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" A lot of people like to justify women's supporting role in sports media by saying, 'Well, they've never played the game, so they just aren't qualified to speak about it.' "
Women
Media
People
" Am I the next Bill Simmons? I don't think so. I haven't built a media property. He's the best at finding voices he likes and paying people money to work for him. "
People
Think
Work
" Don't let... anybody in the Cowboys organization fool you into thinking they support Greg Hardy. They don't. They support sacks. "
Thinking
Support
Organization
" Garbage time is that time at the end of the game when the points don't really matter, and nothing you do can really affect the overall outcome, but the rookies usually get a chance to play on the big stage. "
Chance
End
Game
" 'Guyism' wanted a daily video series. They told me they were planning on hiring a girl and then hiring someone to write all her jokes. Then they figured it would be easier just to get me, so they offered me $750 a month to do it, which turned into an offer to move to New York and do it full-time for $30,000 a year. "
Planning
New York
New
" I am not going to say I have never spoken with Bill Simmons because I have. I respect him greatly. "
I Am
Say
Going
" I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. So I did that for two years. "
Jokes
Home
Sleep
" I have no other network to compare it to, but FOX has treated me lovely. "
Compare
Fox
Other
" I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo. "
New
City
I Can
" I love meeting new people. "
Love
Meeting
New
" I make funny videos. I hate saying I'm a comedian because then people stick their finger in your face and demand you tell a joke. But the other thing people call me is 'a YouTube sensation,' which is even worse. "
Me
People
Hate
" I make sort-of funny videos for the Internet that are watched by a handful of people. "
Funny
Videos
People
" I miss Boston so much and want to get back there someday. "
Someday
Boston
Miss
" I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do. "
People
Knew
Jealous
" I'm sure you're used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it's a bit of a shock to the system. But I found Long Island people very endearing. "
Island
Long
People
" I think the vision for FOX is to have a network full of people who have opinions as opposed to people who say news. If my message doesn't fit in, but I get that platform, then I'm reaching the people who most need to hear it. "
Think
People
Vision
" It is very easy to try to type cosmopolitan.com and accidentally type foxsports.com, if you just got your nails done. "
Done
You
Try
" I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive. "
Week
Work
Time
" It's an interesting dynamic living in New York in general as a Boston fan. It's kind of fun that way. It's fun to be the contrarian when everyone hates you as long as your team is winning. "
New York
You
Winning
" I wanted to go to school for public relations, and I also wanted to minor in dance. And Hofstra had two really good programs for both of those, so that's why I ended up there. "
Dance
Two
Why
" I was bartending in Boston five, six nights a week, living in my grandmother's condo. By the way, I'm a really good bartender - that's the only skill I can confidently say I have. "
Living
Say
Skill
" I was like, 'I want to start a blog to get my ideas out and keep my brain working so in five years I'm not an idiot.' "
Ideas
Want
Idiot
" I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?' "
Dress
Birthday
Time
" I would love to learn how to start my own production company and start it in Boston. "
Learn
Company
Own
" My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren't there at Fenway, and it wasn't a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him. "
Me
Nothing
Moment
" My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel. "
Me
Feel
Past
" My grandmother is 82, and some days she doesn't even put her teeth in. "
Grandmother
She
Her
" Not every woman goes to sporting events to find men, but 2-3 percent of women do. "
Women
Woman
Percent
" People are confused when you work for a national sports outlet and they've never seen you on a local affiliate. "
Confused
People
You
" There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island. "
New York
Interesting
Long
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