as my good friend shea says, support people who do cool shit so they can keep doing cool shit. looking forward to your posts about arcane olympic sports that i'll immediately fall in love with.
Thanks for doing this. I'm looking forward to seeing how Read Rodge develops, in large part because I've missed reading you at The Ringer. And just to second a comment below: for me, your writing is the thing; I'm not a podcast person.
I also wanted to say that I appreciate the clear statement about both why you're making the content free and why you need financial support. And so, to be clear in my turn, I don't subscribe to many paid Substacks/newsletters (TPM for politics; for sports: Joe Posnanski, Mike Tanier, and Holly Anderson's Channel 6, which sent me your way via a recent link) because so many of them fizzle out. But I really do enjoy your writing, and so ... I'm very open to moving up to a paid tier of support, but I want to see how things develop for a bit.
I hope you both enjoy this new project and are able to make it a success.
I love this. You are a super funny writer. I’ve loved your work on the Ringer. MMQB and particularly the list of Bears QBs since 1985 (I have sent that to many friends and now we can hope, again!). I’m similar to you. Like, I never really watch movies anymore. Nothing against them but when would I do that? And miss an NBA game? Or NFL? Or the Tour de France? Or the US Open? OR the swimming nationals? And damnit, American Ninja Warrior is on and I can’t change the channel. I’ll pay up too.
You must know Kelly Dwyer. He’s a kindred soul full of insight, wit and obsession about the NBA. I’ve paid for him for years.
My big request: please always WRITE. I hate podcasts. I mean go head and to those things to but not at the expense of writing. It’s an art, you have a gift. I just canceled Ethan Strauss cause he doesn’t write enough. I really miss Bill Simmons writing and to me, he was better when he wrote.
as my good friend shea says, support people who do cool shit so they can keep doing cool shit. looking forward to your posts about arcane olympic sports that i'll immediately fall in love with.
Thanks for doing this. I'm looking forward to seeing how Read Rodge develops, in large part because I've missed reading you at The Ringer. And just to second a comment below: for me, your writing is the thing; I'm not a podcast person.
I also wanted to say that I appreciate the clear statement about both why you're making the content free and why you need financial support. And so, to be clear in my turn, I don't subscribe to many paid Substacks/newsletters (TPM for politics; for sports: Joe Posnanski, Mike Tanier, and Holly Anderson's Channel 6, which sent me your way via a recent link) because so many of them fizzle out. But I really do enjoy your writing, and so ... I'm very open to moving up to a paid tier of support, but I want to see how things develop for a bit.
I hope you both enjoy this new project and are able to make it a success.
I love this. You are a super funny writer. I’ve loved your work on the Ringer. MMQB and particularly the list of Bears QBs since 1985 (I have sent that to many friends and now we can hope, again!). I’m similar to you. Like, I never really watch movies anymore. Nothing against them but when would I do that? And miss an NBA game? Or NFL? Or the Tour de France? Or the US Open? OR the swimming nationals? And damnit, American Ninja Warrior is on and I can’t change the channel. I’ll pay up too.
You must know Kelly Dwyer. He’s a kindred soul full of insight, wit and obsession about the NBA. I’ve paid for him for years.
My big request: please always WRITE. I hate podcasts. I mean go head and to those things to but not at the expense of writing. It’s an art, you have a gift. I just canceled Ethan Strauss cause he doesn’t write enough. I really miss Bill Simmons writing and to me, he was better when he wrote.