Bill Simmons Nails Boston Smugness Cold

The first sentence of Our Boy Bill Simmons' column this week is a perfect illustration of why everyone in the sports world wants to strangle everyone from Boston:

After peaking as a Red Sox fan (October, 2004), Celtics fan (the Bird Era) and Patriots fan (the Brady Era, ongoing), only one hurdle remains: The Stanley Cup.

Ugh. That just made us punch something harder than the bones in our hand. We don't have the heart for a Bill Simmons Translator this time. We're still trying to get that line out of our system.

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