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
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, 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
not pictured: strip club handjobs
and thank fuck for that
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― Clay, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
gladwell
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ I was gonna say
I always thought it was funny that Simmons friends all have the most typical/predictable names. Not the ppl listed by poly but just random "buddies" he'll bring up in a column
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 16 December 2010 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/12/17/the-book-of-basketball-and-staggering-casual-sexism/
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
lol this is what i was talking about upthread re the names of simmons' friends
I flew to San Fran to hang out with my buddies Bish, Mikey and Hopper
seriously who the fuck has friends ACTUALLY named "bish" & "hopper" -- sounds like something from "porky's" or some shit
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Jeez, man. Jeez. I didn’t realize guys like this had friends; I assumed they were all rapey basement loners. We reviewers and commenters seem to be in agreement that it’s not cool—so who’s out there egging him on? Am I misjudging the sleaziness of the American male?
yes
― Pussy v. Sperguson (Princess TamTam), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say. as gross as simmons' stuff can be, i have heard much, much worse from dudes who would otherwise consider themselves to be "normal guys" and "not misogynists." these aren't people i spend time with, i should add, but there are TONS of guys who partition their lives along gender lines. guys are for being friends with, women are for fucking (or for ~relationships~ if you're a pussy). gross thought it may be, it's not rapey basement loner talk, it's five dudes getting a pitcher at the bar talk
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
those passages are foul, tbqf, shit like that is exactly what makes me avoid reading his columns now. i'm gonna guess he was raised in a manner that caused him to view women as either childbearers or strippers.
― omar little, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, his column today is rife w/ all types of shit like that
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Question: So my buddies and I came up with a new move we call "The Art Modell." It's where you meet a girl and go home with her that night. Then after she's fallen asleep, and under the cover of night, you move out of there as fast as you can. Use it with my compliments, OK?-- Brian, Chicago
Answer: Or, you could pull the "Clay Bennett": Repeatedly tell her you're not going to leave, then leave while she's still awake and looking at you saying, "Where are you going?" as David Stern nods approvingly from 1,500 miles away.
i hope his wife leaves him for sheryl swoopes
― omar little, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
loll
― ice cr?m, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh
xps
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
bish is such a nasty name
― ice cr?m, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i also found his life advice to tiger woods pretty dbaggy though i don't recall the specifics at the moment.
― omar little, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the wnba digs always niggled at me the most, it just seems unnecessarily cruel. i mean i dont watch the stuff either, but i dont understand the hunger to marginalize it - crosses the line between lunkheaded insensitivity and outright bullying imo
everything else i can understand being turned off by too, but i hear (and say) stuff so much worse when im broing down (not in mixed company mind u~) that im pretty desensitized to it i guess
― Pussy v. Sperguson (Princess TamTam), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's not so much the digs as the all encompassing worldview he seems to have, like this casual everyday attitude that women can't be your friends and are just *~~such hilarious creatures loool~~*
― omar little, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
fwiw, i've definitely hung out with women who share an equally segregated view of the world---guys can't be your friends, and are such hilarious creatures, and ryde but boys will be boys, right girls??
it's alien to me, but it's out there you know
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess it's all part of being the broiest bro, but i don't really see why you would write about watching hours of porn/buddies' nicknames for dick moves etc. at all. let alone as a sports columnist. let alone in a published book about basketball.
the 'executive decision' with his wife (and then crowing about it!) is pretty fucking astonishing.
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont understand how he made an "executive decision" not to use birth control
― max, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean he implies he did it in secret?
but like... did she not notice he wasnt using a condom?
also isnt that essentially rape
― max, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
right, it's a bullshit anecdote imo
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
true dat, and even though i tend to think it *feels* a little nastier coming from the dudes, either way it's just weird but still totally common. xxxxp
― omar little, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty much
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm assuming that the birth control thing is just a really terrible joke
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
he just wanted to "coin" "pulling the goalie"
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
horribly formed joeks
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it's kind of a fucked up mind that would think that joke is a good one to tell imo
― omar little, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it's all part of being the broiest bro
yup. he and his buds are getting immortalized in his columns as just the funniest, rowdiest, best buds ever. i mean, "the hangover" was basically a simmons column taken to its logical conclusions, with simmons' character spending the night on the roof
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
h8 this guys compulsive need to validate his worldview more than his worldview tbh, funny how bro culture is all abt being on the same page at all times, not exactly traditional masculinity
― ice cr?m, Friday, 17 December 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the 'segregated world view' is a red herring, idk - i dont think it means anything if u only wanna be friends w/dudes, i know plenty of people like that who manage to not publish a hardcover book containing a joke about raping your wife and then giving it a nickname like it's a wrestling move
― Pussy v. Sperguson (Princess TamTam), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
his columns have always been littered with his pet neologisms and Rules and Theories and w/e. i know plenty of ppl that fucking LOVE coming up with shit like that, making up yr own in-crowd funny-guy cant that, in simmons' case, he seems to eagerly hope will enter the popular lexicon.
i mean i don't follow sports, and haven't read a sports guy column in years, but the Ewing Theory is permanently etched into my brain as 'conventional wisdom' now
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link