Bill Simmons’ New Wesbite, “Grantland”
All, Bill Simmons, ESPN April 28th. 2011, 3:32pm
ESPN has announced the name and roster of writers for Bill Simmons’ sports and pop culture mega-website – Grantland. The site is named after writer Grantland Rice because what the heck else would you possibly call it? Grantland Rice was dead before 98% of people who use the internet were born, but the Sports Guy brand will draw people either way. The new site will feature Chuck Klosterman, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers,Michael Weinreb, Katie Baker, Molly Lambert, Chris Ryan, Robert Mays III, Bill Barnwell and Patrice Evans. Hey, as long as Jack-O still tells me how the Yankees are looking, I’m fine. [ESPN Media Zone, GRANTLAND.com, not to be confused with Grantland.net]
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April 28th, 2011 at 3:38 PM
Eggers?!? Holy shit
I don’t know if you mean that sarcastically, but I love JackO, and I hate the Yankees. He’s the best guest he has on the podcast other than Carolla.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:38 PM
i like the use of Grantland Rice, might be a stretch for Simmons, but maybe it will make him aspire to be a bit better.
sucks that it’s still ESPN.com, not sure why that bothers me, but it does.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:39 PM
I love JackO, and I hate the Yankees. He’s the best guest he has on the podcast other than Carolla.
Jacko’s OK, but Kerr is the best podcast guest (outside of Carolla).
April 28th, 2011 at 3:40 PM
And why is a comedian referencing a great writer in a serious manner?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:40 PM
This seems like a .. what’s the word… pretentious group
April 28th, 2011 at 3:41 PM
I like his friends more than most other guests.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:41 PM
i want to see a site populated by nothing but ombudsmen
April 28th, 2011 at 3:41 PM
Grantland? That is pretentious in itself.
And Malcom Gladwell is an insufferable price.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:42 PM
isn’t that what most of us are for this site? snarky ombudsmen?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Still any word on whats going to be happening at this site? All this secrecy is super cool and all.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:44 PM
I had the same reaction as Weeze – Eggers? WTF? The guest spots from Michael Chabon will really pull in the sports fans
April 28th, 2011 at 3:44 PM
Really lookng forward to it. I know in Hipster blogosphere that tears down annything deemed popular Simmons isn’t a popular writer. But I’m a big fan of him. I hope he can make it a enjoyable place to visit.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:44 PM
I like Gladwell (and his work), but I really don’t like Klosterman. I don’t get Klosterman’s appeal. At all.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:45 PM
snarky ombudsmen?
snorkbudsmen?
I stopped reading Simmons a long time ago. All the same, I’ll watch tonight’s draft and feel wistful about the early 00s draft diaries.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:46 PM
I don’t think it’s a Hipster blogosphere thing, more a people are insanely jealous of him thing.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:46 PM
And Malcom Gladwell is an insufferable price.
Were you going for ‘insufferable prick?’
April 28th, 2011 at 3:46 PM
Really lookng forward to it. I know in Hipster blogosphere that tears down annything deemed popular Simmons isn’t a popular writer. But I’m a big fan of him. I hope he can make it a enjoyable place to visit.
Agree 100%.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:46 PM
I thought this article would be about horse racing
April 28th, 2011 at 3:47 PM
cj, in the benitez post i asked you about the buzz on boston racial slurs at the bruins game last night. hear/read anything?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:47 PM
And my shot at that gasbag Klosterman aside, I’m looking forward to wasting time at work reading this site as well. I admire what Simmons has done.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:47 PM
i like it.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:48 PM
I hope his little brother Toph contributes. He’s awesome.
I wonder how quickly Ty Duffy’s application was rejected? And how many times?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:48 PM
the last bit of quality writing he did was his tribute to his dog. after that i practically gave up, wrote him an angry letter when he said the Vick story was amazing (how he could write that after the article on his dog, I’ll never know) and then i stopped reading him.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:49 PM
And Malcom Gladwell is an insufferable price.
Would you say the cost of Malcolm Gladwell has reached it’s tipping point for you?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Did I miss something? Is TBL promising us more dynamite?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Were you going for ‘insufferable prick?’
I was trying!
Simmons is cool. I wished he went back to writing three columns a week instead of podcasting.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:49 PM
I don’t know about that. I’ve bought all 4 of his books and thought each was reasonably priced. maybe I’m rich.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
Confident I’ll be wasting time on here. Hope it’s regularly full of stuff.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
No, sorry.. not a Bruins fan
April 28th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
agreed…it’s always nice to have a font of print’n'poo material.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:51 PM
maybe I’m rich.
We can figure this out with a simple test: did you spend 10,000 hours practicing money?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Sorry I meant Simmons’ site
April 28th, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Would you say the cost of Malcolm Gladwell has reached it’s tipping point for you?
Many moons ago.
Did I miss something? Is TBL promising us more dynamite?
He hired Woodward and Bernstein. TBL is determined to get to the bottomw of the McNair tragedy.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:52 PM
I just hope it’s actually a site with a lot of words printed on it because fuck podcasts and video and all that high bandwidth bullshit. Sports internetting is for work hours
April 28th, 2011 at 3:52 PM
That’s quite the broad stroke, but that’s the hipster thing to do among blog commenters.
So true. Simmons is highly entertaining, anyone who doesn’t recognize that applies to exactly what Duffy said.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Before we go headfirst into Simmons Discussion #984, I’ll just say that it seems most people have an issue with him because they take him way too seriously, like he’s some kind of serious analytical columnist when he’s just a glorified comedian (and a damn funny one at that.)
I’ll never forget when he wrote about that kid football player from LA that got killed, and he was making comparisons to Melrose Place. So awkward and painful to read.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Is it that you don’t like Klosterman’s appeal at all? Or that you like it so much that you feel compelled to question your liking of it, solely for the purpose of questioning something?
/Don’t hate him, but I know what you mean, it gets old
April 28th, 2011 at 3:52 PM
agreed…it’s always nice to have a font of print’n’poo material.
Oh, yes.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:53 PM
ho lee shit! I have! I’m an outlier!
April 28th, 2011 at 3:53 PM
I get annoyed with his lazy lean on self-referencing but he’s pretty good a lot of the time
April 28th, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Simmons is highly entertaining, anyone who doesn’t recognize that applies to exactly what Duffy said.
Something something college football playoff?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:54 PM
ho lee shit! I have! I’m an outlier!
Well then, you can now use the famous Ben Franklin quote “I’m rich, bitch” with impunity
April 28th, 2011 at 3:54 PM
His running diaries are still pretty good. His article on the Kings (and pretty much drive-by shooting of the Maloofs) and the financial state of the NBA this week was top notch.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:55 PM
Too many pseudo-intellectuals. I do like Simmons, like his pods, but I don’t think I’m going to like this site at all. Klosterman and Gladwell? I don’t think I can handle that much smug, forced, “analysis”.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:55 PM
So true. Simmons is highly entertaining, anyone who doesn’t recognize that applies to exactly what Duffy said.
Fuck the Yankees
April 28th, 2011 at 3:56 PM
His NHL Draft running diary is one of my favorites.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:56 PM
What if I just like his book because it’s good shitter reading material but care for his work on the internet? Where do I get grouped?
April 28th, 2011 at 3:56 PM
they say it’s 70% sport 30% pop culture. If he can get the likes of sepinwall to write tv reviews, that would be cool.
I meant blog commenters more than bloggers themselves. You know the type. The kind that turns their noses up and stuffily say things like “how can anyone eat at mcdonalds”
April 28th, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Before we go headfirst into Simmons Discussion #984, I’ll just say that it seems most people have an issue with him because they take him way too seriously, like he’s some kind of serious analytical columnist when he’s just a glorified comedian (and a damn funny one at that.)
I stopped reading him because it felt like he was being forced to make the same jokes over and over again. (Like Chappelle being told by Comedy Central that they needed “More Lil’ Jon” and “More Rick James.”)
Plus I think some of his fastball went away after the Pats, Red Sox and Celtics all won titles within a 5-6 year period of one another. Most sports fans rail against the heavens because things don’t go their way (I know I’m going through that right now with Arsenal). When everything’s rosy, it’s tough to muster outrage, disdain or pessimism — the cornerstones of great comedy.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:57 PM
but don’t care for his work on the internet*
Mostly because it’s really, really long and he’s very hoops-centric where as I’m not.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Now you know how this blog felt during you war against WAR
/ZING!
April 28th, 2011 at 3:57 PM
I don’t listen to the Simmons podcast much. But several weeks back I caught one where him and one of his friends talked about (the friend) living in Connecticut and his observations Calhoun/Auriemma and UConn fans and it was highly entertaining. I get why people listen.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:58 PM
Ohhhh, my turn, my turn, my turn. My favorite one: You drink Bud Light? YOU FUCKING CLASSLESS PIECE OF SHIT!!!!
April 28th, 2011 at 3:58 PM
interesting thought, maybe we can get a blog that consists of the absolute worst analysts ESPN has had the past few years, headlined by Emmitt Smith, and not give them an editor to filter thoughts or grammar.
that would be entertaining.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:58 PM
I probably won’t look at this website just like I don’t know any of those people listed up there and don’t read Simmons.
/non-hispter blogosphere’d
April 28th, 2011 at 3:58 PM
I looked up Patrice Evans to see if she was hot — yeah, I’m deep like that — only to find out Patrice Evans is a guy.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
If Chad Millman is involved, I am definitely listening.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
How is Grantland going to be funded? It isn’t like Klosterman is going to work for $5 itunes giftcards like Lisk does.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
I don’t know. Whether or not they take things too far, I can appreciate people who break things down in ways I would never think about.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
Fuck your hipster glasses.
/boom
April 28th, 2011 at 4:00 PM
I like klosterman, despite his soccer hate. But he does tend to over analyze things. Sometimes it feels like he can’t see the forest for the trees.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:00 PM
I prefer Keystone, Busch or Miller thank you. Beer made with rice gives me tremendous hangovers.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:00 PM
I only think this but never say it out loud…Bud Light is shit, like they took good beer and filtered it through a sock
April 28th, 2011 at 4:00 PM
I agree. More articles, less podcasts.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
His NBA stuff is always a must read for me. Too bad he only writes about 6 articles a year on it.
People want to rip on Simmons a lot because….
April 28th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
i mean, mcdonalds is fucking terrible*.
*unless it’s breakfast
April 28th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
How dare you???
1. the war on WAR is not over. I am just busy formulating a coherent reply
2. that was one day, and really my problem was that OPS makes no interpretable sense, but no one seems to care/question that
/lies patiently in wait to rip Butters
April 28th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
When I hear him on Simmons’ podcast go on and on, he reminds me Comic Book Guy from the Simpson’s. Droning on and on about just meaningless bullshit. I’ve read the “Fargo Rock City” book and “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs” and they were just “meh”. I just don’t care for his work.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
I only think this but never say it out loud…Bud Light is shit, like they took good beer and filtered it through a sock
And then peed in it.
/Team Miller Lite/Olympia
April 28th, 2011 at 4:02 PM
I only think this but never say it out loud…Bud Light is shit, like they took good beer and filtered it through a sock
And their commercials are horrible. Who finds them funny?
April 28th, 2011 at 4:02 PM
I’m sure I’m stealing a joke from some comedian but, 90 billion burgers served, yet not one motherfuckers admits eating there. Get over yourself, douchebags.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:02 PM
I mostly avoid cheap beer now, but High Life in that clear glass bottle always makes me happy for reasons I can’t really articulate.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:03 PM
Please don’t tell me this means you don’t like Chicken McNuggets. Because Chicken McNuggets are fantastic.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
Ditto. Especially during the summer time. It’s like a Junior Mint, it’s very refreshing!
April 28th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
The two most important things a hitter can do are get on base and hit for power. OPS captures those two things. See, that was easy. Let’s move on to your next problem.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
I read one Klosterman book. The one where he drives around the country visiting where famous rock stars died. Sounded like an excellent premise, but most of it was him talking about himself and how his boss wouldn’t fall in love with him.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
It’s the voice. He has the most grating, ear-bleeding, hair-pulling annoying voice ever.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
Not really.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
See I like the podcasts. I like the team by team previews, and even find them to be pretty good for running because it immerses me and I’ll go for 6 miles before I even think about running.
I just don’t really get Klosterman/Gladwell/culture type podcasts. Partly because I haven’t had anything but basic cable or no TV at all for four years, so I don’t watch many of his shows to understand his references.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
Fuck your hipster glasses.
/boom
They’re not hipster glasses, dammit! I’m blind as a bat! Now I understand how MREJR felt when I called him by his name but spelled it wrong
April 28th, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Someone had a war with WAR? Who was this fool*?
*fool meaning person I disagree with but can be calm about it
April 28th, 2011 at 4:05 PM
How is Grantland going to be funded? It isn’t like Klosterman is going to work for $5 itunes giftcards like Lisk does.
So long as he gets them every other day and is able to purchase Heaven and Hall (RIP Ronnie James Dio) bootleg material through there, I bet Klosterman would.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:06 PM
Can I ask a serious question? How do you guys consume your podcasts and where? It’s one portion of new media that I’ve never really gotten into. Do you use your phone and listen in transit? Is it on your computer at home?
April 28th, 2011 at 4:06 PM
And sportsdork wins for brevity explaining the value of OPS. I applaud you, sir.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Stitcher is the shit.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:07 PM
I mostly avoid cheap beer now, but High Life in that clear glass bottle always makes me happy for reasons I can’t really articulate.
You are wise beyond your years. I love expensive beer, but there is great joy to be had in simple things like Miller High Life.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:07 PM
I’ve never listened to one.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:07 PM
as the sage dispenser of wisdom, hernia de the sports once said…
not really.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:08 PM
We’ve been over this…. it captures two ratios and adds them together, giving equal weight to two unequal statistics. It would be far better to have a “% available RE24″ stat or something. I’m not saying OPS is completely worthless, but if we were putting one additional stat into the BA/HR/RBI/OBP/SLG line… I’d rather have a different stat, than one which merely saves you some simple addition.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:08 PM
Kieth Stone……Always smooth.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:08 PM
I like the comedian podcasts. When he has on patton oswalt, adam carolla, guys from SNL, jeff ross etc. One which was perplexingly bad was with neal brennan, the guy who co-wrote the chappelle show. Dude was so boring. Then I looked up his stand ups on youtube and it was really bad. He claims that all the material in chappelle show was created 50-50 down the line between him and chappelle. I don’t see how that is possible given his stand up performances.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:08 PM
by the way, what’s a wesbite?
April 28th, 2011 at 4:08 PM
Are you one of those people that clicks the “I don’t know” option on polls?
April 28th, 2011 at 4:09 PM
Bill Simmons’ New Wesbite, “Grantland”
by the way, what’s a wesbite? Mize
It took 93 comments for someone to notice that. Damn.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:10 PM
If he can get the likes of sepinwall to write tv reviews, that would be cool.
has anyone ever tried to put together an all-star blogger site? so, sepinwall, and i dont know who else is generally well-known as awesome for comedy/politics/sports/music
April 28th, 2011 at 4:10 PM
I am a fan of the high life in a bottle as well. The champagne of beers loses most of it’s magic when placed in a can, sadly enough. Unless you drink from that can while it is inside of a paper bag, Da Mayor style
April 28th, 2011 at 4:10 PM
Yeah that one I did not get at all. The funniest one to listen to in retrospect is the Tony Stewart one. So bad.
My favorites are the ones with old announcers – Jim Nantz, Al Michaels, Uncle Brent… he needs Jim Ross on eventually.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:10 PM
It’s my go-to beer if we are having a party and I need to get cheap beer. Out of bottles (always) is way better than Bud Light cans, and and it’s teh freakin’ champagne of beers.
I have an RSS feed on google reader, and iTunes manages them, but the easiest is to download them directly to my iPhone. I have tried getting away from the iPhone, but it really does make a lot of things easy (esp with auto-bluetooth linkup in the car where I get in and it starts playing)
April 28th, 2011 at 4:11 PM
$4.99 for 20, great deal! The dollar sundaes are where it’s at too, and can’t argue with the sausage mcmuffin with egg.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:11 PM
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:11 PM
iPod or iPhone…subscribe through iTunes.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:11 PM
I don’t know.
But truthfully, my answer helps support the purpose of his question, which is to say, most people don’t have time for podcasts.
And yes, I’m absolutely listening to “Right Above It” at the gym over white dudes talking sports.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:11 PM
I have an iPod nano that I use expressly for this purpose.
Usually listen in the car. I only listen to the radio in the car for local traffic updates. Otherwise, you might as well rip the FM receiver and the CD player out of my car.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:12 PM
And yes, I’m absolutely listening to “Right Above It” at the gym over white dudes talking sports.
What is it with the blue purse in that song? It’s ok that he’s carrying a purse because there’s a gun inside it?
April 28th, 2011 at 4:12 PM
All really good. I thought the Trent Dilfer one was good. Simmons has become a pretty good interviewer, able to ask the right questions, and get guests to elaborate.
Too bad he never finished the one with Walton.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
McDonald’s milk shakes are pretty great, IMO. Extending the Shamrock Shake was genius.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
For those not listening to podcasts in general…you are missing out on some great commute material.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
As opposed to Asian dudes?
April 28th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
I kinda figured that most of you listened in the car which is why I’m not a podcast subscriber. My commute is exactly 17 minutes door to door from home to office and I generally nap for 15 minutes on the bus.
If I had a car and a long commute, I might listen to podcasts. But, I’m also a sports talk radio listener for entertainment value and local beat reporters.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Can I ask a serious question? How do you guys consume your podcasts and where?
podcasts are hard, because it’s easy to tune out sound, which is the wrong thing to do if you are listening to a podcast (or the weather on the radio).
So I don’t download them. I also dont’ go anywhere, and don’t have an Ipod. They seem perfect for commuting, or putting in for your drive home.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
no. enema and you know where.
/coop
April 28th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Hopeful the 18th one I sent will be the winner.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
I hate podcasts and don’t ever listen to them, either. I used to listen to this one my friend made about new music but I stopped listening after about 4 weeks and then I just had a bunch of unlistened to podcasts queued up. That was about 5 years ago. Never again. Podcasts are like a subscription to The Economist. Sure seems useful but you still have to use it, so no thanks
April 28th, 2011 at 4:15 PM
Totally agree on the Al Michaels and Brent interviews with Simmons. They were great guests.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:15 PM
but High Life in that clear glass bottle
got one left from a 12-er. will drink it now in honor of this thread
April 28th, 2011 at 4:15 PM
I want to show you something.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:15 PM
Don’t get me started. Some uppity private school rich kid wanna save the world Vanderbilt med students thought it would be good to get rid of McDonalds at the hospital. Their solution was to replace it with “Au Bon Pain” which is twice as expensive, but it turns out, just as unhealthy.
And no soft serve cones for the 95 degree summer days here.
/Gets angry and looks for Butters again
April 28th, 2011 at 4:15 PM
“pedof isle” podcast with carolla was gold, jerry, gold!
April 28th, 2011 at 4:16 PM
KNBR for my half hour commute into work every morning, I like the morning show of Murph and Mac.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:16 PM
Deep Thoughts, by Dirt Handy.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:17 PM
Hahaha, awesome. Glad to have earned that one.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:17 PM
They have really good soup though.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:18 PM
I’ve grown to like Klosterman on the podcast. I like his prose, but hate the topics of his books.
The Deadspin online puck bunny piece by Katie Baker was 15 minutes of my life I want back.
Gladwell is blah.
The rest I’ve never heard of.
Like others have said, give JackO his own section!
April 28th, 2011 at 4:18 PM
/team Hernia
April 28th, 2011 at 4:18 PM
AGREED FUCK VANDY IN ALL CAPS
April 28th, 2011 at 4:19 PM
Big fan of Simmons so I’ll definitely check it out, but wow I’m not a fan of Klosterman at all. That guy may be the very definition of 0 value added. He creates nothing and simply over analyzes everything just for the sake of doing it. Gasbag is a very apt description. And it’s even worse on the podcast because you have to listen to his nasally voice.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:20 PM
Deep Thoughts, by Dirt Handy.
that’s a quality pop culture reference from only 15 years ago. Impressive.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:20 PM
Carolla is a guy who is a better podcast guest than a podcast host. I used to listen to his podcast, but just couldn’t take the same schtick, day in and day out, from him.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:20 PM
Another really good podcast is “your favorite team”s radio show. The Terry Francona on WEEI interviews always are really good, and make me really like him (and hate Dale/Holley).
April 28th, 2011 at 4:21 PM
Basically my thoughts a few comments up. I don’t get Klosterman, or a lot of the other pop culture type guests.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:21 PM
I’ve said this before – give me Miller Lite for tailgating or hot days. Otherwise, Yuengling, Sam Seasonal, Flying Fish and many others.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:22 PM
Au Bon Pain is straight shit.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:22 PM
@Wide Word of Sport
Dale Arnold was demoted.
Holley does The Big Show now.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:23 PM
Au Bon Pain is straight shit.
serious question – does that mean you like it and it’s good, or that you hate it and it’s bad. I honestly can’t tell.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:23 PM
So something has to be recent to be funny? Noted. Additionally, Phil Hartman would like you go to fuck yourself, ya dirty hippie.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:25 PM
Foghorn Leghorn in Hindi. I made it through about 3 minutes.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:25 PM
Sweet! Clearly I haven’t listened this year yet, so kind of defeats my point. Still don’t like Holley though… does he still have the ridiculous earring?
April 28th, 2011 at 4:27 PM
Zobrist is a beast today, another double for a nice 4-6, 8 rbi day…
April 28th, 2011 at 4:27 PM
32 seconds. I want it in Jive or Hilljack.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:27 PM
I am boycotting Au Bon Pain just because they replaced McDonalds but are actually just as unhealthy, and way more expensive. Where can I get my dollar burger? Wendy’s is all the way the fuck over there
/points to the other side of the football stadium
April 28th, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Judging by the people he follows on twitter, I think jacko political viewpoint is slightly to the right of hitler.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:29 PM
I’m not going to click that, just thinking about it is perfect enough for me.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:30 PM
I laughed really hard at about 2:30 when the Hindi translater voiceover imitates the Indian (feather) yelling.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:31 PM
jeebus.
I’m going home.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:37 PM
I think I’ve read 5-6 of Simmons’ pieces. I don’t read them because I dislike him, I just rarely go over to ESPN.com. The only thing I read on ESPN.com is their CFB blogs. I did read the Simmons piece on his dog and thought it was fantastic.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:38 PM
Holley lost the earing, I believe.
I’ve actually always liked Holley. To each his own.
The new midday show, Mut and Merloni, is a disaster.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:42 PM
I love his books. Blink is amazing.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:47 PM
It sucks.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Podcasts? Bill Simmons?? Fuck this, I was busy reading about the time Drew Bledsoe threw 70 passes in a game!11!
/true
April 28th, 2011 at 4:59 PM
I love Klosterman mainly for the way he oveanalyzes every little point. It probably gets tiresome for some, but his Spin magazine articles were fantastic. Eating the Dinosaur got a little meandering, but Klosterman is hipster pop culture which is why people are into him or not. There’s no gray ara. But I don’t care. Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs is the best book on pop culture I’ve ever read. No one will convince me different.
April 28th, 2011 at 5:43 PM
One of the reasons I don’t like Simmons off the top is the whole Ewing Theory thing. It’s idiotic and the meaning behind it doesn’t fit the reality.
April 29th, 2011 at 1:45 AM
Has anyone stated that this is actually a horrible name for a website that is going to be incredibly popular?
Start paying attention to sports, darrell. Then it’ll make sense.
April 29th, 2011 at 12:07 PM
I like Simmons and shockingly I’m going to judge this site, its writers, and content *after* it actually launches. Shocking concept, I know.