it's been a tab open on my work comp for 2 days now, I'm like 1/3rd through and am getting ready to close the tab. lol

more sumo, less not-sumo pls

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ah the monthly simmons does something he should obviously get suspended for and for some reason people seem to care? It's not like you read simmons and think "that was insightful".

in the pujols/lebron comparison was there any wink-wink subtext about the possibility that they had both gone off PEDs? I'm guessing not, just want to confirm. Fwiw the times I've seen LeBron this year it just seems like he's playing 15% hurt or something and the sky isn't falling.

Just put SVP and Russillo on in the morning time-slot, they are the best thing on ESPN Radio and it's not even close.

Which is of course, not what Simmons did in any way, shape or form.

Simmons is not universally great. He's either aesthetically entertaining or annoying, but his Big Book of Basketball is fantastic.

And his commentary on LeBron didn't carry the heavy period he was strawman'd as carrying. Golic expressed a general ethical violation of which Golic is guilty every segment of every show.

You're the worst astroturfer I've ever seen.

It's not hard to find what he said, and it's not just about 4 games.

He compared him to an all time great baseball player? Damn, ridiculous.

Simmons statement is whatever. But Golic went past the statement and past what Simmons critics are stating here.

I think Golic accusing Simmons of being reactionary to a level which attacks his overall credibility is the academic J-school topic.

This is where Simmons' penis contest "come in my house for this debate" is actually pretty valid.

#checkyoursource

I thought this was a huge subtext. Pujols absolutely looked (and looks) like someone who went off the juice. Comparing Lebron and emphasizing weight loss and lack of explosiveness is a pretty obvious juice statement.

No, he compared him to the shell of a great baseball player that showed up in Anaheim.

I didn't take it like that, at all. That would be incredibly stupid. Pujols was like Piazza, an obscure player who unexpectedly shot to greatness. Many are suspect of that. Lebron was on the cover of SI in high school. He was a man child in high school.

I think he's just pondering what's wrong like everyone else. I certainly don't think he believes Lebron was on steroids. He follows basketball too closely to be that dumb.

Interested to see what ESPN does here. It's getting close to the point of no return if they act against him again. They can just tell Mike and Mike to deal with it unlike Goodell and the NFL. That show is the nut low for mouth breathers, so knowing ESPN, they'll probably go to war for them.

this is definitely not what he was getting at

The 40+ crowd LOVES M&M. Not saying they're more valuable to the network than Simmons because I have nfc but they're very popular and I don't see them getting in any trouble for this.

When I made the post comparing Lebron to Pujols in the nba thread, 12 hours before Simmons mentioned it on air, I was definitely referring to PEDs

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/...nt-sources-say

umm isn't this really really bad for Goodell?

imo Simmons def stole your comparison.

It should be and I hope something comes of it. Assuming this is true, and it seems to be since Ozzie isn't the only person who was there and has confirmed his story, doesn't Rice have a really good case in a defamation lawsuit?

I'm sure he did, but I'm still curious if Roger lied under oath by sticking to his "Ray's description of the event was ambiguous" line...

I'm liking Bob Ryan unleashed. On the Simmons podcast, he calls Mark Jackson (an espn employee and darling) a "fraud".

Was going to skip this one but will check it out if Bobby is spitting some hot truth

There isn't a lot of hot fire. It's mostly Bob Ryan being Bob Ryan and talking hoops. But when Jackson came up his voice took a very vitriolic tone.