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I don't really enjoy Wesley Morris either, though. The dude is pretentious as ****. Trying to come up with some higher level reading of 40 Year Old Virgin is as lol as it gets.

I hate Wesley Morris -- as you said he is pretentious as ****. He seems to hate every enjoyable movie. Chris Connelly makes up for the other two. He brings up good points every time.

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02-13-2015 , 09:17 AM

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This aired already or are you guys taking about the clip grantland had up? Either way Wesley Morris is awful

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02-13-2015 , 12:02 PM

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Those are the only 4 words Greenberg's ever said that I've enjoyed.

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02-13-2015 , 07:48 PM

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Am I the only one who likes Wesley Morris? damn.

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02-13-2015 , 07:51 PM

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The NBA midseason report card is one of the worst things I've read on the site

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02-13-2015 , 08:26 PM

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I am a Bill Simmons homer but this sports doppelgängers segment for the oscars is about as bad as it gets. It also bothers me when Bill crowbars his daughter's soccer games into every BS report.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prosp...doppelgangers/

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02-13-2015 , 09:45 PM

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DP actually smacked him in the face with his dick in his response to be fair

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02-13-2015 , 11:05 PM

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The NBA midseason report card is one of the worst things I've read on the site

Amazing that Simmons is doing Oscars stuff and leaving this kind of thing to peons.

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02-13-2015 , 11:58 PM

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another simmons complaint: He dropped part one of the NBA Trade Value Rankings three weeks ago, and part 2 still isn't up yet.

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02-14-2015 , 01:32 AM

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They did the trade values on the grantland basketball hour. I doubt he's finishing the column.

Latest podcast is him interviewing all Stars. I couldn't finish. He tells Lowry he loved ZBo. "You loved ZBo." Lowry agrees because that's what people do when directed. But then he's like "oh I never played with him." Simmons: "ohhhh that's right."

Then he pulled similar stuff with Boogie and I had to shut it down.

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02-14-2015 , 08:26 AM

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Latest podcast is him interviewing all Stars. I couldn't finish. He tells Lowry he loved ZBo. "You loved ZBo." Lowry agrees because that's what people do when directed. But then he's like "oh I never played with him." Simmons: "ohhhh that's right."

Looool. Between this and heat check actors Simmons is a terrible caricature of himself.

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02-14-2015 , 08:36 AM

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The guy is coasting on his reputation -- he no longer has to grind out articles like he did in the past. He is putting in a half-assed effort but he is doing things he enjoys. It sucks as a viewer/reader but it seems to be working out for him.

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02-14-2015 , 08:38 AM

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kc is right, but i had to finish the pod just b/c im a huge steph slappy

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02-14-2015 , 10:31 AM

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They did the trade values on the grantland basketball hour. I doubt he's finishing the column.

he specifically said it'd be out the week after the super bowl. he harps on what a tradition he is so imo he's definitely finishing it. pretty bad look tho

also i never watch the basketball hour live but i like the podcast. that still hasn't been put up

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02-15-2015 , 11:55 AM

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Billy is more than free to do whatever he pleases, whenever he pleases.

So of course he will preface part two with three paragraphs of excuses that will include 1) a special exception for this season because this season is the most-est unpredictablest talentedest fluke season OF ALL TIME! and 2) some dickless and unnecessary excuse-making that will possibly detail a typical and predictable family obligation, most likely include some (again, predictable) travel and hotel inconveniences, and definitely chronicle some vague medical malady that is commonly known by grown men as "being a pussy."

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02-15-2015 , 12:46 PM

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Plus more time for him to read body language

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02-15-2015 , 01:10 PM

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I still say he doesn't bother finishing it.

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02-15-2015 , 03:42 PM

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Simmons saying the older he gets the more he realizes there is luck in sports, and then as an example used his daughters' soccer game where a shot went off the goal post where this realization happened was A+

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02-15-2015 , 04:57 PM

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I seldom read Simmons anymore...wasn't the same after the Sox won in '04. His bitterness was his edge.

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02-15-2015 , 08:32 PM

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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.

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02-16-2015 , 02:41 AM

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I seldom read Simmons anymore...wasn't the same after the Sox won in '04. His bitterness was his edge.

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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.

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02-16-2015 , 11:00 AM

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You almost feel that way?

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02-16-2015 , 12:31 PM

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You almost feel that way?

Give him time. He's not quite there yet.

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02-18-2015 , 05:15 PM

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I seldom read Simmons anymore...wasn't the same after the Sox won in '04. His bitterness was his edge.

For me it's that Bill was the gateway drug to a lot of people who did a much better job of being Bill Simmons than Bill Simmons and once you got your firist 6 month dose of Simmons, it was never going to be any better, and was never going to be as good as the people who came up after him. To me, dude was never bad, but novelty was a ton of his appeal.

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02-18-2015 , 05:22 PM

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Simmons' writing was consistently funny for like eight to ten years. Or, to perhaps be more accurate, what was published under Simmons' name was consistently funny for like eight to ten years.

That's not a novelty.

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