yea no idea what happened there

was funny how frequently klosterman's question was completely ignored, kinda his fault for being so longwinded really. still, barkley much better at proclaiming than answering questions iyam

i like klosterman

listening to him is like eating skittles for my brain

Since when did Simmons become this huge gay rights activist?

Since it became a fotm topic.

that outlaw thing was really weird.

i agree klosterman had no rapport with barkley and that his questions came out of left field, however i do think his questions were very interesting. for me he only got annoying when he started to psychoanalyse barkley seconds after he hung up the phone. overall i thought the interview was pretty great, especially loved the story about barkley's kid crying.

I was at a bar once where someone did that with the live version of Whipping Post.

I like Klosterman quite a bit, but when he goes into his "you can have sex with any woman you want but after each time you will lose 1% of the hearing in your left ear" stuff I can see where he loses people. Obv, he had no chemistry with Barkley, but at least he realized it and didn't try to overcompensate IMO.

The LOLZ in that podcast for me were Simmons' brownosings that Chuck's no rings were better than Malone & Ewing's no rings. To Chuck's credit he didn't touch it. I actually thought the Malone-Barkley section was one of the best parts of TBoBB.

Cliffs: Barkley had a better peak and much more fun, but also left a lot more on the table, while Malone was the most durable & consistent player ever and retired with every bullet fired, just choked a couple times against the GOAT during hyperultramegaclutch time.

all i could think of during that part of the interview was

http://www.backpicks.com/2010/12/20/...ination-games/

http://www.backpicks.com/2010/12/21/...-game-failures

This hypothetical could easily be a thread on 2+2 with four thousand replies.

yeah I ended up listening to this podcast eventually, and that story was awesome. psychoanalysis was lol. Simmons not understanding the potential hypocrisy between allowing truther talk on the grounds of free speech but not for cracking gay jokes was pretty awesome. As was him acting mind-blown when Klosterman explained him how the 1st Amendment applies to all citizens but corporate employees have to follow the rules laid out by the corporation.

WTH is TZ?

threadzilla. the big nba thread.

+1 lol

Re: Simmons not really getting corporate America. Kind of debunks the argument of him as "the common fan's sportswriter."

But yeah, I guess that's been disproven like 8 years ago.

Ehhh.... you can casualfan the business world too- and people like Simmons who have never been part of it do it all the time.

hilarious.

since when does he not write an NBA Finals column? The NBA is his best subject...by far.

Cop out with a "mega-pod"

Be more irrelevant Sport Guy....

Hey anyone else notice Simmons getting annoyed with Bucher at the beginning of their podcast? Bucher was making a joke about Simmons taking a break from being a one man media empire or something, and Simmons just cut him off saying to stop it and talk bball. At first I just figured it was them joking around but it sorta seemed like Simmons was really annoyed with it.

Obviously Simmons didn't want to walk all over his feature piece...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/ma...-one.html?_r=1

LOL

Nothing is quite as surprising as Simmons using Wire quotes to describe the NBA. No one, I repeat no one, could have predicted that column.

needs to be reposted here:

Hahaohwow

that is a complete embarrassment also.

Sports writers tend to be the most thin skinned people. Simmons isn't an exception.

Here is another gem.