bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

also hes kinda boring rn prob because were in the very boring part of the offseason

He def recovered once he embraced his inner basketball shut-in but it's funny when he comes back from a vacation suddenly armed with four year old breaking bad references

Yeah I kinda think they could have just let him write less abt some minor contracts instead of having to pad the last months worth with three intro grafs abt the upcoming TV deal and rising cap

Kinda like the entire entertainment press wasted thousands upon thousands of words chinscratching abt a crouching tiger sequel no one gives abt

ya we really dont need all these hot takes

it's like w/the internet and media moving faster, instead of at the end of the day the big stories being written for the following day's paper, now all day long you see new stories popping up on websites every fifteen minutes that fifteen minutes later are completely forgotten.

lowe is at times the best basketball writer we have and at others the most unreadable. he's just unbearably square

no love for bill barnwell?

eh what is there to say about football really, it's a watching sport

barnwell is terrible

http://nytimes.com/2014/10/15/sports/bill-simmonss-return-sets-intrigue-in-motion-at-espn.html

“Knowing what I know now,” Lerer said, “I think he should say: ‘I had a breakdown, I didn’t mean what I said. I’m back at ESPN and I love it.’ ”

lol otm

I am not partial to Simmons but if Grantland goes the way Sports on Earth just did I'll be very disappointed.

VIEWING ALERT!!!!! At 7 p.m. ET on Thursday (10/23), The Grantland Basketball Hour makes its triumphant debut on ESPN. Your hosts? Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose, who will be joined by Jeff Van Gundy, Doc Rivers, Michelle Beadle, and Zach Lowe

o gosh

I am definitely watching that and hating it

wait, what is doc doing there. he has a job

@BillSimmons
If Ned Yost had managed the Red Sox during the Pedro era, I'd be living in an insane asylum right now.

whatever, nba dude

not to mention grady little managed them for much of the pedro era and he put people in an insane asylum

for sure ned is not any worse than grady was

i had to go to the insane asylum more than once cause of that guy

http://sportingnews.com/article/4622943-bill-simmons-mike-and-mike-lebron-james-albert-pujols-grantland-espn-colin-cowherd

rip

http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2014-11-06/bill-simmons-mike-and-mike-lebron-james-albert-pujols-grantland-espn-colin-cowherd?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

trying that again

hoo boy

mad dad

he must really want out idk

dude would never last on the goon thread

can't believe anyone on earth could care about anything mike and mike says even if it's about them

big overlap in audiences tho which is i imagine the important part to bill and his desire to be hero worshiped by his base. there is a venn diagram i don't want to spend any time in the middle of.

not sure mike&mike have an audience

bill's just pissed that he always got in trouble for bashing other espn talent

ya prob

he shd go work for an actual journalistic entity that will worship him for the media star he is instead of for espn who make all their money broadcasting sporting events

like hes the most popular sports writer in the country but he will always mean less to espn than some rando college football game

on the other hand they pay him a shit load of money and let him have his own website documentary series and tv show

prob just stay on espn and stop being such a baby idk

yeah the prob is that basically any other platform would be a step back

maybe running grantland isnt as much fun as he thought it was gonna be and hes trying to weasel out of it

he shd go work for an actual journalistic entity that will worship him for the media star he is instead of for espn who make all their money broadcasting sporting events

He's not much of a journalist though

hes a writer or whatever you want to call it point is hes m/l window dressing for espns core business

You could say ESPN is Bill Belichick and Grantland is the Patriots and Bill Simmons is ol' Tommy Brady and Mike & Mike are Eli and Peyton

which mike is which tho

which Mike is Payton, I'd way rather be Payton xp

ha

simmons is ray liotta in goodfellas and mike&mike is joe pesci in goodfellas and espn is paul sorvino in goodfellas

Simmons working in a different corporate context ... it's hard to imagine that it would go well considering that his first real job as an adult (probably?) randomly turned into a cult of personality / fiefdom.

im sure any number of prominent outlets would let him say whatever he wants about roger goodell

Which would be the best fit iyo

first look media

the interception: a bill simmons digital magazine

lmao

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