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ESPN has major finance issues. They also canceled the newspaper and breakroom coffee creamer is henceforth a nickel.
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That’s terrible. It was a great site.
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Why am I reading about this here?
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So you could spit out your double latté and angrily post this from your iPad so we could read it.
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What’s a latte? What’s a iPad? What’s anger?
Who am us, anyway?
Just getting us up to speed before the White House press briefing on the matter.
Y’all really want to make an enemy of Charlie Pierce? Okay, have at it.
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Welcome,welcome dear Friends,
To the era of bean counter controlled media.
Stuff like this has only been happening for about 40 years or so.
Talented people doing something worthwhile turned out by people who could not buy a thimble full of talent with all the billions they command.
That’s only been going on since the dawn of recorded history.
(When people with money hired talented people to craft Illuminated books, which told their selected version of history.)
I feel sorry for the people at this site, but it was ESPN.
If they didn’t know what to expect from that bunch of barracudas, they ought to have known better.
This is also why I don’t go near any of the American “big box media” sites for News, or any one of a million things about which I need fast, accurate facts during an average day. I never used Grantland, and I won’t knowing touch (click) anything ESPN if I can help it. The same goes for the Corporate Mouse.
The best way to slap the faces of these bean counters is to take away their money.
So I don’t give them money in stores,or online, or much of anyplace else.
I only have one question:
Which site is next?
Personally, I hope its CNN, but I don’t think America could be that lucky, or exercise that amount of common sense.
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Nice Firesign homage!
a “sports and culture website” is a pretty odd marriage that was sure to end poorly
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What’s a Grantland?
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If they cancelled Christmas I wouldn’t notice.
Not that I liked the site, but you have to remember that ESPN is owned by Disney, and that Mickey Mouse is an evil fascist rat who hates his workers.
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I think the problem with Grantland was that it was a “Sports and Culture” site, and you really can’t cram two diametrically opposed concepts together like that.
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I only rarely looked at that portion of the ESPN website, but I did come away convinced, esp from his occasional airtime on ESPN, that Bill Simmons is a legend in his own mind.
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I would reverse the adjectives.
I expected a much more long-winded article announcing its demise.
I’m a guy who follows sports but, at 68, I’m certainly not the NY kid who could tell you the batting or pitching stats of every player on the Yankee roster. I watch ESPN when it is airing a good college football game. And the first time I ever heard of Grantland was in reading that it has been suspended.