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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Sim Bit Double Play!
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Sim Bit Double Play! I'm starting to warm to the idea of doing these two at a time, especially when they're short. There's so goddamn many of them that I can easily afford to; and I've given up on numbering them, because it's a stupid gag. More white and uptight than, say, any dry county in Utah? Moreso than Amish Country? How about, I don't know, Boston? Leaving aside the white part, how about all. Page ...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Debunking the Debunking: Finishing Up Myth #3
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Debunking the Debunking: Finishing Up Myth #3. I’m still not done with Myth #3. Let’s go back to the quote about playoff production:. 8220;Hmmmmmmm. Russell’s numbers jumped and Wilt’s numbers dipped dramatically when there was money on the line, even though Wilt was routinely his team’s number one scoring option and Russ was number four or five.”. Not so great.”. So why did we do this? The implication her...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Wilt versus Russell, Part Three: Never Define, Never Explain
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Saturday, May 7, 2011. Wilt versus Russell, Part Three: Never Define, Never Explain. Remember folks – Simmons’ claim is that Boston was “slightly” more talented than Philadelphia in 1960. So how does this explain Boston’s utter domination of the regular season? The Celtics won their average game by more than four baskets. Wouldn’t “slightly better” be more like 3 or 4 in the win column? No explanation is given as to why this was the w...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Sim Bit #19: Bill Simmons, Condescending Prick, vol. 1
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Monday, January 28, 2013. Sim Bit #19: Bill Simmons, Condescending Prick, vol. 1. This Sim Bit may be even more insignificant than usual, but it just pissed me off enough that I couldn't let it pass without comment. From page 51, referring to the 2007-08 Celtics:. Bench guys pulled for starters like they were the whitest, dorkiest tenth-graders.". Ha ha ha, we white people are so dorky and stupid! Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo,.
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Sim Bit #3 and #3.1
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Sim Bit #3 and #3.1. A Sim-Bits double header! P 331 - "I'd rather have the [Dennis] Rodman from '87 to '91…and '96 to '98.". Ummm, by that logic, I'd rather have the 68-74 Ford Mustang and the 94-98. I mean, if your argument is that you'd rather have "A" Dennis Rodman, shouldn't you narrow it down more than this? Shit, my favorite team was when Tim Duncan played for the Spurs. Okay, let's check:. Well, Mill...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: How to Build a Pyramid
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Friday, April 29, 2011. How to Build a Pyramid. Let's kick this thing off with Bill Simmons' idea for the Basketball Hall of Fame – the Pyramid, he calls it. The ninety-six greatest basketball players of all time, arranged into five tiers: Levels One through Four, then the Pantheon - the best of the best - at the very top. Does ninety-six players sound like a good number? At ninety-six. What sense does that make? Staying in the hypoth...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Bill Simmons on the Baseball Hall of Fame*
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Saturday, January 12, 2013. Bill Simmons on the Baseball Hall of Fame*. From the year 2007. He's too lazy to be bothered about it now. Instead, he dredged up something he wrote six years ago that's kind of relevant now. In his own words:. Here's a column I wrote about the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 2007 for. Here's a column I wrote for. Sports Guy Time Machine: Baseball HOF Revisited. I'll try to keep TBOB out of this, but when ...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Off-Topic: The 2011 NBA Finals
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Off-Topic: The 2011 NBA Finals. I won't do this a whole lot - but since I have more than a passing interest in basketball, I thought I should share my ha'penny's worth on The Finals which starts this evening (as if you didn't know). Let me start with Miami. Is anyone going to give Erik Spoelstra credit? And now, a few words on the Western Conference champions. 2) Why root against Miami? 3) Dirk Nowitzki. Unl...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: Wilt versus Russell, Part Seven: Myth Upheld as Fact
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Saturday, May 14, 2011. Wilt versus Russell, Part Seven: Myth Upheld as Fact. I've been hammering away at this for quite some time now. It's time to break down the rest of TBOB, chapter two. So allow me dispose of Simmons’ myth-busting in condensed style:. Wilt’s teammates made the All-Star team 14 times; Russell’s, 19 times. One of Wilt’s teammates made the All-NBA First team; Russell, eight teammates. Bill's got a crusher. Bill Simm...
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book: How To Undermine Your Own Point (part one), by Bill Simmons
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Bill Simmons' Bogus Book. Wherein I break down Bill's 700-page column. Thursday, January 31, 2013. How To Undermine Your Own Point (part one), by Bill Simmons. Page 157 of The Book of Basketball. Is the first page of a chapter called "The What-If Game." This book is 701 pages long; couldn't it have survived without sixty pages of pure conjecture? It's not like TBOB was so weighed down with dispassionate analysis to necessitate a chapter like this. This draft was so complicated. Good, go lose it."? As usu...