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    You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball

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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Holy Shit, my favorite sports (perhaps non-fiction?) writer has appeared on Deadspin. I am through the looking glass.

    And yes, this man has read his W.C. Heinz, Buzz. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    " He did very little that was new. But he did it on the Internet. He created a gig for himself and sold it well. That should be good enough."

    In otherwords, Simmons is Harry Crane. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Yup, these are my detractors. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    I am surprised that Pierce didn't relate the rise of the Sports Guy to the coincident administration of another Connecticut preppie with delusional pretensions to sympathy with the darker nation, George W. Bush. Missed a slow one over the middle there, Charles.

    Also, the "f" thing was for the lower-case "s." #billsimmons
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    Image of ClingingMars ClingingMars
    11/13/09

    @Rasselas: +1 #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    I'm not a Simmons fan, so I won't even bother to hopelessly defend him (after all, your 3 main points are pretty accurate). However, even though it's 700 pages, the book has a legitimate progression where one thought leads to the next. He doesn't tell the Isiah story because it's entertaining; he uses it as a springboard to detail why some players pass his smell test and others don't. I haven't finished yet, so I can't say that I'll enjoy the ending, but it's at least entertaining. Unless you hated Simmons as much as Drew Magary hates Brad Childress, you wouldn't have read all 700 pages. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Charles P. Pierce. Isn't he the irreverent but haughty hybrid — some would say M*A*S*Hup — of Hawkeye Pierce and Charles Emerson Winchester III? If so, I'll bet he uses big words that smell like Army-grade moonshine and chronic foot rot. #billsimmons
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    Image of The Sports Hernia The Sports Hernia
    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Also, lose most of the footnotes.

    Indeed sir. His obsession with footnotes is a fucking nightmare. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Hint: People have been ladling out that kind of hooey in reference to baseball literally for centuries

    Somewhere, Joe Morgan tries to figure out how to make that dang "add to cart" button work. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Charles P. Pierce's takedown of the Sports Guy is an epic piece of literary criticism. Read it today!

    "A Simmons hasn't been this pilloried since Gene's 2022 divorce" says Darren Daulton of the TimeSpace Tribune.

    Charles P. Pierce's criticism of the Sports Guy, read it today!
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    11/12/09

    @ClintonPortishead: Terry Gross has some issue with the time/date, but agrees with the concept. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    It's like reading one of those Pamphlets from 1772, except that the Author's name is not spelled, "Fimmonf."

    And here I thought that the author of the Bill of Rights just had a severe, text-based lisp. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    @We Are All Lance Uppercut: Lou Holtz remembers writing that Fimmonf pamhplet back in 1772. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Simmons, it seems, had regularly ripped Thomas in his column, on the highly empirical grounds that the former Detroit Pistons star pretty much sucks worse at being a human being than he does at being a GM.

    To be fair, the man tried to stop being a human being and failed.. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    In reply to You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball
    Sarah Palin's upcoming tome, My Vengeful Screaming Vagina is poetry and Charles Pierce gets a +1.
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    11/12/09

    @MarkKelsosMigraine: Her follow-up book, "Only God Comes Through These Pruny Lips," is already slated for a garage sale near you. #billsimmons
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    11/12/09

    @MarkKelsosMigraine: Seriously, it's because of lines like this that I get up at 7:30 on the weekends just to listen to his 10 minutes on Only a Game on NPR, even if I'm not working.
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Deleted Scenes From The Sports Guy Book Tour
    Simmons is such an NBA fan that ESPN didn't schedule him a signing appearance in the city with the reigning MVP aka the biggest star on the planet.

    I love Bristol, the comedy never stops. #billsimmons
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Deleted Scenes From The Sports Guy Book Tour
    glad to see Bill's doggedly sticking to making his patented Dead Pet Ferret face in every book signing photo.

    seriously, dude. just fucking smile.
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Deleted Scenes From The Sports Guy Book Tour
    This reminds me of an interesting story of my own. One day, I was sitting in my apartment when I decided I was hungry. I went to the refrigerator and the pantry, but there wasn't anything there I wanted to, which was pretty unfortunate. Luckily I wasn't busy that day, so I decided to drive down to the grocery store. Once I got there, I was surprised to see how many other people were shopping for groceries too! Who would have believed such a thing could happen on a Saturday afternoon? Anyway, I got a cart and began to shop. I brought produce, some lunch meat and cheese (I really like a good sandwich) and a bag of those frozen chicken breasts. They were giving out samples of some kind of sausage. I tried it and it was good but I didn't buy any. I was about to check out when the craziest thing happened... I realized I forgot to pick up cereal. So I went to pick up some plain corn flakes. After that, I stood in line to pay. The line had to be 200 people long. I didn't bring any coupons because I don't look through those mailers I get. There was a bagger at my register, which made me happy. I paid for my groceries, and then on the way out I bought a scratch off lottery ticket. I didn't win anything. That night I ate chicken. The end.

    /the most interesting story on this page'd #billsimmons
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