Why does deadspin hate bill simmons

I want them to lose at everything. House of Strauss Subscribe Sign in. About Archive Help Sign in. Share this post. Ethan Strauss. Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Create your profile. Only paid subscribers can comment on this post Subscribe. Already a paid subscriber? Log in. Beautiful Day. I know! You may have actually been reasonable people back then instead of whatever fucked-up, wealthy, cockfaced steakhouse bros you are now.

Only a handful of fan bases ever rooted for a truly great team. We were one of them. We still are. What a gift. YOU: Bill, this report says the Patriots have had some internal strife. You might remember me going 0—4 last weekend and getting killed like just about everyone else. Guess what?

Take THAT. Stay away from the Eagles game. Living proof that I was not the only crazy one. That, my friends, was vindication. The posters I spoke to all share my origin story: Young men with a digital fluency who grew up with Bill and have finally found a place where others share a complicated attachment to the once-and-future Sports Guy.

This might sound insane to anyone outside the cycle. But sports fandom, and particularly sports media consumption, is traditionally animated by a certain poison-drinking allegiance to loud, grating personalities. That is why ESPN and Fox have largely built its television product around careerist trolls , grumpy ex-columnists , or sour, litigious former players.

Magazine ended. After the internship, Leitch experienced professional setbacks as he applied for writing positions covering film and television, and he even tried to follow up on his dreams of becoming a film critic.

However, all of these fell through. What do you do after losing a job without a real clear path of what's next? You delude yourself into thinking that it won't be that bad, and that you can make ends meet by freelancing or doing some other creative endeavor. The reality is, not that many people, outside of your parents, are interested in what you create. When I quit my law firm job to become a professional sports blogger, I deluded myself into thinking I would achieve a huge following by merely recapping the games from the previous night.

What I didn't consider is why anyone would want to read my amateur recaps when they can get video highlights, box scores, play-by-play breakdowns from ESPN, Foxsports or any other website. It's after these delusions end, that you have to deal with the realities of being unemployed. This is where I'm currently at in my blogging career. After Simmons gave his two-weeks notice to the Herald, his plan was to support himself as a freelance writer.

He tried this for three months and was eventually broke and bartending. Simmons would bartend for a year, while continuing to take on freelance writing jobs. Having had a terrible experience writing for newspapers, Simmons believed the Internet was the only real opportunity available to a self-described year-old wannabe sportswriter.

There already were a few columns on Digital City including a Movie Guy column, and Simmons badgered the editors of Digital City into giving him a sports column.

Simmons succeeded, and he now had his own "Sports Guy" column. But the column did not mean success for Simmons. Leitch would also turn to new media.

Unable to find the right position in Los Angeles, Leitch moved to St. Louis where he wrote for the Sporting News online edition. Leitch was relatively happy at the Sporting News, but he experienced big-fish-in-small-pond syndrome and left to take a job in New York writing for the New York Times Arts and Living section.

Leitch only stayed at the Times for four months, when he decided to throw his hat back into new media, writing for Ironminds, an online magazine. Leitch was unemployed for about a year with a delusion that a job would be handed to him. None ever came. In this time, Leitch had to deal with the reality of bills, rent and no income.

Leitch took on some freelance work, but most jobs fell through.