Simmons on sports writing

exmediahack · Aug 5, 2012

Den1983 said:

Piotr Rasputin said:

Buckeye12 said:

What exactly has Simmons risen to? He's a couch potato blogger. His pop-culture references date his stuff 10 minutes after its written. It's stream of consciousness crap that is so frequently mind-numbingly stupid it's tough to imagine anyone drawing enough from it to start a damn thread.
Simmons and Jim Rome = made for each other. Small wonder ESPN has credibility issues when these guys, Skip Bayless and Stephen A. "I've been fired more times than a Ponderosa steak" Smith are the network's stars.
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The three people you mentioned:

- All have more exposure for the work than a very high percentage of this place put together
- All make more money for their sports media work than many of the individuals who post at this place
- Enjoy more popularity and readership/viewership than the bulk of sports journalists. Oh, excuse me . . .REMAINING sports journalists. Which brings me to my next point . . .
- Don't have to worry about layoffs, or really ANYTHING, financially speaking.

They are all in an enviable position. I know it's cute and all to say "I would never work for ESPN!!!! They have credibility ISSUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Do they, now? With WHOM? People in a dying old-media industry? Not enough to keep ESPN from printing money while also driving much of the sports conversation in this country.

We would ALL take the money. We would ALL enjoy being in Simmons' position. He has an impressively high level of readership, brings home a boatload of money, and he does what he wants, when he wants.

Those who say they wouldn't want that . . . go ahead, keep clinging to the old ways. Relevancy passed you by long ago.

Am I a huge fan? I go hot and cold on him. He was terrible on TV this week. His fanboy tendencies would make me want to slap him if the Lakers hadn't beaten the Celtics in game Seven in 2010.

But let's not apply some kind of personal dislike, or disapproval, that makes one actually ask "What has Simmons risen to?!?!?!"

The pinnacle of what he does.

He doesn't have to be one of those people who "open a vein to WRITE!!!!!" he doesn't have to subscribe to YOUR notion of what is interesting or "credible."

Sure, YOU think he sucks. But who the f$#% are you?
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This was perfect. Bravo. I hate how some - most? - sports writers these days have this elitist mentality.

I think Simmons is a talented writer who borders on well above average when he speaks on things he knows, like the NBA and sometimes baseball. For those to sit here and say he's not talented and is, essentially, worthless speaks a lot more on them than Simmons.
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Yup yup.

If Bristol called my agent and said, "we want exmediahack to anchor the overnight edition of ESPNEWS on Mondays and we wil pay him five grand less than he is making now"... I would still have a hard time saying no.

I think many of us "want to play on the biggest stage" and places like ESPN know this.

JimmyHoward33 · Aug 5, 2012

Lugnuts said:

Great pull, buck. I wonder who Heyman and Rosenthal break more news for. I'm guessing, but I bet if it's a small tidbit, MLB gets it. If it's a big nut, CBS and FOX get it.
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Mostly on Twitter and going back to the trading deadline, everything Rosenthal has linked there has gone to Fox, nothing to MLB and his bio makes no mention of MLB.com

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