that asshole disgraced himself in boston-area media years ago. it's amazing that anybody lets him write.
β 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
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
okay this is awesome http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6760779/the-legacy-yao
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
a 6k word molly lambert piece published by espn.com = the definition of
β 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
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
i like her too generally speaking, it just seems really forced (which is no fault of her own)
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Mobley's current career plans included opening a medical marijuana dispensary
ice cold
― dayo, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
The Chris Ryan relegation piece?
― boxall, Monday, 1 August 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
He is such a hack.
― boxall, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
lotta women falling into the grantland/deadspin overlap huh
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Clay, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
ahaha
― circles, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 06:48 (twelve years ago) link
a face made for TV
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
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
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
who doesn't acknowledge that?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
people on here who acknowledge listening to his podcasts and are proud of it
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― rock out with your lock out d-stern (agent hibachi), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
β 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.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
his podcasts are often great
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6851333/the-architecture-disaster
the writing here is... a bit much, but pretty cool story nonetheless
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
some good stereotyping in the first paragraph, well done
― dayo, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
simmons' podcast with david stern is the most boring thing ever.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
this is pretty on-point imo: http://bryanjoiner.com/2011/08/17/garbageland/
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
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
― rock out with your lock out d-stern (agent hibachi), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
― rock out with your lock out d-stern (agent hibachi), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Itβs not good when you have the least self-aware comment in a book full of narcissists.
otm
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
the site has no particular identity is the thing p much
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
didnt care enough to have a real name that stood for a thing
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Grantland does have an idea, it's the world as it exists inside a Bill Simmons column
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
I wish it was even that cohesive, but it isn't.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Writing about sports the way that smart people talk about sports is a simple idea, and a good one. AND A BORING ONE IMHO, PWN
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
The problem is that there are only so many Joe Posnanskies in the world, and he's too humble to ever attempt something like this
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
if the classical was a blog with mark e smith doing stream of consciousness rants about us sports i would read. i might set up a rival kickstarter. hunnerd bucks should get us rolling
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
well bethlehem shoals is involved in the classical so there goes that idea
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
there are still def. some grantland articles that I've enjoyed, like the arvydas sabonis article. (the non-lambert pop culture stuff is pretty embarrassing tho). What do we think of Bill Walton's deep thoughts here?
In the following season, Wallace threw the towel at Sabonis during a timeout of a game against the Lakers. Sabonis had accidentally smacked Wallace's face earlier when he collided in the post with O'Neal.
"Under normal circumstances, he'd have probably knocked his head into next year," Doucette said. "I don't think you want to challenge Arvydas. But he kept his cool because he knew that if he didn't, that team would come apart right there. He did a marvelous job of remaining composed."
Walton, who was broadcasting the game nationally, still feels remorse over the incident. "It was one of the lowest moments of my life," he said. "If I was any kind of a man, I would have got up from that broadcast table and walked across the court and punched Rasheed Wallace in the nose. But I let Sabonis and the game of basketball and the human race down that day."
― shannon goon (symsymsym), Thursday, 18 August 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
lmao walton
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
i think about that moment a lot, the moment when bill walton let the human race down
― max, Thursday, 18 August 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
Walton also apparently has never read The Breaks of the Game, even though he's tried dozens of times, because it's too painful to read about his own injuries. Why doesn't he just skip those parts? If he wants to read the book so badly?
― shannon goon (symsymsym), Thursday, 18 August 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
a broadcaster walking into the court to fight sheed would have been a pretty great moment in human history, you have to admit
― shannon goon (symsymsym), Thursday, 18 August 2011 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
thats what im saying, he let all of us down at that moment, by not doing something hilarious
― max, Thursday, 18 August 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
xp have you read breaks of the game? it isn't really structured in a way where you can skip parts imo
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link