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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 11:54 pm 
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I never caught any of him either except when he did the NBA pregame show for a couple of years. But he has a big following as a podcaster and as a writer for Grantland which he founded. He also came up with the idea for the "30 for 30" docs.

They say somebody is gonna pay him 7-10 million per year.


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I never caught any of him either except when he did the NBA pregame show for a couple of years. But he has a big following as a podcaster and as a writer for Grantland which he founded. He also came up with the idea for the "30 for 30" docs.

They say somebody is gonna pay him 7-10 million per year.


Who the hell is "they"? Why would anyone pay this guy 7-10 million? No way he will get close to that. That would be a few million more than Costas, Patrick, Nantz, Buck, Michaels, Berman, & Tirico.

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Who will be Jeff Bezos.

Amazon's been involved in producing tv and film in recent years. Simmons has long been as interested in crappy TV and film as he is in sports. Simmons connections to all manner of tv and film directors and producers due to 30 for 30 etc would give Amazon an in into that industry.

Bezos purchased the Washington Post last year. The Post/NY Times / WSJ are all vying to be national papers.

Bezos brings in Simmons and publishes his columns in the Washington Post dead trees edition first before they hit amazon.com and washpost.com's web sites (one possible approach).

Getting folks on amazon.com to read Simmons content and dl his podcasts alone might be enough to cover his salary--as amazon is then able to market / sell to those eyeballs.

And some sort of app/mobile/tablet tie-in, perhaps exclusively on Amazon's in-house kindle fire device.

Some sort of Amazon Prime tie-in?

Plenty of avenues by which to "monetize" Simmons and his audience for Amazon.


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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 6:18 pm 
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Simmons takes a page out of the Red Sox front-office playbook and has a mouth-piece journo present his side without attribution:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/05/ ... s-and-espn


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the amount of coverage and "stories" i've seen pop up on Bill Simmons leaving espn over the last few days has been surprising. deadspin even did a hit on what t-shirt he had on last night at the clippers game. not bad for a guy bernstein has never heard of (despite the fact that by twitter followers B.S. has 74+ times more followers than NYT crossword expert dan bernstein)


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Who will be Jeff Bezos.

Amazon's been involved in producing tv and film in recent years. Simmons has long been as interested in crappy TV and film as he is in sports. Simmons connections to all manner of tv and film directors and producers due to 30 for 30 etc would give Amazon an in into that industry.

Bezos purchased the Washington Post last year. The Post/NY Times / WSJ are all vying to be national papers.

Bezos brings in Simmons and publishes his columns in the Washington Post dead trees edition first before they hit amazon.com and washpost.com's web sites (one possible approach).

Getting folks on amazon.com to read Simmons content and dl his podcasts alone might be enough to cover his salary--as amazon is then able to market / sell to those eyeballs.

And some sort of app/mobile/tablet tie-in, perhaps exclusively on Amazon's in-house kindle fire device.

Some sort of Amazon Prime tie-in?

Plenty of avenues by which to "monetize" Simmons and his audience for Amazon.


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Simmons monologues his journey to ESPN from a local Boston alterna-weekly through AOL Digital Cities to ESPN to Kimmel and back to ESPN full-time.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospect ... -morris-3/

along the way, he says nice things about the guy who fired him Friday.


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Simmons to HBO

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watchi ... pn-divorce


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Ideal spot for him. I will very likely check it out.

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I'll be watching if it is a similar format to John Oliver, but maybe an hour long and with interviews.

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http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/the-gra ... begun.html

Please be Bill Barnwell and Zach Lowe, so I have no reason to ever open Grantland up again.

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It'll be Chuck Klosterman, Bill Barnwell, Molly Lambert, and Carles.

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My guess would be Klosterman, Barnwell, Zach Lowe, and Rembert Browne.

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Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch reported this evening that the four staffers leaving for the mystery Simmons project are Sean Fennessey, Juliet Litman, Mallory Rubin, and Chris Ryan. Going by who he poached here—not all that great a thing to be going on, admittedly—Simmons would seem to be setting up a more pop culture-based site than a sports-focused one.


Well, damn.

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Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch reported this evening that the four staffers leaving for the mystery Simmons project are Sean Fennessey, Juliet Litman, Mallory Rubin, and Chris Ryan. Going by who he poached here—not all that great a thing to be going on, admittedly—Simmons would seem to be setting up a more pop culture-based site than a sports-focused one.


Well, damn.


Yeah, I was wayyyyy off on that one.

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Dave in Champaign batsignal!

https://twitter.com/freddiedeboer/statu ... 2423333888

I belly-laughed at least three times in the course of this.

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