yes!
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/18687/b-s-report-barack-obama
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 1 March 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
B.J. Steiner @DocZeus All I want to know is if Simmons brought up his Entertaining As Hell Tournament with the President?
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
"President Obama visits the B.S. Report to talk the Bulls, college football playoffs, and his favorite Wire character."
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
according to google it is omar
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
bill simmons kind of wields an insane amount of power, i am concerned
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
we r doomed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
The interview is engaging enough, I think.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
turn back before its too late
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
obama has league pass!
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
he pays for it himself tho
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like all 300 million people of america would be willing to chip in for him to get league pass for free, it would be like .00000000001 cent each, yes we can
i would check the "do you want 1 penny to go to the president's league pass" box on my tax return for sure
― doc has never told me nothing that wasn't true (agent hibachi), Thursday, 1 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
"i've got another five years here"
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.iamagm.com/news/2012/05/03/espns.bill.simmons.has.withdraw.nba.mvp.vote.due.gambling
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
bill simmowned
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Friday, 4 May 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait for this dude to have a fall from grace, but I have a feeling it won't bc popular sports writers just keeping sucking for decades until they die
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Friday, 4 May 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
eh i don't really feel like he deserves any sort of comeuppance
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 May 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
looks like Simmons didn't even know he had a vote until the season was nearly over, so yeah there are some questions that need to be asked here, but this is basically a non-story
i'm not really a big fan; I just feel he's way past his "sell by" date, even though I admit in the past, when I didn't know how clueless he could be, I did like his articles quite a bit
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Friday, 4 May 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
there's only so many Karate Kid references one man can make
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 5 May 2012 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8026268/the-consequences-caring
truly very good piece
― the route is ban (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 June 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
i was disappointed that there wasn't more about the basketball game, but yeah
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 June 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah wow
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 June 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
occasionally, he's still got it in a way no one else does:
It's not about watching your team win the Cup as much as that moment when you wake up thinking, In 12 hours, I might watch my team win the Cup. It's about sitting in the same chair for Game 5 because that chair worked for you in Game 3 and Game 4, and somehow, this has to mean something. It's about using a urinal between periods, realizing that you're peeing on a Devils card, then eventually realizing that some evil genius placed Devils cards in every single urinal. It's about leaning out of a window to yell at people wearing the same jersey as you, and it's about noticing an airport security guy staring at your Celtics jersey and knowing he'll say, "You think they win tonight?" before he does. It's about being an NBA fan but avoiding this year's Western Conference finals because you still can't believe they ripped your team away, and it's about crying after that same series because you can't believe your little unassuming city might win the title. It's about posing for pictures before a Stanley Cup clincher, then regretting after the fact that you did. It's about two strangers watching you cry at a stoplight. It's black and white, but it's not.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 June 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
the car accident bit was super otm too, it even felt like that at home, just weird numbing shock at what lebron did
― doc has never told me nothing that wasn't true (agent hibachi), Saturday, 9 June 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
Then I remembered something. Sports is a metaphor for life.
*thinks deeply, cries at a childs pain*
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 June 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
wow simmons really likes this "mike and the mad dog" show that i had never heard of until about a month ago.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
#SNRUB
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
big reveal that francessa at least brought up w/ simmons abt replacing dog -- wouldve been crazy, francessas pop culture references are like gary cooper & john wayne
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
francesca is the fucking worst
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iFhZSy2Cno
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
and the true masterpiece of awfulness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfdc8n93Mfs
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
i do not think this word means what you think it means xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
i first had the francesa experience when he was a studio commentator for college basketball (cbs? espn?) sometime in the 90s. i recall him being totally clueless yet you could tell that under the surface he was just waiting for an excuse to start screaming JOHNNIES, BABY
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
the lawr of fungibility
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
i mean im not gonna really defend him, hes a clown in a lot of ways, but if you dont think hes better than every single espn talking head pti around the horn personality than i just dont know
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
based on my limited experience of such matters, that is quite a low bar
i think the question is more why any of them have jobs when we have so many sports geniuses here on ilx (srsly). it isn't because they're good-looking.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:06 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think they at least have some knuckleheads on ESPN who wouldn't have the shamelessness to attempt what Francesa does in the Albuquerque clip.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
like skip bayless?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
that fungibility clip is just priceless i really recommend watching the whole thing for anyone on the fence
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
xxp oh hes undeniably v pompous & will never admit hes wrong or doesnt know something - i guess if that is the major/only criteria 4 u then by all means enjoy tim cowlishaw
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure this is one of the few things that i have no interest in reading an oral history of
― High powered Texas lawyer (symsymsym), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
Someone should do an oral history of oral histories
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0720/NBA_thrones_g_mp_576.jpg
What does an offseason when 29 franchises take aim at NBA royalty have to do with a mythical land of swords and dragons? Well, everything. Bill Simmons explains. Part 1| Part 2
― omar little, Friday, 20 July 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
man, these last few columns have been dreadful...the Game of Thrones gimmick is stupid (I didn't like it when he did it for the Wire either, yet another show that he originally vowed he'd never watch then later wouldn't shut up about it), and his latest about how LaDainian Tomlinson's real legacy is going to be his fantasy numbers is just embarrassing, hey I like fantasy football too, but come on
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
And he's slowed down to like one column per month for some reason. Probably saving his strength for when football arrives.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
no teams from Boston are active atm
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
plus he has an empire to oversee.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link