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Bill Simmons fires back at Mike Golic
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:09 pm
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@BillSimmons What Mike and Mike did today was absolute garbage. I would say I lost respect for that show, but I never had it.
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@BillSimmons For an ESPN Radio show to pull an interview out of context from another ESPN Radio show, then play the moral authority card, is disgusting.
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@BillSimmons Have the balls to call me to discuss it on the show. Don't pull it out of context just because you need fodder for a segment. Pathetic.
Backstory
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Mike and Mike played a snippet of the segment in which Simmons said it reminded him “a tiny bit” of when the Angels signed Albert Pujols, who was suddenly not nearly as formidable as he was in St. Louis.
“I think it’s one of the most ridiculous statements I’ve heard four games into a season in my life in any sport,” said Mike Golic. “That’s what I’ll say about Bill Simmons. So, you know, he grabbed a headline, which is something I know he loves — and that’s one of the most ridiculous lines I’ve ever heard in any sport in my life. Four games into a season. I don’t even … that’s ridiculous.”
“I put nothing — ZERO — on that,” Golic finished.
What Simmons actually said
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The broader context of Simmons’ comments: He opened on the Cavs by calling Cowherd’s assertion that Dion Waiters didn’t fit in and would need to be traded “one of the great jump-to-conclusion rants I’ve heard in recent ESPN history” and saying that you need 20 games before you decide what’s going on with the team. Nevertheless, he said it had jumped out since the preseason — “I assumed not to read too much into it” — that LeBron doesn’t “look the same.”
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“Anyone who thinks LeBron looks the same is fooling themselves,” Simmons said. “He doesn’t have the same impulsiveness. He looks 20 pounds lighter physically. Just his general force-of-natureness capacity — whatever you want to say — it’s not there. And he’s driving to the basket, and he’s under the rim now, and I don’t know what that means. I don’t know if he’s hurt, I don’t know if the big weight loss has affected his game or whatever. This is not a jump-to-conclusion thing. I have been watching this Cavs team since the preseason games started, and he does not look the same.”
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Who is the headline grabber again?
ETA: more Simmons tweets
This post was edited on 11/6/14 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:10 pm to Boomtown
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Who is the headline grabber again?
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Boomtown
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:11 pm to Boomtown
Simmons has a reasonable point.
Mike and Mike are once again idiots
Mike and Mike are once again idiots
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:11 pm to Boomtown
Good thing for me I don't care for any of them.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:11 pm to Boomtown
Simmons suspended again in 3...2...1....
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:13 pm to Boomtown
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@BillSimmons What Mike and Mike did today was absolute garbage. I would say I lost respect for that show, but I never had it.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:14 pm to Boomtown
Simmons to Fox Sports lock
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:14 pm to Boomtown
Cowherd, Simmons, Mike & Mike?
What a shitty group of people.
What a shitty group of people.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:15 pm to Boomtown
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simmons
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golic
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espn
That's 3 things idgaf about
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:23 pm to Boomtown
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@BillSimmons What Mike and Mike did today was absolute garbage. I would say I lost respect for that show, but I never had it.
BURN IT DOWN....BURN IT DOWN
going to be some great stories told once Bill leaves ESPN
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:29 pm to Boomtown
This is basically Simmons telling ESPN to go frick themselves. He knows that he is moving on when his contract is up.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 12:38 pm to Boomtown
Team Simmons!
I like the guy and enjoy his work. I just wish he would tell Jalen Rose to stop carrying around that damn baseball bat.
I like the guy and enjoy his work. I just wish he would tell Jalen Rose to stop carrying around that damn baseball bat.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 1:10 pm to Boomtown
They all suck. Wouldn't surprise me if entire thing was a work.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 1:33 pm to Boomtown
I was listening to Mike and Mike when they were calling out Bill Simmons. I knew he would say something about the segment. I'm surprised he didn't say anything about how Greeny tries really hard to be a trendy prick by saying hashtag this and that.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 1:40 pm to Boomtown
Bill Simmons' EWING THEORY 101 is one the best sports columns ever written. He has "issues" no doubt' (big fat ego), but that column was brilliant, in the concept (attributed to his buddy), the scope and breadth of knowledge of basketball in particular and sports in general it demonstrated, and how, as is his way, he tied it all together referencing pop culture. Mike and Mike together couldn't write one sentence half as clever, given six months time and a sports almanac.
Grantland to Mike and Mike is to .... I can't even.
Grantland to Mike and Mike is to .... I can't even.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 3:14 pm to Boomtown
I take it Simmons no longer works for ESPN?
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