bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

paul butorac

lol, didn't realize until listening to the 2006 redraft that chris ryan was chaunceybillups.blogspot.com. some real ye olde blog days shit.

‘this isn’t open mic night’

he's extremely condescending. idk. someone also needs to tell him that hiring famous celebrities to do podcasts does not address structural issues raised by your employees.

Varejao over JR is totally fine! If you were gonna pick a dumb simmons draft thing that would be really low on the list

JR was considered ultra high risk because he mostly went off in allstar games iirc

‘this isn’t open mic night’

― mookieproof, Monday, June 22, 2020 6:32 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he gave his teenage daughter a podcast lol

it's unbelievable that he not only uttered that quote in some fashion but that he actually typed it out, presumably had it read over by other ppl, and still sent it out

yeah not real swift

noted dickhead continues to be a dickhead, more to come

presumably had it read over by other ppl

i suspect the sports guy, like stephen king, is above being edited

wtf are you guys talking about?

Lol. Bill Simmons:

- Gave his teenage daughter a podcast
- has his son on many podcasts
- employs his nephew as a producer
- gave two podcasts to a friend whose main personality is “I enjoy eating food”

But yeah bro this isn’t open mic night. https://t.co/5r6C7KWLDL pic.twitter.com/Kh3XPHHbww

— Joseph 🇺🇦 (@JosephStash) June 22, 2020

Joe House more egregious than his daughter

Bill's Bernie Sanders impression, which he only does for his republican friends like cousin sal, is also the most open mic night thing ever.

im feeling simultaneous intrigue and revulsion

it is the poetry slam of bernie sanders impressions

bill simmons IS bernie sanders IN the book of shit we don't need to see or hear

I stopped listening to Simmons’ podcasts when sports ended. I take it I’m not missing much?

i heard hes doing a redraft of every nba draft of recent past which is something i wld be into if i listened to pods

I stopped listening to Simmons’ podcasts when sports ended. I take it I’m not missing much?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, June 23, 2020 8:16 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same. pretty much cut off all sports media.

i typed e in to my browser yesterday to check the nba standings re the restart in the bubble and it didnt even autofill espn.com/nba

I guess now that I’m finished with all of ILX’s Underworld poll playlist I need something else to listen to, so I shall check these “Redraftables” out.

Bill's Bernie Sanders impression, which he only does for his republican friends like cousin sal, is also the most open mic night thing ever.

― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, June 23, 2020 9:55 AM (two hours ago)

honestly all of his impressions are insanely bad

he is insanely unfunny which is why i struggle every day to understand why he was ever employed to write on a comedy show

i thought he was funny when he first came out not uproarious but amusing times change people grow seasons change

he is a content faucet. some of that can probably be polished into funny stuff within a writers room. it was also a late night television show, a very low bar for comedy.

honestly all of his impressions are insanely bad

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ive long suspected he is literally, not just metaphorically, tone deaf

can’t imagine Simmons doing an impression at all just bc his vanilla regular speaking voice is so specific and bad

its funny he became a podcast kingpin / was on tv when i remember in one of his early columns he talked about how awful his voice was

by far the most cringeworthy part of the simmons/rusillo dynamic is when they start riffing w/ each other and lapse into impressions, bcuz rusillo is fairly passable and bill is just like, so heavy on his feet and overall unfunny. it has a real little brother trying to prove to big brother that he's funny vibes.

yah i usually just jump all over that 15 second skip button until the sports talk comes back

everyone deep down just wants to riff, and be loved for it

used to listen to his nfl odds pod pretty regularly. one of the reasons i stopped: he started doing that andrew luck "impression" every week.

also, i realized that i was mainly listening to him so i could get angry at him and who needs that?

i fuckin hate this guy who ive listened to for hundreds of hours thereby enriching him lol

Is his daughter's podcast any good? I bet it's better than Dave Chang's podcast, yikes.

I really enjoy listening to his podcast, and Bill in general, but I'm hardly a hardcore sports fan.

the dave chang one is bad but i tried the joe house golf one and that was maybe the worst podcast id ever heard.

i fuckin hate this guy who ive listened to for hundreds of hours thereby enriching him lol

― lag∞n, Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:28 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ha, im a ny sports fan so even when i liked him there was a decent amount of anger involved

boston simultaneously becoming a sport villain and location for white gangster movies really leveled the whole city up in pop culture visibility

even when i liked him there was a decent amount of anger involved

most sports columnists and commentators have figured out that the road to fame and fortune is to have challops people react strongly to. they are allowed to mix these in with staid opinions almost everyone would agree with or a bit of maudlin sentimental nostalgia, but the challops are what get people to pay attention to you.

i don't listen to podcasts and haven't read anything by him in years, but . . . back long ago on espn page 2 i didn't think he was that challopy?

he was simply willing to endlessly write 4000-word columns and lard them with obvious pop-culture references for a man his age (which is roughly mine). he was unabashed about being a boston fan, which was annoying but relatable. obviously knew a ton about the NBA; probably knew about as much NFL as a *really* obsessed fantasy player; don't think he knew much about anything else outside of the bruins and red sox (and yankees, by transmission)

anyway i certainly don't remember him deliberately taking absurd positions like a skip bayless (okay there was that dream of boogie column but that was just stupid, i don't think he was trying to fire anyone up to fight him)

yeah his early persona was more the every man fans point of view which was novel in the pre blog ecosystem, over time he became a more conventional tv talking head type except who was still obsessed with forcing pop culture references into everything, kind of like when dennis miller hosted monday night football (not sure if im making that up)

well but instead of obscure world war 1 references it was, like, rocky and back to the future

bad run for these type of guys

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— Bloomberg (@business) June 23, 2020

take sides: kornheiser vs. dennis miller on monday night football

booger mobile over both imo

for real tho, i think miller, since at least he committed to the bit.

ill take kornheiser hes more normal plus has an old school east coast ethnic white quality that is better than nothing, mostly tho its miller is just such a flagrant attention whore i cant stand to listen to him for a second