I think this is the first break I’ve taken since starting my daily post model at the end of March. While there’s no article today, I’m happy to solicit ideas for this week from all you subscribers in the comments. Happy Yom Kippur.
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Why does Tim Kawakami actively troll much of his audience and why does he purposely antagonize? I’ve never quite understood that, and tangentially-
A deeper exploration of how the Athletic went full on Woke, how many of their writers (hesitate to call them journalists at this point) demonize the conservative - scratch that - rather how they demonize the portion of their subscribers who are on the 80 percent side of the so-called 80-20 issues and how this has impacted their subscriber base - they lost me, a day one subscriber due to this
Newish paid subscriber. Some topics I'd like you to address:
* Future of sports journalism. ESPN has gone BIG on the BIG name and little else. Publications are disappearing, more sports news being consumed by podcasts. Can actual sports journalism still exist?
* Thoughts on Corporate Response to the next Democratic Administration? How will that change the presentation of sports and sports adjacent companies.
* Is it a problem that the NBA won't address some of the structural problems with the game? Namely too many 3 pointers? I'm an NBA fan and I hear the experts say all these teams run different offenses, what are the normies complaining about, yet it is still a fundamental reality that if you make the most 3s you will win the game. Thus teams keep chucking. Will that have long term negative effects for the league? MLB addressed some of its flaws but the NBA seems to think it isn't a problem.
Vrabel/Russini update - how is she doing?
Why does Tim Kawakami actively troll much of his audience and why does he purposely antagonize? I’ve never quite understood that, and tangentially-
A deeper exploration of how the Athletic went full on Woke, how many of their writers (hesitate to call them journalists at this point) demonize the conservative - scratch that - rather how they demonize the portion of their subscribers who are on the 80 percent side of the so-called 80-20 issues and how this has impacted their subscriber base - they lost me, a day one subscriber due to this
Newish paid subscriber. Some topics I'd like you to address:
* Future of sports journalism. ESPN has gone BIG on the BIG name and little else. Publications are disappearing, more sports news being consumed by podcasts. Can actual sports journalism still exist?
* Thoughts on Corporate Response to the next Democratic Administration? How will that change the presentation of sports and sports adjacent companies.
* Is it a problem that the NBA won't address some of the structural problems with the game? Namely too many 3 pointers? I'm an NBA fan and I hear the experts say all these teams run different offenses, what are the normies complaining about, yet it is still a fundamental reality that if you make the most 3s you will win the game. Thus teams keep chucking. Will that have long term negative effects for the league? MLB addressed some of its flaws but the NBA seems to think it isn't a problem.