I remember hearing him say that one of the ways in which he feels like he let Grantland fail was not having immediate, timely reporting. He's said that when a game finishes, his site needs to have media up and ready to go talking about everything. If they wait until after the holiday they'll be irrelevant on that topic until something else pops up.
You gotta figure the staff know that going into it. Kinda like retail work. It sucks working the holiday but they'll get it made up to them sometime a couple weeks later with some time off.
Everyone seems to love working for Bill so I'm not too worried about how they fit in extra hours.
Honestly this is actually one of the things that actually got me going to theringer again. A big game would be over (that I'd usually have missed, b/c work) and they'd put up an article really quickly that was actually pretty much everything I wanted -- pithy commentary, gifs of the highlights and silly plays, etc. (I'm sure there are other places that did/do this anyway but I'm not huge into devouring sports commentary, pretty much just always been an ESPN & Simmons guy.) I definitely hope it's not miserable for his employees but for the most part they do appear to be having fun with it, or at least that how it comes across in the pieces.
Hope they find success too. Always hard to know as the show (which I hated, as I predicted) was really abruptly canceled, but they've been hiring up so I'm not sure if the doom & gloom in the article is quite on point (although I certainly wouldn't deny it either). Vox is quite a good fit regardless so hopefully that gives them a few more years to get their feet under them.
Have said this probably a couple times on the thread, but really feel like the quality of the podcasts and website have really been on the uptick since the show went off.