Used to love it but am genuinely so bored at this point. Only doing 2 leagues this year and honestly would rather do zero. In any competitive league its just luck, whether you beat the guys who aren’t fish. I also hate talking to dudes about their fantasy teams, I don’t think I have ever had an insightful or interesting conversation about it.

Fennessey's mild critique of ChatGPT was interesting only b/c no prominent Ringer employee has ever publicly criticized the company or Bill (CR, Fennessey, Dobbins, etc.).

made me realize how vested his core group is - almost all of them have been hosting the same podcast for 10 - 15 years at this point. seems like that would inevitably lead to 1) a realization you'll never find a better set up in terms of pay and stabilty, 2) boredom and stagnation. they're also almost uniformly 40+.

you can't talk about the same stuff for over a decade and find it as fresh as you did previously. furthermore, the industry is pushing them more into 'performers' than anything resembling cultural critics/journalists.

Someone posted recently about this and I meant to chime in. Before The Ringer became a TV network, I always pictured the great Matt Walsh when I listened to House's sage gambling wisdom on the BS pod. Chatgbt called the comparison a "pretty sophisticated version of the House hallucination. 😂"

The Ringers David Shoemaker has written a Hulk Hogan book- Why Hulk Hogan Matters.

It is getting killed by wrestling historians. The book is clearly written with chat gpt and some of the dates and venues are wrong that can be easily googled.

The proxy wars have only just begun

"Hey Sal, have you ever gotten your son's girlfriend investigated by the state gaming commission, and surveilled by the Feds? Well..."