As we have separate threads for Simmons and Grantland, thought it would make sense to have threads for both Posnanski and Sports On Earth.
So far SOE has lived up to my lofty expectations. There's almost too much good stuff to read. Mike Tanier is IMO the best of the outstanding new breed of NFL writers and his division previews have been solid. Will Leitch almost never writes anything that I agree with but his columns are always readable. Leigh Montville is a serious profile writer who I hope is going to contribute as often as his early output for SOE suggests.
The quality-to-crap ratio on SOE has been outstanding. I don't know if SOE necessarily has more great content than Grantland, but to date it definitely has less poor content.
The comments section is civil and about as reasonable as you could hope for from an open-to-anyone comments section. I think that's an extension of the Pos blog where the comments are so civil they sometimes cross over into fanboyism. On the downside, however, most of the posts aren't generating many comments. All things considered it's been an awfully quiet launch for a site that has a ton of talent and some big money brands behind it. Hopefully things will pick up on good word-of-mouth. They're putting out a quality product.
So far SOE has lived up to my lofty expectations. There's almost too much good stuff to read. Mike Tanier is IMO the best of the outstanding new breed of NFL writers and his division previews have been solid. Will Leitch almost never writes anything that I agree with but his columns are always readable. Leigh Montville is a serious profile writer who I hope is going to contribute as often as his early output for SOE suggests.
The quality-to-crap ratio on SOE has been outstanding. I don't know if SOE necessarily has more great content than Grantland, but to date it definitely has less poor content.
The comments section is civil and about as reasonable as you could hope for from an open-to-anyone comments section. I think that's an extension of the Pos blog where the comments are so civil they sometimes cross over into fanboyism. On the downside, however, most of the posts aren't generating many comments. All things considered it's been an awfully quiet launch for a site that has a ton of talent and some big money brands behind it. Hopefully things will pick up on good word-of-mouth. They're putting out a quality product.