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Originally Posted by Gary Wise
I seldom read Simmons anymore...wasn't the same after the Sox won in '04. His bitterness was his edge.
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Originally Posted by Dudd
Bitterness + irreverence, he takes himself about a thousand times more seriously nowadays than he did back in the day. The throwaway running diaries and stuff were his bread and butter and are non-existent now.
Yeah, it's interesting to me as a Simmons lover that he's become richer and more famous as he's become much, much worse. A little bit of a chicken and the egg thing, i guess.
He used to be
hilarious. I feel like the last funny thing he wrote was the Go Cart showdown with Tony Potts. That was 8 years ago.
He's changed from suffering-sportsguy-Bill to Hollywood Bill. His awkward forcing of pop culture references into everything hasn't worked once in the last 5 years. I almost feel like the world has gone from laughing with him to laughing at him.