bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

The least a copy editor can do is verify all the proper nouns and dates, which takes no time at all.

the "I fix the NBA" column is so scattered. like he has a paragraph about how horrible donald sterling is and then uses the fact that he hasn't cut into the lakers' popularity as evidence that greater LA needs an 3rd franchise and chicago needs a 2nd.

ha yeah the 'just get everybody into a room and figure it out ffs' line of reasoning is usual reserved for like the stupidest of all politicians etc

thx again upthread dudes for the :07 seconds or less rec. after not paying thirty for a Chapters copy I was stoked to find it for six and change on getting home. great read

Even that fuck Mike Barnicle gets to write for this thing? Ugh.

it was an inoffensive enough piece but yes my reaction was mike fuckin' barnicle? really?

that asshole disgraced himself in boston-area media years ago. it's amazing that anybody lets him write.

he must've been super nice to simmons when bill was a pup

i can't figure out biographically where they would have crossed paths--maybe bu j-school? but yeah that would not shock me.

This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Colombia and to clarify that Megan Rapinoe was not a starter for the United States.

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culumbia

that asshole disgraced himself in boston-area media years ago. it's amazing that anybody lets him write.

― call all destroyer, Monday, July 11, 2011 3:38 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah wtf this guys is like on tv all the time still after making up fake cancer patients just so he could push his self righteous butthole shtick

okay this is awesome http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6760779/the-legacy-yao

a 6k word molly lambert piece published by espn.com = the definition of

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 2, 2011 6:54 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

aw i love molly lambert. it's weird to me that she's writing for bill simmons's vanity project but i'll take what i can get

i like her too generally speaking, it just seems really forced (which is no fault of her own)

Mobley's current career plans included opening a medical marijuana dispensary

ice cold

The Chris Ryan relegation piece?

He is such a hack.

lotta women falling into the grantland/deadspin overlap huh

guess who was guest-hosting pti today

http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2011/08/368053050.jpg

if you guessed bill simmons' new mustache, you win!

ahaha

a face made for TV

can we just acknowledge that bill simmons is not suited for anything outside of writing. sounding like a 20 year old fratboy when you're 45 is nagl

who doesn't acknowledge that?

people on here who acknowledge listening to his podcasts and are proud of it

i'm not so sure he's even suited for writing anymore. the idea of a 45-year old man trying to lace sports columns with Jersey Shore references and a "breakdown" of the Pippa Middleton "situation" is cringe-worthy. plus I don't think he really passes the Sports Guy Turing test anymore as I'm pretty sure I could write an article that could be mistaken for the actual thing. in fact, it would be underrated, kind of like a 2006 post-breakup Jennifer Aniston. see, here's the thing. In 2006, she was underrated, as everybody (the Sports Wife) was feeling sorry for her, and hated Angelina Jolie. But, in 2008, she became overrated, as

I don't think he really passes the Sports Guy Turing test anymore

ahahaha first thing the stache made me think of was this

http://www.gonemovies.com/www/Pictures/Pictures/BladerunnerLeon.jpg

people on here who acknowledge listening to his podcasts and are proud of it

― dayo, Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

lol i have no idea about "proud of it" but depending on the guest podcast simmons is far and away the most tolerable simmons.

his podcasts are often great

tho often maddening

When he has a guy like Norm MacDonald it's definitely good and I like the "guess the line" podcasts with Cousin Sal.

I did think when people would make fun of his voice that they were just kinda randomly hating on the guy, but holy christ do they have a point. He sounds like that snot-nosed kid from Home Movies. Plus I do get the vibe of "we're all bros and we can all make fun of everyone, but don't say anything too mean to Simmons"

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6851333/the-architecture-disaster

the writing here is... a bit much, but pretty cool story nonetheless

some good stereotyping in the first paragraph, well done

simmons' podcast with david stern is the most boring thing ever.

this is pretty on-point imo: http://bryanjoiner.com/2011/08/17/garbageland/

nice, i was just thinking that i actually can't wait for the classical (nu-darko) while grantland's awful complete lack of editing is wearing me down

i mean really, they just need a real honest-to-god editor who can fact-check and edit...you can get them on the internet for like twenty bucks now, pony up some of that subway cash money doggie

they do desperately need that, but i think the longer-term thing that this guy is right about is how simmons' columns look worse when presented outside of espn.com

Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything in there. I like some of the writers - I think Jonah Keri is basically good, but essentially I feel like you can only really enjoy Grantland if you ARE Bill Simmons, and I have yet to find anyone who really likes the site as anything more than an occassional time-waster.

they do desperately need that, but i think the longer-term thing that this guy is right about is how simmons' columns look worse when presented outside of espn.com

there was another article about that somewhere, which said something like "ESPN needs Simmons in order to appear edgy, while Simmons needs ESPN to appear as though he has things to say that ought to be censored". his Grandland articles are basically the same thing he writes for ESPN, just with the occassional "fuck"

It’s not good when you have the least self-aware comment in a book full of narcissists.

otm

the site has no particular identity is the thing p much

things never work out when people are all i just want to make something good

like there has to be a more specific and passionate motivation

i mean they went w/the placeholder name the designer stuck in the mock ups

didnt care enough to have a real name that stood for a thing

Grantland does have an idea, it's the world as it exists inside a Bill Simmons column

I wish it was even that cohesive, but it isn't.

didnt care enough to have a real name that stood for a thing

On that note, not super jazzed about "The Classical" as the name of a sports website.

yeah wow their kickstarter pitch really filled me w/zzzzzs