The Athletic keeps growing .......

I listen to podcasts almost constantly and I subscribe to The Athletic, but if it’s not going to come through my normal podcast app I’m probably not going to listen.

 

Also, there’s a lot of fucking podcasts these days

 

Because the world needs more gab-fest sports podcasts where the hosts talk nothing but insider fart jokes and where you can get the best alphabet soup in Brooklyn

 

I tried listening to one and it was beyond terrible.

There is nothing worse than the podcast of four poorly recorded guys just talking. I tried to listen to a basketball podcast they're doing and it started with several minutes of "What up?" "What's up with your fuckin' dog? " "My fuckin' weekend was OK."

Seriously, NO ONE wants to listen to that.

 

There’s a podcast I liked — on local history — but I had to stop listening, mostly because it sounded like it was being recorded on a crappy Maxell cassette from 1992 using a $10 stick mic from Radio Shack.

 

Surprised The Athletic has added sound. They seemed to be doing well with the model that they are different from newspapers that try to do so many things they do them all poorly. Newspaper suits for some reason think the way to succeed is to make their reporters work every day (60 to 70 pay 40), take video every day, hold podcasts several days a week and take pictures every day. I thought The Athletic was different, giving their reporters time to do quality work. What's the update on The Athletic? Is it revolutionizing the industry still? Or not?

 

If it’s making a profit, it’s revolutionizing the industry. The bar is pretty low at the moment.

 

Heard a rumor they’ve hired Paul Lench to cover Hockey East

 

They just hired Adam Jahns from the Chicago Sun-Times to cover the Bears. Not sure if he's an addition or a replacement.

What can you expect from Adam Jahns? Stories about Matt,...

 

Curious what you all thought about Jason Quick’s story from last night in Portland. He wrote what appears to be about 1,500 words and left the final score until the final graph.

Did it work? Is it less essential to get the score in early at times when just about everyone reading the story already knows how it ended?

A game was won. A series had changed. How perseverance...