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Jackie D posted:Is the ringer WCW or TNA in this analogy It's a pale imitation that needs to be taken out now before Billy Corgan gets involved.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/SalvationArmyUS/status/810686519937761280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The first person served was Darren.
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AsInHowe posted:The first person served was Darren. 
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/SalvationArmyUS/status/810686519937761280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Congratulations Rovell, you made me want to high five the Salvation Army. Not many people have the skill to pull that off.
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I hadn't heard this story https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/811248068398026752
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morestuff posted:I hadn't heard this story that's loving amazing E: AA has some clips from the funeral and his final interview. Really bittersweet stuff
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great news billy simmons wrote some more stupid poo poo about basketball https://theringer.com/battle-of-the-nba-unicorns-bdf6c4a7b331#.pwyicmjch
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C. Everett Koop posted:great news billy simmons wrote some more stupid poo poo about basketball Why does this article never end.
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C. Everett Koop posted:great news billy simmons wrote some more stupid poo poo about basketball Simmons is back, and in prime form.
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my eyes glazed over and I had to stop 6 paragraphs in How many (times) can this (loving) hack put (things) into parenthesis (?)
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FMguru posted:It starts off by making fun of a black player's last name ("Giannis Antempokonokokoakkokookookoko") and large chunks of it take place either in the future (Most Realistically Ridiculous Statistical Ceiling in 2022) or in what-if alternate universes. Also, the obligatory Bird worship, random shots at Kobe, creepy girlfriend analogies, self-praise for his blackjack prowess, and forced pop culture references ("like he’s one of the Game of Thrones dragons"). Don't forget a plug for his stupid terrible book, with an amazon link! And the amount of parentheticals is completely unacceptable for a professional writer.
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This is actually the most stereotypical Simmons column. He invents an incomprehensible metric or term or category that no one cares about and then spends 3000 words debating which people best fit into it. It inherently generates content because the very premise is so loosely defined and fungible. This would be reasonable (albeit hack-ish) formula if it didn't always just fold in on itself and confirm the initial idea. So instead of just saying "Giannis is a really unique player, Porzingis is pretty unique too, and Embiid is so raw we have to wait and see" he has create a series of speculative questions that are designed to confirm his initial opaque observation.
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I did appreciate the sick Giannis dunk vids he links to, even if I've seen them all before.
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bill simmons' writing got significantly worse once he took himself seriously
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bill simmons rules and if you get upset about his dumb, incomprehensible writing instead of relishing every lovely simmonsy thing he does then you got owned by him
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R.D. Mangles posted:bill simmons rules and if you get upset about his dumb, incomprehensible writing instead of relishing every lovely simmonsy thing he does then you got owned by him
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R.D. Mangles posted:bill simmons rules and if you get upset about his dumb, incomprehensible writing instead of relishing every lovely simmonsy thing he does then you got owned by him
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R.D. Mangles posted:bill simmons rules and if you get upset about his dumb, incomprehensible writing instead of relishing every lovely simmonsy thing he does then you got owned by him I like his incomprehensible writing when he keeps it to about 2000 words, as opposed to the 8000 word alternative universe train wrecks he's writing. I get bored if it goes on too long.
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straight up brolic posted:yeah it's tremendous entertainment The fact is that people here take his weirdo words and pretend to get upset at how dumb they are and then they immediately turn around and start using his classification system to rate players for the next 5 pages. You've all been rused
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I'd kick bill Simmons rear end. It wouldn't even be hard for me because of how strong I am.
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FMguru posted:It starts off by making fun of a black player's last name ("Giannis Antempokonokokoakkokookookoko") and large chunks of it take place either in the future (Most Realistically Ridiculous Statistical Ceiling in 2022) or in what-if alternate universes. Also, the obligatory Bird worship, random shots at Kobe, creepy girlfriend analogies, self-praise for his blackjack prowess, and forced pop culture references ("like he’s one of the Game of Thrones dragons"). Dude we all make fun of Giannis last name because tis a jumble of every letter. His nickname is the alphabet. Greek is hard yo. As someone with a last name with too many consonants and not enough vowels it's just gonna happen. I feel like you're reaching a lot with that criticism, of all the lovely stuff I could believe about Simmons I don't think he's a racist at all
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Ramadu posted:Dude we all make fun of Giannis last name because tis a jumble of every letter. His nickname is the alphabet. Greek is hard yo. As someone with a last name with too many consonants and not enough vowels it's just gonna happen. I feel like you're reaching a lot with that criticism, of all the lovely stuff I could believe about Simmons I don't think he's a racist at all I agree with this for the most part but it's literally his job to know the names of players. Plus he has access to advanced technology that allows him to copy and paste words into his word processor. Even then, it could still be funny if it wasn't a joke people made like 3 years ago. The most offensive part is how out of date the joke is.
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Ramadu posted:Dude we all make fun of Giannis last name because tis a jumble of every letter. His nickname is the alphabet. Greek is hard yo. As someone with a last name with too many consonants and not enough vowels it's just gonna happen. I feel like you're reaching a lot with that criticism, of all the lovely stuff I could believe about Simmons I don't think he's a racist at all His last name is Nigerian, not Greek, but I agree.
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Henchman of Santa posted:His last name is Nigerian, not Greek, but I agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giannis_Antetokounmpo According to this it's greek? Idk I was just going off where he was born!
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His parents immigrated to Greece. Antetokounmpo is the spelling on his Greek passport, but the original is apparently Adetokunbo which led to a lot of confusion around draft time. I think he's said he doesn't care.
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morestuff posted:His parents immigrated to Greece. Antetokounmpo is the spelling on his Greek passport, but the original is apparently Adetokunbo which led to a lot of confusion around draft time. I think he's said he doesn't care. Yeah I've seen him mention a time or two that it doesn't bug him.
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Cool Buff Man posted:The fact is that people here take his weirdo words and pretend to get upset at how dumb they are and then they immediately turn around and start using his classification system to rate players for the next 5 pages. You've all been rused Bill Simmons's dumb theories are constantly taken seriously the second either another poster or Zach Lowe says them without openly quoting him.
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FS1 actually responded to the Skip Bayless facebook comment thing, and Ben Koo tore into both them and Sporting News. Koo clearly has some beef with Horowitz.
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The extremely high chance that a hockey player has (recently) done something disgusting into the Stanley Cup should preclude anyone ever wanting to drink from it.
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ChickenMedium posted:The extremely high chance that a hockey player has (recently) done something disgusting into the Stanley Cup should preclude anyone ever wanting to drink from it. Counter-argument: I'd drink bathwater out of the Cup just to say that I drank out of the Stanley Cup, so ymmv.
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For real I don't even really like hockey but if you are around the cup and don't either eat or drink out of it that seems like a massive missed opportunity
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the talent deficit posted:mike modano fed his dogs out of the cup and then his poor dogs starved to death during the lockout because he could no longer afford to feed them
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C. Everett Koop posted:Counter-argument: I'd drink bathwater out of the Cup just to say that I drank out of the Stanley Cup, so ymmv.
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I'm calling the following tangentially sports-related since it's always written for Deadspin. With that out of the way, it's time for what is annually one of their most entertaining articles: What Did We Get Stuck in Our Rectums Over the Last Year?
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