Pittsburgh Media Thread - The worst of the worst

[turd]

And he brings in Dale Lolley. I mean, ok yeah he’s been around for a while and people may have heard of him. But I can’t imagine Lolley is bringing throngs of fans over to sign up for DK now.

 

[zero8771]

I can't even imagine how DK's ego is handling this news today. I'm gonna take a guess and say not well

 

[Penguins23]

lol

 

[Retrocity]

What I find funny are the people on Twitter who bash the people who left DK for the Athletic like they are greedy. It's no different than you or I leaving a job for another one that offers more in terms of money/career. I wonder if they sit there and curse at their co-workers under their breath if they leave for another job.

 

[Brandinho]

The Lesky Years. I wonder what DK's ultimate legacy will be say 20 years down the line.

What legacy? He won't have one. DK is only relevant to himself and a small group of weirdos in the 63rd largest city in America.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

I can't even imagine how DK's ego is handling this news today. I'm gonna take a guess and say not well

"DK's Ego" sounds like a good Twitter handle

 

[Fordy]

What I find funny are the people on Twitter who bash the people who left DK for the Athletic like they are greedy. It's no different than you or I leaving a job for another one that offers more in terms of money/career. I wonder if they sit there and curse at their co-workers under their breath if they leave for another job.

of course they do

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

What I find funny are the people on Twitter who bash the people who left DK for the Athletic like they are greedy. It's no different than you or I leaving a job for another one that offers more in terms of money/career. I wonder if they sit there and curse at their co-workers under their breath if they leave for another job.

Or leaving for another job where the boss isn't a toxic shit-heel.

 

[billybudd]

lol

He's probably right, but if they end up cornering the market with this business model, his condescension won't end up mattering very much.

 

[Winger for Hire]

Probably not the best look for them....

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/the-athletic-newspapers.html

“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them."

 

[cookthebooks]

seems pretty accurate though, everyone likes to say 'its a business' but isnt that what business looks like?

 

[Jacob]

Yeah, who cares?

 

[Shady Machine]

Probably not the best look for them....

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/the-athletic-newspapers.html

“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them."

Probably not great PR, but he's right and it's smart business strategy.

 

[Shrimper]

It's business but most will die out anyway.

Also DK Rt'd this;



It's clear he is hurt by the Athletic taking Kaboly and Yohe.

 

[Winger for Hire]

Probably not great PR, but he's right and it's smart business strategy.

I wholly agree.

It's just weird to see someone like that come straight out and be that blunt about it and I'm sure it's going to ruffle some writers/customers the wrong way.

 

[Jacob]

I wholly agree.

It's just weird to see someone like that come straight out and be that blunt about it and I'm sure it's going to ruffle some writers/customers the wrong way.

Reminds me of when the creators of that bodega vending machine thing came out and said they wanted to put bodegas out of business.

Just not something you say.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

It's business but most will die out anyway.

Also DK Rt'd this;



.

And next they will come for your wives and children! YOUR CHILDREN!!!!

 

[Shady Machine]

Ha DK, like you didn't try to do the same thing. You got played by bigger fish with more money. It happens.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

DK seems more obsessed with attacking The Athletic on twitter than he does talking about actual sports.

He's like an ex girlfriend who stalks the new girlfriend's instagram/Facebook to comment on how fat she looks in all her pictures.

 

[AjaxTelamon]

Probably not a lot of Athletic subscribers, but I figured I would give it a shot, and the best thing about it are Jesse's columns. He did one on Dumo's gap control from last night with video, really awesome. Dumo is a really smart, smooth D man.

 

[Jesse]

Probably not a lot of Athletic subscribers, but I figured I would give it a shot, and the best thing about it are Jesse's columns. He did one on Dumo's gap control from last night with video, really awesome. Dumo is a really smart, smooth D man.

Glad you enjoyed it!

 

[Rusty Razor]

The Athletic's business model is basically the same as Amazon's was for books. It works.

 

[ColePens]

Probably not a lot of Athletic subscribers, but I figured I would give it a shot, and the best thing about it are Jesse's columns. He did one on Dumo's gap control from last night with video, really awesome. Dumo is a really smart, smooth D man.

You know.. a bunch of us get crushed for praising Dumo and the stat watchers just point to no goals/assists. This is the type of hockey talk we need. Thank you, @Jesse . That's such an underrated facet of the game.

 

[billybudd]

DK seems more obsessed with attacking The Athletic on twitter than he does talking about actual sports.

He's like an ex girlfriend who stalks the new girlfriend's instagram/Facebook to comment on how fat she looks in all her pictures.

They're an existential threat to him. It's no different than a guy with a local electronics store seething over Best Buy a generation ago--or Best Buy seething over Amazon now.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Hell, hate DK all you want, but he's got a point there. And if you're supporting the Athletic because you want high-quality journalism, their approach is going to provide the exact opposite.

f***, this sucks because I was actually kinda liking the Athletic before this.