Luckily the team here can follow their “ignore it til it goes away" playbook from the Greg Howard situation.

Honestly, those bloggers fetishization of the Wizards (and other) players always felt somewhere between uncomfortable and wack as hell.

Megan could have put links to those to actually give examples - like she did elsewhere in this blog.

It is telling she did not.

Greg Howard

As someone who wondered the same thing about Cycle when I heard the CEO on Simmons podcast - and work in digital marketing for a national consumer brand - I think I can best summarize as follows:

LW,

Here’s the thing though, as much as SBNation is propping up those minor team sites, SBNation relies on the ad revenue generated by those sites. They sell programmatic ads, and in order to meet impressions goals, they need the incremental (tho small in a vacuum) traffic that those sites bring.

This comment is the equivalent of reading a well-researched takedown piece of NCAA injustices and saying “ok ok but Coach Cal still one of the good guys, amirite guys?!”

Excellent piece. Thank you for writing it. Several of my friends wrote for a blog that was acquired by SBNation, were required to meet volume post metrics that changed the content of the site (for $800/mo they split between the five of them) before ultimately leaving their passion project behind in the hands of…

Where was this WOKE POP in the 15 months leading up to the election? Given sports media/bball twitter/THE JUMP crew fawning over and discussing his every word, seems these predictable viewpoints may have better served to achieve a purpose prior to, not immediately and months after, the election.

“Spencer Hall, who was on vacation, said he skimmed the story and noticed issues, but did not act”