Bill Simmons' new site

[wicked]

Deadspin also doesn't target not employ 47-year-olds.

Simmons should be counting his blessings that the checks cleared for 15 years and ESPN made him a wealthy man.

 

[Webster]

I've gone from a regular listener of his podcast to a sporadic listener. Everything is Deflategate, ****ting on ESPN, ****ting on Manning and turning every conversation about the NBA to the Celtics. Earlier this week he said that Manning lost a playoff game in 2007 because he was afraid to lose to the Pats in the next round, then conceded it might have been subconsciously.

As to ESPN, there are tons of things which could probably be improved about the organization and the inherent conflict of being a right holder and a news organization is not that they have always done well with. And I'm sure that every writer and editor thinks that their material should get greater exposure. But he was suspended for stating as fact (and not opinion) that Roger Goodell a liar when he had no proof and daring his bosses to suspend him about it. Then he was fired for using a juvenile phrase to discuss Goodell when he was told grow up.

He did a great job cultivating talent and building a podcast network at ESPN. If he can find a way to monetize that, great. And if he can hire people from ESPN, more power to him. But he comes across as small when he doesn't move on.

 

[BDC99]

HEY! That's MY scoop.

Group

Where are The Ethics, ESPN? Not even a “Ringer Exclusive:” or a “Sources:” before “NBA Team Might Like To Add Great Player”?

 

[Just the facts ma am]

Bill had Jay Glazer on a podcast. Wow just wow. Glazer comes across as a name dropping, humble bragging, motor mouth. Bill could not get a word in edgewise. Jay told some good stories but they all sounded exaggerated; obviously I have no way of knowing, but he sounded like a con man.

 

[BDC99]

Bill had Jay Glazer on a podcast. Wow just wow. Glazer comes across as a name dropping, humble bragging, motor mouth. Bill could not get a word in edgewise. Jay told some good stories but they all sounded exaggerated; obviously I have no way of knowing, but he sounded like a con man.

I'm having a hard time believing a word of this analysis, but I can't bring myself to listen to that link to confirm your assessment. Lol

 

[sgreenwell]

Glazer was an absolute trainwreck of a podcast. I consider myself pretty far in the bag for Simmons, but even I couldn't get through it, and I had to shut it off.

In contrast, the pod with Jim Lampley was excellent.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Glazer is re-tweeting all of the people who thought it was great.

Love his reporting, hate people who do that

 

[CD Boogie]

Glazer is re-tweeting all of the people who thought it was great.

Love his reporting, hate people who do that

Mike Silver does that all the time, too. Never understood the people who RT compliments. Unless it's the New York Times book review saying your book is an instant classic, RT'd compliments wreak of insecurity.

 

[Chef2]

Bill Simmons and Jay Glazer should be tied to each other and dropped off a boat somewhere.

 

[Riptide]

Mike Silver does that all the time, too. Never understood the people who RT compliments. Unless it's the New York Times book review saying your book is an instant classic, RT'd compliments wreak of insecurity.

People PM me all the time with their compliments. Prominent posters, too!

 

[Steak Snabler]

Simmons had Craig Kilborn on his podcast yesterday, apparently the first long-form interview Kilborn has done in a while. Man, if you thought Simmons was an arrogant, self-important douche, he's got nothing on Kilborn. Especially hilarious was the part when Kilborn tried to say he no longer worked in television "by choice."

 

[wicked]

Talk about a guy who **** away a career, and did it twice. Jon Stewart must worship in front of a photo of Kilborn every morning at his animal refuge.

 

[John]

I had to stop after about 20 minutes. Sounded like Kilborn did coke nonstop for 20 minutes before Simmons pressed record.

 

[Chef2]

Talk about a guy who **** away a career, and did it twice. Jon Stewart must worship in front of a photo of Kilborn every morning at his animal refuge.

Craig Kilborn made Jon Stewart infinitely wealthy. Those pockets are never ending.

 

[sgreenwell]

Simmons had Craig Kilborn on his podcast yesterday, apparently the first long-form interview Kilborn has done in a while. Man, if you thought Simmons was an arrogant, self-important douche, he's got nothing on Kilborn. Especially hilarious was the part when Kilborn tried to say he no longer worked in television "by choice."

I'm one of the few who really liked Kilborn's versions of The Daily Show and The Late Late Show, but yikes. He was almost manic on the pod, just all over the place from topic to topic. If you can stomach it, or just want to skip ahead, the last 20 minutes or so are interesting, when there is talk of how Kilborn interacted with Letterman and his path from ESPN to his own show.

 

[exmediahack]

I believe that Kilborn walked away in 2004 on his own. The guy probably made his millions and decided not to do the grind anymore. Racked up $25 million or so from a decade of Daily Show and Late Late Show.

Doing TV every day and trying to be funny is a damn grind, even with a team of writers and producers.

The arrogant and conceited part of Kilborn has been his schtick forever. Once you realize it's really a character, it's easier to process.

 

[exmediahack]

I'm one of the few who really liked Kilborn's versions of The Daily Show and The Late Late Show, but yikes. He was almost manic on the pod, just all over the place from topic to topic. If you can stomach it, or just want to skip ahead, the last 20 minutes or so are interesting, when there is talk of how Kilborn interacted with Letterman and his path from ESPN to his own show.

What it did feel like was a guy who has about ten years of material and was trying to jam it into a sixty-minute podcast.

Loved Killer on ESPN, TDS and Late Late. But then again, I love Cowherd.

 

[wicked]

I forgot that Kilborn left for the Late Late Show. At the time, I guess you couldn't blame him for the move.

But Stewart is now an iconic figure. Kilborn must kick himself daily, no matter how much scratch he picked up.

 

[sgreenwell]

I forgot that Kilborn left for the Late Late Show. At the time, I guess you couldn't blame him for the move.

But Stewart is now an iconic figure. Kilborn must kick himself daily, no matter how much scratch he picked up.

To be fair to Kilborn, he didn't really have any interest in doing a political show. That was solely Stewart's doing. Even if you go to the first few Stewart months, the show has way more of an entertainment focus.

 

[Alma]

Kilborn isn't Stewart though. Stewart made The Daily Show the hit it became.

I actually felt like Kilborn wasn't as interested in looking down at everyone quite the way Stewart was. Kilborn had an appreciation for the absurd. Stewart is pissed off by it