Boss moves.
I met Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, many years ago in New York and was impressed by both his vision and his approach. He seemed to know where the future of sport was headed and was guiding basketball there, turning its stars into international sensations. He was also very aware that he had an opportunity to grow a fanbase far beyond the United States of America’s borders. People watching, engaging, following the world over was what mattered and so he pivoted hard from the NFL and MLB models of restricting access to certain channels, suing wildly when logos, team names appeared anywhere unsanctioned etc. and let people take games, highlight clips, all of it and do what they pleased.
A winning strategy and now the NBA has more fans than the once all-powerful NFL.
Well, the World Surf League has decided that it has too many fans and, days ago, followed the iron fist model refusing for its surf contests to be embedded anywhere not Facebook, YouTube or worldsurfleague.com.
Forcing its fans to live inside “foil king” Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse.
Completely idiotic, I think. Santa Monica should be begging for any sort of engagement they can get, any sweet boy or girl to care about Conner O’Leary somewhere, anywhere. They should be trying to hide their player on each and every surf or surf-adjacent website out there but no, I suppose. Too many fans already, I guess.
David Lee Scales and I discussed Ben Gravy’s wedding for about three-times as long as we did Haleiwa yesterday, in any case. Maybe another worrying sign co-Waterperson of the Year Dirk Ziff and crew.
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Two things:
1. It’s not helpful to my state as an ex-alcoholic to continually hear about your booze escapades. My fault I guess.
2. A side note. When did Snips become Governor of Missouri? He looks like shit these days. I guess moving inland hasn’t done him much good.
Nice try.
Snips is Mike Parsons – plural.
Governor of Misery is Mike Parson – singular.
Billy Ray was a parson’s son and when his daddy would visit he’d come along.
Do you think Zuck would go foiling during his honeymoon Chas?…
NonJohn wonders if Zuck gives Kai Lenny a big wave, world traveling, 2M likes, electric foil, live streamed boner. And that’s after only two rum rations down my gullet!
Haaa! Banned again with a new handle soon.
Haven’t checked out BG for an entire week. What have I missed?
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I see you’ve enlarged your pallet and moved towards Fauvism.
It’s not ‘faux jism’ though.
It’s real jism in this real ‘fauxto’…
Hahaaa. Cunts.
Ask the Raiders how well the game black-out policy worked for them?
All the nba seemed to do was pivot to a chinese audience. Makes sense bigger population more money. The wsl should do the same, the lineups will be full of commies
Who is Conner O’Leary? That a wannabe Connor O’Leary, the pro surfer? Our stealth journalist, Charlie Smith has more on this distinction as the story develops, assuming he logs on to FB, YouTube, or WSL to find out the basic names of the pro surfers about whom he journalizes.
Frankly, I’ve had it up to here with the name Connor/er. It’s as bad as remembering preferred pronouns.
Conn/fusing.
It wouldn’t be BeechGrit without the typos.
Any relation to Bondi’s own Derek O’Rielly ?
(the areas foremost whoop wearing, Guiness tippling, ruggedly handsome, Irish Hasidic, real estate aware, Jew-Jitsu wrestling, occasional scribe, man about town)
Swellnet seemed to have figured it out how to make it work.
Oh. Maybe it’s my fault. Or maybe Swellnet is part of the vast WSL conspiracy.
Does that mean we can’t all watch it on here anymore? Together?
We can watch elsewhere then comment here.
uggh. soo much work.
Probably you fault.
From the Woz’s perspective Swellnet is also viewed as a pain in the arse.
Swellnet have Longtom on the payroll.
So do the wOsl, probably…
“Santa Monica should be begging for any sort of engagement they can get, any sweet boy or girl to care about Conner O’Leary somewhere, anywhere.”
No need! Bicko’s already doing the WSL’s work for them on that one.