I love you TJ Simers

I have little respect for condescending pricks like TJ

 

I got that.

 

Jim Murray could put down municipalities with a measure of class, and elan.

Slummers does neither.

 

Again, I know it's what we all do.

We compare. We compare Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds. Jim Brown and Emmitt Smith. Barry Sanders and Reggie Bush. We even compare subjective, intangibles: Michael Jordan's heart, Joe Montana's leadership.

But, comparing Simers -- or anyone -- to one of the two or three greatest sports journalists who ever lived is unfair.

 

Why is it unfair, fish, when people here act like Simers is one of the all-time greats?
Which we know, of course, he's not even close to being..

 

We do. Those with perspicacity do.

 

T.J. Simers is a great entertainer. Why does every columnist have to be measured with how much wisdom they craft into beautiful sentences?

 

Depends on your definition of entertainment.

 

The reason I don't like Simers is the same reason I don't like Mariotti. I don't care for prick columnists. It's not a style I prefer. Give me 15 Telander or Posnanski columns before I read one by Simers or Mariotti.

 

And he uses their naive attempts to make nice just to abuse them some more.

 

Today's installment.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers14sep14,1,1927113,full.column

 

And the whole subject is problematic, even if it weren't Simers writing it. The tweak-the-opposing-city (or state, or country) column is as cliche as the bets between the mayors of championship-final cities. Even Posnanski's try at it read yucky.