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0 for athleticism, 10 for freakiness (sung choir in highschool, had weird hair, keeps reptiles, german citizenship... list goes on)

stern podcast was really good imo, stern just owns

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02-18-2011 , 01:10 AM

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As for Lopez, he stopped rebounding (8.1 as a rookie, 8.7 in Year 2, 5.7 this season), stopped attacking the rim (6.6 shots at the rim last season, 4.3 this season) and plays with the enthusiasm of someone who just got dumped by his girlfriend and wants the game to end as soon as possible so he can go home and fill a pink iPod with sappy love songs for her. I would have bounced him off the list entirely, but there's a small chance Avery Johnson's voice is affecting him the same way Mary Hart's voice affected Kramer.

this was his best

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02-18-2011 , 12:35 PM

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Biesterfield

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Simmons launching new site, 70% sports, 30% pop culture.

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02-19-2011 , 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

whats kaman on the athletic / freak scale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv1cBN8M-9I

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02-21-2011 , 01:03 AM

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http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=610...goryid=2378529

Every time I hear Chad Millman speak, I'm convinced he knows less about his job than anyone in the world.

Looks like Millman got the last laugh. O/U for the NBA ASG was 274, result 291. Guy's a genius.

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02-21-2011 , 01:11 AM

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Klosterman is supposedly going to write for Simmons' site. Which means I will read it.

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03-02-2011 , 05:52 PM

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Yeti

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finallyyyyyyyyy the klosterman podcast

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03-02-2011 , 11:22 PM

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Simmons said something like

"If Pujols next 10 years are like his last 10 he'd be by far the best athlete ever."

I looked it up. He'd still be a few wins short of Barry Bonds' career.

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03-02-2011 , 11:29 PM

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steroids tho.

(assuming that Poo-holes is clean)

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finallyyyyyyyyy the klosterman podcast

Bill Simmons and Chuck Klosterman discuss Charlie Sheen, top picks in a rock band draft...

rock band draft? ok, now it's like a lock that he's a 2p2er. he's probably that dude who took The Killers in the 1st round of the EDF All-Time Music Festival Draft.

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03-03-2011 , 01:37 AM

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yeah, gotta be

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03-03-2011 , 03:38 AM

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It was like 95% he was a 2p2er before today. Now it's 100.

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03-03-2011 , 03:43 AM

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simmons has bandied about random drafts in his articles far before they became popular on 2p2 fwiw

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03-03-2011 , 05:21 AM

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He dropped this nugget in his column after discussing Nicolas Batum "Just kidding, Portland. Jokes! Come on! Loosen up! No, don't start the 150-post thread killing me on Blazers Edge!" Odds for him reading TZ are now off the board.

You realize blazersedge.com is the Blazers focused website right?

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03-03-2011 , 05:52 AM

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Yes I realize that he did not specifically say that he posts on the twoplustwo poker forums in its Sporting Events subforum. Thanks for pointing that out tho.

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03-04-2011 , 12:33 PM

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Anyone else read his latest abortion of an article? At first you think it's going to be an article about NFL owners that starts with some "hypothetical" but it winds up being the entire article. The real question: was there a Charlie Sheen reference? Obviously

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03-04-2011 , 02:54 PM

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It's not like he doesn't bring up some points. The extended schedule combined with denying extended health care to players is a swift kick in the nuts.

Where I don't agree with him is that the product in the NFL has never been better than it is today. Just because the Pats didn't win it all doesn't mean the NFL is worse now than it was 5 years ago.

Would love to see the two sides agree on like .1% annually of tv revenues going into a pool for some sort of shared healthcare plan for guys that played more than 3 years. Something like that.

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03-04-2011 , 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by 72off

steroids tho.

(assuming that Poo-holes is clean)

why would you assume that

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03-04-2011 , 03:55 PM

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Not saying he didn't bring up a few points, but you can just like, make them, instead of bringing everything around into one labored metaphor

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03-04-2011 , 04:08 PM

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I thought the column was fine, but yeah, I saw that I was getting to the end and started expecting a "click to part 2" where he used real people and situations instead of metaphor

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03-04-2011 , 04:39 PM

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I enjoy the Simmons-Klosterman podcasts, but it kills me whenever Klosterman over analyzes and forces some absurd connection (eg. trying to make a connection between Charlie Sheen and NFL Labor situation).

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03-04-2011 , 04:51 PM

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You realize what you are describing is Simmons whole shtick.

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03-04-2011 , 06:00 PM

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You realize what you are describing is Simmons whole shtick.

I guess that is ironic. must be something about the way Chuck explains them, then

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03-04-2011 , 07:23 PM

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Personally i enjoy when Klosterman asks Simmons questions about himself and in an attempt not to sound full of himself Bill more or less refuses to give straightforward answers.