Intro:
- Describe site
- Show pic of an example of a post
- Explain who the bloggers are.
- Thesis: Barstool Sports Daily Run Down is a speech genre that consists of different bloggers commenting on daily sports and news, trending topics, and funny internet stories and videos.
- Transition: To understand the topics of Barstool you first must understand the~
1st: Buzzwords and Key teams
- Explain different lingo such as Hardo meaning try-hard, Stoolies being readers of site and smoke-show or hot girl
- Slogan: By the common man, for the common man.
- Tend to talk about some sort of news, particularly Donald Trump
- Explain the cities~ Boston, Philadelphia, Iowa, Chicago, New York, D.M.V, soon to be canada, failed in LA.
- pic of stoolies with flag
- Focuses on betting and fantasy sports, such as Draftings.
- The New England Patriots are most discussed team cause of El Presidente
- Transition: Who is El Presidente?
2nd: Dave Portnoy
- Who is El Presidente? `college, Boston, Jewish, Wannabe Mogul
- Site also contains store, music, podcasts, and hosted a Black Out Party at colleges.
- Site started with gambling advertisements and fantasy sports projections
- Now gets 5 million page views per month
- Just sold sold a majority stake to an investor for $10 million
- What is he like, arrogant, cocky, lack of a better word douch
- Transition: Portnoy's politically incorrect humor, which is reflected in site, has led to controversies.
3rd: Controversies:
1. Baby Gate: Pics of Tom Brady's two year old child, made comments on the size on genitals. A former prosecutor postulated that this was sexualization of minor.
2. Rape Criticism: Northeastern protested one of their parties, believe condones taking advantage of females
3. Blackout Parties: Excessive drinking and underage drinking, Boston police cracked down at party
Transition: These instances help provide the context for the different conventions of the Barstool Rundown
4th: Conventions
- The topics are clearly on side, much like PTI, and there is around 5-7 topics
- The time is usually around 30 minutes
- Intro clip then Dave says day and introduces other bloggers
- Normal bloggers are El Presidente, Big Cat, and KFC
- Others include: Feitlelberg, Stool President
- El presidente is biggest screen, he's standing, and introduces topic
- Use videos to show what they are discussing to viewers
- Talk about sports, news, and trending internet topics
- Casual attire
- Portnoy tends to be loudest most assertive of opinion
- Segments such as GIF's of Weekend
- Transition: The bloggers also use a variety of moves
5th: Moves
- Portnoy is always made fun of~ especially BigCat.
- Advertise their products whenever they can incorporate it~ Kristaps Porzingis T-shirts
- Use of crude humor
- Portnoy is the orchestrator.
- Transition: This clip of a Run down shows some of these conventions and moves
6th: Conclusion
- Show clip of the Run down
- Talk about the conventions and moves seen
- Reiterate what makes this a speech genre: Humor, daily topics, casual, crude.
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