bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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.

Yeah the design is amateurish but I'm not gonna say that bothers me in the least. As long as the articles are easy to read, right? But I agree with the "hard PG-13" comment above, it's like he knew he could use one "fuck" in his column and was just debating where to put it

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

tbh if grantland had rotating banners (including, naturally, BIG BEAR) all would be a-ok here

Willing to bet that Klosterman, not Simmons, is the one that pushed for Carles.

going out on a limb with that

cant believe icey writes for grantland

http://deadspin.com/5810019/why-grantland-rice-sucked

Who are you, LeBron James? What's inside you? And why do I care so much? http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6640925/time-lebrondown-part-ii

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is that his dad by any chance?

indeed it is

that's one of the most depressing photos i've ever seen

i'm way too lazy to dig up all the instances when simmons trashed the bruins, tho i'm sure someone else is on it

Yeah, he crushed them when they were losing.

well guys tbf his objection to the bruins was always about the fact that ownership didn't spend to the level it could have in the 80s and 90s, and this issue has been made completely irrelevant by the nhl hard cap. so yeah now he's back on the horse but so are a lot of people, it's hockey for chrissakes, it's barely a major sport and lends itself to the bandwagon because the playoff version is so vastly different from/better than the reg season version--essentially he's me with a lot more money.

oh also i don't fuck w/merch from any team

That LBJ piece was underwhelming. ffs simmons, get up off your ass and write something!

feelin pa simmons whole look

kinda like mark twain in dockers