They came for Bill Simmons

Entourage cast screwed? Out of what work exactly?

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They came for Bill Simmons

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Who did ? And when? Link?

The lib blogs/podcasts like Deadspin & Lebatard have been after him for 15 years bc they didn’t think he was smart enough.

The voices on the opposite spectrum like WEEI & Cowherd also been after him bc they thought he was to pro-player.

ETA

I do know that he wrote an article that was published by ESPN titled “Roger Clemens is the anti-Christ” and I don’t think they’ve ever had a funnier story.

The anonymous ringer sources sound like petulant children

With grantland he had the allure of ESPN exposure to use in hiring

A lot of those people went on to bigger things

The Ringer podcasts and writing have suffered because he has tried to skew younger but they just aren’t as good

The women lead by Mallory nervously laughing at everything is an awful listening experience

Simmons whole schtick was that it was him and his friends though. That was what made him famous.

Like people on twitter were complaining about Simmons giving House stuff to do instead of a minority. Just shows how out of touch people are.

No one at the ringer is shite without Simmons. Simmons isn’t Simmons with House, cousin Sal, JackO etc. That’s like Barstool people complaining that Portnoy is obnoxious.

House is pretty bad tho.

But House and Simmons are part and parcel. It’d be one thing if Simmons was the head of talent at ESPN and showed nepotism and favoritism in his hiring.

But the Ringer is all him. Grantland is all him. Love him or hate him, and by no means is Simmons free of faults, House is an integral part of the Simmons package. People are acting like Simmons is the CEO of GE instead of basically running Bill Simmons, Inc.

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But House and Simmons are part and parcel

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I don’t feel like they do much podcasts together anymore tbh.

Simmons can do what he wants, I’m just sayin house sucks

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Cousin Sal & guess the lines is the biggest Jenga piece of the Bill Simmons package.

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Yeah Russillo has taken some of the weight off cousin sals shoulders, atleast during non-NFL season. That’s why he’s been doing so many pods with Russilo lately and during all this

I’d say there’s a decent chunk of his listeners that don’t really listen unless one of those two are involved.

Can someone give me Cliffs on what this twerps at The Ringer said about Simmons.

Even a few weeks or so ago, I was a pretty regular fan of a couple podcasts, but never listened to anything without either Simmons or Rusillo on the panel. Now I've yotally stopped following the podcasts network.

The staff there is basically the definition of the term "soy boys."

I'd fire almost everyone there if a bunch of ppl annonmoysly said stuff to a publication.

Clay Travis has really amped up his website and sports coverage recently with a lot of seemingly conservative or non lunatic left voices. If he started a couple movie podcasts and somehow lured Rusillo, he could really really hurt The Ringer.