open letter to bill simmons

[rone]

You know what?  I'm officially done with you.  Your insane, stultifying Murray Chass impersonation in your AVClub interview where you babble about how much you hate the stat revolution in basketball was hugely disappointing, but then you followed that up with your craven, spoiled whinge about Belichick's 4th-and-2 decision.  You're transparently trying to become once more a "tortured Boston sports fan".  Your efforts are effectively a karmic counterweight to that wonderful, sublime article about the Dooze you wrote in January; in effect, you shat all over it.

So go cry to your daddy if you want, and do what you have to do to keep the gravy train going, but i am no longer going to tolerate the insipid and inane references to embarrassing crap like pro wrestling, reality TV, and pornography because "in the end, you're entertaining."  You aren't entertaining anymore; you're just another mainstream mediot with a disproportionate sense of self who's desperately opposed to admitting that things often change counterintuitively for the better.  Keep it up, and your kids will be hating your guts in a dozen years.

Comments

[adb-jaeger.livejournal.com]

I thought is was especially ironic, because *JUST THE WEEK BEFORE*, he had said in his picks column that NFL coaches needed to hire a 13 year old gamer to help them coach those odd situations.

I guess he meant "unless it's my coach for my team. Then, fuck that noise".

Yeah, what a douche he was...... poster child for

1) results oriented thinking

and

2) not understanding conditional probability (not that he's alone on THAT poster, mind you).

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, excellent point there.

[adb-jaeger.livejournal.com]

I am *sure* that if the Pats had that 1st down, Bill would have pointed out that article (about having a gamer-d00d on the staff), and told us "SEE, I TOLD YOU SO!".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Totally. Grr, just thinking about it is making me cranky again.

[bryant]

Annoyingly, the epilogue in his NBA book is remarkably affecting and poignant and brings out things about Bill Walton that I never knew. I wish he'd stop wasting his talent. Someone ought to point out to him that he's agreeing with Shaunessy on this one.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i figured comparing him to Yankees-lover Chass would be enough, but comparing him to CHB would definitely be a fitting crown to this.