"Outside The Lines" featuring... Bill Simmons!

[MacDaddy]

Bob Ley might consider killing himself just so he can roll over in his grave.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=manny

I tried to give it a chance and actually read the thing, but it's the same ol' Sports Guy schtick.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I thought the exact same thing when I saw it on ESPN.com's front page.

Wasn't Scoop available?

 

[friend of a friend]

I stopped reading after the first sentence.

 

[MacDaddy]

My apologies for posting this in the wrong forum; thanks for moving it, Big Ragu.

 

[qtlaw]

Just awful. Man after those great pieces on Lyman Bostock and Fred Lewis..... Sad really. Someone put Simmons out of his misery (and I'm a Bosox fan!)

 

[tmr]

Halfway through I was wondering how this could possibly be any longer. So I quit.

 

[didntdoit19]

Long, boring and self-important.

I wonder what the ombudsman will have to say about this. Probably something like the "declining standards" at OTL.

At least that's what I would say.

 

[NCScrub]

I stopped after the second word.

"When I ... "

 

[JR]

My apologies for posting this in the wrong forum; thanks for moving it, Big Ragu.

This is neither Sports nor News.

Too bad we didn't have a "Codswallop" thread.

God, Simmons is too pathetic for words.

 

[93Devil]

So this was next in line after the Bostock feature?

Oh, wouldn't this have been better running yesterday? You know, the day he played his first playoff game for the Dodgers.

 

[pressboxramblings07]

I love his multiple "we" references when talking about the Red Sox.

I am passionate about multiple teams, been a fan all my life ... but I will never, ever, say "We."

 

[MacDaddy]

Simmons' biggest flaw is that he equates being popular with being good.

 

[spaceman]

39 footnotes.

 

[forever_town]

I saw some of Newman's cereals in the local grocery store today.

It made me sad.

 

[The Big Ragu]

My apologies for posting this in the wrong forum; thanks for moving it, Big Ragu.

This is neither Sports nor News.

Too bad we didn't have a "Codswallop" thread.

God, Simmons is too pathetic for words.

Maybe I just wanted to make it FHB's problem instead of mine? :)

I read the first segment, then got bored. It's too bad. I think Simmons writes well. Better than a lot of people on here want to give him credit for. I'm just not all that interested most of the time; not anymore. I have no idea if I am representative of most people. I'm usually not representative, so I won't trash the guy.

 

[JC]

Awful, awful article but he makes one very interesting point about Boras orchestrating Manny's actions.

 

[slappy4428]

I stopped reading after the first sentence.

I tried again.. I think I got 2000 words or eight footnotes into it and gave up.

 

[jgmacg]

I wonder if perhaps the footnotes are a wrongheaded homage to the late, lamented DFW.

 

[Joe Williams]

Simmons' biggest flaw is that he equates being popular with being good.

Him and all the newspaper honchos who believe that "clicks" now dictate everything when it comes to what gets covered, how it gets covered, who covers it and so on.

 

[VJ]

It's a joke that any news organization would allow its writers to use the term "we" in a story that's labeled as a legit news piece.