bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

Cancellation rumors ...

haha

Can they cancel The Ringer while they're at it? That site has published maybe two good articles so far.

bill had a good thing going w espn

talking head is a dumb egotist, news at 11

The Ringer has had several pretty good pieces, but they've all been too short, and they get punched down off the front age because shitty boring sports takes need more space.

It's nerds versus jocks. At Grantland the nerds usually won.

i like justin charity

wow bill wooooowwww
https://youtu.be/N8AcfZt7ZOE

lol all of those ideas are so half baked and bad

I feel like I can feel bill getting squirmy and needing to interject when a celeb tells a longer story or anecdote (cait jenner, Jonah hill), but to his credit, he doesn't

otoh its p embarrassing his trying to relate to ricky Williams and seth rogen abt smoking weed by a story where he got hi and went to see Austin powers 3

Tug of war only good idea in that...

the bad ideas should at least be amusing...

haven't seen anything since the Bosh one but apparently KD is on tomorrow.

Still hard to believe KD is on the Warriors with the Steph and Klay. I bet he's feeling happy, relaxed and excited.

wonder if he has any idea abt the impending avalanche of hate

Last week had worse ratings than two different airings of Caddyshack on the Golf Channel. Barely beat WEEDIQUETTE on Vice.

And three female guests in ten episodes.

Bill Simmons ‏@BillSimmons 8h8 hours ago
Long conversation with @KDTrey5 and @Nas on @AnyGivenWeds tonight - and we have @vincestaples talking sports, too. https://instagram.com/p/BKluTFhgr17/

vince staples segment was really bad. was kd part was p good. speed round at the end was p fun overall

whitlock!

https://twitter.com/TheTomasRios/status/779432658178899968

how does one man produce so much perfect content

lol i love how twitter drives successful journalists with better things to do completely insane

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/10/28/ratings-for-bill-simmonss-hbo-show-have-hit-rock-bottom

"what’s with all the Michael Rapaport?" lmao perfect

it's a god damn awful show. caught a bit of it the other night because the great one was on it and because the great one is such a wooden borefest he had bill burr sitting next to him. still managed to be stilted and not particularly funny.

I like Billy but the first episode with Ben Affleck was enough for me

it's a really dead show, idk why. i think it made sense in theory... like he's good at podcasts, let's put him and some guests in a room and not try and overthink it. but when i watch it i can't get over the fact that he GOT HIS OWN SHOW on fucking HBO and it's more or less completely identical in tone and look from the youtube videos he was making for grantland. idk i just feel like there was so much more opportunity there.

given the contract HBO gave him i feel like maybe they'll give this one more shot since it can't be that expensive to produce, and i think they can expand out the format a bit. i think one good option would be to produce documentary-style segments a la the 30 for 30 shorts they used to do. just something to break up the "stale simmons essay with old cultural references" + "stilted interviews with random guests" monotony.

it really comes off as if he didn't put any thought into it at all

i have to think there's a lot of people like me who still listen to his podcasts at the gym and maybe even click on ringer links here and there, but when it comes to the show he could have jesus christ himself as a recurring guest and there's still no way i'm watching a 30-minute talkshow about sports.

tv requires so much more attention than pods

What percent of people who make podcasts think "I should be on TV?"

well bill simmons has been on TV plenty and there's an established history of sportswriters becoming successful TV hosts (on espn at least)

but yeah

yeah sports writer --> sports radio --> tv model is a million years old now

but simmons is obv a different beast than, say, tony kornheiser

simmons was bad the other time he was on tv mightve been a sign that he wld be bad on tv

even if he were good on tv it doesn't really seem like a great concept

a weekly sports show is never going to be timely, and whatever his strengths, he's not comedian enough to make old news funny (or even john-oliver-eviscerates 'funny')

rip the bad show

;_;

does anyone know any bored vc guys asking for a friend

wow that was quick

yeah gotta be the fastest hbo has ever canned a show

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwb_s4vUkAAF5mA.jpg

i'll bet trump tv is against the DH too

signing a deal with fox sports like

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/fun107.com/files/2013/01/charlie_brown.png

i like simmons on bball but can't really stand him on anything else and it seems like he's not paying much attention to bball anymore

http://i.imgur.com/EmWwrI4.png

welp guess that finally proves my content is bad bye guys

i like simmons on bball but can't really stand him on anything else and it seems like he's not paying much attention to bball anymore

yep

imagining a simmons career where he realized the trade value column was his best work and proceeded accordingly

I was wondering a couple days ago if he was gonna do stuff like trade value for the ringer bc that like actually was good and interesting NBA context but realized he was prob too busy having dinner with celebs