i thought he was pretty decent doing the heat-warriors game -- i mean he made a lot of the same points/jokes from his column, but he was as good as anyone on that network outside of jvg
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
wow that surprises me
― call all destroyer, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
content is not the only thing that counts in the booth - you gotta have a vocalic presence, bill simmons has about as much vocalic presence as the boom goes the dynamite kid
― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was amazed by how bad he was on PTI... kornheiser was so much more natural and likable
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not a podcast it's a nationally televised nba game ffs
like dayo says, the bar is set low -- if i had no idea who simmons was & i just flipped on the game i would've thought he was just another announcer, albeit one that was a bit more zingy to the bad players
esp for his second game ever (he did some college game a few years ago) i thought he was totally serviceable, sometimes even funny
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, on tbob - its solid, its just wayyyyyyy too long. i went into it liking his schtick and finished it not being able to stand him. too much simmons, too much pyramid, too much everything. im warming up to him again but his style's really unsuited to something that big.
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah idk i guess i'm just used to his voice? idk
i don't really give a shit about your voice as much as i do about what you say
― call all destroyer, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think i actually finished tbob--it should've ended with the pyramid--but it lends itself well to going back into certain sections and re-reading them
― call all destroyer, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i could see that book being like youre plowing through it cause its readable then like 2/3 through you realize you hate this guy and why am i reading this
― ice cr?m, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
if im gonna listen to a nigga for 3 hours i better like your voice... thats why jon miller owns and bryant gumbel doesnt
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:22 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark
haha that was my exact experience
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I think broadcasting voices are pretty important - just try to imagine if bill simmons was in the booth when bobby thomson hit that homer
― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
well great calls are great but this was a west coast time reg season nba game--no one's saying he should call the super bowl
― call all destroyer, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― Princess TamTam, Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:22 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark
well, i agree with this, but i think it matters A LOT less for color guys than it does for play by play -- simmons might get a bit obnoxious if he was doing two games a week, but it was a nice change up at times to have a dude making cracks about dampier not being able to make lay ups & shit
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
okay everyone stop comparing play by play guys to color guys
cut him off at the roots tbh
― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
that's one of my problems with him, his way of life seems completely foreign to my experience in life, like his actual adherence to played out LOL WOMEN kinda shit, he's the sort of dude that if i met i'd move away from. i get the same feeling reading his column that PTT had reading his book.
― omar little, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean if your benchmark is one of the most famous moments in sports history...
― call all destroyer, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
voice is meaningful for sure but i feel like the canned deep announcer style is some v strange shit that were all just used to
― ice cr?m, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i didnt actually hear the game btw, but i will say that i'd rather listen to a billion simmons-called games than one more by reggie miller or mark jackson
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just saying nobody should encourage him to spend more time in the broadcast booth, is all
― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
should replace all espn announcers with mexican soccer announcers anyway
what is this about
sportsguy33 Bill SimmonsHey CPP: took you out of TBOB cuz you trashed it without ever mentioning that you used to email me all the time until I told you to eff off.
sportsguy33 Bill SimmonsI just thought it was dishonest. You came off like a spurned lover in that piece. But seriously, good luck with your red-hot career.
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
who is cpp?
― omar little, Monday, 13 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Charles Pierce
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, 13 December 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/5712872/
ah
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
the deej n whiney of b-ball
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wow does he come off like a whiny bitch there. i mean if you release a book for everyone to read i think people have the right to critique it.
I do enjoy reading Simmons, but he really is coming off more and more like a douche lately; plus he's clearly nowhere near as funny as he used to be. I think he goes above and beyond to try to be "quotable", which results in a lot of stupidity
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/101210/simmons_book.pdf
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
wow thats pretty bitchy to edit a guy out, feel liek he should prob release the emails in question at this point so we can all have closure
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
lol is that an unprotected copy of the book up on the espn content delivery network
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
That PDF isn't working for me anymore for some reason.
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
he also, uh, edited out a mention of free darko for some reason
http://freedarko.blogspot.com/2010/12/highlights-for-children.html
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 13, 2010 3:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is so lol! no one seems to grasp that the only people simmons hates are other journalists.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
he reads blogs but he wishes he lived in a world where they didnt exist, even tho he is basically the proto sports blogger, its tuff
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
He was fine with them existing when he published the first edition though. What did FD do since then?
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently they didn't like the book
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/en/larry_bird?pad=1&errorid=%2Ffreebase%2Fno_image_png&maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64 "fuck you, bill"
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Who is the most embarrassing of Bill Simmons' sycophantic friends (non-celebrity division): Joe House, Cousin Sal, "reality TV czar" Dave Jacoby, or JackO?
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
u mean theyre not all the same person?
― wiz kelefa sanneh claus (m bison), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
joe house, easily
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/files/2010/12/BillSimmons.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
the celebrity division isn't even a contest because of klosterman, right?
― Clay, Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yup!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0904/pg2_group_300.jpghttp://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0904/pg2_group2_300.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
plaid shorts: checkflip flops: checknot pictured: strip club handjobs
― omar little, Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link