anyone subscribe to The Athletic?

Yes.

It's good content from local people about the teams you care about for cheap when you get it on sale.

ETA: Once the NYT really gets their claws into it, it'll like cost more with less good content.

Pros:

-running a promo for 2 bucks a month
-some great long form journalism. I find the college football coverage is especially good. Sports business and soccer usually have interesting stuff too.

Cons:

-more and more teams losing beat writers and not being replaced (Saints, Astros)
- way more fluff like power rankings, top 10 lists, etc. Also see a lot more social/political commentary and stuff about race than they used to.

NYT will ruin it soon enough, but for now it's well worth 2 bucks. I would check and see if your favorite teams have beat writers before signing up, if that's what you're looking for.

I used to love it, but I've already canceled my subscription this year. I am not sure when I will lose access. I am a fan of New Orleans pro teams, LSU, Arsenal, the USMNT, and golf. For a while, it was amazing. However, in the past year every beat writer for the Saints left. So, they literally had no content for the Saints this past season. Golf has an interesting article every now and then, but the only weekly coverage is comprised of golf betting. The Arsenal content is extremely thorough, but that's my one team that I don't need all of that info for.

As others have said, I think I may roll my eyes at an article once a day. That is even after really scaling back what coverage I want presented to me. Also, the comment section reads like a Reddit thread.

I would need to be really satisfied with the MLB content to subscribe. As long as Jayson Stark and Ken Rosenthal are involved I won’t enjoy their content. Jayson Stark is a Philadelphia stooge and is incapable of the slightest bit of objectivity. Ken Rosenthal is a self-aggrandizing corporate shill who writes nothing except fluff pieces.

Use to be a subscriber. As others have said they've been cutting beat writers in a lot of markets lately and a lot of their national writers seem to really shite on the sport they cover, although that's not a problem that's exclusive to The Athletic.

I swear this thread comes up once every few months

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I'm getting for $1 a month after I originally canceled my subscription.

They are desperate. I do genuinely enjoy their content and how you can customize the coverage to your liking.

Yeah, if they decide to give a shite about your team, it’s covered well. But the national people are a joke, and the local coverage is incomplete because not all teams get local coverage.

Who is the smokeshow blonde in the TV ad they were running last year?

The nfl show with Mays and Tice is pretty good. The majority of the football writers are just kinda redundantly annoying and as a saints fan im better off following Underhill and other locals.

Another angle about the athletic is they’re really into analytics and the impact it has so i know not everyone here will enjoy that. It’s really prevalent in the soccer coverage and i imagine baseball too.