OT: MLB In Talks To Broadcast Games With [Redacted]
www.si.com/.amp/mlb/2021/08/09/barstool-sports-mlb-possible-broadcast-deal-talks
I know the board is pretty anti-BS here - specifically their Michigan alumnus that would look like the antagonist in any Teen movie ever.
But this is certainly a newsworthy story and another example of Manfred and the owners making questionable decisions.
Delete if needed.
Also noticed a certain new sponsor for the Arizona Bowl. It rhymes with *cover your ears if needed* Schmarshtoll Chports Delete if needed.
Barstool Sports
No, I'm sorry. It's carpool shorts.
No man…Harpoon Jorts.
YES!!!!
August 11th, 2021 at 10:14 AM ^
How does that happen?
LooseStool Squirts
Maybe my vision is shortsighted, but I just don’t see this as something that’s gonna be very successful.
Not sure if the owners think this is gonna be the next NFL on Amazon Prime or what, but I’m not a bean counter or MBA-toting executive.
I don't necessarily agree with MLB potentially teaming up with "Bullshit Sports" but this is not surprising.
With the dumbass YouTube games and the upcoming "Field of Dreams Game", the League is searching for ways to get more people to watch.
I'm actually a fan of the YouTube games. I think one of the reasons that the NFL is so successful is that it's games are available on broadcast - or, you can easily access them without paying an arm and a leg. I think that MLB's blackout policy has contributed to baseball's declining ratings - of course less people watch it when you need to shell out $100/month to watch the local team. If you make more games accessible to watch without paying for premium costs, I think it can help grow the game.
Really it doesn't solve the blackout policy. But they make so much money from less people that they don't care.
NFL and Nickelodeon is the worst. Score a touchdown? Get digitally slimed while SpongeBob giggles. Stick with the demographics that actually watch the games. Or, I should say, used to watch.
I can almost imagine how cringeworthy these broadcasts will end up being but I'm sure I'm completely underestimating it.
Does this site really ban discussion of Barstool?
I don't think I've ever actually visited their website, but I do enjoy the pizza reviews on Instagram.
See "Moderator Action Sticky":
Seems like the proper time for Seth to quietly delete that last bullet.
Unless there is some kind of personal grudge between an owner of this site and Barstool I don't see how Barstool is banned under this criteria and a site like Deadspin is not.
Than you're a moron.
Deadspin (as it is today) is way worse than Barstool
Deadspin censored itself by never having any content worthy of posting.
Barstool is bad because they're super sexist and racist and they shouldn't be in the mainstream.
August 9th, 2021 at 10:08 PM ^
I mean, Portnoy says some pretty racist and sexist things when given the opportunity. It may all be a "character" he's playing but there's a good amount of evidence that he says racist and sexist things.
August 10th, 2021 at 12:31 AM ^
https://twitter.com/RzstProgramming/status/1424819399148675072
https://twitter.com/nkalamb/status/1424822891305132037
Thread:
https://twitter.com/RzstProgramming/status/1354086050172432385
Plenty of evidence that Barstool is bad and shouldn't be supported by anyone even if that founder is a Michigan alum. To say otherwise is putting your head into the sand
If a "super sexist and racist" entity by your definition is in the mainstream maybe your worldview is dubious.
August 9th, 2021 at 10:12 PM ^
I think the ban still exists due to inertia at this point. A decade ago, when the founder/president was the only prominent personality in the company and regularly generating cringe-inducing content, a Barstool ban made more sense.
The present-day company is much different than that early 2010s version. Pardon My Take is the #1 sports podcast in the country. The company has given opportunities for a lot of men and women to launch careers in sports media that otherwise would have never been given a chance by "mainstream media". ESPN has a decades-long history of (at the least) tolerating harassment of female employees by their stars. That doesn't erase all of the terrible things Portnoy has said over the years, but Barstool is much more than him now.
August 10th, 2021 at 12:48 AM ^
I was chatting w/ a friend this evening --- Barstool came up and he drew an analogy between Portnoy and Howard Stern.
I doubt Portnoy ever becomes completely mainstream, but Barstool has changed in the last 10 years. Still "shock jock" but a bit less cringe as their fanbase aged out a bit. Portnoy of the 2010s was like Stern in the 1990s.
And I can also see the Barstool/Portnoy of the 2020s also being like Stern in the 2000s. Gradually less cringy, creeping toward but never becoming fully mainstream.
I'll jump on the side of people who don't have a problem with Barstool. I'm not a "stoolie" and I don't agree with everything they do/post, but I hardly think it should be banned and Portnoy is about as unabashed of a Michigan fan as there is.
I enjoy the pizza reviews as well.
Honestly, I can’t/don’t want to keep track of all the different websites & people I’m supposed to be mad at here.
From my reading of the mod action sticky, it's a ban on content posted from their site. Something newsworthy like this op, which just happens to involve Barstool Sports, should be open for discussion.
Even the Barstool Fund, that supported a few small A2 businesses, was considered contraband around here.
That's ridiculous.
Lots of jealousy of Barstool and all their success from other online sports sites, this will not help.
People don’t like a thing? Must be jealousy!
I mean if I had to pick a company to be jealous of, it wouldn't be Barstool. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, sure. Get me some of that real fuck you $$$.
You have no clue how much Barstool sports is worth.
I don't, nor do I care. But if I'm going to be jealous of someone it's going to be the richest damn people I know!
You don't know any of those people.
The real Aristotle would never post something so dumb.
So because someone or something is "niche popular" and others don't like it...they're jealous?
Well then what do we call someone who is popular (but not majority popular) and extremely popular to a certain group that others don't like, or support and find to be ignorant/racist/sexist?
I hope that's not jealousy as well.
August 9th, 2021 at 11:20 PM ^
They have a tab that says "Chicks" and "Smokeshow of the week"
We are in Spinal Tap Sexy/sexist territory here
August 11th, 2021 at 8:33 AM ^
Saying a women is a smokeshow is sexist?
Hopefully you never compliment your wife.
I'm sure she hate if you called her sexy.
never, *never* underestimate major league baseball's penchant for stomping on their own junk.
I don't know where <<<retracted>>> is getting all this $$$ to sponsor Bowl Games and bid on MLB games.
That's the more interesting question to me.
The house always wins.
August 9th, 2021 at 10:15 PM ^
The parent company has a market cap of $11 billion. They have access to cash.
Dinger!
Found the Rockies fan!
Sidebar, but since it is "Dinger" related ..... I'm pretty disappointed with my hometown team, the Colorado Rockies, today. They literally jumped to the incorrect conclusion that one of their fans is a racist, as opposed to giving him any benefit of a doubt.