Archive for July 25th, 2007

Bill Simmons is writing a new book.  I couldn’t be more excited as his first book is one of my top five favorite books I’ve ever read.  The following is a random complation of things I read and wanted to comment on from his past articles that I haven’t mentioned yet. 

Bill Simmons in response to the Knicks/Denver brawl, when asked who the ‘toughest team’ in the league was responded with “That’s an interesting topic. I’d have to say the toughest team is probably Minny - KG by himself could win a bench-clearing brawl. And they have Ricky Davis, Eddie Griffin, Mike James, Troy Hudson.”77  Thanks for the love B.S., but seriously KG might have a passion for the game, but that passion doesn’t extend to fighting.  I remember a couple years back in the Nuggets series where there was a brawl and all K.G. did was keep backstepping so he didn’t get hit. 

Bill Simmons in regards to Jack (I personally know this guy) Morris and whether he deserved to be in the baseball hall.  I never knew about the quote B.S. brought up, now I love Jack Morris even more. 

JACK MORRIS: YES
I’d even vote Morris in as a Level Two Hall of Famer — see my Hall of Fame Pyramid for details — because his 10-inning, complete-game shutout in Game 7 of the ‘91 Series remains the most memorable big-game pitching performance of the pre-Schilling Bloody Sock Era. He also won 162 games in the ’80s, which speaks for itself. And remember, Morris once dismissed female sportswriters by saying, “The only time I want to talk to a woman when I’m naked is if I’m on top of them or they’re on top of me,” which might be one of the five or six funniest high-school yearbook quotes ever. Throw in that cool handlebar ’stache and he’s in. Discussing this one for more than 30 seconds actually makes me angry.

And then lastly, Bill Simmons recently wrote about the NBA referee scandal.  He pretty much nailed the issue and if you have time, this is the best article I’ve read in the past few weeks.  Here’s the link
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070722

Side Note 77: Speaking of black people, I was watching BET the other day, because they show episodes of the Wire on that channel and noticed something quite interesting.  During the one and a half hour show, they showed the same 5 commercials on loop during each commercial break.  Without making the ‘poor’ black person joke I don’t understand what happened. A) Is that how BET works? does every program have its own corresponding 5 commercials on loop. B) did the channel just malfunction during that time period or C) can I be refunded those 20+ minutes of my life because those commercials I watched were a Soul Train movie preview, a Lil Romeo TV show preview, a black saturday morning kids show preview, a Justin Timberlake movie preview (which doesn’t look half bad) and an HIV commercial.