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

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Truman, May 8, 2015.

  1. Biff Bridges

    Biff Bridges The words. You are good with the words man
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    When Bill was explaining the Guess the Lines to the audience and said, "We've been doing it for 18 years and I usually win these things" I wanted to climb through my headphones and punch that cheating cunt in the face. I don't respect Sal for continuing to play into this charade. Expecting me to believe Bill is just that much better than Sal who probably puts in 3x the effort into it is an insult.

    Yes I'm part of the problem for still listening.
     
  2. ~ taylor ~

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    He clearly cheats when he starts losing.
     
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  3. Biff Bridges

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    He doesn't even hide it. "Ya Sal you usually win the first week."
     
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  4. ~ taylor ~

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    Bill and Sal spent last Sunday night trying to figure out which week 1 game people would overreact to. Bill and Sal spent this Sunday overreacting to every game.
     
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  5. steamengine

    steamengine I don’t want to press one for English!
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    Bill completely ignoring his Pats takes after they won was great
     
  6. Gallant Knight

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    Bill has made Sal so much fucking money that I doubt Sal gives a single fuck if bill wins guess the lines
     
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  7. Butthead

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    Maybe Sal is cool with it because they are friends and Guess the Lines is an extremely popular show segment. There is literally nothing at stake other than it being entertaining. It's like Whose Line Is It Anyway: everything's made up and the points don't matter. It's very pro wrestling-like because they both like it.

    Imagine someone like Warren Sharp or Haralabob or anyone like that using an optimized strategy for it. :killme:

    Bill does "cheat" constantly though
     
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  8. Gallant Knight

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    The only potential stakes to bet the lines was 15 years ago when the loser thought they might get slapped by a foot long subway sandwich and then they didn’t even do that
     
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  9. LeonardWashington

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    how is it possible that guess the lines is a popular segment
     
  10. MG2

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    It's funny to me how much more angry the internet is at Bill probably cheating at Guess the Lines than the person he's "competing" against.
     
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  11. ~ taylor ~

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    Sal doesn’t care because there are no stakes. We kinda care because it’s Classic Bill to cheat at something with no stakes.
     
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  12. ~ taylor ~

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    Are we now dealing with a “why do you guys care if Bill cheats” backlash?

    Like anything else, it’s something to talk about.
     
  13. Celemo

    Celemo red hot & rollin’
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    The Sixth Sense rewatchable was pretty good. Got me wanting to rewatch that movie, haven't seen it since it was in the theaters. They posed the question Is the movie still good once you knew the twist?...it's been so long I've forgotten half the movie
     
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  14. LuPoor

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    Yes, it's still extremely good knowing the twist
     
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  15. Fuzzy Zoeller

    Fuzzy Zoeller College football > NFL
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    The 2-time defending Super Bowl champions are the "new" shot caller(??)

     
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  16. bro

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    Bill makes fun of hot take artists and yet he has his own made up power rankings he tweets out
     
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  17. MG2

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    In the same pyramid style that hot take artist Nick Wright uses frequently, no less.
     
  18. I remember the week after it came out some kid at my school spoiled the ending and one of the kids in my class punched him in the face, when the teacher asked what the hell happened she said 'ok you kind of had it coming' and sent them both to the principal's office
     
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  19. ~ taylor ~

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    Outkick?
     
  20. BudKilmer

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    that or TheBlaze :laugh:
     
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  21. joey jo-jo jr shabadoo

    joey jo-jo jr shabadoo you know for me, the action is the juice

    maybe if he wants to branch out to right wing grievance sports content

    because i can’t imagine they have any interest in his straight forward nba coverage
     
  22. Handcuffed

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    flagg coming soon + clark on the women's side

    now's their chance
     
  23. BudKilmer

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    Man Bill really thought he had the next Zach Lowe and it turned out he was a dipshit chud with horrible draft takes :laugh:
     
  24. Fran Tarkenton

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    Oconner is a perfect fit for Nashville
     
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  25. MODEVIL

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    parent corner....Ben is doing his "homework" at a buddies house. Sal giving BS shit for that subtly was good.
     
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  26. ZeroPointZero

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    perhaps he should expand his scouting to more than just Celtics blogs
     
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  27. Sanjuro

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    Surely they get a replacement for Kevin O’J6th on The Mismatch.
     
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  28. BudKilmer

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    would anyone care if Verno disappeared into the Memphis ether? He was always a strange fit in their nba ecosphere


    Feels like Bill gives the nod to J Kyle Mann as he was on his pod more than KOc anyway
     
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  29. bro

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    I think Mahoney is the next NBA guy they’d push to the top. Mann watched a lot of college ball but isn’t as high profile in the ringer as Mahoney
     
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  30. Sanjuro

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    I liked Vernon even though he wasn’t exactly an NBA expert. He has a good media personality to play off most of the other NBA podcasters.
     
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  31. MG2

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    I would assume Mann takes over as the face of the draft stuff they do considering he was already doing a lot of it.
     
  32. Handcuffed

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    amazing insight from our guy Ryen on how statistics can be misleading
     
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  33. Butthead

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    Ryen had an absolute all-timer in his monologue. Apparently most people don't think that exercise is good for your mental health, but they think journaling is.
     
  34. bro

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    Where is Yahoo getting all this money? they brought in Tice, now KOC, and Ariel for UFC.



     
  35. ZeroPointZero

    ZeroPointZero Fired Darvin Ham
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    please put that picture of KOC in a spoiler :gross:
     
  36. MODEVIL

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  37. Butthead

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    Would it have killed him to go to a barber before they took his debut pic? Apparently yes
     
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  38. BudKilmer

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  39. Josey Wales

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    Whoever is doing media or whatever is not doing favors to that lineup of j6 looking rioters and those ass head shots.
     
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  40. Fran Tarkenton

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    Oconnor is like an ugly version of Andrew Luck

    which I guess he thinks his Cybertruck compensates for
     
  41. steamengine

    steamengine I don’t want to press one for English!
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    Was kind of sad to hear him talk about being an empty nester way faster than he anticipated.

    Sal’s kid leaving the football game to join the twitch stream where women rate hot guys on the other hand had me rolling.
     
  42. Xander Crews

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    Walz is the obvious pick here, but BS might get furious when Coach starts talking about terms Bill pretends he understands but absolutely does not
     
  43. hood b. goode

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    Vinnie goodwill on yahoo nba coverage is as cool as oconnor is lame
     
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  44. steamengine

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    Where does one even find yahoo content? Last I checked the homepage was like a geocities site.
     
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  45. Butthead

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    So you're at Michigan, at Pennsylvania, home Wisconsin, at Arizona
     
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  46. Butthead

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    Their fantasy app still had low budget banner ads as of a few years ago
     
  47. bro

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  48. Lyrtch

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    KOC isn't a good writer and doesn't bring any novel insight

    You can't lack both
     
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  49. Handcuffed

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    WHAT UP BECK
     
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