lol get em
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:32 (nine months ago) link
i did crack up at this when i heard it but never occurred to me it would make the news, which is my blind spot i suppose
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:43 (nine months ago) link
its really on bill/spotify for not just having them do a show complaining about the royals
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:51 (nine months ago) link
“you live in fucking montecito” lol
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:57 (nine months ago) link
lol, i didn't realize bill had personally dealt with them, jeez
― circles, Sunday, 2 July 2023 14:24 (nine months ago) link
i’m completely baffled as to why he thinks this is a unique opinion……. not sure if it’s in this clip but he says on the podcast that he and rusillo and “5 others” believe that scoot is going to be a star
Scoot Henderson is gonna be a star — this is happening. Don’t say Russillo and I didn’t try to warn you. pic.twitter.com/5zbfFw15dn— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 10, 2023
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 05:41 (nine months ago) link
very brave of bill to say this
― Clay, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 06:33 (nine months ago) link
scoot fell one spot in the draft no one believed in him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:42 (nine months ago) link
"fuckin carries himself like an alpha" lol cant believe you guys listen to this shit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:03 (nine months ago) link
shd also be mentioned the "scoot can get by anyone" is far from a settled fact and wasnt even true in the game bill is freaking out over, he took a bunch of short pullups
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:06 (nine months ago) link
he had one halfcourt layup and even that was boarderline transition, could see him being one of those good all around guys who never quite puts it together efficiencywise, a lot depends as it does in the nba on "how good can he shoot"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:12 (nine months ago) link
i didn’t get to see the scoot game but the way he’s describing him is something you’d typically hear about a player who is closer to being maxed out physically than one with limitless potential
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:40 (nine months ago) link
yeah def a guy whos more physically mature than his peers, and is also just a beast
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:56 (nine months ago) link
Scoot seems like a fun and charismatic dude. He may have more "star power" than, say, Lillard, who is great at hooping but pretty boring off the court.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:34 (nine months ago) link
that bill dialog on scoot was hilarious, dude is yelling at no one.
― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
inventing a guy to be smarter at basketball than
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:49 (nine months ago) link
look no one is saying this! I’m the only guy! but based on 11 minutes of summer league mark my words the guy who was the consensus one pick if 7’4 kd didn’t exist — he’s gonna be a huge star and nobody knows it
― Clay, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:54 (nine months ago) link
bill is the king of pretending like he alone thinks a well regarded player is really good (evan mobley is the previous version of this) but the scoot stuff is particularly absurd given that he was by any measure one of the most hyped prospects in years
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:13 (nine months ago) link
he compared dude to prime russ, rose and cp lmao.
― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:37 (nine months ago) link
well he's far from the only one to compare scoot to russ and rose. but that's kinda the point
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:40 (nine months ago) link
This election is going to be the most unpleasant of our lifetimes. It’s impossible to think what could possibly make it wor— pic.twitter.com/diSuJLK4zh— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) August 15, 2023
― k3vin k., Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:13 (eight months ago) link
jesus
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 00:27 (eight months ago) link
this one was funnyhttps://x.com/billsimmons/status/1691930025648369827?s=46&t=delhXlmZBYazm252j4iaFA
― J0rdan S., Friday, 18 August 2023 01:09 (eight months ago) link
prob what happened more or less
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:11 (eight months ago) link
yeah it seems fairly obvious (and predictable!) how it went down
― Clay, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:17 (eight months ago) link
yeah it's all reasonable my only note is that if philly *did* promise a wink wink deal a lot of these things could be seen as harden's camp (awkwardly ) keeping the pressure on to make that happen. i don't think it's like one or the other.
the one no-doubt thing is that he assumed he had a houston backtop option as leverage until he didn't.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:29 (eight months ago) link
I have a physical revulsion to this word and can’t wrap my head around how or why anyone would use it 5 million times in an article let alone write “let us not pretend the word doesn’t rule.” Wtf. I’m sure Bill personally had nothing to do with this Ringer abomination but not sure where else to put this. Is there a thread about the mainstreaming of 4chan incel culture or some shit?
The Official Taxonomy of Cinematic Cucks Cuck cinema is having a mainstream moment. Song and her husband, Justin Kuritzkes, have independently written (and in Song’s case, directed) two films centered almost exclusively on the act of cucking. That’s the aforementioned Past Lives, in which Greta Lee cucks John Magaro until they hug it out, and the upcoming Challengers, in which Zendaya appears to cuck Josh O’Connor and/or Mike Faist. (Side note: After being set for a September 15 release date, Challengers has now been postponed to 2024, no doubt for fear of an excess of Hollywood cucking.)Sure, “cuck” has had a long and winding journey to its current moment in the cinematic spotlight, from Geoffrey Chaucer’s use of “cuckold” to cuck’s place as the insult du jour of myriad far-right trolls. But let us not pretend that the word “cuck” itself, with its monosyllabic brevity and hard consonant punch, doesn’t rule. Let us also not pretend that during the last several years, it has not become (for better or worse) something far more universal, its definition stretching from “insult for a man whose wife is cheating on him” to a sort of catchall for any spineless or subservient specimen.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 3 September 2023 13:25 (seven months ago) link
thats some very bad writing wow
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 September 2023 21:00 (seven months ago) link
i get why this is the case w/ CEO bill and all, but there's something funny that happens not infrequently on his podcast where he will have one of his employees on and will be like "so have you paid attention to [team] at all this year?" and the guy will reply "yeah you know i actually went down to training camp last month for 5 days for an article on the ringer, and"
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:37 (four months ago) link
you get the sense he may not be the world's greatest boss
― symsymsym, Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:21 (four months ago) link
idk his main people have worked for him for years, i think you can make a lot of criticisms more accurate than that.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:30 (four months ago) link
yeah say what you want about him, and god knows one day something terrible might come out, but all indications point to him being a pretty good boss I think!
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:54 (four months ago) link
im ready to release some terrible info about him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 02:01 (four months ago) link
hes a podcaster
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 02:02 (four months ago) link
iirc there was something where some lesser ringer staffers had their podcasts taken away and he told them they just didnt have the capacity to produce everything and he gave his teenage daughter a podcast at the same time
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 02:04 (four months ago) link
Yet somehow Verrier remains.
― Jeff, Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:24 (four months ago) link
i now make active effort to avoid content from the ringer dot com
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:25 (four months ago) link
their stuff is so bad, pure slop
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:30 (four months ago) link
they employ kevin oconnor
yeah we all agree koc sucks, but they have some other writers who are good
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:39 (four months ago) link
they all have the residual stink of bill simmons tho
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:40 (four months ago) link
feel like every time i encounter something by them its notably unserious but at the same time not entertaining
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:42 (four months ago) link
i leave neither edified nor amused
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:43 (four months ago) link
both teams end up neither edified or amused, who says no?
― Clay, Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:43 (four months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 16:39 (four months ago) link
depends what you mean by "good boss" because I think there's a Peter Principle thing going on with him, he's a good writer (or at least one that can command a large audience) and I think he knows what sports bros want to see but I don't know how good he is at actually running things
iirc most of the Grantland writers said he was a good dude to work for
― frogbs, Saturday, 2 December 2023 17:18 (four months ago) link
I think he knows what sports bros want to see but I don't know how good he is at actually running things
― frogbs, Saturday, December 2, 2023 12:18 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
pretty common scenario of someone with vision whos not necessarily expert at the day to day stuff, usually when you see a someone like that build a successful business someone else is just doing the operations things
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 17:25 (four months ago) link
lol didn't mean much by it, just seems like he'd be an annoying personality type. the one thing that I've noticed is that whenever any writers leave the ringer he never acknowledges their departure or existence
― symsymsym, Saturday, 2 December 2023 18:23 (four months ago) link
i'm sure there are worse bosses out there
― symsymsym, Saturday, 2 December 2023 18:25 (four months ago) link
he is annoying tbf
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 18:25 (four months ago) link