bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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

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pwn

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

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can't... stop... staring...

worst episode of hollywood squares

it's impressive how simmons can't write about anything without referring to the nba -- it's reminiscent of wilbon's propensity for mentioning jordan in any possible (or impossible) context

good podcasts this week w/blake griffin and the ticketmaster guy

simmons article going in on the players for the lockout was nagl

im shocked you guys haven't pointed out the whole "there are more likeable players in the NHL" thing most likely meant "there are more white guys in hockey"

not to mention the whole "NBA players have limited intellectual capacity" thing

i know this is easy pickins but if you want to see him get ripped apart click here
http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2011/10/20/2502297/nba-lockout-2011-bill-simmons-hook

that was enjoyable tbh

feel cleansed now

the problem for Bill is he's really not knowledgable about anything outside the NBA and I'm pretty sure he going to write like a dozen LeBron articles this winter

ill read every single one tbh

frogbs do u like stats come have fun in the player game finder thread

the problem for Bill is he's really not knowledgable about anything outside the NBA

bostonhoopsguy

xp I'd read them too! he's so much better editorializing about hoops than anything else. i read his NFL picks columns but he knows pretty much nothing about football (or baseball for that matter), but his stuff on Lebron is always good

sportsguy33
Could anyone else who twists my "limited intellectual capital" comment around from yesterday's column please note that...

...I'd have the same concerns for NHL/NFL/MLB players? Athletes are trained/conditioned to play sports, not save their sports economically.
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I always thought that baseball was his bread and butter, you know his whole I'M FROM BAWSTON RED SOX RED SOX RED SOX thing

Really enjoyed this article:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/7538/rediscovering-rock-n-jock

I always thought that baseball was his bread and butter, you know his whole I'M FROM BAWSTON RED SOX RED SOX RED SOX thing

― dayo, Friday, October 21, 2011 6:08 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

this angle has had rapidly diminishing returns for everyone who worked it since 2004

http://deadspin.com/5878436/tennis-players-bill-simmons-would-do-another-classic-from-the-secret-sports-guy-vault?tag=bill-simmons

^^kinda imagine nu-bill simmons gritting his teeth every time he's writing about female athletes and holding himself back from saying things this extreme

ugh @ the "hey i'm just doing what the ppl asked for!"

SYLVIA PLISCHKE — C-minus
Probably the most attractive tall woman on the tour, which isn't saying much... short-haired blonde, painfully skinny... she's about six-foot-three, but she doesn't have that stiff-legged, "women's hoop coach" walk like most other tall tennis players ... on the bright side, I'm convinced she wasn't wearing a bra during her matches last year.

MARY PIERCE — B-minus
Captain of the "Beauty is just a lightswitch away" club ... in other words, she's got a Butter Face (everything looks great but her face) ... supposedly better-looking in person ... then again, they said the same thing about Rocky Dennis ... one of the few female tennis players with a legit cleavage... as Frank Drebin said in the first "Naked Gun" movie, "She's got the kinda breasts that say 'Hey, look at these!'"

Two drawbacks here: 1) Pierce dates Robbie Alomar, which speaks for itself, and 2) she had that weird restraining order thing against her domineering father, which means she possesses an inordinate amount of emotional baggage ... there's just a lot to work with here, both positive and negative.

**** Caveman #1: "She's searching for a father figure, which means she's probably extremely attentive to her man's needs. Extremely attentive."

**** Caveman #2: "Remember when Kenny Mayne was doing tennis highlights and said, 'Mary Pierce down a set, although it doesn't appear that way'? Now THAT's comedy!"