Mike Fisher and Maven/SI

[ClutchDirk]

He is a weird dude.  Bob and Dan (on The Ticket) have told stories of interacting with him in real life.

He has to keep up his "insider" status to keep collecting money from dumb people.  So he gets in fights with people who doubt his "reporting."

I was one of those "dumb people" who paid for a premium subscription for about 4 years. My main justification was it was cheap! And I looked at it more as paying to support the board than reading Fish's premium articles. I considered those a bonus. Once in a while Fish would actually give a premium story that was worth the money (I remember him detailing the Mavs interest in Luka in 2017), but on the whole it was mostly fluff that never got to the point it was trying to make. 

But I don't regret supporting Fish all those years. I thought my money was going to keeping a place I frequented several hours a day alive. It wasn't until the move to 247 did I figure that no matter how much money I paid, the board's security would never really be safe from constant moving, and Fish would always go to the highest bidder (which isn't bad business wise). 

Lo and behold when the move to Maven happen did my fear come to fruition and I was glad I didn't renew my subscription. Its unfortunate that Fish didn't recognize the importance of the community he had, and chose a platform that was so drastically different it alienated his base.

I also donated monthly to support our community...now I am going to give that donation plus a couple more dollars on top to help keep this site alive and help relieve the financial burden Magick has assumed to keep us together...

Now for something I see that ClutchFans does as they are independent of a major sports outlet is they give labels to those who have or continue donating over there by having a contributor type description under their username to distinguish them from the rest of the users...just a thought and my personal opinion...