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I want this guy dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!

Bill Simmons is not funny.

I can't stand Bill Simmons. Has he EVER wrote an article that doesn't have to do with Boston? If you're a writer for ESPN, write something the whole country wants to read, not just Bostonians.

I can't stand Bill Simmons. Has he EVER wrote an article that doesn't have to do with Boston? If you're a writer for ESPN, write something the whole country wants to read, not just Bostonians.

If you were a Detroit guy and had a 2,000 word column, I'm sure you'd get your team in there as well. Bill isn't always funny (a lot of times he is) but he often says the stuff that others won't and I've gotta respect that. Besides, some of his Darko jabs are classic. Pete Carrill bitterness too.

chuck klosterman and jason whitlock are the best page 2 writers. bill simmons is funny but uses the same jokes over and over. still has a few must read articles a year though.

I can't stand Bill Simmons. Has he EVER wrote an article that doesn't have to do with Boston? If you're a writer for ESPN, write something the whole country wants to read, not just Bostonians.

If you were a Detroit guy and had a 2,000 word column, I'm sure you'd get your team in there as well. Bill isn't always funny (a lot of times he is) but he often says the stuff that others won't and I've gotta respect that. Besides, some of his Darko jabs are classic. Pete Carrill bitterness too.

I would understand that completely if it was just once in a while. But it's not. EVERY article he has written somehow brings Boston into it. Yes you can be proud of your city, but give me a break.

Bill Simmons always cracks on Detroit sports...especially The Pistons. He'll never get over the Laimbeer years....neither will the rest of Boston. However, I still jam on his column. He's one of the few sports writers that will admit when he's wrong (which is often). I love all of his pop-culture references...even when they get old, and his mailbag is pretty good too.

Better yet, he makes it easy for the casual fan to really get involved in sports by being an easy read. Most of all, he is a true blue sports super fan. That's what I like the most. He doesn't pretend to be someone else. He doesn't act like a lot of writers that write as if their word is law. He's like an anti-Skip Bayless who is a super douche bag. Fuck...most of these guys are guessing anyways. Any dick-bag can crunch numbers and spit hate.


...and this is coming from a guy that absolutely hates Boston sports (except for the Patriots....mad respect there).

Sometimes he can be funny.

I remember reading his article praising Roger Clemens last year where he said something to the effect of

I never thought I would cheer on Roger Clemens again unless he was standing on a ledge ready to jump.

Classic

So yesterday Isiah Thomas was on the Stephen A. Smith show. Apparently he called out Bill Simmons. Bill has an e-mail column that he posts once a week and this is what one of the e-mails said. Classic.



Sports Guy, I think you'd like to know that Isiah Thomas is planning to take revenge on you. Today on the Stephen A. Smith show on ESPN Radio here in New York, Thomas said if "I ever meet this guy Bill Simmons, it won't be good for him." In other words, I think he's planning on signing you.
-- Dan Goodman, NY, N.Y.