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Barstool Sports now owned by New Yorkers
By adamg on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 2:58pm
And is moving to Manhattan (put the earbuds in if you play the video at work, unless, of course, you work at Barstool).
David Portnoy is staying on as El Presidente.
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Our gain is their loss.
Our gain is their loss.
How the Hell did we con New York into taking that garbage off our hands?
Garbage....
Viva la Stool!
Bahstool
---> Bwarstool
"Mom's Basement!"
Sources place the sale in the $25-$34 mil range.
$25M to get him out of his
$25M to get him out of his mom's basement.....must have topped the 5 grand that his dad offered for him to move. Good luck in New York.....another worm for the Big Apple.
El Stool Sample
There can't possibly be a bigger DB tool anywhere on the east coast. He acts like putting a half dressed woman (and I use the term LOOSEly) on the cover was his own personal idea.
Has almost NO actual sports in it.
Unreadable.
Did I mention I can't stand that guy and his phony self important attitude?
Please tell me he's moving away. My crystal ball has him quitting and starting another rag in 2 years that will fail miserably forcing him to move in with his aging mom and dad for the remainder of his life.
You're very uninformed.
You're very uninformed.
lol
Completely unsurprising that you're a fan.
You may be surprised who
You may be surprised who their fans are :)
not really
If you're saying that you're a fan too, that is also pretty unsurprising.
I'm a fan
All the guys I work with are fans, cousins, uncles, my father and my friends. What's unsurprising is how ignorant you are to the sites popularity.
I don't think they're saying
I don't think they're saying that it's surprising that they have fans. We all know there's no shortage of paint-huffing misogynists out there.
Large numbers of fans doesn't mean they're not
beyond reproach. Many terrible things have large followings.
I enjoy vulgar, lowbrow humor, but I found the Stools' ongoing date-rapey vibe repugnant.
Are you new to reading? I
Are you new to reading? I said I was unsurprised, both times.
What's also unsurprising is that all the people in your life are dummy douchebags.
SAT questions
Maybe anon thinks unsurprising is to surprising as flammable is to inflammable.
Thanks! Obviously you've
Thanks! Obviously you've spent more time getting to know me than I have of you.
I'm flattered!
Well informed, I'd say
When this rag first appeared, I picked up a few copies, hoping to read something interesting about local sports. There was almost nothing about sports at all in it.
Very uninformed
When this rag first appeared, it was all sports gambling picks.
How Barstool Sports Uses Social Media As A Weapon
It’s also a profoundly despicable corner of the Internet, where writers cater to the misogynistic underbelly of sports fans and revel in its piggishness. Complete with a “Girls” section highlighting the scribes’ favorite scantily clad women, Barstool deals in masturbatory, self-aggrandizing sexism. They call female reporters sluts, and gained notoriety when they ran a story about the size of Tom Brady’s young son’s genitals. They revel in “bringing back the word “cunt.”
You know, “guy stuff.”
https://thecauldron.si.com/how-barstool-sports-uses-social-media-as-a-we...
Yes...
Written on a blog that has a link to their swimsuit models showing more skin than any barstool "scantily clad woman".
Which Kind of shows
That you either missed the entire point of the article or just didn't read it. Showing women in swimsuits and calling women the C word are just a trifle bit different.
ps. you're a moron.
Please
Oh no, the C word? Oh the horror.
PS- Fuck you.
Let me fill you in
Hate him if you will but here's a hint..this guy will not forced to move in with his parents at any point in his life (as long as he doesn't blow all his money). The guy is worth millions if you can believe it. It may chap your ass but this guy has it made and we're all just a little bit jealous of him. The brand he created is much more than a simple rag. Heck, the guy is hanging out with athletes on the regular. He clearly is doing something right.
Actually, no.
He's a third-rate pornographer who cashed in by pandering to the grossest, dumbest, most misogynistic subset of American bro culture. Admiring his payday is like applauding the executives at W.R. Grace who got rich while they poisoned the water of Woburn residents.
Pick better heroes, thick-wit.
New York is a caldron for sports news.
Lots to work with. You will not get dead spin from guys like Francesa or Vinny from the Bronx or Joe in Massapequa. Smoke shows like Domenic Donut from Queens or Hector Talkinabout in Jersey will attract more readers.
They still exist?
I haven't seen one of their papers, or their newsboxes, in years.
yup
They're online...and just sold for $25,000,000 to $30,000,000.