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It's probably good they killed it now by skip 11/02/2015, 4:27pm PST
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Sure, The Masked Man and Rany Jazayerli were and are awesome, but they were amazing before Grantland.


I like The Masked Man's articles on Deadspin but reading through his archives on Grantland I found this. Nothing is worse than when fans try to argue their love of Pokemon, Superman, or whatever nerd hobby you have is actually art and ignored by the mainstream. It always comes off as pathetic and desperate.

According to Matthew Altman, WWE’s senior director of communications, WrestleMania 30 reached a million households in the U.S. for the first time (on WWE Network and pay-per-view combined), and WrestleMania 31 hit 1.6 million homes globally, which is WrestleMania’s biggest audience to date


How many of those are free trials? The WWE stock has a horrible P/E, EPS, and the network has 70%+ churn. The stock is kept afloat by the nutty fans who think it's a great investment.

Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone have regular wrestling beats now. Deadspin’s wrestling writing these days is often republished from Jezebel and Kotaku — Gawker Media’s partner sites on women’s issues and gaming, respectively. The environment for wrestling writing is wide open and thriving.


A former wrestler became a governor and Hogan had a cartoon and still gets media attention for his racism. Clearly, wrestling has never had mainstream success. These sites don't give a shit about wrestling. They're content mills which will publish anything that remotely has the potential for clicks.

Now it’s impossible — or untenable, at least — to revel in the Real Housewives and sneer at pro wrestling’s falsehoods.


I'm sure there's a huge overlap in those audiences.

It’s just that pop culture at large appears to have finally figured out what wrestling is about, and it’s getting the credit it has long deserved. Still, among non-fans, there persists a feeling that wrestling is something less than both a sport and an art form.


Wrestling isn't an art or a sport. There's nothing wrong with being low-brow entertainment or being a fan of it. But don't pretend it's anything but. It would be better for him to go back to writing about dead wrestlers if Grantland was pushing or letting him go in this direction. Hear that? Fucking Deadspin has a better eye for articles than Grantland.
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Grantland.com by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/27/2011, 3:04pm PDT NEW
    Slight intellectual slant by Souffle of Pain 11/07/2012, 1:26pm PST NEW
        Re: Slight intellectual slant by laudablepuss 11/07/2012, 2:47pm PST NEW
            a slight intellectual slant by Vinny Goomba 64 11/17/2012, 9:20pm PST NEW
    Is it a bad idea to ask you for a recommendation for a decent site, then? by fucking newbie 11/07/2012, 7:24pm PST NEW
        Re: Is it a bad idea to ask you for a recommendation for a decent site, then? by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/07/2012, 7:49pm PST NEW
            Nobody is still on the forum at POE News by Siskel and Ebert 11/07/2012, 7:59pm PST NEW
                MUST BE NICE NT by laudablepuss 11/07/2012, 9:32pm PST NEW
            I'll give it a shot, ICJ by fucking newbie 11/07/2012, 9:46pm PST NEW
                Your posts make me want to kill myself. What sites NT by would you recommend for that? 11/07/2012, 10:52pm PST NEW
                    Re: Your posts make me want to kill myself. What sites by fucking newbie 11/07/2012, 11:57pm PST NEW
                        Your shit has a, how can I say this nicely... NT by SLIGHT INTELLECTUAL SLANT 11/08/2012, 12:05am PST NEW
                            Saying it nicely on this site? What for? Fag. NT by fucking newbie 11/08/2012, 12:17am PST NEW
                                That's the spirit! Nobody has to pretend to be a dummy at this site! :) NT by Mischief Maker 11/08/2012, 5:13am PST NEW
                Quentinbec reference? I don't think you're a newbie at all. NT by Souffle of Pain 11/08/2012, 6:53pm PST NEW
                    I've lurked for a bit and the search results you get for some things are odd by fucking newbie 11/08/2012, 7:22pm PST NEW
                        Sacrifice is one of my top 12 all-time games, but takes some doing to run on W7 by Mischief Maker 11/09/2012, 5:48am PST NEW
                            huh? by Col. Campbell 12/10/2015, 12:04pm PST NEW
    World's Worst Website finally killed by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/30/2015, 1:46pm PDT NEW
        I liked that time they made a trans-golf putter inventor kill him/herself by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2015, 1:50pm PDT NEW
            I like how it was billed as a hate crime by skip 10/31/2015, 3:43pm PDT NEW
        There's still the question of where you can read decent writing online NT by Welcome to Omsk 10/31/2015, 4:36pm PDT NEW
            Grantland was never decent writing. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/31/2015, 10:24pm PDT NEW
                Seeing if you found any's part of the hobby. Turns out ICJ ain't got any. Loser! by Welcome to Omsk 11/01/2015, 8:01am PST NEW
                    I was all riled up last night for some reason. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/01/2015, 8:43am PST NEW
                        Happens to the best of us. NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/01/2015, 6:41pm PST NEW
                            On balance it was a pretty good answer though. NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/01/2015, 6:43pm PST NEW
                                Jon Bois on Radio Shack was a great article. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/02/2015, 1:39pm PST NEW
                                    You're drunk, Jonsey. Good article, though. Here is a link to it really for real by Entropy Stew 12/11/2015, 12:35pm PST NEW
                                        Why the fuck would you stick with a job like that when it pays less than MacDona NT by lds? 12/11/2015, 1:38pm PST NEW
                                            Doormat NT by Entropy Stew 12/11/2015, 4:00pm PST NEW
                                                I can't imagine any job market being bad enough where by fabio 12/11/2015, 11:30pm PST NEW
                                                    My year at Radioshack soured me on typical jobs so much I work for myself now. by Welcome to Omsk 12/12/2015, 4:25am PST NEW
                That was so dark, ICJ by Cannibal Dave 12/13/2015, 1:05am PST NEW
        It's probably good they killed it now by skip 11/02/2015, 4:27pm PST NEW
    I'm writing this far too late, but you were right, Caltrops. Thanks. by Welcome to Omsk 12/10/2015, 10:57am PST NEW
        Twat. Twat never changes. by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/10/2015, 10:47pm PST NEW
            The second person in there is looks like a distraction from pointless content. by Welcome to Omsk 12/11/2015, 4:41am PST NEW
                So many blogs are interchangeable by skip 12/12/2015, 7:24am PST NEW
                    Surely bankers never did anything bad to this country. Anyone who says otherwise by is an anti Semite 12/12/2015, 8:17am PST NEW
                        Because those blogs are the entire internet. by skip 12/12/2015, 3:07pm PST NEW
 
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