re: Bill Simmons to end up on HBO?

Did anybody else see the article that somebody wrote about how Bill Simmons should just go the Glenn Beck route? If he converted just 1/10th of his twitter followers to a paid $10 monthly subscription (Beck converted something like 40% so that 10% might not be too unrealistic) he'd bring in $48MM per year.

Even if Bill only converted 1% of his Twitter followers to a paid subscription he'd still bring in $4.8MM per year which is what ESPN was paying him this year.

Selfishly I'd rather him at HBO so I'd have access to him for free, but if I were him I'd hire Beck and Adam Carolla as consultants and try to become mega rich with my own content.

You KNOW that his first rant against ESPN on his own platform would bring in a TON of interest and subscrptions. Imagine him having podcasts with Tom Brady, Jimmy Kimmell, Dan Patrick, etc. etc. to discuss what happened. You would subscribe. NO ONE DENIES THIS!