annoying columnist was a more preferable role for him than annoying podcaster imo
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 February 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
I like listening to The Rewatchables on walks from time to time. I know a lot of podcasts fall under "middle-aged white guys sitting around shooting the shit," but this one works for me.
― made a mint from mmm mmm mmm mmm (Eazy), Friday, 3 February 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
bill's dad was genuinely good on the game 7 post-game pod...
they also had an interesting note in there about watching butler at halftime make a bunch of threes in a row from the right wing & then the heat running the play to start the third q that got him the open pull up three from that spot (which he made). the simmons family doing a better job than TNT's sideline reporters
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/efKQF6s7Az— conspicuous leisure (@Inspectah8) May 30, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
never gonna feel bad for a fanbase that's gotten to experience 3 full lifetimes of unforgettable sports moments in a single decade but still what a brutal way to go out
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
idk it wasnt that bad, watching the games was kinda bad lol, getting swept wouldve been bad but they fought back and just didnt have enough in the tank
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
bad JB series and an injured brogdon was all she wrote. and they still made it interesting despite that.
― Spottie, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
some crazy shooting from the heat too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
yeah didnt feel any worse than the 2020 one
― ciderpress, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
celtics got one of the all-time ridiculous buzzer beaters
― symsymsym, Friday, 2 June 2023 03:54 (one year ago) link
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/prince-harry-meghan-markle-grifters-bill-simmons-1235647643/amp/
how did you guys not tell me about this!
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:19 (eleven months ago) link
tbf, ofc prince harry & his duchess are on the make. they have an expensive lifestyle and harry has no visible skills or talents to sell to support that. meghan could probably get back into acting, but she didn't sign up to support her wastrel husband.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:24 (eleven months ago) link
bill simmons is absolutely right and it's funny as hell
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:29 (eleven months ago) link
lol get em
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:32 (eleven months ago) link
i did crack up at this when i heard it but never occurred to me it would make the news, which is my blind spot i suppose
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:43 (eleven months ago) link
its really on bill/spotify for not just having them do a show complaining about the royals
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:51 (eleven months ago) link
“you live in fucking montecito” lol
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:57 (eleven months ago) link
lol, i didn't realize bill had personally dealt with them, jeez
― circles, Sunday, 2 July 2023 14:24 (eleven months ago) link
i’m completely baffled as to why he thinks this is a unique opinion……. not sure if it’s in this clip but he says on the podcast that he and rusillo and “5 others” believe that scoot is going to be a star
Scoot Henderson is gonna be a star — this is happening. Don’t say Russillo and I didn’t try to warn you. pic.twitter.com/5zbfFw15dn— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 10, 2023
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 05:41 (eleven months ago) link
very brave of bill to say this
― Clay, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 06:33 (eleven months ago) link
scoot fell one spot in the draft no one believed in him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:42 (eleven months ago) link
"fuckin carries himself like an alpha" lol cant believe you guys listen to this shit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:03 (eleven months ago) link
shd also be mentioned the "scoot can get by anyone" is far from a settled fact and wasnt even true in the game bill is freaking out over, he took a bunch of short pullups
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:06 (eleven months ago) link
he had one halfcourt layup and even that was boarderline transition, could see him being one of those good all around guys who never quite puts it together efficiencywise, a lot depends as it does in the nba on "how good can he shoot"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:12 (eleven months ago) link
i didn’t get to see the scoot game but the way he’s describing him is something you’d typically hear about a player who is closer to being maxed out physically than one with limitless potential
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:40 (eleven months ago) link
yeah def a guy whos more physically mature than his peers, and is also just a beast
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:56 (eleven months ago) link
Scoot seems like a fun and charismatic dude. He may have more "star power" than, say, Lillard, who is great at hooping but pretty boring off the court.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:34 (eleven months ago) link
that bill dialog on scoot was hilarious, dude is yelling at no one.
― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:36 (eleven months ago) link
inventing a guy to be smarter at basketball than
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:49 (eleven months ago) link
look no one is saying this! I’m the only guy! but based on 11 minutes of summer league mark my words the guy who was the consensus one pick if 7’4 kd didn’t exist — he’s gonna be a huge star and nobody knows it
― Clay, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:54 (eleven months ago) link
bill is the king of pretending like he alone thinks a well regarded player is really good (evan mobley is the previous version of this) but the scoot stuff is particularly absurd given that he was by any measure one of the most hyped prospects in years
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:13 (eleven months ago) link
he compared dude to prime russ, rose and cp lmao.
― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:37 (eleven months ago) link
well he's far from the only one to compare scoot to russ and rose. but that's kinda the point
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:40 (eleven months ago) link
This election is going to be the most unpleasant of our lifetimes. It’s impossible to think what could possibly make it wor— pic.twitter.com/diSuJLK4zh— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) August 15, 2023
― k3vin k., Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:13 (ten months ago) link
jesus
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 00:27 (nine months ago) link
this one was funnyhttps://x.com/billsimmons/status/1691930025648369827?s=46&t=delhXlmZBYazm252j4iaFA
― J0rdan S., Friday, 18 August 2023 01:09 (nine months ago) link
prob what happened more or less
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:11 (nine months ago) link
yeah it seems fairly obvious (and predictable!) how it went down
― Clay, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:17 (nine months ago) link
yeah it's all reasonable my only note is that if philly *did* promise a wink wink deal a lot of these things could be seen as harden's camp (awkwardly ) keeping the pressure on to make that happen. i don't think it's like one or the other.
the one no-doubt thing is that he assumed he had a houston backtop option as leverage until he didn't.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:29 (nine months ago) link
I have a physical revulsion to this word and can’t wrap my head around how or why anyone would use it 5 million times in an article let alone write “let us not pretend the word doesn’t rule.” Wtf. I’m sure Bill personally had nothing to do with this Ringer abomination but not sure where else to put this. Is there a thread about the mainstreaming of 4chan incel culture or some shit?
The Official Taxonomy of Cinematic Cucks Cuck cinema is having a mainstream moment. Song and her husband, Justin Kuritzkes, have independently written (and in Song’s case, directed) two films centered almost exclusively on the act of cucking. That’s the aforementioned Past Lives, in which Greta Lee cucks John Magaro until they hug it out, and the upcoming Challengers, in which Zendaya appears to cuck Josh O’Connor and/or Mike Faist. (Side note: After being set for a September 15 release date, Challengers has now been postponed to 2024, no doubt for fear of an excess of Hollywood cucking.)Sure, “cuck” has had a long and winding journey to its current moment in the cinematic spotlight, from Geoffrey Chaucer’s use of “cuckold” to cuck’s place as the insult du jour of myriad far-right trolls. But let us not pretend that the word “cuck” itself, with its monosyllabic brevity and hard consonant punch, doesn’t rule. Let us also not pretend that during the last several years, it has not become (for better or worse) something far more universal, its definition stretching from “insult for a man whose wife is cheating on him” to a sort of catchall for any spineless or subservient specimen.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 3 September 2023 13:25 (nine months ago) link
thats some very bad writing wow
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 September 2023 21:00 (nine months ago) link
i get why this is the case w/ CEO bill and all, but there's something funny that happens not infrequently on his podcast where he will have one of his employees on and will be like "so have you paid attention to [team] at all this year?" and the guy will reply "yeah you know i actually went down to training camp last month for 5 days for an article on the ringer, and"
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:37 (six months ago) link
you get the sense he may not be the world's greatest boss
― symsymsym, Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:21 (six months ago) link
idk his main people have worked for him for years, i think you can make a lot of criticisms more accurate than that.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:30 (six months ago) link
yeah say what you want about him, and god knows one day something terrible might come out, but all indications point to him being a pretty good boss I think!
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:54 (six months ago) link
im ready to release some terrible info about him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 02:01 (six months ago) link
hes a podcaster
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 02:02 (six months ago) link
iirc there was something where some lesser ringer staffers had their podcasts taken away and he told them they just didnt have the capacity to produce everything and he gave his teenage daughter a podcast at the same time
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 02:04 (six months ago) link
Yet somehow Verrier remains.
― Jeff, Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:24 (six months ago) link
i now make active effort to avoid content from the ringer dot com
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 2 December 2023 03:25 (six months ago) link