TJ Simers slams rival paper

[Almost_Famous]

Simers really takes the Daily News behind the woodshed here. Blames the paper for saying the Dodgers were 'done' last month ... brings a copy of the Daily News to the clubhouse to show the Dodgers and get reaction. Pure genius. Risky as hell, but i like it.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers8aug08,0,5565898.column?coll=la-home-headlines

If you're the Daily News, do you even bother respond?

This battle doesn't seem to have the cachet of a NY Daily News vs. NY Post, but it'll be fun to see what happens next ...

 

[Moland Spring]

You can't get after him. You just can't respond. You're not going to win. No one does this act better than Simers. I mean, the whole thing is a joke, he's clearly sarcastic the whole way through, yet he goes all the way with it, it makes you wonder. You can't play his game. But I could see how frustrating that would be to be this Dilbeck guy.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

"The way he was going after everybody, I wouldn't have been surprised to read smiley ripping his own family next."

Great line by Simers in the story. Funny column and so self-referntial, you'd only be up in arms, at the Dodger or Daily News, if you had never read him, or had no sense of humor.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Bingo, CJ.

It's Simers to a T.

 

[jambalaya]

Simers really takes the Daily News behind the woodshed here. Blames the paper for saying the Dodgers were 'done' last month ... brings a copy of the Daily News to the clubhouse to show the Dodgers and get reaction. Pure genius. Risky as hell, but i like it.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers8aug08,0,5565898.column?coll=la-home-headlines

If you're the Daily News, do you even bother respond?

This battle doesn't seem to have the cachet of a NY Daily News vs. NY Post, but it'll be fun to see what happens next ...

Lord help you if you think that article was anything but completely tongue-in-cheek.

 

[Moondoggy]

Shoot, if I'm from the Daily News I'm thrilled to discover someone from the Times acknowledges we exist.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Tomorrow, Teej stands outside a cage at the L.A. Zoo and taunts the chimps. Sunday, he takes on the Special Olympics!

 

[DyePack]

Here's what will hapen:

No one will give a ****, either now or later.

At the end of the season, the Dodgers will finish in an eight-way tie for both wild card and division playoff spots. After a week of coin flips and elimination games, they'll reach the final step before the playoffs.

Brad Penny, pitching in his fourth game in three days, takes the mound. He cruises into the seventh inning, then runs into trouble. Grady orders him to intentionally walk Bonds and pitch to Alou. On his first pitch to Alou, Penny tears every opposable ligament in his pitching arm.

Alou hits a rocket to the outfield. On the play, Kent and Nomar come up lame. The Giants score two runs and win.

Later, the Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!

 

[Gold]

Tomorrow, Teej stands outside a cage at the L.A. Zoo and taunts the chimps. Sunday, he takes on the Special Olympics!

Amen

 

[Ace]

Not one of Simers better efforts. Would have been more funny if he had more reaction from the players (especially since he obviously is guilty of the same thing) and less rundown of the Daily News article.

 

[Left_Coast]

Agree with those who say it's T.J. to a tee. Completely tonge-in-cheek, especially the line about ripping the family. Agreed, not his best effort, but better than a lot of other stuff out there.

 

[BYH]

Dog bites man

Film at 11

 

[ogre]

At least when Simers calls the Dodgers dead, they stay dead. This piece is more about laughing at Dilbeck than anything else. Nice to see the Times' columnists are working again after taking the entire summer off.

 

[tmunson]

Plaschke wrote the same thing as the Daily News columnist.

 

[Billy Monday]

It was hilarious.

If you're Dilbeck, you chuckle about it all day and slap Simers on the back the next time you see him.

 

[Left_Coast]

Dilbeck today:

http://www.dailynews.com/stevedilbeck/ci_4154154


Enough, already. I'm actually embarrassed. Feeling all flushed. Come on now, please, stop it.
Cease the congratulatory letters, the flattering e-mails. Do need to free the cell phone for professional use. And if the back gets patted one more time, it'll become my chest.

Yes, it's become clear to everyone by now I single-handedly turned the Dodgers' season around.

They were a bunch of sad mopes, bent on self-destruction and plenty of unsightly baseball when I last visited our Boys in Blue. They had lost eight consecutive games and 13 of 14. They were fighting in the dugout, silent in the clubhouse and shrinking in the standings.

So I cleverly wrote them off. Said they were done. Dead team walking. That they not only lacked life, but simple spark.

And look at them now!

 

[buckweaver]

Plaschke wrote the same thing as the Daily News columnist.

So did everybody.

Simers is going to do what Simers is going to do. It made me laugh, and that's good enough. If you take his **** personally, he WILL make your life hell. Better to enjoy him for what he is, and not let him get under your skin.

 

[Gold]

Plaschke wrote the same thing as the Daily News columnist.

So did everybody.

Simers is going to do what Simers is going to do. It made me laugh, and that's good enough. If you take his **** personally, he WILL make your life hell. Better to enjoy him for what he is, and not let him get under your skin.

so you let a bully have his way, buck weaver? another example of TJ Simers's snottiness

Dilbeck's column is funnier than TJ's and a lot easier to read.

Oh but sorry, I forgot TJ SImers's columns were pure genius. Who doesn't pick up a sports section to read about a loudmouth idiot sports columnist.

I read the post and I realized something.... people thought a second-rate hack comic like Andy Kaufman was a genius - and what it was in Andy Kaufman's case was just that he had incredible audacity and you kind of laughed because you couldn't believe anybody could do something so goofy. Dying was Andy Kaufman's best career move, because it saved a retrospective look in which people would have realized Andy Kaufman really wasn't that funny.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

I like your take on Andy Kaufman, Gold.

Dead on.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Tomorrow, Teej stands outside a cage at the L.A. Zoo and taunts the chimps. Sunday, he takes on the Special Olympics!

Hey, let's not be comparing the Daily News to the Special Olympics. That's a low blow.

Yeah, at least the Special Olympics has winners... ;D