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 6,919

The Ringer is a stupid name and I'm already tired of their newsletter

Quote

03-17-2016 , 07:14 PM

#8046

cookies4u

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 467

never heard of Royce Webb before today but i swear every time he speaks my jaw drops at how stupid he sounds (Nate Duncan podcast)

Quote

03-17-2016 , 07:18 PM

#8047

72off

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 68,504

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conz

The Ringer is a stupid name and I'm already tired of their newsletter

names are hard

Quote

03-17-2016 , 07:25 PM

#8048

BobboFitos

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 72,763

Quote:

Originally Posted by cookies4u

never heard of Royce Webb before today but i swear every time he speaks my jaw drops at how stupid he sounds (Nate Duncan podcast)

hes the okc cuckold

Quote

03-17-2016 , 09:36 PM

#8049

Moneyball16

old hand

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,523

I think you're mixing him up with Royce Young, who is the worst and is the ESPN OKC beat writer who fellates everything they do. He writes articles about how Scott Brooks was right about not staggering and then this year when Donovan started staggering he wrote about how smart it was for Donovan to stagger. Hell talk about how good of a pickup Waiters was, and then if Waiters leaves in the summer it will be about how OKC was right about letting Waiters leave.

I dont just blame Young though. It seems like the organization-media relationship in OKC is pretty backwards.. Also across the NBA having organizational puppets as beat writers seems to be pretty common.