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    Image of Steve U Steve U
    06:56 PM

    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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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    06:44 PM

    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 DirkToberFest DirkToberFest
    06:20 PM

    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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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    06:16 PM

    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
    06:16 PM

    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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    Image of Kid Canada Kid Canada
    06:16 PM

    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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    Image of ClintonPortishead ClintonPortishead
    06:06 PM

    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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    Image of We Are All Lance Uppercut We Are All Lance Uppercut
    06:02 PM

    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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    Image of Sports-Pun Sports-Pun
    06:00 PM

    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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    Image of MarkKelsosMigraine MarkKelsosMigraine
    05:55 PM

    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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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    06:00 PM

    @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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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    05:24 PM

    In reply to Playing Offensive Line Is Horrible. Jamboroo, Week 10
    No more three-hour practices for me! I've got boobs to fondle!

    So you were too BUSY to be hooking up with girls, then? #jamboroo
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    05:23 PM

    In reply to Playing Offensive Line Is Horrible. Jamboroo, Week 10
    I bought my wife "Twilight" for her birthday. Big mistake. HUGE mistake.

    Yes, I would agree that marrying a 13 year old is a huge mistake. #jamboroo
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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    04:43 PM

    In reply to Playing Offensive Line Is Horrible. Jamboroo, Week 10
    Re: that Slash-Fergie thing? I saw it performed, live. In Detroit. Outside. #jamboroo
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    03:20 PM

    In reply to Playing Offensive Line Is Horrible. Jamboroo, Week 10
    I grew up in a small town. If you were a senior and wanted to play football you were on Varsity because there were no cuts. At some point in high school the coaches decided that everyone needed to have an offensive as well as a defensive position. I can't catch a cold, I am slower than molasses, and I am average in size. Every offensive position but lineman was out of the question for me. Coaches took a few looks of me at lineman and just gave up on me having an offensive position. What the hell does that say about me that I can't even be accepted as an offensive lineman?
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    03:02 PM

    In reply to Playing Offensive Line Is Horrible. Jamboroo, Week 10
    I would be perfectly happy if Robert Evans MVP Watch was expanded into a full weekly column. #jamboroo
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    Image of sassydeerrun sassydeerrun
    04:08 PM

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: I agree. #jamboroo
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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    05:22 PM

    @sassydeerrun: Seconded. #jamboroo
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