I never caught any of him either except when he did the NBA pregame show for a couple of years. But he has a big following as a podcaster and as a writer for Grantland which he founded. He also came up with the idea for the "30 for 30" docs.

They say somebody is gonna pay him 7-10 million per year.

Who the hell is "they"? Why would anyone pay this guy 7-10 million? No way he will get close to that. That would be a few million more than Costas, Patrick, Nantz, Buck, Michaels, Berman, & Tirico.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Who will be Jeff Bezos.

Amazon's been involved in producing tv and film in recent years. Simmons has long been as interested in crappy TV and film as he is in sports. Simmons connections to all manner of tv and film directors and producers due to 30 for 30 etc would give Amazon an in into that industry.

Bezos purchased the Washington Post last year. The Post/NY Times / WSJ are all vying to be national papers.

Bezos brings in Simmons and publishes his columns in the Washington Post dead trees edition first before they hit amazon.com and washpost.com's web sites (one possible approach).

Getting folks on amazon.com to read Simmons content and dl his podcasts alone might be enough to cover his salary--as amazon is then able to market / sell to those eyeballs.

And some sort of app/mobile/tablet tie-in, perhaps exclusively on Amazon's in-house kindle fire device.

Some sort of Amazon Prime tie-in?

Plenty of avenues by which to "monetize" Simmons and his audience for Amazon.

Simmons takes a page out of the Red Sox front-office playbook and has a mouth-piece journo present his side without attribution:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/05/ ... s-and-espn

the amount of coverage and "stories" i've seen pop up on Bill Simmons leaving espn over the last few days has been surprising. deadspin even did a hit on what t-shirt he had on last night at the clippers game. not bad for a guy bernstein has never heard of (despite the fact that by twitter followers B.S. has 74+ times more followers than NYT crossword expert dan bernstein)

Simmons monologues his journey to ESPN from a local Boston alterna-weekly through AOL Digital Cities to ESPN to Kimmel and back to ESPN full-time.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospect ... -morris-3/

along the way, he says nice things about the guy who fired him Friday.

Simmons to HBO

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watchi ... pn-divorce

Ideal spot for him. I will very likely check it out.

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Team Cutler.

I'll be watching if it is a similar format to John Oliver, but maybe an hour long and with interviews.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/the-gra ... begun.html

Please be Bill Barnwell and Zach Lowe, so I have no reason to ever open Grantland up again.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

It'll be Chuck Klosterman, Bill Barnwell, Molly Lambert, and Carles.

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My guess would be Klosterman, Barnwell, Zach Lowe, and Rembert Browne.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Well, damn.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yeah, I was wayyyyy off on that one.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Dave in Champaign batsignal!

https://twitter.com/freddiedeboer/statu ... 2423333888

I belly-laughed at least three times in the course of this.

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