(nothing worse than a top-ranked tennis player with a front-butt)
I agree that this is the worst thing
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
btw bill was a notably worse writer back then huh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
any man who hasn't thought about being in the middle of a Williams sister sandwich is lying, plain and simple
I don't often fantasize about being crushed to death but I guess this wouldn't be a bad way to go
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
didn't see that link, oh well...
― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
uhhh not really, no
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
yah totally, blatantly
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he was
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
is the "caveman 1" and "caveman 2" thing like anonymous reader submissions or like the pure id of bill simmons presented in a way that makes him feel better
i think by merely toning down his misogyny from tucker max levels to beer commercial levels he's become a better writer. i mean i think he's mostly tedious now but better without a doubt.
― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
stuff like this aside, the only time in which Bill was really tolerable was before the Red Sox won in 2004; haven't you read any of his recent stuff? like his 20 page opus on why there can only be 15 movie stars at one time, how none of them can be women, and how Ryan Reynolds is definitely not one of them?
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it's "cousin sal" and "jacko" xpost
― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Note: That last statement reminds me of something my buddy Worm said in college when we were talking about a chunky girl on our hall — one of her friends had said how this girl had lost 15 pounds and the Worm quickly responded, "Oh good, only 40 more to go." High comedy. You had to be there.
good thing he qualified that statement...I was thinking..."40 more...what? What is he talking about?" I guess I had to be there...
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Somehow the result of the Grantland experiment is that now I never, ever read Simmons (or listen to his podcasts), whereas before I read/listened him pretty much every week. Not sure why that is.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
i think a lot of that is because his articles come out at like 3 PM on a Friday and i'm usually done for the week by then. not really a prime spot for a writer.
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
out of sight (espn.com), out of mind
― joepa mi pinga (am0n), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7503780/the-return-young-jeezy
? ! ?
― san lazaro, Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://a.espncdn.com/i/columnists/barshad_amos_m.jpg? http://a.espncdn.com/i/columnists/barshad_amos_m.jpg! http://a.espncdn.com/i/columnists/barshad_amos_m.jpg?
― joepa mi pinga (am0n), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
removing the bookmark from this thread so I'm never reminded of what a revolting shithead bill simmons is
― oneohtrix and park (m bison), Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
why does deadspin feel the need to mercilessly bash bill simmons and grantland at every opportunity?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 January 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like a good part of it is an inferiority complex? deadspin's always been really critical of ESPN so the idea of ESPN spinning off something like deadspin-lite has got to stick in their craw a bit
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
because bill simmons is kind of an asshole?
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Friday, 27 January 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
dying @ snrub
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 January 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
getting butthurt over deadspin's trolling of grantland is... quite a reason to get a hurt butt, i must say
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 January 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
god is that female tennis playing grading shit upthread for real? what a piece of work.
― Clay, Friday, 27 January 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah them uncovering this shit is pretty awesome but when grantland started and they made a list of every nitpicky factual error it seemed pretty stupid
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
well they demonstrated that it's pretty weird to start a website of professional writing that does not employ any ediotrs.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 January 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
Look, I don't want to be captain save-a-simmons here. He is an asshole. I mean, you can't even blame this horrible tennis article on "He was young, he didn't know better. That's why he's kept all these articles hidden so long; he was too embarrased" because he writes this shit all the time! Like his "Women should be forced to have their own fantasy leagues!" rant not too long ago, the prick.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
imo simmons is who he is, don't really have enough time in my day to get all fake appalled over his dumb fratty bullshit, i mean duh of course he wrote this article
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
seriously who has that big a problem with women in a fantasy league. like yeah it sucks when someone's wife signs up b/c you didn't have enough people to run a league and winds up winning despite not knowing a single player she drafted but I think that's just because it reminds us all there is minimal skill in fantasy football and therefore bragging about how you dominated your league "for the last two years, bro" means nothing
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
seriously who has that big a problem with women in a fantasy league. like yeah it sucks when someone's wife signs up b/c you didn't have enough people to run a league and winds up winning despite not knowing a single player she drafted
lol well i don't know that it "sucks" but it's funny, my wife won our fantasy league for the second year in a row this year, mostly b/c she likes drew brees and is a big halo benders/beat happening fan (and therefore drafted calvin johnson.)
― omar little, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
time to channel my inner Simmons:
It's like, you know, that guy at the Blackjack table, who's playing horribly, hitting 14's vs. a 6, not splitting his 10's vs. a 5, and yet he's winning every hand. Meanwhile you're betting triple what he is and getting killed by 21's every time you get dealt a pair of bitches. THAT'S what my friend's wife does to this fantasy league.
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
frog bill simmons
― dayo, Friday, 27 January 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
lul
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
frogland
― joepa mi pinga (am0n), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
and is a big halo benders/beat happening fan (and therefore drafted calvin johnson.)
― omar little, Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lmao
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I feel like there's some thread on ILX that deserves to be curated in.
― dayo, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
uh because grantland will publish one or two well written pieces that ~makes u think~ but then publish 1157 articles of shit like "what if (x) on reality show was on reality show (x)" and "why does Michael Jordan dress up as the R&B Steven Seagal?" (totally forgetting that MJ does not have the major paunch or slicked back hair or crazy bad Asian outfits for such an endeavour)
― Born To Meat Pie (King Boy Pato), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
tbf theyve been on the Simmons beat since way before grantland, they h8 him cause he was their boyhood idol but now that theyve grown theyre embarrassed of him, particularly since he did m/l invent the thing theyre doing, they admitted as much, also im sure its good 4 hits
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol exactly, Simmons was Deadspin before Deadspin in a way, and really one of the first sportswriters that seemed to be on the same wavelength as the fans
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
yah same wavelength as the fans was simmons credo, now days we call that 'blogging"
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
there was def something appealing about simmons in the early espn days, pre-bosox world championship when there was something universal and poetic about his sports fan pain but i feel it soon calcified into schtick and he didn't really take his style as a writer into better places. and beyond that i find his sexual politics to be really kind of nasty and cruel. he's still vastly better as a stylist than he was during the days he wrote that tennis piece.
― omar little, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
especially when you compared him to writers like Rick Reilly who were constantly moralizing everything and writing lengthy articles about issues nobody cared about. I mean BoSox fans are pretty terrible in general but at least Simmons was "one of us", so to speak
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
speaking as a boston native and someone who journeyed home to experience the red sox winning their first championship of my lifetime, bostonians were really dialed into simmons during that series, everyone was talking abt his columns, it was now that i think abt it kinda remarkable
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
his basketball writing is still good from time to time, but the schtick has long since calcified for sure
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
so long as he sticks to writing about basketball he's fine. it's when he says crap like "the Colts intentionally threw a playoff game in 2007 because they knew they weren't going to beat the Patriots anyway" when you realize that he's kind of an insufferable prick
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
feel like if youre a professional writer for long enough its hard to resist the drift towards overfit narrative and/or trolling at the expense of making sense
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
wait why did i think lagun was a yankees fan?
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol dude
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
mb i'm thinking of max
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link