He even calls it a “documentary” lol
It’s a documentary like Night at the Museum with Ben Stiller is a documentary. Like yes maybe it references real people or real places but it is MAKE BELIEVE
Please watch the trailer. Any adult who would watch this credulously is mentally handicapped
Keep your eye off the ball NFL edition is good
Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0: How to Watch Football by Knowing Where to Look https://www.amazon.com/dp/1629371696/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i.vWAbRA5EMJN
Also the art of smart football
The Art of Smart Football https://www.amazon.com/dp/069244825X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qawWAb8X0RP9W
Saw it available for preorder on Amazon this morning. Figuring the subject matter, this should be pretty good.
The Nineties: A Book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735217955/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_TR1MMJ6HRTS0KSW6RCHF
Download the Google podcast app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.podcasts I used to get mad about them getting added to music then found this. They're on there with no delay
Slack is a website where you can have all your employees on there to message (IM style) each other. It can have separate "pages" or "feeds" like "Finance Dept Slack" or "Accounting Dept. Slack".
Not sure about your 2nd question
Some basic website metrics can be found at: https://www.similarweb.com/website/theringer.com
Shows they peaked at 10 million visits and are down to 8 million or so. To be expected as you get a big jump when you launch and then it drops a bit, especially in dead sports months. Though supposedly the ringer isn't just a sports site right? They also have "tech" articles and other stuff. I put tech in quotes because their content under that vertical is possibly the worst they produce.
Interestingly the average visit time of 3 minutes is a bit telling. That's enough to either skim the article headers to try and find something the read (and fail) or actually read all of one of their articles that has an average read time of 3 minutes.
Alexa has slightly different numbers: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/theringer.com
Average page views of 3.5 per visit and duration spent a little higher at 4:27.
I am not a paying Alexa user so can't give you the more detailed stats.
Interesting that for a global media endeavor almost all their readers are male (and almost all browsing from work)
Haha not really. I have Prime and what not/use the service all the time. This dude was just hating on someone (Tate) who was trying to make it work out for themselves in life and I used it as a reference because I'm sure working in the warehouse is one of the easier jobs to get and could be considered as "playing it safe." I know it's an easy job to get in the city I live in (a bigger one in the PNW). Nothing against it, I just don't really wish their warehouse job on anyone.
I'll just link this one story but there are plenty of reports and even whole books about their business practices involving their warehouses:
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-describe-peak-2019-2
https://www.amazon.com/Clock-Low-Wage-Drives-America-Insane/dp/0316509000
This Lowe Post episode at roughly 35:50. Nothing too juicy, but he’s brought up as a potential 2017-18 All-Star and Simmons basically says “No. No. No. Hey Kemba, do you want to be an All-Star? Win some games.”
I think it's a good idea. My wife likes this podcast (and hates pretty much everything else I listen to.) There are so many lame YouTube film breakdowns of the standard film bro movies (Inception, Fight Club, etc...) You know, those things where some dude plays clips from the movie and does a voice over that's like, "Today I'm going to show you how Quinton Tarantino uses accents to demonstrate the relationship between character and setting. Number one..." They can cover other ground on this podcast.
Reverse image searching that logo it looks like a graphic designer named Fraser Davidson created in 2012. It's posted on a website called Dribbble here.
I suppose it's possible that HBO or bill licensed that image from Davidson. Anyone wanna @ him on twitter and find out?
Since we got off on the wrong foot and bc u seem to have genuine intellectual curiosity, Ima throw a book rec at u.... Bro read "White Guilt" by Shelby Steele. Straight up knocked me on my ass back in college. He predicted everything that went down last summer all the way back in fuckin 2006. And he explains WHY these blm folks pull the shit they do (like their verifiable lies about Ferguson). And if u dig that, read anything and everything by Thomas Sowell. I've pounded the motherfuck outta like 8 of his books in the last few months. You'll be truly WOKE afterwards and never look at the racial question specifically, and modern liberalism in general, the same way again. Happy reading my dude 💪💪
Here's the link to the Steele book: https://www.amazon.com/White-Guilt-Together-Destroyed-Promise/dp/0060578637/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=white+guilt+shelby+steele&qid=1622141842&sprefix=white+guilt+&sr=8-1
What are you talking about. He said he bought the books of interviews. He even said "you can buy "the directors" [the one I linked to], "the actors", etc.
There is a book called Scorecasting that came to the conclusion that the main reason for home field advantage (in all sports) is due to biased officiating mainly from the impact that fans have on their ability to make calls. The book is about 10 years old, so I don't know if their analysis holds up.
I'd be curious if anybody has used COVID games (with no or minimal fans) to re-evaluate the data.
In his interview with Heidi Gardner, Bill mentioned quitting his bartending job to write full-time.
I think that the post-grad-school / pre-ESPN phase of Bill’s life is super interesting. I’ve always wanted him to write a memoir of this era, a la fellow sportswriter Steve Rushin.
I think that the odds of that happening are close to zero. Bill and personal reflection rarely go hand in hand.
the book is spectacular. it's the 'quasi-southern' version of "Hoop Dreams".
if you liked 'FNL', you would also likely enjoy "Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an Amer City" (2021), about a powerhouse program in a very dangerous NOLA neighborhood. The 30-something coach is a fascinating figure. He devotes his whole life to helping others have a chance at a better life while completely ignoring his mental health, relationships, obesity, etc.
If you enjoy the podcast and basketball, I would definitely check out his basketball book. Even though it is ten years old, it is still a great read. You can get a used copy for like $5.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Basketball-NBA-According-Sports/dp/0345520106
Ice Kings. A documentary about a prep school that dominated Rhode Island high school hockey to the tune of 26 straight state titles from 1978-2003. Some NHL guys passed through the system too.
On my summer reading list is Chris Herring's "Blood in the Garden" . https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Garden-Flagrant-History-Knicks/dp/1982132116
My buddy already read it, and he told me it is awesome!
Thomas Gilbert writes about a lot of these notions, some of which veer into Abner Doubleday territory - https://www.amazon.com/How-Baseball-Happened-Outrageous-Revealed/dp/1567926770. Baseball was growing throughout the 1850s. Although some Midwesterners were exposed to the sport during the war, there was little uptake by Southerners. Teams commonly paid at least some players under the table before the NAABP made teams declare that they were professional or amateur in 1869. A dozen teams included the Red Stockings designated themselves as professional.
He's definitely not as successful as Bill, but check out alexa - outkick has grown pretty substantially over the past year (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/outkickthecoverage.com). Pods and radio show doing well too.
Just like people don't take Clay at face value, I wouldn't take barstool at face value here either...Portnoy is pissed because Clay "stole his shtick," apparently. Dave claims Clay wants to sell Outkick to him, Clay says no way. No way to know, but given Clay's ego, do you really think he would sell to Barstool? According to Clay he reached out to Barstool for guidance on selling ads on his site, not to actually sell the site.
I have followed the recent LeBron takes. With what do you disagree with him on?
Site does seem to have spiked of late: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/theringer.com
Even still, looks like it just has reached its September 2016 peak. Will be interesting to see what the dropoff is, if there is any, once NBA playoffs are done.
If I were Bill I would start cranking out some mailbags for the summer lull.
Looks like they've bounced up slightly after tailing off through the Christmas/New Year period.
I'd guess this really interesting NBA season has helped generate a bit of traffic.
App requires you to turn on location services/GPS on your phone which I believe a VPN can't get around (which I believe spoofs location based on ip). If you try to do it in desktop they make you download some app which I think essentially does the same thing. But they also block VPN ip addresses for good measure (I have Private Internet Access and it's blocked, not sure how they deep they go with it).
I have googled this before and it seems nearly impossible to get around their tracking. Not like using mlb.tv in your team's market lol.
I just read The Man Who Killed Kennedy:The Case Against LBJ and it's a pretty decent book. Had no idea LBJ was such a drinking, smoking, power-hungry poon hound.
Yea, not really a feel good sports movie though. They were just dominant and did it despite a segregated society. More of a drama or civil rights type movie. ngl, a bittersweet sort of tragedy ending of them getting shafted on their parade after winning the title would make for a helluva an ending.
Just don't think your typical sports movie fan would generally like a movie like that. We like "obstacle, set-back, hardwork, then triumph" in our movies. Movies like Raging Bull are good movies but nobody really likes watching them.
A bit off topic, but if you like the civil rights/sports intersection I have a book recommendation for you. About Indiana HS basketball too, but a fair amount of the civil rights stuff is interspersed. About the first black basketball player in the Big Ten
>I wasn’t referring to proprietary metrics based on one listening platform vs. another
Yet the comment you replied to was specifically about proprietary metrics.
>Spotify can either be looked at as a publisher, as in they host/produce the content, or just a content provider meaning they’re taking an RSS feed that’s hosted somewhere else and just are facilitating the delivery of the file.
There is absolutely no reason to pigeonhole them into that dichotomy, especially as it relates to podcast metrics.
> so it’s not like they can pivot away from industry standards without risking the effort of looking fraudulent.
Yeah that is not at all a concern when they own The Ringer. Any metrics they provide to The Ringer are just helping to develop their in-house product. They clearly aren't pivoting from industry standards, how is providing proprietary metrics mutually exclusive with also giving metrics that adhere to industry standards? You know that Apple already does that right? I think that Apple is public 🤷♂️
You said you work in the streaming industry but I don't think you understand the technical side of things whatsoever. You're only looking at the advertising side of things for some reason.
I watched it for the first time a few years ago and I read Sepinwall's book at the same pace (the book goes episode by episode, and then has a season wrap up with an interview with Chase). I highly recommend the book as a companion piece. Also, as a bonus Chase accidentally gives away a closely guarded purposefully unresolved plot secret without realizing it.
https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Sessions-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/1419734946
Having written a book about sports gambling myself , I know about the issues in the article very well. The first big problem is the gigantic conflicts of interest where either the sportsbooks themselves or people with loss-share affiliate deals give gambling "advice". You can probably guess how much incentive they have to actually help the consumers win. And then there are the touts/pick sellers, who worm their way in because they sound authoritative.
The second, though, is just that a lot of it is simply plopping a gambling fig leaf over run of the mill sports commentary, IE "I feel like the Saints will cover against the Jaguars because Lawrence is still new".
The problem (and this was an issue when writing the novel as well) is that realistic sports gambling discussion is just not very interesting for most people. It's just numbers a lot of people wouldn't understand, and that's before getting to how a ton of "pro bettors" are basically just de facto coupon-clippers and/or manipulators.
There’s literature on this. A boys like 14 year old soccer team thrashed the women’s National team Andy Roddick beat me with a frying pan
They fudged Cuomo from incompetent boob to "Man so smart he can credibly write a book about his awesome corona leadership."
If they wanted to they could have pretended Trump was a genius and people would have thought that. His boobery is only like 75% as obvious as Cuomo's