bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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

He reminds me of Michael Jeter in The Fisher King:

http://www.thirdfactory.net/images/fisher_king.jpg

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

smh

Looks like einstein

hahahaha they punctuated carles hahahahaha

why did anyone think this was a good idea whyyyyyyy

THEY TYPED "MAIN BRO" ON THE FRONT PAGE

JUST A VERY COOL & EDGY WEBSITE

NOT THAT I DON'T <3 CARLES BUT

okay that carles article really isn't working for me.

just, like, domesticated carles is no carles at all.

yeah this is just... no

carles poems on the playoffs or no carles at all

That Carles article reminds me of Steve Martin when he wants to be a Serious Writer bro.

i will say--they are putting up more stuff per day than i have time for, and i love to kill time at work.

o what did they do to my carles

http://s0.2mdn.net/3234998/Klondike-Logo-Grantland.png

its like a fucking geocities site

wheres the counter in the footer http://www.d-s-t.com.au/_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=data/outsourced/Dual_PassiveRadaiator/index.htm|Image=4

he went to college and came back with all these crazy ideas in his head

xpost

I want a hit counter but also midi music playing while I read

I liked the Carles article. It's fun to see him try to class it up slightly.

id be funny if carles slowly morphed into a 'serious writer' w/a 'real career'

guys this website sux stop liking it :(((

lol

yeah i don't really get the fascination. bunch of shitty writers congealing around bill simmons of all people, whoop-tee-doo.

well a bunch of shitty writers and carles.

I like a lot of the writers I guess.

i like carles and molly lambert and sometimes simmons on the nba and prob some of the other writers not totally sure whos who, but mostly i think were approaching this from an 'amateur media criticism and rubbernecking' pov

i get what you're saying there but i think mostly it's like the last thing i want from simmons et al is a reason for them to take themselves really seriously, and this site seems to indulge in that and oh man, no thanks on that.

just write about the nba, bill! i'll take a thousand terrible gm summits to whatever this endeavor is.

it def has the potential to be horribly awful!

i mean there is no way in hell im reading dave eggers on wrigley field or two separate articles on some defunct sports newspaper

i will however agree check out the piece on baldwins twitter :/

oh christ of course eggers is writing for them i mean duh of course

theyre puttying out a quarterly journal w/mcsweeneys lmao

i mean there is no way in hell im reading dave eggers on wrigley field

oh man i thought this was a joke but no

hahahaha they punctuated carles hahahahaha

why did anyone think this was a good idea whyyyyyyy

― J0rdan S., Friday, June 10, 2011 3:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

have you looked at HRO lately? he's punctuating himself

Thought Pierce's article on the National was pretty interesting, maybe only because I have vague memories of reading my dad's copy every day when it was out.

heh, i think deadspin is just gonna make scocca their full-time grantland assassin

http://deadspin.com/5811438/

grantland's footnotes are killing me. i don't know how these articles look on a regular computer, but on my iPhone and iPad you can't hit the "back" button and go to the original spot in the article you were just at. nope, it takes you all the way to the top of the page and you have to scroll all the way down to where you were reading. and you have to do that over and over again. what a piece of shit website.

Rock VORP
By Chuck Klosterman
How important is Albert Hammond Jr. to the Strokes? Grantland does the math.

the day we all feared

lolll

baaaaaarf

shit that looks like an Onion article but isn't

it really is awful

omg

By Chuck Klosterman

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

a ronald thomas clontle reference!

god that is just the worst article written by the worst person with the worst taste

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/03/07_chuckklosterman_lgl.jpg

"I give props to my ninjas and kudos to my serfs."

i can't stand klosterman but actually sort of enjoyed his first couple grantland things....was giving me hope...that hope has been cruelly snatched away.

people who listen strictly to rock music should not write about music