should probably work on getting some hobbies outside of work if the suns play-in prospects are keeping you up at night
Saw this post hours and hours ago and thought…that’s weirdly pedantic. Goes to spotify: ah yes, a new Rewatchables podcast!
put that shit on last night, groaned when he said he was going to do the top 15 Celtics pyramid, shut it off after he said "Bill Russell". Not an indictment towards Russell, just didn't want to listen to more Celtics content
Next rewatchable will certainly be the French connection. It is evidently an “Oscar winner” and given Gene’s passing, seems obvious.
Ryen has to do be doing it as a bit at this point. Bill asks what he's been doing and he says "reading history"
I don’t really have any interest in watching that. They should do Enemy of the State, which is an actual rewatchable.
enemy of the state is the obvious choice but rewatchable gotten really loose with actually being that
Ya my bad thinking French connection isn’t a rewatchable just because it is older and got acclaim is insane. also they literally already did that movie. They love Tony Scott.
oh its definitely one I just think enemy of the state was a more obvious one, which since they did it already is true
This is like a perfect Rewatchable, especially with Van Owen Wilson as a badass is so stupid but I've seen this movie like two dozen times
Adnan calling out Ryen for having no numbers saved as contact was most enjoyable aspect. RSLO not on the spectrum but likes to memorize the numbers and/or figure out who is texting by the context.
doesn't he always sound like that? it's why i could only listen to like 10 minutes of the pod with Scott Hanson (redzone dude) from however long ago. the way he talks during the broadcast is actually how he talks all the time
This is a terrible take. Just by the sheer number of people who get their takes amplified, this era wins. In the prior decades, you could just not read the newspaper or watch the sports segment of the news.
BS and RSLO spending the first ten mins of the pod discussing facial hair, going grey, balding, etc. good stuff
This feels like a "both sides are right" kind of thing. There's no question that the legitimate media today is more pro-player (in every sport) than it has ever been. I'm not sure that's even deniable. But it's also harder to escape the criticism when it comes, and there are more non-legitimate media voices with platforms. If you want to be aggrieved about something someone says, you'll always be able to find it now. LeBron is also hard to put with other current players on this stuff for a ton of different reasons, including that he started in a different era of it than everyone else and also that the combination of his greatness and his PR group created a scenario where he was the only NBA player people could talk about for a decade from the start of his Miami run through his title in LA. And LeBron absolutely benefitted from that far more than he was damaged by it.
every sports personality is national now thanks to social media, whereas the curmudgeon beat writer that called out players or had pithy nicknames for coaches and players he didn't like were largely relegated to whatever the local paper was 20+ years ago. The TJ Simers and Dan Shaughnessy types and what not. If you didn't watch the Sports Reporters on Sunday mornings (like all the cool kids did, naturally) you'd never even know about Bob Ryan, Mitch Albom, etc Basketball is probably in the most unique position from the standpoint of player narratives/media because it combines the entirety of NBA Twitter, player podcasts, and traditional media in a way that other sports just can't match. I could name at least half a dozen NBA podcasts (that I don't even listen to) with current and former players because of the clips I come across on social before I could even name a single NFL one of the same kind Baseball is somewhat more pro-player these days because the rise of analytics really took the wind out of the "_____ is a choker!" or "How can ____ be MVP when his team is .500??" arguments that you can build segments around on TV or radio. Not to mention the sport is so regional now that the audience as a whole largely has no strong feelings on players from outside their own market.
Basketball is harder than baseball in terms of pro-player media stuff because one player is so much more valuable in basketball. The only pro sports equivalent would be if NFL QBs shuffled around every year instead of it being one major guy every 2-3 years. But even then, I think coverage of guys leaving is far more reasonable than it used to be. There's just a lot of it from all the different possible outlets. The notion that it's harder for players now than before is more a generation of kids not being able to stay away from their phones and their mentions now being in these spots than anything that is actually said about them, IMO. 99 percent of the stuff out there is nonsense that could very easily be dismissed as nothing but no one can stop themselves from seeing it and getting mad because they can't put the phone down.