Bill Simmons Being a Little Irregular

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter


The top tweet was posted in early December, I think. The contradictory chat post was from last night (6/15/10) from Bill Simmon's NBA Finals chat cast thingy.




I hope no one asks for his daughter's life, but that does seem like an about-face from his previous policy. Or was that his grand coming out? It be like if Jake Gyllenhaal just went out on a date with a dude and when the paparazzi catch him he just shrugs and is like, "Well.....yeah. Did you really think I was straight? Do you really CARE that I'm gay? Ok then." Then went back to eating his dinner on his date?









That's how I roll.

No Shit: Bill Simmons Names Cubs as the Most Tortured Sports Franchise

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


The article is here.

The Cubs have left all of their fans to do the Cry and Wap (pictured above) more than a few times. I never realized the dire state of fandom until after I lived in Chicago for a while. After the 2008 post season sweep by the Dodgers I was commiserating with the best Cub fan I know. A (female) kindergarten teacher who has lived in Chicago all of her life. I told her that it wasn't so much that I am surprised, or angry, or hurt or anything like that. I wasn't so much pissed off, but it just made me care less about next season because I knew that if I ever got truly excited about this Cubs team, I was just setting myself up for more disappointment. I told her that I vowed never to allow myself to get very excited about the Cubs EVER, and this loss really lowered my ceiling of potential Cub joy. I viewed my allegiance with the Cubs like falling off a ladder: If you KNEW you were gonna fall off that ladder, why bother climb more than a rung or two?

After venting, I was waiting for a saccharine response along the lines of, "oh cheer up, next year will all be different", or "time heals all wounds", etc. Instead she simply said, "I think now you know what it's like to be a Cubs fan"






That's how I roll.

Bill Simmons' Book Stops a Bullet- and the Sports Nation Host Michelle Beadle Insults Guest When She Thinks We Can't Hear Her

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter



Yesterday ESPN's Sports Nation, ESPN writer Bill Simmons appeared as a guest to promote his new book, The Book of Basketball. In an attempt to show how large the book is (750 pages) the crew sent correspondent Kevin Wildes to a gun shooting range to see if the book was thick enough to actually stop a bullet. The owner of the shooting range, Ray has the honor or shooting the Smith and Wesson 9mm at the book. Ray's appearance reminds me a bit of the Comic Book guy on the Simpsons- overweight, bearded and his lack of charisma, in tandem with his apperance, make him seem a little creepy.

So they shoot the book and it stops the bullet and Kevin sends it back to the studio to resume the interview with Simmons. Moments later Ray then brings out a higher caliber gun, and the show kicks back to the shooting range. While Ray is preparing to shoot, you can clearly hear co-host Michelle Beadle say, "Ray scares me" at the :58 seconds-remaining mark.






That's how I roll.