a spurs team so damaged that they came all the way back next year to beat the heat 4-1 and send LeBron back to Cleveland.
― nomar, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
the simmons-av club school for all its obsession with narrative really doesnt understand how it works, like youre not supposed to tell people youre doing it, the writing workshop is not the point of writing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
is bill simmons the terminus of postmodernism lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/844235006100692992
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
I can't tell if he's joking or not. If he is, swing and a miss. If he isn't, then ffs dm that shit or better yet, get over it pettypants.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
Jonah even credits him at the end of the article, lol
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
even if this weren't so petty and absurd -- 'i invented ranking players, so no one else can do that, even in different sports, forever' -- bill simmons is not going to win a twitter popularity contest with jonah keri
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
i'm pretty sure it's not serious
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
If it was a joke, surely he would've sent a followup tweet smoothing everything over. I bet it was a DM that accidentally went public, like his "Moss Vikings" accidental tweet all those years ago.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
it is a horribly formed joke
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
bill simmons has always been unfunny which is why his career as a comedy writer made me question life itself
― nice cage (m bison), Thursday, 23 March 2017 04:59 (seven years ago) link
new whitlockkkkk
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-gawker-affiliated-website-made-espn-politically-correct-1494187629
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 03:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
wow is the wsj really desperate enough to let whitlock in the door?
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 May 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link
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.
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
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link
hahaha this is such a bullshit take
― nice cage (m bison), Monday, 8 May 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
i'm not reading the whole thing but obviously it is completely insane
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 May 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
this is like an investigative report authored by an eleven year old donald trump
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
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."
― nice cage (m bison), Monday, 8 May 2017 03:55 (seven years ago) link
the best part about this is that whitlock is getting uniformly positive feedback from trump voters and he loves it
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
What the fuck is this doing in the Bill Simmons thread? Simmons has his faults, but he is still 10000000x better than this lameass.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 8 May 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
yeah i know it just seems like we always link whitlock pieces in this thread for some reason
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Whitlock is better than Simmons imo
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 8 May 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
o_____0
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
whitlock is barely literate. did you read that essay?
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
WSJ link makes me be a subscriber to view it
― Spottie, Monday, 8 May 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
i think you should be able to X out of the subscribe thing, unless you've already read too many articles
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 May 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
you don't get that thing if you go there from the link in his twitter
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 May 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
ok thx
― Spottie, Monday, 8 May 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― circles, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link
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.
― circles, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
he is truly singularly dumb for someone of his reach
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 9 May 2017 03:01 (seven years ago) link
Whitlock is a character, a contrarian buffoon. Simmons is a tedious, pretentious personality.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 03:17 (seven years ago) link
I hate Armond White but at least he's not Peter Travers.
that is dumb
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 03:27 (seven years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 04:18 (seven years ago) link
house otm in the recent pod when they were debating kyrie (and kyrie vs wall)
― k3vin k., Monday, 7 August 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
house is becoming a better podcast host than simmons
― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 August 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
http://awfulannouncing.com/online-outlets/ringer-pulls-off-vox-supported-re-launch-looks-lot-like-sb-nation-now.html
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/wQSXnoXx8v— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) September 8, 2017
lol kiss the ring punk
― k3vin k., Friday, 8 September 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
kiss the ring....er
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 September 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
House is ... good?
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 17 December 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
Deadspin’s constant Bill Simmons hate is so tiresome.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
its not a high quality vendetta but i give it credit for duration
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
seems like an oedipal thing for magary
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
Simmons is a terrible writer tho
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
TheRinger is a much better website than deadspin.com.
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 January 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link