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So that Caleb Hannan piece definitely doesn't reflect poorly on him, nor does the decision to publish and celebrate it indicate that Grantland is tone-deaf.


I'm excited for Simmons to shoehorn a half-assed apology into the middle of a 25,000-word piece about how the whole experience enlightened him and how when you think about it, it's a lot like the diner scene from Heat.

Hannan's the good journalist from The Wire, Simmons is the good editor from The Wire, and the naysayers are the ones ruining journalistic integrity (and would be the ones out in the first round of any Best Character from The Wire tournament).


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I'm excited for Simmons to shoehorn a half-assed apology into the middle of a 25,000-word piece about how the whole experience enlightened him and how when you think about it, it's a lot like the diner scene from Heat.


Somehow it was even worse than this. Simmons is fucking pond scum.

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I'm having a hard time putting this whole thing together. Someone's gonna have to give me the bulletpoints.

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First and best overview I read on the article itself: http://mariadahvanaheadley.wordpress.co ... of-outing/

ESPN's own poor response has been attacked at a variety of places, but it's so obviously wrongheaded that a single takedown isn't necessary.


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I'm excited for Simmons to shoehorn a half-assed apology into the middle of a 25,000-word piece about how the whole experience enlightened him and how when you think about it, it's a lot like the diner scene from Heat.


Somehow it was even worse than this. Simmons is fucking pond scum.

Hoo boy I just read this. I'm shocked Simmons managed to miss the forest for the trees on this one and seems to be under the impression that a few minor edits in tone and a footnote on why outing the inventor to the investor may have been wrong would have mollified the naysayers.


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Simmons needed an editor for that apology.
Less time talking about how awesome you want your website to be and someone to delete that footnote thing.

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http://grantland.com/features/bill-simm ... contracts/

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So, why can’t certain GMs spend money correctly? Many are ex-players getting routinely outwitted by shrewd negotiators with law degrees and MBAs, bulldogs who were basically created by God to take advantage of overmatched former athletes. If your life depended on ONE contract negotiation, would you rather have Dan Fegan (Yale Law School, two decades of experience as a sports agent) … or Ernie Grunfeld? Would you rather have Arn Tellem (Michigan Law, former partner in a law firm, 32 years of experience as a sports agent) … or Joe Dumars? Come on.


Really. Smart. Guys.

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And just FYI, neither R.C. Buford nor Sam Presti nor Jerry West holds an MBA or law degree.

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basically created by God to take advantage of overmatched former athletes.

Simmons restored the director's cut of The Ten Commandments where Heston says Thou Shalt Monetize Studs.

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I think this sums up my opinion of the Really. Smart. Guys. vs. former players discussion:
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So this is among the more exquisitely awful things that has ever happened:

http://deadspin.com/bill-simmons-had-le ... 1527198143

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"Indigo Girls, I feel like, were the Bird and Magic of—that's a basketball reference, you might not get that—the Bird and Magic of Lilith Fair. Like they, they showed up."

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bigfants' crush, Lena Dunham on the latest BS Report. It's on youtube.

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Literally everything about that sentence makes me glow from within with white-hot loathing.

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 Post subject: Re: Grantland
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http://grantland.com/features/the-best-fictional-quarterback-of-all-time/
Couldn't be worse than this.


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Sweet merciful crap.

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my gurl Molly Lambert is on the Mad Men beat:

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People grow together and sometimes apart. Every year seems like a muddle of random events, but when you start looking at them stacked back-to-back, patterns start to appear. Your choices add up to a defined self, but you keep getting chances to change. Nobody is beyond redemption from the sins of themselves or their society.

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she's about as useless as a popped balloon. the "i'm so disaffected so don't call me cool i'm just me" attitude is so nauseating. she was only discovered because she has a cute face.


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 Post subject: Re: Grantland
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Simmons gets a ton of hate. And I understand. But he just wrote one of the best NBA columns I've read in months, maybe years. And that's why he's still my guy.

http://grantland.com/features/simmons-o ... mpionship/

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 Post subject: Re: Grantland
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Simmons gets a ton of hate. And I understand. But he just wrote one of the best NBA columns I've read in months, maybe years. And that's why he's still my guy.

http://grantland.com/features/simmons-o ... mpionship/

Agreed.

I never thought about his comparison of OKC to Adelman's Trail Blazers. That is good.

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This Charlie Peirce piece (say that five times fast):
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/don-zimmer-a-life-in-baseball-for-better-and-worse/
is odd. Not the typical eulogy you see after someone dies.

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 Post subject: Re: Grantland
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http://deadspin.com/pouty-bill-simmons- ... 1590308811

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I watched the video and I didn't see a single commenter reply with "Bill Simmons Doesn't Change Facial Expressions." Time marches on. :(

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Dave In Champaign wrote:
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Sweet merciful crap.

I dont mind that kind of stuff.


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I don't know why I'm surprised that Grantland allowed Mays to post a 4,000-word blowjob of his favorite team, since that's how his EIC made his name, but this piece is still a breathtaking piece of crap.

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how taking a 10-6 team to 8-8 constitutes an improvement.

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Boy, he dedicated a lot of words to how Marc Trestman bears a superficial resemblance to George Halas. (He doesn't.) That was some writering.

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I don't know why I'm surprised that Grantland allowed Mays to post a 4,000-word blowjob of his favorite team, since that's how his EIC made his name, but this piece is still a breathtaking piece of crap.

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how taking a 10-6 team to 8-8 constitutes an improvement.

So that when they do their 8,000 word opus on how the Celtics are a playoff team in October, they can say: see we are not just Boston-centric!

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my gal Emily Yoshida is leaving Grantland for a New York-based site called The Verge, which will certainly make it hard for her to write about how awesome Los Angeles is like everyone at Grantland does. May this piece be a fitting ah-dyuh:

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What could compare to Lana Del Rey performing at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery? Seeing Lana Del Rey at Hollywood Forever is like eating a folded slice of pizza on top of the Empire State Building. It’s like arriving at a TED Talk on a Segway. Seeing Lana Del Rey at Hollywood Forever is like wearing a Radiohead shirt to a Radiohead show — it invites mockery, but, if you commit hard enough, commands respect.


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The decision to like Lana Del Rey felt both borrowed and completely personal, much like her music.


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By the time everyone in our party got through, it was nearly dark, and as we began to make our way toward the stage along the darkened roads of the cemetery, I remembered why this was one of my favorite places to see a show in Los Angeles. It has all the nearly-year-round pleasures of an outdoor venue in this city (70-degree autumn nights, sorry ’bout it), with none of the complicated logistics and overpriced gourmet picnic baskets. Lana wasn’t scheduled to go on for another hour, so we set down our blankets back in the over-27s section, surrounded by tombs illuminated in neon blue and green, and dug into our BYO wine and sandwiches as the last of the daylight silhouetted the palms in the west. It was already the most Los Angeles thing I’d done that month, and Lana wasn’t even onstage yet.

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Seeing Lana Del Rey at Hollywood Forever is like wearing a Radiohead shirt to a Radiohead show — it invites mockery, but, if you commit hard enough, commands respect.

How do you commit hard to wearing a t-shirt?


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