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I can't wait for Bill to talk himself into Dragan Bender
as if the Simmons/Lakers thing weren't bad enough, his son's actual name is Ben. Which means there's a chance Ben Simmons sees a Ben Simmons playing for the Lakers and, living in LA, becomes a Laker fan. It'd be like the most Twilight Zone ending of all of this for Bill.
as if the Simmons/Lakers thing weren't bad enough, his son's actual name is Ben. Which means there's a chance Ben Simmons sees a Ben Simmons playing for the Lakers and, living in LA, becomes a Laker fan. It'd be like the most Twilight Zone ending of all of this for Bill.
Ok I was leaning towards Ingram but this sounds too good to pass up.as if the Simmons/Lakers thing weren't bad enough, his son's actual name is Ben. Which means there's a chance Ben Simmons sees a Ben Simmons playing for the Lakers and, living in LA, becomes a Laker fan. It'd be like the most Twilight Zone ending of all of this for Bill.
Simmons was on Boston radio this morning and said The Ringer will launch next month.
MLB podcast starts next week. Simmons and Jack O on the first one. There is going to be a rotation till they officially hire a MLB person.
Man, that ep was so worth it just for Jacko finally abandoning ship on the repubs. Really need him on 1600 one time
So, the Ringer has an NBA guy who wouldn't have given Curry the MVP and an NFL guy who would rather have Andy Dalton than Aaron Rodgers.
Tried Sources Say again today and, I just...I can't.
They need to get Mallory on more podcasts. She could actually slot in nicely for Ryan who is spread too thin anyway.
I don't get it,
Chris is alright in my book.
Maybe it's because I really enjoy Andy and Juliet.
Fuck it, let's do staff rankings.
Mal> Jason> Juliet> Andy> Amanda> Chris out of the staffers I regularly listen to. Not sure where I'd put Bill in that list.
Kevin Clark on this newest NFL Show, good lord.
Sound the alarm
They need to get Mallory on more podcasts. She could actually slot in nicely for Ryan who is spread too thin anyway.
"Cam has always been this great!" I don't get how guys liked this get hired when there are so many brilliant NFL minds out there.
"Cam has always been this great!" I don't get how guys liked this get hired when there are so many brilliant NFL minds out there.
Launched the BS Podcast on Oct. 1 and it will exceed 50 million downloads by the end of next week. Motherships are overrated.
The best thing about making content in 2016 - if you have good content, people are going to find it no matter who you are and where you are.
We've launched 6 other podcasts to great success and we're going to launch 5 more soon. People will find them. It's 2016. This isn't hard.
We're going to launch @ringer next month - the site is going to be good immediately. People will find it. Quality is always going to win.
We didn't spend 1 dollar promoting our 7 @ringer podcasts - no ads, no favor-trading, nothing. Just Twitter and FB and cross-promotion.
Also excited to see how talented under-30 people figure out Snapchat these next 12 months - Snapchat is innovating in all the right ways.
Simmons tweets
Lol, yeah, no one knew who bill simmons was before the ringer
C'mon
If he didn't work for ESPN he wouldn't be so succesful now
I think that's his entire point. Why does he need a "mother ship" when he's a big enough name to just create and distribute his content himself?
I think that's his entire point. Why does he need a "mother ship" when he's a big enough name to just create and distribute his content himself?
Yeah, but the point is he became a brand in part because of being able to work for a place like ESPN. Sure, it's easier than ever to just get content out there, but to disregard everything but "content wins" is pretty silly.
Bryan Curtis is great. I would love if his media podcast become a regular thing. I'm also shocked he got ESPN people on this episode.
I can't wait for Bill to talk himself into Dragan Bender
https://soundcloud.com/ringermlbshow/ep-1-yankees-and-al-east-w-bill-simmons-jacko-and-mallory-rubin
HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons hosts the inaugural 'Ringer MLB Show' with JackO and Mallory Rubin on the Yankees, AL East, and where Bryce Harper should sign with next.
He seems to be making a more general point about how quality is always going to win and big money promotion isn't important rather than boasting about how the Simmons brand is big enough on its own. There are plenty of internet startups that can't survive on quality and not every company has a celebrity with 5 million followers on Twitter alone to give them easy/free promotion.
I'll be interested to see how well the Ringer website does since it's basically going to be Grantland 2.0, which apparently died because it wasnt being promoted by ESPN enough
thought the nice thing is that it doesn't have to make money to keep running
Didn't get killed because of insufficient pageviews. It was just that ESPN did very little to promote it, so it probably didn't get the views it could have. No Grantland on ESPN mobile and I think they only ever lead espn.com with a Grantland story once (insane when you think of the quality stories Grantland put out and the tripe that meets the bar otherwise) so it's relatively indisputable imo. Only after Simmons left that they start promoting former Grantland writers. Seems pretty much like Grantland died because ESPN and Simmons couldn't see eye to eye (on issues including the promotion one).
We'll see about ringer. I hope some of the unknowns turn out to be great. Right now the quality of writers seems a notch below but still very much tbd.
right, but that goes against his idea that quality will always win out
I think by now it's clear from websites like The Dissolve dying out that it's absolutely not true and it's all about clicks