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08-06-2009, 05:07 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
he writes about the celtics as one who lives far away so he can't see them, right?
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He gets the cable or satellite packages to watch their games, and I don't do that.
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and i don't see him as being particularly insightful, he just has a different style of writing (that's enjoyable).
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I beg to differ on the former. He's so opinionated that he's surely wrong quite often by most people's standards, in absolute terms anyway, but there's more wheat than chaff.
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08-06-2009, 05:09 PM
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#1277
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
Estimates were $750 to $1mm. Now that he's quit writing for the mag, and is mostly-podcast? You think it's still that much?
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I just don't see how they could sell enough magazines or web ads to make him worth that much.
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08-06-2009, 05:10 PM
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#1278
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Moderator
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
He gets the cable or satellite packages to watch their games, and I don't do that.
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That's the genetic problem?
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08-06-2009, 05:18 PM
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the poor-man's spuckler
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I just don't see how they could sell enough magazines or web ads to make him worth that much.
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I agree. But they apparently are paying Rick Reilly $3mm+ a year, so--relatively speaking--it seems non-absurd.
Plus BS does some TV work, which I'm sure is part of the deal.
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08-06-2009, 05:22 PM
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Registered User
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
I agree. But they apparently are paying Rick Reilly $3mm+ a year, so--relatively speaking--it seems non-absurd.
Plus BS does some TV work, which I'm sure is part of the deal.
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Good lord. At least Simmons is occasionally entertaining. Reilly is unreadable.
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08-06-2009, 05:27 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
I agree. But they apparently are paying Rick Reilly $3mm+ a year, so--relatively speaking--it seems non-absurd.
Plus BS does some TV work, which I'm sure is part of the deal.
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Paying Rick Reilly anything seems absurd. |
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08-06-2009, 05:29 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
That's the genetic problem?
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The genetic problem is that he has some ability to watch the same game I'm watching and notice and later articulate much more about it.
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08-06-2009, 05:31 PM
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Good lord. At least Simmons is occasionally entertaining. Reilly is unreadable.
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2. I was stunned that ESPN bought him from SI. The good thing was that it meant I could think about reading SI from cover to cover again.
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08-06-2009, 05:44 PM
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the poor-man's spuckler
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
2. I was stunned that ESPN bought him from SI. The good thing was that it meant I could think about reading SI from cover to cover again.
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Time was going to pay $1.5 per for 5 to keep him. ESPN seems to be paying him $2m to write and another $1.4m for TV work.
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08-06-2009, 05:47 PM
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
Time was going to pay $1.5 per for 5 to keep him. ESPN seems to be paying him $2m to write and another $1.4m for TV work.
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Is ESPN the next AIG?
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08-06-2009, 06:04 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Is ESPN the next AIG?
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Frank Deford argued something similar yesterday on NPR.
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08-06-2009, 06:05 PM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I beg to differ on the former. He's so opinionated that he's surely wrong quite often by most people's standards, in absolute terms anyway, but there's more wheat than chaff.
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he's mitch albom a few years before he decided he is more than a sports writer.
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08-06-2009, 06:21 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
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Frank Deford in another person who is unreadable and unlistenable (although unfortunately I caught that piece the other day). |
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08-06-2009, 06:59 PM
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
Time was going to pay $1.5 per for 5 to keep him. ESPN seems to be paying him $2m to write and another $1.4m for TV work.
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I guess ESPN wanted to shore up that 45 and over demo, because he fucking sucks and never has anything to say.
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08-06-2009, 07:01 PM
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Re: How to Ignore the Registry
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Originally Posted by Adder
Frank Deford in another person who is unreadable and unlistenable (although unfortunately I caught that piece the other day).
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Disagree. I like his pieces on Real Sports. In fact, I think the whole Real Sports crew is excellent--except for Gumbel, who I want to smash with Hulk-fist.
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