I miss Grantland... The Ringer is such a pale shadow of what it is supposed to be a reboot of. Even in the final days as a dying ship coasting along under ESPN

I miss Grantland... The Ringer is such a pale shadow of what it is supposed to be a reboot of. Even in the final days as a dying ship coasting along under ESPN's baleful glare, it was more consistently decent, and sometimes put out some truly great long-form pieces. Now it's just kind of meh - and it's on Medium, so it's got all the weird navigation and paralax jumbotron image flair. And Simmons still hasn't written a fricking mailbag. He's becoming the GRRM of homer sports blowhards.