Fantasy Title IX, iirc
― C-L, Friday, 24 December 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Let us bond. Let us have our all-male leagues without giving us crap about it. For the love of God. Or else in 50 years we WILL all be chicks.
someone clearly needs to beat the shit out of him. it'll be masculine, like hockey, he'll love it
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 December 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
its funny because all this needy bro bonding is pretty you know feminine
― ice cr?m, Friday, 24 December 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"we don't ask for much."
― lenonsense (Clay), Friday, 24 December 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
it also seems like bill simmons knows a bunch of lame women
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 December 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
and while we're on the subject of misogyny and fantasy sports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSfDPkIq1oY
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 December 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
it's just incredibly sad and pathetically in-character that the one thing that really steams this guy up is fucking women playing fantasy sports.
― lenonsense (Clay), Friday, 24 December 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, in what way is this not a good thing, dude! Now your wife and her friends might get less eye-rolly when you want to talk about it incessantly! Win-win IMO.
― lenonsense (Clay), Friday, 24 December 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I just hate this guy more and more every day.
― lenonsense (Clay), Friday, 24 December 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
also, isn't a woman who shares your interests more attractive? no -- they're just for the other stuff, like bearing not-necessarily-wanted babies
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 December 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that's sorta what I was getting at but didn't phrase it correctly. Women aren't allowed to taint the purity of homosocial guy stuff or we will literally become women.
― lenonsense (Clay), Friday, 24 December 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
because guys just need to do things with other guys sometimes
*pause*
― dayo, Friday, 24 December 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
man, are there any non-shitty sportswriters at all? like who write intersting and are not douche bags?
― wiz kelefa sanneh claus (m bison), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 8:15 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
Gregg Easterbrook?
― once more Jagger faps the hivemind (symsymsym), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lol you trolling
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yes i am : )
― once more Jagger faps the hivemind (symsymsym), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I imagine his frat boy fanbase might email him some reasons why they aren't - entirely - against hoards of drunk girls in las vegas
― iatee, Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
What I find to be offensive about his constantly recurring refrain is that he seems like he's going to DIE if he doesn't have dude time that is separate and apart from time with women, and women who don't respect that just don't know their place.
Single-sex outings are not just for dudes. And he's a douchebag for implying it. And yeah, if you want to have an all-male fantasy football league, have an all-male fantasy football league. Its just like if you want to go hang out with your buddies and not your wife/gf, go do it. Don't act like its something you are entitled to and/or must necessarily have in order to be a complete human being.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
well right. that it's something to be aggrieved about is what's so o_O about his whole ish. i am all for dude time for dudes to be dudes (ffs i am scheduling a second-annual boys only no girls allowed ski trip w/bros right now), but wouldn't pretend for a second that if/when some wives/girlfriends show up that they are anything but completely welcome.
honestly can't understand how his wife puts up with it, esp when he's airing out his insecurities in a column read by millions(?) of ppl
― kanellos (gbx), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
This reminds me of the Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd relaysh in knocked up. "you wanna go to India? Go to India. Go to India." and when he's caught going to his fantasy baseball league and confesses that he leaves home to do shit by himself. And she's all I like spiderman. Like women wanna do shit by themselves sometimes too but they aren't so selfish (ime) to feel entitled and whine about it.
― infinity rebounding stats (m bison), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Also lol @ simmons' basically advocating for separate but equal fantasy leagues. Need some espn v board of education shit right herre.
― infinity rebounding stats (m bison), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
― kanellos (gbx), Monday, December 27, 2010 12:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the millions of dollars prob help
― ice cr?m, Monday, 27 December 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
and the fact that its clearly shtick
His wife's sidebar columns for ESPN confirmed for me that he is married to a woman who validates his worldview.
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah. She's probably not too pissed when they get the royalty checks. Fair point.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like we are almost at the point of nick picking bill simmons where i come to his defense, ehhh
― ice cr?m, Monday, 27 December 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
His dad seems like a cool dude.
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i know it's different people posting, but the difference between this thread and the adam carolla thread is sort of amazing to me.
― circles, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i would never set foot in an adam carolla thread
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
haha ditto
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
more like ball semens
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
carolla thread is for true g's only, u scrubs wouldnt be welcome anyway
― Princess TamTam, Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
dont want to alarm u all but simmons has a column up comparing brady/manning to biggie/tupac
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the comparison is basically pointless but the football content of the column is good
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
lol whats up w/him making up fake nicknames for pats/colts games
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I really liked it, especially the Mo Cheeks coda at the end, and all of the stuff where Brady is unconcerned about where things match up on the mythical lists of greatness. Like the whole point of the article other than Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are good at quarterbacking is that the amount of column inches and sports talk radio/TV hours spent engaged in the discussion are basically just unnecessary entertainments unrelated to the actual games and those involved. He spends all this time discussing EPIC RIVALRY and then Brady is like "Yeah Peyty's a good dude, I'm just tryna do me"
― C-L, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
simmons comes this close to owning up to being a fabulist then backs off w/thats what its all abt vegas baby!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
typical
whats a fabulist
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
like, the best list ever, obviously! Duh.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
nice to see he hasn't lost his touch for absurd statistical prediction allowing manning to smash every cumulative record including favre's game streak
cf. his utterly ridiculous prediction of durant's stats from before last year where his reasoning was basically "he improved every stat 30%, that should continue indefinitely with no leveling off"
― i see you're still wearing bs on tv (agent hibachi), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
u couldnt have just said 'liar'?
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh at first i thought u were implying he was a homo
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked that article but homie needs an editor.
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol tamtam
actually a good summary of most of his brady articles would be 'mancrush but no homo lol'
― i see you're still wearing bs on tv (agent hibachi), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/5733157/police-called-to-bill-simmonss-home-for-burglary-only-to-find-mighty-mighty-bosstone-in-socks
― omar little, Friday, 14 January 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
sports guy bros down w/dickie barrett in l.a. *boston explodes*
― ice cr?m, Friday, 14 January 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
inventor of ska breaks into sports writers house
― am0n, Friday, 14 January 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i still get really excited about the trade value column
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link