bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

Simmons is a funny, intelligent and original writer. He comes up with surprising angles and conceits — in a column last month, he applied quotes from “The Wire” to moments in the N.B.A. playoffs — that may not always work but certainly prevent him from becoming predictable.

loll waht writing a wire themed nba column is prob the most predictable thing he couldve done

i guess it's novel if youve never read him--author claims he's a fan so it's one of those nyt things where they take the reader's hand and lead them around

yo bill: less tweeting and website starting and podcasting; more column writing. thx

Reeling at the idea of Hipster Runoff, Humblebrag, and Bill Simmons in business together.

You guys need to listen to his podcast from today. Simmons talks to the guy who wrote the ESPN oral history book and he goes into a tangent about how he shouldn't have talked to him because he comes across like an asshole.

I turned it off after five minutes because it was so awkward.

yeah really the only podcasts he does that are worth it are the nba guys (stein/bucher/etc), his random wizards fan friend who seems pretty funny and they mostly stick to actually talking about basketball, and a few of the one-shot guests when he knows enough to mostly shut up and get out of the way like when jackie macmullen showed up a month or so ago

This one is utterly embarrassing. He mentions that he thought he came across a little rough, then they have to talk about, and then he brings it up again later, and ends with another mention because the guy is going to add some stuff and remove others when it comes out in paperback.

Confirms all the insecurities of the NYTimes piece.

that photo is so weird -- i think the concept is fine but his expression is bizarre

it's so photoshopped, also since when did bill simmons look like alec baldwin

haha i was just thinking, he's looking sorta distinguished (meaning old) lately

Glenn beck imo

You guys need to listen to his podcast from today. Simmons talks to the guy who wrote the ESPN oral history book and he goes into a tangent about how he shouldn't have talked to him because he comes across like an asshole.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, June 2, 2011 5:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

listening now; this is really lol. miller is handling it well.

He handles it like a pro, even though he's obviously perplexed. I would have loved to see Miller's face as Bill whines and complains.

i am feeling this kind of aghast anticipation for learning what exactly the overlap is of the aesthetics of bill simmons and carles

carles on grantland is gonna be so ridiculous & unintentionally hilarious

that is really one of those ideas that everyone should've been excited about for 10 mins after it was pitched before slowly realizing that it's an awful, awful idea

http://hoosieraccess.com/files/2010/01/snl_really.jpg

carles is gonna be on grantland?!?!

*pumps fist*

he was listed among the "contributors"

we all know what hes gonna write abt

hipster jay cutler

knowing that bill simmons reads carles is an unfortunate colliding of the worlds in my head

I would have been much more comfortable knowing that simmons was unaware of carles's existence

I could give a fuck about Carles, only name on the contributors list that matters is KEN TREMENDOUS.

(I also like Katie Bakes a lot, and Simmons himself. But seriously this could be like 99% garbage plus twice-yearly Mike Schur writing about sports/anything and it would give me something to read at least twice a year.)

knowing that bill simmons reads carles is an unfortunate colliding of the worlds in my head

I would have been much more comfortable knowing that simmons was unaware of carles's existence

― dayo, Monday, June 6, 2011 8:24 PM (1 hour ago)

i was just thinking about this

I skimmed the NYTMag piece, only lol was "baseball stat fetishization." Proof that sportswriters are the lowest form of life (ie God bless Barry Bonds).

19 hours until Grantland!!!!

http://www.babynametrain.com/name-graph2.php?_jpg_csimd=1&name_var=grantland&gender=boy

welp http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6635763/welcome-grantland

ball semens

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhb7goxVB1qa9bmvo1_400.png

http://s0.2mdn.net/3159010/Subway_Grantland_SponsorByLogo_Pages.png

the design of the site really really looks like a free wordpress theme

totally!

omg it seems that simmons only created this site so he could post his columns on a layout that has a permanent footnote column

Why is the top third of the page so horrible? Do they not have any designers at all over there?

design critique 4 u bill smins

http://grab.by/cB0Z

Eight and a half years have passed. I can't remember how Jimmy answered, just what his face looked like. You wouldn't call it nervous, you wouldn't call it overwhelmed, you wouldn't call it anything … he didn't fucking know.

going for that "hard pg-13" i guess

Thank god they have someone covering the AL east!

it looks like yard work! which was when, 2005?

omg yard work! I miss that.

I love the defensive descriptions of the coming soon sites on the last. SEE, WE COULD'VE CALLED IT "FOXBORO" BUT WE DIDN'T!!

on the left, rather.

Wow, this site has no content. What happened to the Katie Bakes story?

the links to the second page of the articles are fucked up--they open the piece in a single page but kick you back to the beginning.

haha this totally looks like someone using a wordpress theme in like late 2006 to try to emulate mcsweeneys or arts and letters daily

"presented by klondike"

also footnotes basically suck, it's like extra tldr

you're a professional, professionally put that shit into the body as a point you're trying to make or leave it out, you're not citing academic journals or something

footnote: they are hilarious when used properly

the klosterman story was a fun read!

re footnotes it maybe has something to do w/the strange phenomenon of dfw becoming an avatar for hack writers harboring pretensions everywhere

Grantland is ugly, but it's a shit ton easier to read/look at than Gawker Media's current format.