bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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

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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

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

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

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

well bethlehem shoals is involved in the classical so there goes that idea

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."

lmao walton

i think about that moment a lot, the moment when bill walton let the human race down

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?

a broadcaster walking into the court to fight sheed would have been a pretty great moment in human history, you have to admit

thats what im saying, he let all of us down at that moment, by not doing something hilarious

xp have you read breaks of the game? it isn't really structured in a way where you can skip parts imo

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

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, August 12, 2011 11:49 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no way! this is pretty good.

i love when walton gets into some epic ineffable shit, he's the best

http://i.imgur.com/itbbL.png

pwn

lol I came here to post my own version of that too, but to comment on the righteous screencap

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