bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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

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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

emotional support dogs are silly tbf

he got fired up over a police chase and forgot himself

gonna be one of the weirder 'i was hacked' instances

he tweeted earlier about an emotional support dog that attacked a girl on a plane, and then there was a police chase.... he's joking about his previous tweets but it still looks bad

KD comes off as a miserable asshole in this simmons podcast

any highlights? i’m not sure i’m going to get to it.

kevin poo rant