bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

Got Mile High City ones already!

true lol

the dirtbag left hand hook

im very clean actually i consider myself cosmic left

As obnoxious as this guy can be I do respect him for punting his ESPN job because he wouldn’t recant his criticism of Goodell

otm

never work for the mouse

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/05/spotify-is-buying-the-ringer-to-boost-its-sports-podcast-content/

ESPN could not have possibly dropped the ball any worse on this. They should’ve dominated the entire podcast market.

Also: RIP to anybody at the Ringer who doesn’t do podcasts.

Looks like they kept the whole staff though

have to say, the nba redraft series he's doing is really good, some of the best quarantine content i've come across. just really fun tbt stuff

which ones have been the best?

sounds relevant to my interests.....

you don't do podcasts!!

mb u cld transcribe them for me

hmph

it has been a great series. i hope he does it up through '06 or so.

01, 99, 98... they're all p good tbh. would maybe just pick based on guests.

96 one was fun

okay, the podcasts are pretty good. lol, occasionally you can tell they're just sitting in front of their computers with basketball-reference open b/c they'll quote a partial season stat as if it were actually for the whole season.

i went back and read the michael lewis "no-stats all-star" shane battier article that i think i missed the first time around b/c he mentioned it in the 2001 podcast with lowe. nice little blast from the past, even had hinkie in it when he was still working for the rockets.

it's basically just let's remember some guys for the nba in podcast form and honestly i couldn't ask for anything better.

ok, so i was watching the 2004 redraftable and two things:

1. Bill picked Anderson Varejao ahead of JR Smith, which is ridiculous. He acknowledged the mistake within minutes, but still.

2. I was reminded of ill-fated SuperSonics pick Robert Swift, which led me to google him to remind myself what he looks like, which led me to this pic:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Robert_Swift.jpg

And now I need to know who the other guy (#43) is in the pic. I recognize him, but can't place the name.

I didn't know where else to go for help...

paul butorac

lol, didn't realize until listening to the 2006 redraft that chris ryan was chaunceybillups.blogspot.com. some real ye olde blog days shit.

‘this isn’t open mic night’

he's extremely condescending. idk. someone also needs to tell him that hiring famous celebrities to do podcasts does not address structural issues raised by your employees.

Varejao over JR is totally fine! If you were gonna pick a dumb simmons draft thing that would be really low on the list

JR was considered ultra high risk because he mostly went off in allstar games iirc

‘this isn’t open mic night’

― mookieproof, Monday, June 22, 2020 6:32 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he gave his teenage daughter a podcast lol

it's unbelievable that he not only uttered that quote in some fashion but that he actually typed it out, presumably had it read over by other ppl, and still sent it out

yeah not real swift

noted dickhead continues to be a dickhead, more to come

presumably had it read over by other ppl

i suspect the sports guy, like stephen king, is above being edited

wtf are you guys talking about?

Lol. Bill Simmons:

- Gave his teenage daughter a podcast
- has his son on many podcasts
- employs his nephew as a producer
- gave two podcasts to a friend whose main personality is “I enjoy eating food”

But yeah bro this isn’t open mic night. https://t.co/5r6C7KWLDL pic.twitter.com/Kh3XPHHbww

— Joseph 🇺🇦 (@JosephStash) June 22, 2020

Joe House more egregious than his daughter

Bill's Bernie Sanders impression, which he only does for his republican friends like cousin sal, is also the most open mic night thing ever.

im feeling simultaneous intrigue and revulsion

it is the poetry slam of bernie sanders impressions

bill simmons IS bernie sanders IN the book of shit we don't need to see or hear

I stopped listening to Simmons’ podcasts when sports ended. I take it I’m not missing much?

i heard hes doing a redraft of every nba draft of recent past which is something i wld be into if i listened to pods

I stopped listening to Simmons’ podcasts when sports ended. I take it I’m not missing much?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, June 23, 2020 8:16 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same. pretty much cut off all sports media.

i typed e in to my browser yesterday to check the nba standings re the restart in the bubble and it didnt even autofill espn.com/nba

I guess now that I’m finished with all of ILX’s Underworld poll playlist I need something else to listen to, so I shall check these “Redraftables” out.

Bill's Bernie Sanders impression, which he only does for his republican friends like cousin sal, is also the most open mic night thing ever.

― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, June 23, 2020 9:55 AM (two hours ago)

honestly all of his impressions are insanely bad

he is insanely unfunny which is why i struggle every day to understand why he was ever employed to write on a comedy show

i thought he was funny when he first came out not uproarious but amusing times change people grow seasons change

he is a content faucet. some of that can probably be polished into funny stuff within a writers room. it was also a late night television show, a very low bar for comedy.

honestly all of his impressions are insanely bad

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ive long suspected he is literally, not just metaphorically, tone deaf

can’t imagine Simmons doing an impression at all just bc his vanilla regular speaking voice is so specific and bad