Bill Simmons using JJhuddle as his "hypothetical" in his latest article.

• j_crazy

  

  Read the article Simmons posted to ESPN.com Friday and tell me he didn't channel JJ when coming up with that hypothetical. It's fucking eery the similarities (the numbers are inflated, no doubt, but still).
  
  Greed is Good in NFL Labor Talks
  
  

  Bill Simmons wrote:I decide to leave ESPN, start my own blog and charge $10 per year for anyone to read my column. Just for fun -- again, it's hypothetical! -- let's say one million readers sign up, guaranteeing me $10 million for that first year (2007). And let's say I sign advertising deals with three sponsors for another $2 million apiece, raising my total haul to $16 million for Year 1. I spend the next 12 months writing and pinching myself for my good fortune. Life is good.
  
  Fast-forward to December 2007. I just learned something about myself. I don't like it. I know it's wrong. I can't shake it. I can't deny it. See, I really, really like money. Even if I never imagined making $16 million in my lifetime, much less for a single year, I now find myself smitten by those dollar signs. How much more can I make? How high can this go? Someday, I want my financial adviser to cackle and say, "Good Lord, I don't even know what to do with all this cash flow." That's what I want.
  
  Hence, I need to raise the total value of my "franchise." I build a more sophisticated website, pay for designers and extra bandwidth, then hire a team of writers and editors to work for me. That creates $2 million in expenses for Year 2, which I pay off by finding a fourth sponsor. In order to cover these additional expenses, I'm "forced" to raise the 2008 subscription fee to $25. (That's what I tell my idiot readers.) This time around, only 700,000 readers sign up. Between sponsors and subscribers, I am still guaranteed a total haul of $23.5 million for Year 2. Profit. This is good. I am showing "growth." Even as I slowly antagonize my audience.

• Iliketurtles

  

  Haha I read this article on Friday and never even thought about that but yeah does kinda sound like what happened on the huddle.
• justincredible

  

  Can't say JJHuddle here.
• redstreak one

  

  jjhuddle, jjhuddle, jjhuddle, is that like beatlejuice or something?
• dwccrew

  

  What is JJHuddle? Some minor league website?
• Skyhook79

  

  JJHuddle was 10 dollars for a lifetime membership not 10 dollars a year.
  JJHUddle then went free not to 25 dollars a year.
  JJHuddle then went to 12 dollars and a free magazine subscription a year.
  Nothing at all like what Simmons wrote...well he did get the "idiot readers" part right, the ones that ponied up the 12 dollars after they paid a 10 dollar lifetime membership.
• jordo212000

  

  I just checked out JJHuddle the other day, looks like it is free again haha. The place is largely dead though
• wkfan

  jordo212000;702001 wrote:I just checked out JJHuddle the other day, looks like it is free again haha. The place is largely dead though

  Not free. My username is staill active over there and I can only go to the free forums, not all of them.
• justincredible

  

  wkfan;702041 wrote:Not free. My username is staill active over there and I can only go to the free forums, not all of them.

  
  Damn. I was ready to shut this crap hole down and go back.
• thavoice

  I occasionaly look over there every couple of weeks......and I dont pay...an dman it is D E A D! Oh well....
  
  ididnt see any similarities either.
• O-Trap

  

  Alexa doesn't look good for the former major-league site: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jjhuddle.com#
• justincredible

  

  O-Trap;702362 wrote:Alexa doesn't look good for the former major-league site: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jjhuddle.com#

  
  JJHuddle US Traffic ranking - 175,781
  OhioChatter US Traffic ranking - 126,925
  
  Oh snap!
• O-Trap

  

  justincredible;702365 wrote:JJHuddle US Traffic ranking - 175,781
  OhioChatter US Traffic ranking - 126,925
  
  Oh snap!

  Uh oh.
  
  Welcome to the Bigs, rookie!
• wes_mantooth

  

  Yep...this place officially sucks. NCF was right all along.
• justincredible

  

  I definitely shoulda packed up and shut this place down a while ago. What a waste.
• wes_mantooth

  

  justincredible;702378 wrote:I definitely shoulda packed up and shut this place down a while ago. What a waste.

  
  Maybe LJ would buy it for real this time?
• O-Trap

  

  Hell, I might buy it. Wouldn't be the first time I bought a site of Justin.
• dwccrew

  

  O-Trap;702418 wrote:Hell, I might buy it. Wouldn't be the first time I bought a site of Justin.

  
  Yeah but the other one you bought off him just had a bunch of naked pics of Justin. Not sure why you wanted that one so badly.
• O-Trap

  

  dwccrew;702554 wrote:Yeah but the other one you bought off him just had a bunch of naked pics of Justin. Not sure why you wanted that one so badly.

  Sold it on Flippa for a 10,000% profit. It's amazing what fat, sweaty men will pay for something like that.
• justincredible

  

  I am a physical specimen.
• Polar Bear 73

  justincredible;702754 wrote:I am a physical specimen.

  
  
  
  Hmmmm.... I just had to give a specimen to my doctor the other day. Do mean something like that?
• karen lotz

  

  O-Trap;702362 wrote:Alexa doesn't look good for the former major-league site: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jjhuddle.com#

  
  
  haha there are some excellent reviews on there.
• 2kool4skool

  

  
• justincredible

  

  2kool4skool;702792 wrote:

  
  lol wtf
• Heretic

  

  2kool4skool;702792 wrote:

  
  First, an earthworm; next, the head segment of a human centipede.