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PostmanE

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BallHype Member since March 6, 2007

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Fightin' Words: Best. Sports Blog. Ever?

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    So everyone knows, if you weren't included, it's not because we don't think you're an awesome sports blogger. Well, maybe, but more likely it's just that we tried to co-opt your style for like half an hour and then gave up. (Cough *Mr. Irrelevant* cough.)
    Posted 4/29/2008 (flag)

Fightin' Words: Is the NBA Becoming a Niche Sport?

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    That's interesting. It also might be a way to attract those who prefer the college game for whatever innate reasons -- if you fostered that college game ethos at the D-League level and tied it to a pro franchise, you might be able to increase interest in the NBA in places like Iowa.

    Posted 3/26/2008 (flag)

Deadspin's Media Approval Leaderboard

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Can we get an approval rating on the Bearded Ziller avatar?
    Posted 3/25/2008 (flag)

Fightin' Words: Is the NBA Becoming a Niche Sport?

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Ah, even better. I inferred the opposite -- that Stern has heard this sort of stuff and doesn't buy it. I suppose it would explain his ambivalence toward Seattle's situation.

    I don't know enough about the town and its sporting preferences to know if my guess applies, but one would assume the residents of Seattle would lean more toward the NBA than, say, college football.

    Posted 3/25/2008 (flag)

Fightin' Words: Is the NBA Becoming a Niche Sport?

Fightin' Words: Is the NBA Becoming a Niche Sport?

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Also, I realize I committed the sin of not providing data to back up my argument about demographics, but if anyone is curious where I pulled that from (only partially my ass) I think I read it in a recent story about the housing crisis in The Atlantic.
    Posted 3/25/2008 (flag)

Fightin' Words: Is the NBA Becoming a Niche Sport?

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Good arguments, all around. I'll add this relativistic copout: It matters where you are.

    Big markets (like the one I live in, or New York, or L.A., or even Detroit) care an awful lot for their NBA franchises, and coverage of the franchises dominate any collegiate coverage any time of the year not bracketed with "Madness." And that's just hoops -- college football can't hold a candle to the NBA in these markets in terms of media coverage or fan interest, and I'd argue that college basketball outranks football in seasonal interest in big markets, too. It's the game, not the league.

    Also, demographics suggest that more and more people are moving to cities and staying in them, and further gravitating to suburbs of large metropolitan cities. Maybe the NBA will win these people over and maybe these people will just bring their rural collegiate fandom with them, but these are also the places where large media remains the most viable. It's not unrealistic to assume the NBA can grow among new city residents over the long term if supported by the resources of local mass media.

    Anyway, college football sucks. 

    Posted 3/25/2008 (flag)

2007: The Year Sports Bloggers Grew Up, Grew Out, and Got Paid

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    I'm not just hyping it up because ... OK, so I am.
    Posted 12/28/2007 (flag)

The Foibles of Formulas: A Quiz

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    12/12. Buahaha. So funny, and so true.
    Posted 12/18/2007 (flag)

Kristine vs. Miss Gossip: the Trailer

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Oh, and I know you're totally curious as to what that last little sliver is going to be ... but bro, you're just going to have to guess!
    Posted 10/10/2007 (flag)

Kristine vs. Miss Gossip: the Trailer

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    I didn't bring up Gym Class Heroes; you brought it up in the other thread to somehow bolster your claim that Common wasn't a totally off-the-mark reference for whatever incongruous point you were trying to make. But dude, really: Gym Class Heroes. 

    I should have let this hound lie because Shoals already killed you. (This isn't just objective; these handy little vote comments bear it out.) And it's not like you need anyone else to speak to how dumb (and huh-larious) your attempt at ethnography was; you're pretty good at doing that yourself. I just wanted to clear the air like everyone else: while most of my friends think I'm Irish, I'm actually one-third Liberian, one-fourth Serb, one-third Cherokee, and I have an aggressively evangelical attitude toward Afrika Bambaataa. 

    We cool now?

    Posted 10/10/2007 (flag)

Kristine vs. Miss Gossip: the Trailer

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Favorite part of EC's post on this:

    In case you missed it, BOHChris started a Female Sports Blogger tournament of sorts yesterday with mixed reaction from blogfrica.

    If by "mixed reaction" you mean your dude wrote a definitely racist, probably sexist post, upped it to Ballhype, and then got repeatedly killed by those who would like to think their work wouldn't have to stand next to such stupidity, well, yeah, I suppose you could call that "mixed reaction."  I would prefer "utter, stupidity-revealing failure," which quickly escalated to "atrocity" at the first mention of Gym Class Heroes. Seriously; Gym Class Heroes. 

    Sometimes this place (not Ballhype) makes me want to eat my own fist. Gossip is saner than us all. 

    Posted 10/10/2007 (flag)

NBA Festivus: Southeast Edition

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Bizarro Ziller looks like a close-cropped Jack White.
    Posted 9/27/2007 (flag)

A Quarter-Decade of NBA Existentialism

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    The definitive FD post. Thanks, Jason.
    Posted 7/16/2007 (flag)

Blog Show XV

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    Be careful ... it's seizure-inducing after the 10th view or so.
    Posted 7/15/2007 (flag)

Blog Show XV

  • PostmanE PostmanE
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    An excellent stand-in, but not nearly as bereft of hair as my sensibilities usually dicate.
    Posted 7/14/2007 (flag)