bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

thanks!

kahn is a creepy mix of corporate dronespeak and smarminess.

lol so his master plan is to create a smallball team without defined roles

excuse me while i skip back aways but...oh man, americans talking about cricket is always first rate entertainment. i mean, understandably so, it is a truly odd 'game', but that doesn't diminish the fun. you will get closer to the byzantine truth if you just forget baseball at the outset, it is no help here. but then, why bother, cricket will never ever convert anyone that hasn't had it culturally beaten into them. it truly is the sport that defies you to like it.

while i am here i will say that although i was finally done with simmons a while ago now, despite my boston-biased efforts to hang in there, i kinda did want grantland to come off but it seems pretty terrible so far and i have decided i would at least enjoy a crash and burn if not actively root for it.

hey man i tried, gimme a break.

and believe me 'forgetting about baseball' is not hard for me to do

in conclusion, as a guy who works in a large corporate environment i am extremely glad i do not work with david kahn.

i have run into guys like that and they are deeply uncool.

huh, one of the founders of the awl (the publisher david cho) is going to grantland

i feel like for every person he hires that i like hes planning on hiring another person that i hate

The Lorne Michaels theory

wow theres a buttload of people writing for this site huh

bill simmons on ryan reynolds

thought that was a pretty interesting article

even if you need to strip away the "how hollywood is like the nba" arc

i do not need a ryan renolds themed bill simmons think pece in my life, i do not need it!

the will smith part is pretty otm actually

i do not need a ryan renolds themed bill simmons think pece in my life, i do not need it!

Grantland.com succinctly summarized

i feel like for every person he hires that i like hes planning on hiring another person that i hate
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:58 PM

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhb7goxVB1qa9bmvo1_400.png    LaBeouf

lol

muniz

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6708682/the-math-problem

too easy i guess but i'm surprised we didn't take a doodoo on this one

it was way, way too easy

i mean, i'm sympathetic to the position but it was just a dumb article.

that piece has been savaged all over the place

http://deadspin.com/5819051/dear-grantland-your-motto-is-wrong

this is really damning & unbelievable -- i can tell you from experience that editing is really not that hard, and even less hard is setting up a system so that you don't have a myriad of typos in your articles, especially when you have an unlimited budget and especially when you're posting like 3 stories a day, most of which aren't even much more than 1,000 words long. some of this shit is just embarrassing.

yeah agreed

i will use this forum to offer my services as grantland copy editor--i only ask that they match my current salary and never make me meet bill simmons in person.

can't match your current salary but I can offer you a substantial share in the toronto raptors organization and only a 5% chance of ever meeting bill simmons in person

i will have to discuss with my accountant and my attorney

(he means his cats)

mr. fluffy jd & miss whiskers cpa

The least a copy editor can do is verify all the proper nouns and dates, which takes no time at all.

the "I fix the NBA" column is so scattered. like he has a paragraph about how horrible donald sterling is and then uses the fact that he hasn't cut into the lakers' popularity as evidence that greater LA needs an 3rd franchise and chicago needs a 2nd.

ha yeah the 'just get everybody into a room and figure it out ffs' line of reasoning is usual reserved for like the stupidest of all politicians etc

thx again upthread dudes for the :07 seconds or less rec. after not paying thirty for a Chapters copy I was stoked to find it for six and change on getting home. great read

Even that fuck Mike Barnicle gets to write for this thing? Ugh.

it was an inoffensive enough piece but yes my reaction was mike fuckin' barnicle? really?

that asshole disgraced himself in boston-area media years ago. it's amazing that anybody lets him write.

he must've been super nice to simmons when bill was a pup

i can't figure out biographically where they would have crossed paths--maybe bu j-school? but yeah that would not shock me.

This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Colombia and to clarify that Megan Rapinoe was not a starter for the United States.

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culumbia

that asshole disgraced himself in boston-area media years ago. it's amazing that anybody lets him write.

― call all destroyer, Monday, July 11, 2011 3:38 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah wtf this guys is like on tv all the time still after making up fake cancer patients just so he could push his self righteous butthole shtick

okay this is awesome http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6760779/the-legacy-yao

a 6k word molly lambert piece published by espn.com = the definition of

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 2, 2011 6:54 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

aw i love molly lambert. it's weird to me that she's writing for bill simmons's vanity project but i'll take what i can get

i like her too generally speaking, it just seems really forced (which is no fault of her own)

Mobley's current career plans included opening a medical marijuana dispensary

ice cold

The Chris Ryan relegation piece?

He is such a hack.

lotta women falling into the grantland/deadspin overlap huh