yeah his early persona was more the every man fans point of view which was novel in the pre blog ecosystem, over time he became a more conventional tv talking head type except who was still obsessed with forcing pop culture references into everything, kind of like when dennis miller hosted monday night football (not sure if im making that up)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
well but instead of obscure world war 1 references it was, like, rocky and back to the future
― Clay, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
bad run for these type of guys
The CEO of Bleacher Report has stepped down in the wake of employee concerns about racial diversity https://t.co/Y83Ey8fP12— Bloomberg (@business) June 23, 2020
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
take sides: kornheiser vs. dennis miller on monday night football
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
booger mobile over both imo
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
for real tho, i think miller, since at least he committed to the bit.
ill take kornheiser hes more normal plus has an old school east coast ethnic white quality that is better than nothing, mostly tho its miller is just such a flagrant attention whore i cant stand to listen to him for a second
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
Is his daughter's podcast any good? I bet it's better than Dave Chang's podcast, yikes.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, June 23, 2020 5:31 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's a little much to say she has a full podcast--she gets to use one of their pop culture feeds once a month, if that.
but she's pretty good, they basically just get her to talk about whatever she's into but she's prepared, intelligent, and a decent speaker. i think the first time i heard her she did a third-chair thing when bill interviewed the director of that movie eighth grade. she was really good in that one and the director engaged with her questions and thoughts in a cool way.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
gotta be better than "jack-o's republican minute"
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
has she weighed in on her dad 'pulling the goalie'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
oh maybe jack-o is the republican guy. sorry, cousin sal.
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
so many doomed fly nicknames stuck in the web of bill's nepotism
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
Dave Chang's netflix shows are good. For some reason, he can't stop talking about how hard he works on the pod. Or interrogating the head chefs at his restaurants in a way that makes me uncomfortable. I love him for the great cookbooks and food things he's done, though. I wonder if fancy japanese chefs see him as guy fierri, though.
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, June 23, 2020 10:16 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
pretty sure they're both republicans but only jack-o is on the record as a simpleton who longs for the reagan years and thought that marco rubio was a great candidate.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
https://www.truehoop.com/p/do-i-get-to-speak-now-its-been-like
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
this is damning
https://i.imgur.com/Q1RKqb3.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
that's a fun read
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 26 June 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
henry abbott has been pulling this whiny sour grapes shit since he got laid off. everything he writes could be true, or could not be true. but only child syndrome? fuck off w/that.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
good hit piece imo its def petty but does makes its case, the only child stuff is obvs dumb but kinda works in context
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
yeah the only child stuff is lame and stupid, and also puts him on a team with jason whitlock
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
i suspect bills influence at espn had more to do with the fact that he did numbers than abbott is saying tho no doubt hes prob a good politicker too, then once grantland had failed for long enough bills power at espn dried up
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
abbott's truehoop newsletter writing is insanely smug and self-satisfied
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
Cousin Sal does a show with Clay Travis
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 June 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
podcasting really gave him a second life god bless, wonder how spotify is feeling right now lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
simmons definitely had some very powerful friends at espn, and also the culture at espn is extremely competitive and fucked up. i don't think any dysfunction at espn was unique to or really had anything to do with simmons, he was just a big planet in that orbit.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 25, 2020 8:24 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i never really liked him generally just a really boring conventional writer, havent read him in many years, i do like mean gossipy hit pieces against people i dislike tho lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
true, that's an evergreen genre
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
As others have already pointed out, Simmons gave his daughter a podcast, hired his nephew (who subsequently recorded a diss track complaining about The Ringer's employees daring to unionize)
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/slideshow/Drew-Magary-Bill-Simmons-The-Ringer-Open-Mic-Night-204312.php
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
xp def nothing better than weaponized slime against a dude I can’t stand, solidarity with all those who agree with me about who sucks
― Clay, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
amen
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Didn't he try to bury Free Darko for some reason
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 June 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
i don't know pageviews or whatever, but page 2-era simmons seemed like a big draw, it's not like a complete mystery how he got leverage at espn. they gave him a lot, and it probably ended up being a bad deal for them, but the reasoning behind it wasn't that weird.
i think there was some point when he was complaining about "bloggers" generally, that they didn't have his high standards, etc. being kind of resentful of people who come after you when you were slightly ahead of the curve is very simmons-y.
― circles, Friday, 26 June 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
he used to complain abt deadspin a lot
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbKFAtBXQAAhod0?format=jpg&name=medium
― Clay, Friday, 26 June 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
wow lol that is a nightmare image
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
had no idea he dresses like an LA guy
the perfect west coast 'fit for jogging, brunch, guesting on a pod, or even ducking the paparazzi
― Clay, Friday, 26 June 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
wearing a knit cap where the climate never demands it, also youre indoors
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
need an evolution of man graphic except it's boston man turning into LA man
― circles, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
haha
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
Lmao
― Spottie, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
Sometimes I think back to how bad his hbo show was
― Spottie, Friday, 26 June 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
man, that abbott piece is hot trash. starts off with what seems like will be an essay on diversity issues and shady practices and ends up being 5000 words on his own professional grievances. really pathetic
― k3vin k., Friday, 26 June 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
I feel like if I were to write a long essay where every other paragraph was me marveling at how this talentless hack kept pulling off these professional feats and getting big names to co-sign him, I might at some point ask myself, am I the one without the talent?
― k3vin k., Friday, 26 June 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
this is also a guy who published entire pieces on the jeffrey epstein thing that basically concluded "is there a link to the nba? i don't know, but probably!"
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 June 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, June 26, 2020 1:41 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is probably because Deadspin hated his fucking guts and were always posting the stupidest pettiest hit pieces on him all the time.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 26 June 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
That Abbott article is garbage.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 26 June 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
the bill simmons defender has logged on
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
he's an easy target and I'm sure has done all sorts of bad stuff but that article is the fluffiest of sour grapes. absolutely nothing of substance there
― k3vin k., Friday, 26 June 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link