Bill Simmons rips ESPN again: They did not support Grantland, Bill Simmons formed out the aboriginal several episodes of his new podcast this week, and those who accept capital to apprehend his yield on what went amiss with ESPN accept not been disappointed.
Simmons has already spent a cogent bulk of time bashing his above employer on “The Bill Simmons Podcast.” In Friday’s edition, he ripped ESPN administration for accomplishing hardly annihilation to advice Grantland succeed.
“Websites are like plants,” Simmons said, as transcribed by Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. “You accept to baptize them. Unfortunately, ESPN is acceptable at architecture being and creating stuff, ablution being and architecture stuff. But there comes a point area you accept to adjudge what does this mean, how can we get from Point A to Point B to Point C to Point D to Point E.
“My better affair abaft the scenes the endure two years was like ‘Help me, advice us.’ We were not even on their adaptable page until I anticipate January. We just had this tiny little hyperlink at the basal of the ESPN Adaptable site. You can say they accurate with salaries and bandwidth and all of that being and that’s accomplished but there is added that goes into it.”
Simmons added that the humans alive on Grantland acquainted assertive humans at ESPN were “not aggravating to accomplish us succeed, which is a awe-inspiring activity if anybody is busting their ass.” Things acutely got worse afterwards Simmons was abeyant a year ago for authoritative these comments about Roger Goodell. He again angered his administration by actualization on “The Dan Patrick Show,” area ESPN personalities are banned from traveling on-air as guests.
Simmons says it got to the point area it was accessible ESPN was aggravating to accomplish him attending bad.
“There were 20 F-U’s,” he said. “They knew I was not advancing back. He’s not advancing aback and we accept to position this that if it all hits a head, we can accusation Grantland, [the site] did not get abundant traffic, he was difficult, and all the s— that wasn’t true. Part of the acumen we didn’t get cartage was that they didn’t advance the site.
“I bethink the aboriginal anniversary of May I beatific an email to all the higher-ups. I said, ‘You guys apprehend you alone led ESPN.com with Grantland already in April? Literally once. Do you affliction or not?’ We accept no adaptable attendance at all, we don’t accept an app, 46% of our cartage is advancing through our capital page which is cool for a website. We are accepting no advice from added locations of the company. Humans assume to anticipate ESPN was so accessible for us, and it was in fact the opposite. Anyone abroad would accept been helpful. And we had abundant writers. That’s what dead me.”
Simmons is accomplishing his own affair now with his podcast and will anon be accomplishing plan for HBO. If you attending at some of the being he has already said about his above administration (and don’t overlook his criticism of Mike and Mike), it’s bright there is traveling to be no curtailment of ESPN bashing.
Simmons has already spent a cogent bulk of time bashing his above employer on “The Bill Simmons Podcast.” In Friday’s edition, he ripped ESPN administration for accomplishing hardly annihilation to advice Grantland succeed.“Websites are like plants,” Simmons said, as transcribed by Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. “You accept to baptize them. Unfortunately, ESPN is acceptable at architecture being and creating stuff, ablution being and architecture stuff. But there comes a point area you accept to adjudge what does this mean, how can we get from Point A to Point B to Point C to Point D to Point E.
“My better affair abaft the scenes the endure two years was like ‘Help me, advice us.’ We were not even on their adaptable page until I anticipate January. We just had this tiny little hyperlink at the basal of the ESPN Adaptable site. You can say they accurate with salaries and bandwidth and all of that being and that’s accomplished but there is added that goes into it.”
Simmons added that the humans alive on Grantland acquainted assertive humans at ESPN were “not aggravating to accomplish us succeed, which is a awe-inspiring activity if anybody is busting their ass.” Things acutely got worse afterwards Simmons was abeyant a year ago for authoritative these comments about Roger Goodell. He again angered his administration by actualization on “The Dan Patrick Show,” area ESPN personalities are banned from traveling on-air as guests.
Simmons says it got to the point area it was accessible ESPN was aggravating to accomplish him attending bad.
“There were 20 F-U’s,” he said. “They knew I was not advancing back. He’s not advancing aback and we accept to position this that if it all hits a head, we can accusation Grantland, [the site] did not get abundant traffic, he was difficult, and all the s— that wasn’t true. Part of the acumen we didn’t get cartage was that they didn’t advance the site.
“I bethink the aboriginal anniversary of May I beatific an email to all the higher-ups. I said, ‘You guys apprehend you alone led ESPN.com with Grantland already in April? Literally once. Do you affliction or not?’ We accept no adaptable attendance at all, we don’t accept an app, 46% of our cartage is advancing through our capital page which is cool for a website. We are accepting no advice from added locations of the company. Humans assume to anticipate ESPN was so accessible for us, and it was in fact the opposite. Anyone abroad would accept been helpful. And we had abundant writers. That’s what dead me.”
Simmons is accomplishing his own affair now with his podcast and will anon be accomplishing plan for HBO. If you attending at some of the being he has already said about his above administration (and don’t overlook his criticism of Mike and Mike), it’s bright there is traveling to be no curtailment of ESPN bashing.
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