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

Hell yes we got a “Jaylen just means so much to the city off the court” from the guy that hasn’t lived in said city in 2 decades

 

That whole pod made me want to throw up.

 

I ignored your warning and started listening, it’s hilarious how little interest Mannix has in Bills Boston copium for next year, even if the pod itself is ridiculous and annoying

 

He does that, but he's also spouting things like "Hauser has a robust market" and "Houston doesn't have the pieces to make a Jaylen Brown trade" to feed Bill's stupidity.

 

Isn’t Mannix the one who made that post asking who people would rather start a franchise with, Brad Stevens (while still coaching) or any NBA player?

 

Yes and he was loudly slurping the “genius” of Brad Stevens in this pod too

 

Bill desperately wanted LeBron to have a rivalry with KD. Partly because he’s a basketball sicko and partly so he could point out that Jordan never had a rival.

 

its mildly shocking simmons hasnt hired him given how big of a boston homer he is

I think he was a janitor or towel boy for the celtics

 

All the time stamps on the new Simmons pod are 0:00, great work team

 

What time does his running draft diary drop tomorrow morning?

 

That now makes 10 episodes since their last movie made this century.

 

I haven’t pressed play, but I can unequivocally say that I’m Team Sport Guy all the way, no matter what the beef is.

 

We ride at dawn to defend the honor of our stupid homer podfather

 

lol all that over a dumb raptors take

 

Team Perk

 

Smdh

 

booooo this man.

 

Perk criticisms are incredibly racially coded

 

No surprise here

 

I would love to see this explanation from the pnw Republican

 

lol what is happening

 

Calm down, buddy. you’ll be ok.

 

Oh man are we GONNA DO THIS THING

 

thread is like a chainsaw in a hot tub at the moment!

 

Everyone else's is racially coded, but my animus for him is because he was a very bad player for my favorite team. My hatred is pure

 

I don’t know anything about Perkins.

 

I didn't know Perkins was black because I don't see color.

 

1. Worst starter on a finals team in the last 20 years
2. Has a side hustle running a predatory payday loan company for NIL deals
3. Constantly beefing on Twitter with other media members and Kevin Durant
4. In his current role as an analyst, provides very little analysis, but does provide tons of ragebait hot takes and mispronunciations of names

 

The guy literally owns a predatory NIL company that preys on poor, young black kids. Essentially saddling them with loans that have interest rates that would make the mafia blush.

You should pick a more worthy figure to white knight for.

 

I didn’t say he was a good person and I’m not white knighting

 

So your argument is that “no one should criticize Perk for legitimate reasons because sometimes assholes do for racist reasons?”

 

This is turning into The Last Jedi discourse really fast

 

You could criticize him all you want. My argument is inherent in these critiques not just from racist assholes is an underlying belief in what your tv talking head should sound like and perk doesn’t fit that.

You’ll disagree and that’s fine.

 

this is insane

 

I do tend to believe they should provide actual insight to the thing they're being paid to analyze, that's a crazy thing that I think

 

Then turn down the tv at halftime, everyone on the espn studio show sucks and adds nothing to the experience

 

I listen to halftime shows on the radio, for tax reasons.

 

Looks like the engine has run out of steam

 

gotta be honest this is one of the wildest takes I've seen in some time

bill is gonna have to defend the hansen yang pick to top this

 

what take are you referring to?

 

the perk discourse