bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

it is a horribly formed joke

bill simmons has always been unfunny which is why his career as a comedy writer made me question life itself

new whitlockkkkk

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-gawker-affiliated-website-made-espn-politically-correct-1494187629

ESPN has recently faced public scrutiny beyond its control, an experience that has humbled the cable giant.

he's such a garbage writer, this is his first sentence of what is supposed to be a hard-hitting piece

wow is the wsj really desperate enough to let whitlock in the door?

The consensus opinion blamed the network’s woes on overly expensive live-sports contracts and subscriber losses attributed to cable “cord-cutting.”

That’s accurate but incomplete. What has truly impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN lost to Deadspin, a snarky, politically progressive sports blog launched by Gawker’s Nick Denton in 2005.

i'm dying

hahaha this is such a bullshit take

i'm not reading the whole thing but obviously it is completely insane

this is like an investigative report authored by an eleven year old donald trump

it is so funny to me how an ostensibly sober, economic minded publication like the WSJ gets so in their feelings over culture warrior shit.

"well theres all this technological change and young ppl dont watch tv anymore but the REAL problem is that ESPN hires a bunch of women and didnt let me say whatever the fuck popped into my head."

the best part about this is that whitlock is getting uniformly positive feedback from trump voters and he loves it

What the fuck is this doing in the Bill Simmons thread? Simmons has his faults, but he is still 10000000x better than this lameass.

yeah i know it just seems like we always link whitlock pieces in this thread for some reason

Whitlock is better than Simmons imo

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whitlock is barely literate. did you read that essay?

WSJ link makes me be a subscriber to view it

i think you should be able to X out of the subscribe thing, unless you've already read too many articles

you don't get that thing if you go there from the link in his twitter

ok thx

lol, on simmons' podcast today jason gay (who writes for the wsj) complained about "people wrapping [espn cuts] up into some kind of self-serving agenda or cultural statement about where espn is or isn't heading" without mentioning whitlock or the article specifically.

also simmons talked about how the espn.com redesign that basically hid all the writing, and i guess that was kind of early sign that cutting writers and reporters was coming.

honestly i still think of whitlock as the dude who wrote contrarian columns about the chiefs in the kansas city star in the late '90s, so his subsequent national level trolling career seems kind of bizarre even though his style hasn't changed that much.

he is truly singularly dumb for someone of his reach

Whitlock is a character, a contrarian buffoon. Simmons is a tedious, pretentious personality.

I hate Armond White but at least he's not Peter Travers.

that is dumb

i don't like simmons, but he has done good things and supported good people. whitlock straight-up sucks, and lol at his hat on fs1

what's particularly painful now is watching shitheads like rob rossi imitate his/skip's assholery in an effort to get ahead

house otm in the recent pod when they were debating kyrie (and kyrie vs wall)

house is becoming a better podcast host than simmons

http://awfulannouncing.com/online-outlets/ringer-pulls-off-vox-supported-re-launch-looks-lot-like-sb-nation-now.html

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— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) September 8, 2017

lol kiss the ring punk

kiss the ring....er

House is ... good?

Deadspin’s constant Bill Simmons hate is so tiresome.

Deadspin’s constant Bill Simmons hate is so tiresome.

its not a high quality vendetta but i give it credit for duration

seems like an oedipal thing for magary

Simmons is a terrible writer tho

Simmons is a terrible writer tho

both are terrible, only one spends half his time writing about the other. i know which one i'd push into an elevator shaft first.

TheRinger is a much better website than deadspin.com.

that line-by-line sarcastic response thing is so f’n played.

lol yeah very sad beef

One of my favorite sports columnists (Bill Simmons, ESPN online) works on this show now = classic

― luna (luna.c), Friday, April 25, 2003 2:16 AM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahahaha

I’m anti emotional support dogs but pro police dogs

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) February 27, 2018

simmons is the feds

hmm lets see, lil pups helping people feel at ease while on a big metal airborne caskets vs. lil fascist curs chomping on protesters exercising 1st amendment rights hmmmm

really incredible tweet he's def going to have to apologize for

is he being serious there b/c even Billy Simmons aint that tone deaf