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The catch-all ESPN thread
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:01 am
by Ice Cream Jonsey
How does Bill Simmons not get a vote for MVP for the NBA? Go over to
www.sportsguy.net. He wrote roughly a million words on the topic. What more does he have to do? The thought of some 300 pound beat writer for the Hartford Daily Tattler getting a vote and scrawling down Wade/Duncan/O'Neil/Kidd/Kobe, spelling two of the names wrong and then not thinking about basketball again for 364 days while Simmons is tearing his hair out to determine who was the best player is NOT funny. It is somewhat maddening. (A little, because I do not have the hours to actively follow the league. But I can sympathize.)
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:57 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
More SIMMONS:
To the poor Hawks -- their playoff run was like Violet's family making it to California for the beauty pageant in the van with no breaks, only now the beauty contest has started and they're going down in flames.
No context is given to who Violet might be at all. I assume someone from TV. I officially do NOT watch enough television to understand his columns any longer.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:59 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Wait. Whoops. He prefaced it by calling it "The 'Little Miss Sunshine' Award."
...
... The living fuck is "Little Miss Sunshine," and why is he referencing it out of the blue for his NBA column? Is that a kid's movie? Jesus Fucking Christ I hope I never have children from the ages of 0-17. I hope they come out at voting age.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:04 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Also, he believe Carmelo Anthony is getting traded this summer:
I don't see him spending his entire career in Denver, much less next season, and there's a 98.7 percent chance he'll become the focal point of every trade rumor this summer. For instance, what if the Grizzlies get the No. 2 pick and decide they want to take hometown kid Derrick Rose even though they already have three point guards on their roster. If you're Denver, do you trade Melo for Mike Conley Jr., Hakim Warrick and Mike Miller, chop a few million off your payroll and hope Miller and Linas Kleiza can replace Melo's numbers (which, by the way, they would)? If you're Memphis, wouldn't you sell tickets with Melo, Rose and Rudy Gay? In other words, aren't those two teams a match? What if Minnesota got the No. 2 pick? If you're Denver, would you offer Melo to the T-Wolves for that pick (plus expiring contracts) and take Rose? See where I'm going here? If the Nuggets can turn Melo into a point guard, cap space and/or something else, don't they have to think about it?
I can say, quite categorically, that if Carmelo got traded for other people's shit, you might as well move the Nuggets and Avalanche out of town, because the Pepsi Center will be burned to the ground.
I don't have the exact stats, but the average Nuggets team before he came here was 9-102. Why are Nuggets fans not going apoplectic that they are losing in the first round each year? Because it is the WESTERN CONFERENCE. Christ, the Suns haven't even escaped into a finals yet, and their team is about a billion times better than Denver. The Nuggets would win 65 games each year in the east. It's all relative.
But my opinions about any baseball, hockey or basketball team except for the Blue Jays, Flyers and Nuggets are pretty bad as well, so no harm here.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:31 pm
by Vitriola
Been wanting to see this, actually. Came out a year or 2 ago.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:20 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
The Patriots selected Jerod Mayo in the first round on Sunday.
Chris Berman made an absolutely horrible "joke" that seems to have fallen flat to a
fair number of people.
Good ol' Bill Simmons said the following in his chat:
James L, Whitby ON: Any NFL 2008 draft thoughts worth mentioning?
Bill Simmons: (12:42 PM ET ) When the Pats picked Jerod Mayo, I called my Dad and he started to say something and I interrupted him and said, "Hold on a second, hold on... I hope we don't get a 15-yard penalty next year for... holding the Mayo. Sorry dad, it had to be done!"
I guess ESPN's own guys openly ripping on Berman is a good first step.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:56 pm
by AArdvark