The Ringer Thread: Complain about everything, yet still consume content

Bill and Gladwell analyze the 2016 presidential election

 

"A truly sad day in America, plus the 2005 Redraftables" with Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo

 

I made it until Kanell said he wasn't interested in what Cory Booker had to say about paying players because Booker didn't play enough at Stanford and instantly went back to my world war 1 podcast

 

good to hear Tjarks on BS pod today

 

sucks we aren't getting an emergency pod because they are trying to pimp that awful Spotify Greenroom thing

 

Mcvey is a natural on the mic. He may be a couple of decades away from ending his coaching career but he’ll have a commentating job waiting on him when h does.

 

100%... he's got a similar delivery/energy to Gruden but is probably more likable in addition to having a younger/more modern take on the game

 

Wosny seems like a good guy but I have to draw the line at someone who thinks Bill's jokes are great

 

Ringer nba pod with j Kyle mann repeatedly saying “justice for” in the context of sports was extraordinarily weird.

 

he definitely has some odd turns of phrase

 

can't wait to hear more Durant ass kissing from Simmons when he would've been erect so long he had to visit Cedars Sinai if LeBron airballed the shot in that moment

or blew a 3-2 series lead to an inferior team

 

I mean Durant played amazing in that game.

and lebozo the more overrated player in any sort ever

 

I'm gonna guess you've been drinking tonight

 

I’m so up for a hate listen of Bill and Gladwell chewing the fat over several things they read 14 months ago, but don’t remember. But will extrapolate preconceived notions about

 

Lebozo

 

sounds like a young Brazilian soccer star

 

pod 2, talking about Kyrie. Ryen says he thinks Kyrie is looking too slight these days. Bill, jokingly, says "do you think my son could take him in a wrestling match?"

Bill, not joking, "my son is so jacked right now."

 

Smart/Thompson for Ben Simmons was a great one.

 

Laughed pretty hard when Ryen asked him if Whit Grosbeck was on the text thread

 

Who is that?

 

Bill moving Durant up to #10 all-time now passing Moses, Shaq and Hakeem made me raise my eyebrows. Durant is awesome but I think he needed to win the title this year in order to make that leap just yet:

 

#ringz

 

Ryen: if things bounce the right way and Philly wins a championship does that mean the process worked? Bc it hasn’t looked good for four years.

uh ya. Ya.

 

If you reach your goal does that mean the process worked

 

Not that I’d expect any next level analysis from bill or Ryen but okc is ostensibly doing the process now.

 

Their hatred of the process is a little weird considering their love for "organically grown" teams or whatever. So yeah, Philly sucked on purpose and got a bunch of picks. Is that so much worse than the Suns sucking on accident and getting a bunch of picks?

 

Do we really need another Len Bias piece?

 

Haven’t listened to one second of the Len Bias pods, similar to Cam last year

 

What's the Cam thing? They had Spencer Haywood talking about doing tons of cocaine last week so that was somewhat entertaining

Apparently the reason Magic played center in those finals was because Haywood was too fucked up

 

Tyler Tynes did a whole series on Cam

 

I kind of like these biography podcasts

The Giannis one from Woj is great

 

Do you think his son Ben could take him in a ladders match?

 

he’s just gonna keep moving him up the list slowly but surely so eventually he can have him above LeBron. That’s where the KD suck off fest comes from.

 

Yeah that was weird

Bill: "Is there a clear best player from the past 5 years? I don't think there is"

Ryen: "Lebron"

Bill: *asserts it's Durant 20 times and then moves on to the next topic*

 

What in the blue fuck is this hot take stock price thing

 

I could not follow it at all

 

Watched a little of the draft lotto live stream hoping to see Bill meltdown if Cavs won the lotto again

 

Yeah 2 minutes in and I’m lost.

 

Bill thinks 5 and 8 for Simmons and Maxey is fair? What the fuck

 

I love Kevin Clark

 

Celemo Boyz N The Hood Rewatch is really good.

 

I didn’t follow bill at grantland. Was he always an idiot and people just matured enough to realize it, or is his basketball analysis declining like an athletes physical ability?

 

I don’t think he watches everyone like he used too before he was a multi millionaire and father to teenagers.