Jonathan Snowden writes up "The Night Of The Banana Hammock At UFC 133" at MMA Nation.
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ya that hammock was kinda rough
thankfully Hallman got finished by Ebersole
I would have been sad for Ebersole cause who wants to loose to dude dressed like that
hilarious as it was, I have been waiting for someone to push it to the limit with the speedo for some time, makes lots of folks nervous….
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by ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ on Aug 7, 2011 12:06 AM EDT reply actions
hopefully no one wears anything like that again
Forget making people nervous. At one point his balls actually came out you could see them clearly.
i hate when they do that link articles from mma nation.
what is BE going under or something?
by BIGNAT on Aug 7, 2011 12:10 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Do you hate it when they link to articles from every other MMA site on the web? This is a blog. Linking to articles is what we do.
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by Jonathan Snowden on Aug 7, 2011 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Or you could just, you know, publish the article on BE.
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by Discman2 on Aug 7, 2011 12:36 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
There are reasons
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/7/26/2294706/introducing-mma-nation
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by Jonathan Snowden on Aug 7, 2011 12:46 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah I read that at the time
I think that the most salient thing said during the post was that MMANation is an attempt to please advertisers. This is like the Gawker change over only less sudden. If MMANation is really an independent news source then let it stand alone. Can you explain to me how the article linked fits a “professional journalistic site.” The constant linking to articles on that site makes clear that there is really no distinction between it and BE.
It seems as though the articles linke to MMA Nation
are written by the same writers of BE so it just seems weird to have to go to another site to read a story by writers who usually write for this site. Other articles typically linked to other sights are for the “full” article or interview where BE writers usually take a piece of that interview or article and write something about it that we comment on. All of the MMA Nation articles, we just get the title and have to go to MMA Nation to read it then back here to comment on it. This is not “business as usual”. Something weird and different is going on. Its like having to go to Google+ to see what my friends are doing, then go back to facebook to comment o comment it. Why don’t I just join Google+ and forget about facebook? Why don’t I just join MMA Nation and forget about BE?
No. I just think I’m just gonna ignore every link I see to MMA Nation and just click on links to other articles or interviews where I can at least read some of it here and CHOOSE to read the rest of it on the link, not be FORCED to read the article at MMA Nation based just on the title of the article here. Why not just post the full articles here? I think BE sold out or is in the process of selling out and it sucks.
Just Breed!
by ScoreCardOTN on Aug 7, 2011 12:46 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 7 recs
Are you out of mind?
What does it fucking matters what you read and from where as long as it is good? Why won’t you go to the mmanation website? The sites and writers are interconnected.
I hope you change your mind. We are working hard to create some good content and I’m as happy with my “52 Things I Love About MMA” and “Minus 100” series as I’ve been with anything I’ve ever written online.
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by Jonathan Snowden on Aug 7, 2011 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
As am I John
Great series.
It takes great work and thinking to keep from doing work.
by tito (eight and oh) on Aug 7, 2011 8:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Excuse me
Jon.
It takes great work and thinking to keep from doing work.
by tito (eight and oh) on Aug 7, 2011 8:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually I think the content is great
In fact I would say the average article over there is better than the average one here (something to do with the experience writers migrating there) but the formatting kills me. Maybe I will get used to it, but its a struggle.
I agree
I don’t don’t get the point of taking BE writers to make a separate blog that is so distinct that every article written over there needs to be linked to on BE.
by MrPants on Aug 7, 2011 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
If it isn't any different
Then just include it on BE itself or double post the article on both so that the audience can use their preferred forum. Splitting content into two blogs and then posting links to everything MMANation does on BE is silly and makes reading the article less convenient. The message it sends is that the BE staff care little about the user experience if it means they can pull out more ad dollars.
MMANation
is not a blog site per say more of a news website. Though the blog engine looks the same (which is in my eyes the best both in its graphics and functionality) MMANation is a part of a larger sports website just like Yahoo Sports that covers different areas. BE is more of a community based blogs, since they are under the same umbrella sharing stories is way to bring cross traffic to use both. Nothing wrong about that.
Go read the article
it is not something that you would see on a professional news site. If they want to split of the news section to be more like yahoo and the op/ed stuff for BE great, but then let them be separate. What is the point of carving out some of BE’s articles and putting them on another site just to fanpost every article back onto BE?
Take a look
at the articles on Yahoo sports news or the ESPN news they are very opinionated with catchy headlines. Generating traffic to the new MMANation is a regular business practice. Nation is newly remodeled and the company wants to get more traffic to it, I can just assume that BE and the other websites under the umbrella like Gals and Mania will serve as a channels to the main SB Nation website.
MMA nation is taking over
And I don’t like it
Let the fighters fight, let the referees ref, but dear God, don't let the judges judge.
by halitosis on Aug 7, 2011 12:18 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I made poorly formatted fan post on this fight...
In it, I attempted to posit that Hallman was trying to either upstage or distract Ebersole with his banana hammock, and, that it almost worked…
Big respect to Brian Ebersole for weathering the storm, and knocking the shinola out of Hallman for his audacity.
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WTF!!!! Fighting in that will be illegal after tonight! Anyone want to grapple with hallman?
I thought the hammock was hilarious
Seems most others people did not
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I was amused, but me thinks they forgot about Gustafsson’s short shorts as well.
by The Inebriated Tentacle on Aug 7, 2011 2:12 AM EDT up reply actions
In the era of board and cargo shorts, it was like seeing a European at the beach. Not a pretty sight.
Huuur durrrrrr
I’ve never considered you were clever Snowden but that’s dumb even by your standards.
thanks for saving me any further clicks to MMAnation.
Well, anybody who knows me knows I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true. Or what did or didn't happen.
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by Jonathan Snowden on Aug 7, 2011 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I see your Borat and raise you one Dickhouse
A Borat angle would actually have been funny though. Why didn’t you go for this rather than for your star spangled equivalent of “lol americans are fat” ?
Well, anybody who knows me knows I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true. Or what did or didn't happen.
Some miserable, cantankerous people around today! You get to read stuff posted by MMA’s best writer for FREE, yet complain you have to click on your mouse one more time than you’d like for the pleasure. Get over it!
by sheikybaby on Aug 7, 2011 7:48 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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