http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060607

I know that his "over the top" style is old news, but he can get me to shake my head sometimes.

Some random ex-Red Sox happen to play a game against each other on 6/6/6. "Could it have happened on any other date?" Probably, Bill. You'd have to check with the guys who make the schedules.

And comparing a player leaving a team to getting a divorce? This guy either takes marriage too lightly or sports too seriously.


Not that I am reallycomplaining. You know what you get with Simmons these days--and it's mostly good for a couple laughs, a decent insight or two, and lots of the overblown pomposity common to those unfortunate writers who are good, but not quite as good as they thinks they are.

His schtick got old when the Red Sox and Patriots started winning world titles. Now he has to invent things to cry about.

I still enjoy him. I'm sad he seems to have reduced his workload to 2 "things" a week. He seemed strangely grumpy about it in a chat session I saw. It seemed like (and this is me reading way between the lines) that he was grumpy with ESPN over money or something. Simmons has his warts, but I find him more entertaining that almost any other sports writer there. There are just so few that make me laugh.

I still enjoy him. I'm sad he seems to have reduced his workload to 2 "things" a week. He seemed strangely grumpy about it in a chat session I saw.
I think he's upset that he didn't get that congressional medal of honor for doing a couple of three hour chat sessions. He made it out like it was some monstrous feat of endurance. What? You sat in front of a computer and types for three hours. You do realize most of your readers do that eight+ hours a day, every day, right?

By the way, if you're not reading him already, bookmark King Kaufman at Salon. He's a smarter, less-funny version of Simmons.

I actually agree with his thing regarding Pedro - the fact that the Red Sox paid to keep The Mouth Of the South over him is just, sad - as did the fact that they offered him less than Schilling. If you're giving Matt Clement and David Wells $52 milllion - well, that money is better spent on Pedro.

I like Chuck Klosterman's articles much more than Sports Guy's, I wish he wrote for ESPN more than once a month. Sports Guy is still the best read on ESPN.com otherwise though, even if he has slipped a lot in the last couple years.

he runs hot and cold. his last 12 questions article about the nba playoffs was fantastic, but i had to struggle to get through that article. im not a big fan of watching fans get overly emotional about things nobody else cares about