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He's the Birdman of sports writers, rubbing his hands together in the background of the video while the real artists are performing.
looks like it is the beginning of an exodus of editors and writers there..is ESPN pulling the plug on Grantland?
He's the Birdman of sports writers, rubbing his hands together in the background of the video while the real artists are performing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...6207&tid=ss_tw
ratings have hit rock bottom for new show
He just can't fathom he's simply not made for the camera and has been an awful TV personality everywhere..Should stick to radio and the pen, not that he hasn't gotten stale and repe ive with his shticks on both platform..
Remember when people thought he didn't need ESPN?
This thin-skinned, star ing, Boston-fellating got would be bagging groceries right now if ESPN didn't spend over a decade shoving him down our throats. As everyone with a brain expected, his career ended the moment he bit the hand that fed him one too many times.
I'm pretty sure he can but when you're getting paid 7 to 9 million to fail, why the not?
Need to stick to bball podcast and sport writing. Also, i stopped listening to his podcast post-espn..its so random and boring. He doesnt follow a structure like he used to with ESPN.
In other words, his podcast now is just a bunch of boring and lame . He's trying to win more fans by talking about random stuff, but hes lost a lot of listeners over the last year..
And its not because he left ESPN.. espn..
Its just that his quality of podcasting has deriorated. I'm seripusly doubting he's watching bball games anymore...
matter of months HBO pulls the plug on it..lol 82k viewers..
Its a shame because basketball podcasting is slowly deteriorating in willing talent. Zach lowe can be a hit or a miss, the truehoop guys are fun, but its torture if you watch games, The Bbballbreakdown guy is bad at podcasting but his content is always gold. He just looks awkward, The NBA starters...they have an australian there that I doubt understands the rules of basketball.
Nate duncan and Danny leroux is decent...and I like hearing CBA related stuffs..but at times it gets really tedious listenting to them. To be fair, they're one of the very media personalities that I can safely assume watch real games.
I found a daily podcast that covers the Spurs as part of the "Locked On" network. The host is Paul Garcia from Project Spurs:
http://www.s cher.com/podcast/locked-on-spurs
Cancelled
Pretty new to the podcast game but I'd have to say Zach Lowe is probably my favorite. TrueHoop seems like it would be ok without Windhorst. That fat walrus has no sense of humor and always seems like he's competing with the other guys. He also comes off as a smart aleck. Haven't listened to Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux, going to give them a shot tbh.
I recently found this one too and wanted to like it but honestly he sucks. His 'recap' of the Jazz game was terrible. He sounds like an uneducated southsider trying to use big words. Constantly uses them wrongly.I found a daily podcast that covers the Spurs as part of the "Locked On" network. The host is Paul Garcia from Project Spurs:
http://www.s cher.com/podcast/locked-on-spurs
I would never listen a San Antonio Homer....The Spurs organization cliche that every spursfans trouts for some reason would kill me.
I find windhorst mostly decent..So long as he isn't talking about the cavs, his opinion is laregly somewhat backed by decent advanced stats etc...Problem is..he thinks Lebron listens to every word he says so he sucks him all the time.
Adrian WOJ is a great reporter but hes one of the least entertaining podcast guys...The topic are nice but man that dude has zero personality.
JJ red has a podcast too and he usually ends up player to player..really provides the listener with a different perspective. Im not sure if hes active in the regilar season though.
Bill simmons doesn't waych basketball anymore tbh..He hasnt cared about basketball for three years now..Dude vanished as fast the 08 celtics trio.
cross that: days..
Thing about writing is there's not a lot of prejudice involved in reading. When you see and hear him though, you automatically think of some little richer kid with a whiny ing voice who spent all his childhood being carted around to professional games, getting the latest kicks and being better than the next person. He cannot talk the way he writes, but then he doesn't have Jalen Rose writing every other paragraph.
The real issue with all of the sports talk is that the guys doing the talking either can't string a ing sentence together properly or they've never played even college level sports so they are just products of being around the game, so they aren't interesting. That's why writing matters. Saying what you wanted to say before you publish the article, that's much better for your career than bouncing takes off a professional player who can just play the "you never played" card and shut you up, even if you're right.
And I called it in this thread.
He lost it on both fronts..That Ringer website has been a mediocrity...Dude has like written a couple of columns for them in 5 months while outsourcing podcasts to a bunch of nerds and 3rd rate writers/actors etc..
Last edited by spursistan; 11-04-2016 at 07:21 PM.
Simmons' writing isn't any better than his camera presence. He s out articles that would fit in better on a local Boston aports website than on a national one, and he pads out his word count with forced pop culture references.
this is a great an on-the-cool savaging article in NYT..
Simmons clearly overestimated his own brand, tbh.. It is probably safe to say his best days are behind him..
Maybe, he didn't calculate that the average sports fan is getting dumber by the day.
Bill Simmons keeps digging his own grave..From the color scheme of the Website to lame articles like this one, he really doesn't seem to realize that his Boston sports homer shtick has gotten old and run it course a long time ago..
I guess he can't afford a fact-checker? The Patriots and Red Sox both won it all in 2004.
That article is like
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