…is only slightly less tiresome than CSTB’s fixation with Deadspin.
Calling attention to a not so proud moment for ESPN.com’s Rob Neyer isn’t the least relevant item in Deadspin’s brief history, though you do have to wonder if the matter wasn’t properly covered over a year ago. Anonymous comments and/or people pretending to be hstencil are the lifeblood of CSTB, so I can’t really condemn Neyer. For one thing, the book he blasted completely sucks. For another, he manages to have something interesting to say more often than not, a charge which cannot be aimed at the NYC based ambulance chaser in question.
Bill Simmons, is of course, a frequently discussed subject over at The Interweb’s Lamest New Offering, to which I can only respond, “who fucking cares?” What reasonable person over the age of 10 (with apologies to Alex Reimer) gives a hoot other than those who desperately covet Simmons’ pubishing contract and/or TV gig?
This just in at Deadspin: A back issue of Sports Illustrated contains an interview with John Rocker in which he makes racist comments! More details as they develop.
First of all, I dont see them ridiculing Simmons at all – in fact, I was surprised that for a “snarky” site, they seem to heap much love on The Artist Formerly Known as The Sports Guy (now he’s a pale imitation…I dunno what he’s spending his time on, but it aint writing)
Simmons has a tv contract?
The trouble with Tailspin- sorry, deadspin- is that they seem to attempting a mash up of NPRs “This American Life”s enjoyable cultural flouncing about in frilly blouses with the Archie Bunker-esque stylings of Jim “I went to college to learn how to pretend I didn’t go to college” Rome and it just doesn’t work. Talk radio doesn’t always work on the air, never mind as an ad-plastered website.
Harris,
I stand corrected. The Simmons-envy doesn’t seem to extend to genuine hatred, just mild infatuation.
http://www.deadspin.com/sports/espn/bill-simmons-new-book-by-the-numbers-125788.php
B.S. is/was a writer for a late night TV comedy show.
No worries CSTB,
Yeah, he was a writer for Kimmel – old news – no longer – what you may not know is that Simmons’s infatuation with Adam Corrolla may have something to do with his (Simmons’s) friend Hench (whom he mentions every otehr column) being the lead writer for it – Hench also writes for foxsports.net (or .com, whichever it is) – now, THAT’S one to grow on!
thanks, H.B. This is all good to know, but the ‘spinnyninny focus on that particular corner of the world begs the question, what the heck has he ever done that would stand up to any scrutiny whatsoever? If one ethical lapse and a failure to top the NY Times best seller list are the worst things they can say about Rob Neyer, well, I think Neyer looks pretty good by comparison.
A good many of the posts on Deadspin seem forced and disconnected, and I definitely get the sense in certain instances that the writers are being told what they should write about.
there are people pretending to be hstencil? awesome!