sabremike 3,241 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Jonah Keri just posted that he is going to start with MLB Network later this month Up, Up, and Away is one of the best sports books I've ever read so this is a fantastic hire. Link to post Share on other sites
odessasteps 14,183 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 SI.com now has a wrestling column. Do not recognize the author Link to post Share on other sites
Ryan 6,096 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 A new low in silly journalism? The fact they made a story out of Urlacher getting a hair transplant like anyone actually gives a shit is hilarious enough. As someone losing their hair, I don't really give a shit about it, but this is just plain goofy that anyone would care this much about what someone does to combat it. Hair-raising: How LeBron, Kobe, others would look with lots on top Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyMax46 205 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Joe has an article about Dana White attempting to blast Ariel Helwani up at Awful Announcinng. My first reaction was "Well, yeah. No shit. This is nothing new." And then I realized that there is a very good possibility that 99% of the UFC fans out there don't actually know that Dana is a psychopath. For all people like us follow MMA, we still are in a very small group of people that follow the ins and outs of a business like this. It makes me wonder if the UFC was more popular or if the UFC was covered to the same length something like the NFL does if Dana would have lasted this long as UFC president. Link to post Share on other sites
supremebve 5,876 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Joe has an article about Dana White attempting to blast Ariel Helwani up at Awful Announcinng. My first reaction was "Well, yeah. No shit. This is nothing new." And then I realized that there is a very good possibility that 99% of the UFC fans out there don't actually know that Dana is a psychopath. For all people like us follow MMA, we still are in a very small group of people that follow the ins and outs of a business like this. It makes me wonder if the UFC was more popular or if the UFC was covered to the same length something like the NFL does if Dana would have lasted this long as UFC president. If you call yourself a UFC fan, and down know that Dana White is a sociopath(he isn't crazy, he has issues with societal rules), you haven't been paying any attention. Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Lucia 355 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 First off - thanks for reading. I didn't expect this post to go over the way it has today (top non-pinned story on Reddit MMA for something I saw on a whim?), but here we are. Anyone with more than a cursory knowledge of MMA knows that Dana is a shithead on social media, but the only site that's ever really covered it is Deadspin, who has an axe to grind with the UFC for whatever reason. Helwani pushes the company line pretty well for the UFC, and it's not as if he was reporting something critical here - 197 in Brazil was fucked because of their economic crash, would be moved to the US, and would have a couple of big fights on it. In the grand scheme of things, that's small potatoes. If Dana has such an issue with it, bitch at him in private - there's no gain from doing it in public on Twitter aside from making your legions of mouth breather followers happy. Then, when the report ends up being true a week later, you not only look like a petty shithead, but also someone that doesn't even know what the fuck his own company is doing. Shit, I just thought of it. Dana White is Jim Irsay, except the vast majority of NFL fans and media know Irsay is completely insane. Link to post Share on other sites
The Nature Boy 1,845 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I listened to Jim Rome today. God that was terrible. Link to post Share on other sites
Kuetsar 1,854 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I listened to Jim Rome today. God that was terrible. Well that's what you get. . . . 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Ryan 6,096 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Anything in particular or just the simple fact that he's Jim Rome. Link to post Share on other sites
The Nature Boy 1,845 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Anything in particular or just the simple fact that he's Jim Rome. Mostly the latter. I also hate How He Talks Like This Link to post Share on other sites
odessasteps 14,183 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Sunday night baseball booth is now Shulman, Aaron Boone, Jessica Mendoza. Schill being Schill moved to Mon. Krik back to BBTN. Link to post Share on other sites
RIPPA 34,091 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I have no problems with any of this except Schilling still being on the air. But that has to do with my rationale hatred of him Link to post Share on other sites
RIPPA 34,091 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Oh good lord - Chris Mortenson has Stage IV throat cancer Link to post Share on other sites
odessasteps 14,183 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I didnt realize (or remember) Mort was a baseball writer until he asked to come off the road when his first kid was born and he switched at the AJC from braves to falcons beat. Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Lucia 355 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Cue the shitheads talking about "karma" Link to post Share on other sites
Dolfan in NYC 17,339 Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 Cue the shitheads talking about "karma" May they get cancer for even suggesting it. Jesus. Is he a smoker? Link to post Share on other sites
BillThompson 70 Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Cue the shitheads talking about "karma" May they get cancer for even suggesting it. Jesus. Is he a smoker? Not sure, but these days there are so many people who get throat, mouth, lung cancer simply through second hand exposure. Link to post Share on other sites
Vincey Greene 746 Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Cue the shitheads talking about "karma" For what, being annoying? Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Fowler 15,430 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Presumably for being the NFL's puppet/parrot in the Ballghazi mess. But he's far from the only person guilty in that. Link to post Share on other sites
SirFozzie 496 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 yeah, I posted on the espn facebook feed "I may disagree with him on DeflateGate, but Screw Cancer" (especially because my mom passing away last month for it) My computer had me looking for the mute button because there was 450 likes of that comment. Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyMax46 205 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Joe is doing a series on AA where fans rank the NBA announce teams by division. Similar to the MLB voting poll which I felt was 100% accurate. Which I love because I'm an announcing team nerd and have my own depth chart for most sports. This is also the point where I mention most Warriors fans actually don't like the Warriors announcers. Because I feel this might come up. Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Lucia 355 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Thanks. I don't know much of anything about the NBA and it's local crews, so I'm insanely interested to see how these results shake out. Final tally will be revealed next week sometime...really have no idea what to expect. My favorite part about the MLB polling I did two years ago was all the people rolling in to say "so and so isn't #1? INVALID". Motherfucker, we had as many as 3,000 votes in some of these polls, don't give me talk about invalid results because your hometown crew was seventh instead of first. Anyway, we're doing baseball again in May or June, hockey in November or December, and NFL national in probably next January. I'm tickled about the shitload of work headed my way. Link to post Share on other sites
Dolfan in NYC 17,339 Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 Mike Francesca woke up long enough to say he is ending his show at the end of 2017. I am not saying I’m not gonna work again. I’m not saying I’m not gonna do anything ever again. What I’m saying is, that part of my life is ending. At the end of ‘17, that is ending. I agreed to stay through the end of ‘17. We talked about me leaving earlier. We discussed it. They didn’t really want it. They didn’t really give me a chance to get out. They never offered me a reasonable way out. So, ‘17 it is. At the end of ‘17, there will be no more FAN. That I promise. I like that he's even being a douche about retirement. Link to post Share on other sites
RIPPA 34,091 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 If he really wanted to leave earlier he just needs to call some folks nappy headed hoes Link to post Share on other sites
Ryan 6,096 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 I think he needs to go to a salon and ask for some corn rows and see what the office reaction is. Link to post Share on other sites
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