New site to offer way for fans to get content from athletes without media filter.
http://www.theplayerstribune.com
http://www.theplayerstribune.com
Monbo Jumbo said:Now that he's retired, we'll get to see the full range of his business skills.
drleather2001 said:Great. Sanitized bullshit.
This is going to be the "Tiger Beat" of baseball sites.
Monbo Jumbo said:Now that he's retired, we'll get to see the full range of his business skills.
Considering that press release reads like a buzzword bingo card, nor will it be "interesting", "informative", or "entertaining"terrynever said:Michael Jordan did something like this in the mid-1990s. I sat on a plane next to a guy who ghost-wrote stuff for Jordan's corporation. So this isn't original.
Average Reds said:“We want to have a way to connect directly with our fans, with no filter.”
So says the man who needed a ghostwriter for his farewell letter to NY .....
JohntheBaptist said:edit--or alternately, the idea that anyone actually wants reality/ the truth about Derek Jeter is hilarious. His strategy of offering nothing as a persona worked out as well as anything could possibly work out for a human being in any endeavor, and his response? "Now I'm going to show you the real me!" which is either profoundly stupid or just the kind of lie the website will tell you everytime you visit it.
Yes, I know. I was saying there's a means to ubiquity that doesn't involve slowly chipping away at an element of what gave you a monolithic kind of fame and adulation above and beyond your peers, especially considering the better part of it--being a baseball player--is over.MentalDisabldLst said:
The longer he stays in the public eye, the longer he'll getto bang modelsendorsement dollars. He doesn't need to be less bland, but he's facing a future where he's less ubiquitous. That isn't nearly as profitable as being NYC's top star athlete.
I'll wager on the former.lars10 said:I'm just wondering…will there be gift baskets with every interview? or membership?
terrynever said:Russell Wilson first contributor to Players' Tribune. Not boring. Story on ESPN.com
http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=11628596
DennyDoyle'sBoil said:
There's something about this story that really pisses me off. I cannot put my finger on it. Facially, it seems like he's doing a good thing, but it's really rubbing me the wrong way.
I'm looking forward to SOSH sussing it out and then I can present that opinion as my own.
MyDaughterLovesTomGordon said:What I most dislike about these kinds of ventures - football on football, or whatever it's called, is the same basic idea - is that they kind of presuppose that the writing profession has apparently sunk so low that people no longer see value in it.
Just imagine if Ted Williams was the one telling the story of his last game at Fenway instead of John Updike: "It was great, and those cocksucker writers can't tell ya any different."
There are people who are actually good at writing, and I would hope that people still value the stories that they can suss out of athletes and contribute to the experience of enjoying sports. Of course, some players may be good writers, but it's absurd to think most of them are, or that the most interesting among them happen to be.
I know athletes get frustrated by feeling they're misrepresented, etc., but most of the time, isn't "misrepresented" just a form of regret?
MyDaughterLovesTomGordon said:Just imagine if Ted Williams was the one telling the story of his last game at Fenway instead of John Updike: "It was great, and those cocksucker writers can't tell ya any different."
drleather2001 said:
Because he is selling his own redemption story. It's 100% self serving. Instead of merely being "Superbowl Winning Russel Wilson", he's now added the contrived human interest angle of " Hardscrabble, Street Tough, Former Punk, Saved by Christ, Superbowl Winning Russel Wilson: What an Incredible Story!"
Not only is it calculated, it's not even that notable. Lots of talented athletes were fucking assholes growing up. Anybody who wasn't a star athlete in high school has at least one story of a star athlete being a raging prick. It's like he went down the checklist of "Human Interest Story" cliches ("Hmmm, was I exceptionally poor? No. Was I an immigrant who didn't know the language? No. Was I deformed as a child? No. Was I a drug dealer, at least? No. Umm...Well, I WAS a fucking bully...")
Russel Wilson: you were an asshole until you achieved a dream that 99.999% of kids don't have a chance at. Congrats on not being an asshole anymore, I guess?
EDIT: I just noticed that he was *saved* (at 14!) by his faith. What a wonderful story!
drleather2001 said:
Because he is selling his own redemption story. It's 100% self serving. Instead of merely being "Superbowl Winning Russel Wilson", he's now added the contrived human interest angle of " Hardscrabble, Street Tough, Former Punk, Saved by Christ, Superbowl Winning Russel Wilson: What an Incredible Story!"
Not only is it calculated, it's not even that notable. Lots of talented athletes were fucking assholes growing up. Anybody who wasn't a star athlete in high school has at least one story of a star athlete being a raging prick. It's like he went down the checklist of "Human Interest Story" cliches ("Hmmm, was I exceptionally poor? No. Was I an immigrant who didn't know the language? No. Was I deformed as a child? No. Was I a drug dealer, at least? No. Umm...Well, I WAS a fucking bully...")
Russel Wilson: you were an asshole until you achieved a dream that 99.999% of kids don't have a chance at. Congrats on not being an asshole anymore, I guess?
EDIT: I just noticed that he was *saved* (at 14!) by his faith. What a wonderful story!