My unfortunate demise has most likely cost me reading awesome duffy comments like this more regularly. Damn you TBL, damn you!

Has to coalesce into something more than “shit Bill Simmons and his friends like that ESPN approves of

No it doesn’t. It’s stuff like this that makes me think many bloggers are so insulated by the community they’ve created that they forget most people don’t think like them. Simmons has built an entire career, made millions, and had a NYT best seller by writing about stuff he and his friends like that ESPN approves of. Judging from the content so far, Grantland will have great appeal to those people. Grantland can have absolutely no crossover from people who are/were patrons of this site, deadspin, fjm, freedarko, etc. and be a wild success. As far as legacy goes, you can’t count the number of websites that have a legacy outside of the people who care about the development of the internet on one hand. As a general rule, legacy and internet don’t go together.

1) Canucks current color scheme pre-dates the Whalers
2) 2 Canadian teams have been as close as the 1994 Canucks team (Calgary 2004, Edmonton 2006)
3) Nashville should move to Canada?

THIS.

Simmons’ second piece was on LeBron’s disappearing act and it was freaking fantastic.

AGREED.

I love how the L.A. Noire review says “will it change the face of gaming, or is it just Red Dead Detective?” Red Dead Detective would still be fucking awesome!

I wouldn’t get by though with little kids without it, because pausing and taking 30 minutes to fix lunch or just do something is a must. I’ve gotten used to watching football games where I’m behind until the 4th quarter, and I like no commercials and going straight to kickoff after a score.

Also this x1000 … I usually record the Steelers game and then watch it later. On top of skipping all the usual crap (commercials, etc.), the little jump forward button on the remote usually is timed just right between plays so you can skip all the crap in between plays too. Good times.

Andy Greenwald’s article on HBO using the same actors on multiple shows produced a neat, if indecipherable graphic. Other than that, what was the point? Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters were both in The Wire and Treme. Yes… and?

i started reading that but got bored very quickly.

Andy Greenwald’s article on HBO using the same actors on multiple shows produced a neat, if indecipherable graphic. Other than that, what was the point? Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters were both in The Wire and Treme. Yes… and?

I was watching Treme this week and realized for the first time that Jeanette’s roommate is Ziggy from The Wire … So I got that going for me which is nice

The LA Noire piece has to be the longest video game review ever written

it’s a pretty long game.

/made my partner drive 2/3rds of the time

I think this is what Simmons was saying in his opening piece (i.e.–it’s going to take time).

right, because people who frequent blogs are patient creatures.

Don’t bother clicking – you’ve probably never heard of it.

This…this is probably the gem of the post. Thousands of interweb points to you, sir.

Think the ultimate success will be whether it can develop a coherent, independent voice and some Internet street cred. Has to coalesce into something more than “shit Bill Simmons and his friends like that ESPN approves of”

I think this is what Simmons was saying in his opening piece (i.e.–it’s going to take time). As a matter of fact, throw a Coldplay anecdote in, and you completely summarized the article.