I haven't yet seen the show but that clip suggests that Affleck, indeed, seems to be under the influence of something. He was kind of slurring but who knows. He definitely seems "off".
I'd bet it changes each week. John Oliver's show has a different pre-roll that stays within the same theme before each episode as well.It was ok. I liked the Barkley part and Bill definitely guided and protected him so other athletes will feel safe, but Affleck was a waste of time and no one cares about deflategate. Hell, the thread here has finally taken a nap! And did they need a deflated football in the opening montage? Unless they are changing that each week to match the conversation it makes no sense to put it there.
I'll give this show a few weeks to hit it's stride.
He was definitely in the bag. Compare this appearance with the one he made on Maher's show. He's slurring and stumbling all over the place.I haven't yet seen the show but that clip suggests that Affleck, indeed, seems to be under the influence of something. He was kind of slurring but who knows. He definitely seems "off".
The tweet ended with "Thats it" I can't embed tweets from work. It was a denial. I don't really care if its true or not, just passing on information.So a non-denial?
the DeVito Gambit!Or he was still drunk from the night before.
I got the distinct impression from that article that Mary McNamara was annoyed that her assignment to review AGW interrupted her viewing of the House of Representatives protests. Not that she's wrong in her conclusions about Simmons but that was a strange piece of writing.I thought that the LA Times had a good summation of Episode 1:
"HBO's 'Any Given Wednesday' confirms it: Bill Simmons just isn't good on television"
Isn't that the way people from Boston always talk?I also thought that Bill (and Ben, to some extent) were consciously taking advantage of being on "premium cable" and using Fuck more often than they would have in ordinary conversation.
Fuckin' A right, pal.Isn't that the way people from Boston always talk?
Yeah, he just looks/sounds exhausted to me. Add in jet lag and I think that's quite a plausible explanation.Affleck was filming batman in London and had flown in that am
And/or he got totally sauced on the planeYeah, he just looks/sounds exhausted to me. Add in jet lag and I think that's quite a plausible explanation.
Even when I was just looking to kill time and watch something last night, I couldn't bring myself to watch it on HBOGO. I'll likely give eps 2 and 3 a whirl at some point, but it's definitely not a must-watch. The weird thing is that I really enjoyed his ESPN basketball show, so I should be a target viewer for this show.Is anyone here still watching?
Viewer drop this week from 362,000 to 276,000.
Obstacle Course racing on ESPN2 at the same time brought in 220,000.
I thought the Bosh insight was good, but otherwise the episode was a snooze. If I liked ufc I might have been more into it.Is anyone here still watching?
Viewer drop this week from 362,000 to 276,000.
Obstacle Course racing on ESPN2 at the same time brought in 220,000.
Even I'm not watching it, though.The demographic for this seems so small, like the college-educated, well-compensated users of Twitter. It's journalists and the people who pretend to work in front of computers all day who also follow sports like a religion.
Yeah, I tried watching it and it just seemed so dull and low energy. I couldn't last five minutes (yeah yeah story of my life).I think other users have mentioned this before but I've always found Bill to be someone you listen to while on the way to work, at the gym, waiting your turn at the hairdresser's, etc. He's just not captivating enough to warrant actively sitting down and watching him attentively (imo).
I just read the article on awful announcing and they have the exact opposite from week 1-2, in that it went from 276k to 362k. So, according to them, his ratings rose 39% from the first to second episode.Is anyone here still watching?
Viewer drop this week from 362,000 to 276,000.
Obstacle Course racing on ESPN2 at the same time brought in 220,000.