Whitlock done all around ESPN

[Double J]

I'd post 6,200 times on some days. Today might be one of 'em

Fixed.

 

[GuessWho]

Donde esta Bristol Insider? He's been awfully quiet on this.

 

[Dave_Doyle]

They watch them for the point/counterpoint arguments about sports topics. At least that's the ideal. Of course, that certainly isn't the case if Jason isn't allowed to have a dissenting opinion from Lupica and whoever else is now on The Sports Reporters -- I used to watch the show regularly, but the morning and I have fallen out of favor with each other -- but that should be what these shows are about, not Jason's waistline.

I'm starting to despise ESPN more and more. Thanks, guys.

Point/counterpoint has devolved on most ESPN shows to scream/scream louder. Or worse, scream for the sake of screaming even though the topic you're screaming about wouldn't normally raise your pulse one iota.

So much of this comes off as fake made-for-TV bullshirt, and great paychecks or not, in the long run it hurts our industry because it makes us look like forking clowns.

If you got rid of snark, convoluted point/counterpoint screamfests, and humor aimed at former frat boys who can't accept college is over, about 90% of what passes for pop culture these days would vanish. We need another cultural equivalent of Nirvana to come along and stop all the crap dead in its' tracks.

Back to the topic at hand ...

 

[Tiger16]

I think Simmons' comments about spending eight hours a day on sports journalism message boards makes it pretty clear that he lurks here a lot and is well aware of what's said.

 

[MertWindu]

I think Simmons' comments about spending eight hours a day on sports journalism message boards makes it pretty clear that he lurks here a lot and is well aware of what's said.

Not to steer this away from the praise of Whitlock, bot how ridiculous is Simmons? I used to enjoy him back on his AOL days, when he was just the easy-to-digest Boston columnist who found some good links every day. His comments on his chat belie an unbelievable arrogance. I know it had been brewing, but how forking full of yourself do you have to be to think people want to read 6,200 of your words every week? That chat, by the way, I couldn't finish it, but I checked, and it's ELEVEN THOUSAND WORDS LONG. Take out the reader questions, and you're STILL probably looking at 6-7 thousand words. Jesus Christ on a crapstick. By the way, Bill, since I know you check in here from time to time to slum with us losers who "spend eight hours on a message board," stop using terms like "explore the studio space," like you're a forking jazz saxophone player. Holy christ, 7,000 words about how every team in the NBA is like a 90210 character is NOT interesting, despite whatever your faithful readers might say.

 

[Nathan Scott Phillips]

I think Simmons' comments about spending eight hours a day on sports journalism message boards makes it pretty clear that he lurks here a lot and is well aware of what's said.

Holy christ, 7,000 words about how every team in the NBA is like a 90210 character is NOT interesting, despite whatever your faithful readers might say.

Yeah, I agree. I would prefer baseball and characters from Stallone movies.

 

[da man]

Hey I love Whitlock as much as the next guy ...

Unless the next guy is Whitlock.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

I think Simmons' comments about spending eight hours a day on sports journalism message boards makes it pretty clear that he lurks here a lot and is well aware of what's said.

Not to steer this away from the praise of Whitlock, bot how ridiculous is Simmons? I used to enjoy him back on his AOL days, when he was just the easy-to-digest Boston columnist who found some good links every day. His comments on his chat belie an unbelievable arrogance. I know it had been brewing, but how forking full of yourself do you have to be to think people want to read 6,200 of your words every week? That chat, by the way, I couldn't finish it, but I checked, and it's ELEVEN THOUSAND WORDS LONG. Take out the reader questions, and you're STILL probably looking at 6-7 thousand words. Jesus Christ on a crapstick. By the way, Bill, since I know you check in here from time to time to slum with us losers who "spend eight hours on a message board," stop using terms like "explore the studio space," like you're a forking jazz saxophone player. Holy christ, 7,000 words about how every team in the NBA is like a 90210 character is NOT interesting, despite whatever your faithful readers might say.

"Explore the studio space" is a quote from the classic SNL skit about Blue Oyster Cult that is constantly referenced in his ouevre.

 

[Chi City 81]

I think Simmons' comments about spending eight hours a day on sports journalism message boards makes it pretty clear that he lurks here a lot and is well aware of what's said.

Not to steer this away from the praise of Whitlock, bot how ridiculous is Simmons? I used to enjoy him back on his AOL days, when he was just the easy-to-digest Boston columnist who found some good links every day. His comments on his chat belie an unbelievable arrogance. I know it had been brewing, but how forking full of yourself do you have to be to think people want to read 6,200 of your words every week? That chat, by the way, I couldn't finish it, but I checked, and it's ELEVEN THOUSAND WORDS LONG. Take out the reader questions, and you're STILL probably looking at 6-7 thousand words. Jesus Christ on a crapstick. By the way, Bill, since I know you check in here from time to time to slum with us losers who "spend eight hours on a message board," stop using terms like "explore the studio space," like you're a forking jazz saxophone player. Holy christ, 7,000 words about how every team in the NBA is like a 90210 character is NOT interesting, despite whatever your faithful readers might say.

"Explore the studio space" is a quote from the classic SNL skit about Blue Oyster Cult that Simmons long since beat into the ground.

Fixed.

 

[MertWindu]

I think Simmons' comments about spending eight hours a day on sports journalism message boards makes it pretty clear that he lurks here a lot and is well aware of what's said.

Not to steer this away from the praise of Whitlock, bot how ridiculous is Simmons? I used to enjoy him back on his AOL days, when he was just the easy-to-digest Boston columnist who found some good links every day. His comments on his chat belie an unbelievable arrogance. I know it had been brewing, but how forking full of yourself do you have to be to think people want to read 6,200 of your words every week? That chat, by the way, I couldn't finish it, but I checked, and it's ELEVEN THOUSAND WORDS LONG. Take out the reader questions, and you're STILL probably looking at 6-7 thousand words. Jesus Christ on a crapstick. By the way, Bill, since I know you check in here from time to time to slum with us losers who "spend eight hours on a message board," stop using terms like "explore the studio space," like you're a forking jazz saxophone player. Holy christ, 7,000 words about how every team in the NBA is like a 90210 character is NOT interesting, despite whatever your faithful readers might say.

"Explore the studio space" is a quote from the classic SNL skit about Blue Oyster Cult that is constantly referenced in his ouevre.

I realize that. It's still ridiculous.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

On the other hand, maybe it's good that Simmons doesn't actually report anything.
We might be into seven digits every week.
(Oh, and Bill? If you're stopping by, Rick Reilly makes you look like a child. Pass it on.)

 

[Clever username]

I think Simmons' comments about spending eight hours a day on sports journalism message boards makes it pretty clear that he lurks here a lot and is well aware of what's said.

Not to steer this away from the praise of Whitlock, bot how ridiculous is Simmons? I used to enjoy him back on his AOL days, when he was just the easy-to-digest Boston columnist who found some good links every day. His comments on his chat belie an unbelievable arrogance. I know it had been brewing, but how forking full of yourself do you have to be to think people want to read 6,200 of your words every week? That chat, by the way, I couldn't finish it, but I checked, and it's ELEVEN THOUSAND WORDS LONG. Take out the reader questions, and you're STILL probably looking at 6-7 thousand words. Jesus Christ on a crapstick. By the way, Bill, since I know you check in here from time to time to slum with us losers who "spend eight hours on a message board," stop using terms like "explore the studio space," like you're a forking jazz saxophone player. Holy christ, 7,000 words about how every team in the NBA is like a 90210 character is NOT interesting, despite whatever your faithful readers might say.

The problem with Simmons-bashing here is that, presumably, we're all journalists, so we have an incredibly different slant on what he does. Ninety-nine percent of his readers are the poor saps who have to use an alarm clock to get up in time for work.

Personally, I took him seriously when I was college and was devout. Then I read the column his first intern wrote about meeting Simmons for the first time. Even in that you got the sense Simmons was a colossal brick and full of himself. I still read him for giggles, but that's it.