Jonathan Last

Bill Simmons, Diety
October 6th, 2005

Bryan Curtis has a great profile of Bill Simmons up at Slate.

Personally, I’ve always thought of Simmons as the Matt Labash of sports writing.

That Dude October 7, 2005 at 4:13 am

Simmonsis pure genius. I met him at the super bowl last yr, he threw me off with his beard and he was more than happy to bust my chops since I was wearing a Jevon Kearse jersey in the middle of the Pats hotel.Yeah, u know I go right into the belly og the beast lol.Billy Sim rules.

Anonymous October 7, 2005 at 4:32 am

The article didn’t even mention the best parts:- live-blogging events like the Oscars and NBA Drafts- espcially with his Dad- when he became an object of hate for the whole city of New Orleans- his e-mail bagYou know Last if you ran an e-mail bag like the Sports Guy does, it would go a long way to making up for all these slip-ups of yours the past few weeksI keep thinking you were the kid who cut in front of me back at Great Adeventure back in the 1980sMike

Anonymous October 7, 2005 at 3:27 pm

“That suit has no buttons.” -BSG’s Dad watching the NBA draft a few years ago.

Anonymous October 8, 2005 at 11:51 pm

Sports Guy is good, but he’s no LaBash..

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