I love you TJ Simers

[VJ]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers13sep13,1,986498.column?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true

Watch the video on the right.

 

[Hammer Pants]

The part where he talked about doing his part to help these people get through another day of Americana was awesome.

 

[poindexter]

"I was basically lifting everybody's spirits".............

lol

 

[MileHigh]

I've been waiting for this to start since he put out the word six weeks ago for volunteers to take him in.
He's not for everyone -- as evidenced on here before -- but for me, he's fantastic.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Loved the video...

(When talking about the controls on the machine...)

Farmer: "We only use those when we have to hook up machines to it. Like if we have to dig a grave."

Simers: "Oh, well, that might come in handy later then."

 

[cranberry]

Didn't Paris Hilton already do this?

 

[Shaggy]

Hilarious, even more funny when you realize that an entire state is fuming over his antics.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Hilarious, even more funny when you realize that an entire state is fuming over his antics.

I don't understand people who don't get his bit.

You read the column archive, look at 2 pieces, and you've GOT to get that it's an act.

 

[MileHigh]

Of course it's an act. It's complete schtick. But when people fall for it -- like, 95 percent of the people who read him and the athletes who deal with him -- it makes it funnier.

 

[brettwatson]

Vintage T.J.

If you ever get a chance to hear him talk about lazy sportswriters, it's the equivalent of 15 of his best columns. He came to Chicago for an APSE regional meeting a few years and told about 2 hours worth of stories pertaining to how he goes about the craft of reporting. This was before he was a columnist.

Basically, he doesn't take no for an answer and out-works all of his competition. Had the sports editors in stitches with some of his tales. He's a great motivational speaker.

He got the last laugh on the SEs too. Flew first class from LA to Chicago and hit them up for a $1,200 plane fare.

 

[Gold]

TJ's act is a schtick, but he's also a schmuck.

I have never heard somebody say TJ doesn't work hard. But you can also get hard work from a jackass.

 

[Dan Rydell]

If you ever get a chance to hear him talk about lazy sportswriters, it's the equivalent of 15 of his best columns.

Tell us here, Brett. I'd like to know all about what he said.

I love Simers' stuff. Some don't, but I do.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I could write a couple of great columns about braying horse's-ass sportswriters.

And . . .





(And BTW: Southern Cal -- and everything about it -- blows dogs).

 

[dooley_womack1]

Spnited, please pick up the red courtesy phone.

 

[SoCalDude]

(And BTW: Southern Cal -- and everything about it -- blows dogs).

Ben, somebody must have stolen your log-on. A person with your background wouldn't post such an idiotic statement.

 

[TrooperBari]

Hilarious, even more funny when you realize that an entire state is fuming over his antics.

So the entire state reads the LA Times? Shocking.

 

[WazzuGrad00]

I think he meant Nebraska.

 

[Dan Rydell]

Hilarious, even more funny when you realize that an entire state is fuming over his antics.

So the entire state reads the LA Times? Shocking.

No, but the word gets around Nebraska when someone's ripping the state.

 

[spnited]

Spnited, please pick up the red courtesy phone.

Gold has become my official TJ spokesperson. I have nothing further to add.

 

[TrooperBari]

I think he meant Nebraska.

I know he meant Nebraska. I also know that the entire state is not, in fact, fuming over TJ's latest antics.

We — yes, I said we — are used to the whole, "Oh, look at all those simple rubes. Aren't they just precious? We suave, sophisticated urban folk would never be caught living like that" routine. Simers isn't the first to trot it out, and he certainly won't be the last.