Sports Media Thread

[WrigleyField 22]

Give MNF the ability to flex games with the same importance as SNF does. I hate to agree w/ESPN but I prefer MNF being more relevant.

Will flexing across days cause more of a logistical headache than its worth?

[UK]

Give MNF the ability to flex games with the same importance as SNF does. I hate to agree w/ESPN but I prefer MNF being more relevant.

Will flexing across days cause more of a logistical headache than its worth?

 

If not I would guarantee them at least the 2nd best matchup when the TV schedule is calculated.

 

The overall matchups on MNF generally have been trash.

[Derwood]

Give MNF the ability to flex games with the same importance as SNF does. I hate to agree w/ESPN but I prefer MNF being more relevant.

Will flexing across days cause more of a logistical headache than its worth?

 

If not I would guarantee them at least the 2nd best matchup when the TV schedule is calculated.

 

The overall matchups on MNF generally have been trash.

 

Mostly because they insist on clogging the timeslot up with terrible NFC East matchups

[jersey cubs fan]

Give MNF the ability to flex games with the same importance as SNF does. I hate to agree w/ESPN but I prefer MNF being more relevant.

Will flexing across days cause more of a logistical headache than its worth?

 

If not I would guarantee them at least the 2nd best matchup when the TV schedule is calculated.

 

The overall matchups on MNF generally have been trash.

good because prime time football is trash. Save the good games for the good time slots at noon on Sunday

[UMFan83]

https://www.allchgo.com/

 

New Chicago sports media site launched today. To be honest the launch articles are kind of meh...you'd think they'd have some good stories queued up for the launch.

 

Some of the articles (think they are all free today):

-5 things the Cubs need to address post-lockout

-5 things the Sox need to address post-lockup

-Articles on 2 WRs the Bears should target in the draft

-What the new Hawks GM has to do now

-Article about DeRozan

 

 

But maybe it improves....they have good writers on board. It's $9 a month though (or $56 a year). I subscribe to way too many online journalism/streaming tv services so this is a non-starter for me right now. Wish them all the best though, great journalism is worth paying for so maybe they will win me over at some point. I kind of hope the Athletic goes under as I find less and less interesting content there and could easily reallocate that money to a site like this.

[Andy]

I kind of hope the Athletic goes under as I find less and less interesting content there and could easily reallocate that money to a site like this.

I'm surprised to see this as I feel like there's as much quality stuff there day to day as ever. Between their national MLB and CFB coverage, which I think both are top-notch, and the beat guys for my teams all churning out solid content consistently, I enjoy the heck out of that site. I probably end up reading 3-5 pieces per day on there most weekdays.

[Andy]

This sucks butt. Expanding to 12 also sucked butt. If they can get a better deal as a result, fine, I guess. But it still sucks butt.

 

[raw]

https://www.allchgo.com/

 

New Chicago sports media site launched today. To be honest the launch articles are kind of meh...you'd think they'd have some good stories queued up for the launch.

 

Some of the articles (think they are all free today):

-5 things the Cubs need to address post-lockout

-5 things the Sox need to address post-lockup

-Articles on 2 WRs the Bears should target in the draft

-What the new Hawks GM has to do now

-Article about DeRozan

 

 

But maybe it improves....they have good writers on board. It's $9 a month though (or $56 a year). I subscribe to way too many online journalism/streaming tv services so this is a non-starter for me right now. Wish them all the best though, great journalism is worth paying for so maybe they will win me over at some point. I kind of hope the Athletic goes under as I find less and less interesting content there and could easily reallocate that money to a site like this.

 

The Chicago Audible podcast which I listen to on YouTube pretty faithfully is a part of this group now. IDK if I'll still have free access to it, but I would kinda miss it. But in general, I'm with you. Got rid of cable probably 10 years ago and the last 6-7 years had streaming services. Started with Netflix (who keeps raising their prices), then to Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+/Insider, Discovery+, Paramount, Amazon, Peacock, HBOMax, was doing Sling for live TV and with all the services we had + internet, it was costing us more than cable. So, changed my internet provider and added regular cable and dropped most of the streaming services (even Netflix). Saving us so much money. I'd be more apt to pay $56 and be done w/ it vs. another money nickel and dime that I gotta keep track of.

[UMFan83]

I kind of hope the Athletic goes under as I find less and less interesting content there and could easily reallocate that money to a site like this.

I'm surprised to see this as I feel like there's as much quality stuff there day to day as ever. Between their national MLB and CFB coverage, which I think both are top-notch, and the beat guys for my teams all churning out solid content consistently, I enjoy the heck out of that site. I probably end up reading 3-5 pieces per day on there most weekdays.

 

Yeah I dunno I spend like 5 minutes a day looking at the articles before going elsewhere. To be fair, at this stage of my life I'm really just interested in articles that are focused on my team. There's maybe 1 a day for that. Occasionally there's a good national article but most don't appeal to me. I don't really pay attention to college football at all outside of Michigan, sometimes the big 10 but almost all the teams are eliminated from the CFP by October so I stop caring.

 

It also bugs me that they only update their Bubble Watch twice a week. Feel like for a premium journalism site they can update daily like ESPN does. I'm probably unique in my consumption habits though.

[UMFan83]

https://www.allchgo.com/

 

New Chicago sports media site launched today. To be honest the launch articles are kind of meh...you'd think they'd have some good stories queued up for the launch.

 

Some of the articles (think they are all free today):

-5 things the Cubs need to address post-lockout

-5 things the Sox need to address post-lockup

-Articles on 2 WRs the Bears should target in the draft

-What the new Hawks GM has to do now

-Article about DeRozan

 

 

But maybe it improves....they have good writers on board. It's $9 a month though (or $56 a year). I subscribe to way too many online journalism/streaming tv services so this is a non-starter for me right now. Wish them all the best though, great journalism is worth paying for so maybe they will win me over at some point. I kind of hope the Athletic goes under as I find less and less interesting content there and could easily reallocate that money to a site like this.

 

The Chicago Audible podcast which I listen to on YouTube pretty faithfully is a part of this group now. IDK if I'll still have free access to it, but I would kinda miss it. But in general, I'm with you. Got rid of cable probably 10 years ago and the last 6-7 years had streaming services. Started with Netflix (who keeps raising their prices), then to Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+/Insider, Discovery+, Paramount, Amazon, Peacock, HBOMax, was doing Sling for live TV and with all the services we had + internet, it was costing us more than cable. So, changed my internet provider and added regular cable and dropped most of the streaming services (even Netflix). Saving us so much money. I'd be more apt to pay $56 and be done w/ it vs. another money nickel and dime that I gotta keep track of.

 

Yeah the constant adding of things behind a paywall sucks. They deserve to get paid so ultimately I'm ok with it, but its forced me to make undesirable choices and cutting out things I don't want to. Like even Desipio...have been reading their website since 2003 but Andy recently launched a paid newsletter for all his writings. For whatever reason I drew the line there, just couldn't afford another niche paid site. I'm happy they are making money but sucks that there's so many paid services that I cant keep track of them all without sifting through my credit card statement.

 

I almost switched back to cable recently but then I realized 95% of the non-sports TV I watch is streaming. Wish all these companies could get on board with a company that bundles everything up in one neat monthly fee (like cable!) but that defeats the purpose of why they launched their standalone streaming services.

[WrigleyField 22]

https://www.allchgo.com/

 

New Chicago sports media site launched today. To be honest the launch articles are kind of meh...you'd think they'd have some good stories queued up for the launch.

 

Some of the articles (think they are all free today):

-5 things the Cubs need to address post-lockout

-5 things the Sox need to address post-lockup

-Articles on 2 WRs the Bears should target in the draft

-What the new Hawks GM has to do now

-Article about DeRozan

 

 

But maybe it improves....they have good writers on board. It's $9 a month though (or $56 a year). I subscribe to way too many online journalism/streaming tv services so this is a non-starter for me right now. Wish them all the best though, great journalism is worth paying for so maybe they will win me over at some point. I kind of hope the Athletic goes under as I find less and less interesting content there and could easily reallocate that money to a site like this.

 

The Chicago Audible podcast which I listen to on YouTube pretty faithfully is a part of this group now. IDK if I'll still have free access to it, but I would kinda miss it. But in general, I'm with you. Got rid of cable probably 10 years ago and the last 6-7 years had streaming services. Started with Netflix (who keeps raising their prices), then to Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+/Insider, Discovery+, Paramount, Amazon, Peacock, HBOMax, was doing Sling for live TV and with all the services we had + internet, it was costing us more than cable. So, changed my internet provider and added regular cable and dropped most of the streaming services (even Netflix). Saving us so much money. I'd be more apt to pay $56 and be done w/ it vs. another money nickel and dime that I gotta keep track of.

 

Yeah the constant adding of things behind a paywall sucks. They deserve to get paid so ultimately I'm ok with it, but its forced me to make undesirable choices and cutting out things I don't want to. Like even Desipio...have been reading their website since 2003 but Andy recently launched a paid newsletter for all his writings. For whatever reason I drew the line there, just couldn't afford another niche paid site. I'm happy they are making money but sucks that there's so many paid services that I cant keep track of them all without sifting through my credit card statement.

 

I almost switched back to cable recently but then I realized 95% of the non-sports TV I watch is streaming. Wish all these companies could get on board with a company that bundles everything up in one neat monthly fee (like cable!) but that defeats the purpose of why they launched their standalone streaming services.

For journalism I really want someone to launch some sort of per article service where I don't have to make a new monthly subscription just to read one interesting sounding article behind a pay wall. Like Spotify for journalism. Give me like 30 articles a month for a fixed fee from a wide brand of papers and then after that I could spend some de minimis amount per article. Oh that's interesting headline. 4 cents? Sure I'll open that article. Ooh a premium long form article for a dollar. Okay I really love that writer/topic, sure.

[UMFan83]

 

The Chicago Audible podcast which I listen to on YouTube pretty faithfully is a part of this group now. IDK if I'll still have free access to it, but I would kinda miss it. But in general, I'm with you. Got rid of cable probably 10 years ago and the last 6-7 years had streaming services. Started with Netflix (who keeps raising their prices), then to Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+/Insider, Discovery+, Paramount, Amazon, Peacock, HBOMax, was doing Sling for live TV and with all the services we had + internet, it was costing us more than cable. So, changed my internet provider and added regular cable and dropped most of the streaming services (even Netflix). Saving us so much money. I'd be more apt to pay $56 and be done w/ it vs. another money nickel and dime that I gotta keep track of.

 

Yeah the constant adding of things behind a paywall sucks. They deserve to get paid so ultimately I'm ok with it, but its forced me to make undesirable choices and cutting out things I don't want to. Like even Desipio...have been reading their website since 2003 but Andy recently launched a paid newsletter for all his writings. For whatever reason I drew the line there, just couldn't afford another niche paid site. I'm happy they are making money but sucks that there's so many paid services that I cant keep track of them all without sifting through my credit card statement.

 

I almost switched back to cable recently but then I realized 95% of the non-sports TV I watch is streaming. Wish all these companies could get on board with a company that bundles everything up in one neat monthly fee (like cable!) but that defeats the purpose of why they launched their standalone streaming services.

For journalism I really want someone to launch some sort of per article service where I don't have to make a new monthly subscription just to read one interesting sounding article behind a pay wall. Like Spotify for journalism. Give me like 30 articles a month for a fixed fee from a wide brand of papers and then after that I could spend some de minimis amount per article. Oh that's interesting headline. 4 cents? Sure I'll open that article. Ooh a premium long form article for a dollar. Okay I really love that writer/topic, sure.

 

The spotify analogy is interesting because at first I thought "that would never happen because companies require interesting articles to increase subscriptions and wouldn't care about getting pennies for someone reading 1 article" but that's exactly what people thought about streaming music when it started becoming popular. Maybe a good business idea?

[Sammy Sofa]

Got rid of cable probably 10 years ago and the last 6-7 years had streaming services. Started with Netflix (who keeps raising their prices), then to Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+/Insider, Discovery+, Paramount, Amazon, Peacock, HBOMax, was doing Sling for live TV and with all the services we had + internet, it was costing us more than cable. So, changed my internet provider and added regular cable and dropped most of the streaming services (even Netflix). Saving us so much money.

 

I guess what seems fuzzy about this is that while you're saving money, it's basically completely different content (outside of Sling vs. cable). I mean, if most of what you watch is going to be on cable, sure, makes total sense to go that route, but at the end of the day I'm getting much more bang for my buck technically paying more for multiple streaming services than for cable.

 

I know it's different depending on where you live, but the only way I'd be able to get cable around here that's significantly cheaper than even a streaming list like that is if I'm getting a pretty shitty package.

 

(Plus you should have been bundling ESPN+/Hulu/Disney+).

[raw]

So, my podcast I like was still available to watch on YouTube, which is great. The problem is they added Olin Kruetz to the cast, and I don't know how much I am going to like it anymore. I liked that the podcast was run by fans of the team, who aren't stupid and meatbally. Adding an ex-player is probably going to change the dynamic too much for my liking. One episode in and there have already been several Lovie Smith mentions. I do get it for this episode though because they were talking about the similarities to that regime and the current one (Eberflus a Marinelli disciple, strength coach was on the staff for Lovie, Poles an ex Bear). But Olin also cut off the other co-hosts and did the athlete thing where he doesn't really answer the question that's asked. He also kinda made fun of the guys for being WRs and such in highschool and not having the same level of experience as he does. So I imagine he's going to interject a lot from his experience and will potentially argue that his opinion is more valid because he played at the NFL level and with this very organization. And I don't really want the player perspective, because I'm not a player. I want the fan perspective because that's the one I can relate to, and it won't be meatbally like it most likely will be coming from Olin.

[CubinNY]

So, my podcast I like was still available to watch on YouTube, which is great. The problem is they added Olin Kruetz to the cast, and I don't know how much I am going to like it anymore. I liked that the podcast was run by fans of the team, who aren't stupid and meatbally. Adding an ex-player is probably going to change the dynamic too much for my liking. One episode in and there have already been several Lovie Smith mentions. I do get it for this episode though because they were talking about the similarities to that regime and the current one (Eberflus a Marinelli disciple, strength coach was on the staff for Lovie, Poles an ex Bear). But Olin also cut off the other co-hosts and did the athlete thing where he doesn't really answer the question that's asked. He also kinda made fun of the guys for being WRs and such in highschool and not having the same level of experience as he does. So I imagine he's going to interject a lot from his experience and will potentially argue that his opinion is more valid because he played at the NFL level and with this very organization. And I don't really want the player perspective, because I'm not a player. I want the fan perspective because that's the one I can relate to, and it won't be meatbally like it most likely will be coming from Olin.

Reminds me of the episodes of East Bound and Down where the goal of the show was to rip the other guys.

[WrigleyField 22]

Pretty big get:

 

[NOLA]

Enjoy.

 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

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[Bertz]

I actually think Burkhardt is really good. Do we know who his partner will be? Still Greg Olsen?

[Andy]

I actually think Burkhardt is really good. Do we know who his partner will be? Still Greg Olsen?

Olsen is considered a top candidate but that hasn't been finalized yet.

[PackLandVA]

I like what Olsen has to say most of the time. My issue is how he says things. He makes points with a loud whisper. He'll talk in a normal voice and then when getting to the crux of his point will dial his voice down. Just spit it out, man.

[CoolHandLuke]

I like what Olsen has to say most of the time. My issue is how he says things. He makes points with a loud whisper. He'll talk in a normal voice and then when getting to the crux of his point will dial his voice down. Just spit it out, man.

 

His weird whisper voice was definitely annoying, but I think it got better as the season went along.

[jersey cubs fan]

[WrigleyField 22]

Olin is such a POS.

[Old Style]

https://twitter.com/thegeorgetwo/status/1521270331767468035?s=21&t=-Aq5Om241WwH2lMUVr7M5w