Bill Simmons Said What?

The Sports Guy wrote today:

First, it's going to be near-impossible to win a Game 7 in Cleveland with the way LeBron James feeds off a frenzied crowd that's in "Maybe if we shower him with love, he won't leave in two years mode" (like a high school junior who starts putting out because her boyfriend is leaving for college in a few months).

Boy, Disney (ESPN's parent) sure has come a long way from Mickey Mouse and innocent family fun!

Now he has a four year old daughter Zoe and has just given her, if she does her *homework*, the ultimate retort to a scolding father for when she's a teenager and gets caught sneaking out to see her older boyfriend.

SportsPrincess - But Dad, you once wrote that....

But in all seriousness, Simmons' making light of, well, what he referenced, has to be considered inappropriate and also unnecessary for that column.

Having just read his Wikipedia entry, apparently Bill Simmons has already had a handful of run-ins with ESPN management over *adult content* and such.

He ought to tread lightly here. If ESPN fires him, it's not exactly as if he can go elsewhere as ESPN is the only game in town now.

Remember those last couple of talking-head sports upstarts?

Max Kellerman?

And Jim Rome?



I'd say the career of Bill Simmons is an easy short.