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

They haven't done Fifth Element have they?

 

Mallory is the best

 

Haley O is the best female staffer at the ringer dot com and I’ll fight for her honor

 

Of all the NBA writers that i read, she can get it the most. Windhorst the least.

 

No

No in League of Their Own either.

 

last time I saw a Windy spot on ESPN his shirt was struggling to keep it together. I hope he used quarantine to get a peloton or walk a few miles a day

 

Why keep it a surprise?

 

Irrationally excited about way down in a hole

 

She was fine until the end with the Charlie bit. It was the most I liked her up until that bit.

 

I can’t stand Jemele Hill but I’m going to give it a shot. Love the show too much.

 

I somehow always know in advance what your opinion is on literally every topic

 

Brian Windhorst might quite possibly be the worst reporter ESPN has ever put on air. Or in the conversation.

 

All knowing of things that he can’t talk about/didn’t report at the time. It’s so annoying.

Career has been made by being close to team LeBron.

 

If LeBron had come out of any city in America but Akron, Windhorst would still be on the Akron local beat

 

I despise Windy. He acts like he hates 75% of his job

 

traveling on planes and sitting in arenas probably isn’t all that easy for him

 

He’s not good on podcasts either. Always comes off as so awkward and then mentions 20 things he knows for a fact but “absolutely can’t talk about it”

 

I always enjoy windhorst on Mr. Tony's pod.

 

I don't mind Windhorst, but that could just be because McMenamin annoys me more among LeBron beat guys.

 

So the podcast secret was a podcast by Steve Kerr and Pete Carroll. Sounds interesting

 

Pete Carroll better not bring Jordan Peterson on

 

Very excited for their 9/11 episode

 

Last I heard Jordan Peterson was in a medically induced coma in Russia. So he'd be tough to book.

 

Condolences to Talking Head

 

incredible dick-tuck by Ryen on the Top 5 GMs thing, might need to add a few more bench press reps after getting out-Alpha'd by Simmons

 

I like Windhorst alright. He does tend to ramble on and interrupt others on podcasts. And his refusal to give any kind of prediction is kind of weird. But I generally agree with his take on things.

 

Lol. How dare he rank Boston that low!

 

JJ redick pod with big cat and rusillo is pretty good.

 

Redick is a natural. He’ll have an easy transition post playing days.

 

That’s why you hired him bill.

 

redick's podcast is one of my favorite listens out there.

 

Haha i was cringing myself to sleep listening to that pod last night.

Bill: Boston landed Gordon Hayward as a FA.

Reality: Hayward’s former college coach, Brad Stevens, landed him.

 

Does anyone else notice Bill keeps fing up baseball batting averages? He said he was batting .100 on something and was proud of it and I was very confused.


I did enjoy he and Chad Ford a lot though

 

I mean, it was pretty dumb to have the Nets in the top 5 over the Celtics.

 

Grundle is not a Jemele Hill fan I am shocked

 

"team wins matter for mvp but shouldn't for all-nba"

 

Never cared for her going back to her days at the Orlando Sentinel in the mid 00’s.

It’s getting pretty ridiculous you can’t dislike anyone without someone on here insinuating something. I don’t care for a lot of people in the media.

 

Would you say they are crooked and dishonest, biased perhaps

 

she's no Clay Travis amirite?

 

Does anyone really like Jemele Hill? Or do some people talk themselves into saying they like her because they dislike the people most likely to hate her?

 

This is where I land.

 

I like reading her in the Atlantic

 

Hate that guy. Ignore him at all costs.

 

I was thinking mostly about sports media actually.

Again another person with a misguided generalization.

 

Sounds like some of our more sensitive members need to heed a trigger warning for female sexuality in the Basic Instict pod. I've never seen the movie, but I'm thinking of watching just to jack off alongside Mallory's performance.

 

Oh, you probably should have specified sports media then, rather than saying "the media."

 

I saw it back in 95 when I was 15. Not really a fan so I’m going to skip the pod.

 

Bill and Ryen doing a Rewatchabull in Game 3 of 1991 Finals was really good. Made me go back and watch the game on YouTube. That was the first Finals I watched every game.