All we need is a top 10 player of all time to beat this plucky 8 seed with multiple undrafted starters!
Jacobi made a joke about how Pop secretly hates that they won the Wemby sweepstakes, and said his wife is probably complaining that they’re not golfing in Florida or something. His wife has been dead for 5 years and I feel like that was pretty big NBA news when it happened
I did not know his wife died until I read this post Seems like the kind of thing you would edit out of a podcast if that's where it was said, though.
Perfect distillation of this thread: I hope this show ends so I can continue to hate listen to Bill Simmons and move on to new complaints about his next overused pop culture reference. Something about the self-hate in this thread is why I keep coming back. Easy to relate!
It's not that serious, man. I just don't watch Succession, so the 5-minute Succession/sports bits we get like once a week currently are lost on me.
I wasn’t implying anything was serious. Not a dig at you at all. I just marvel at how accurate this thread title is. We’re all guilty. We continue to post thru it because we’re all real ones.
i couldnt even guess at the last ringer pod i listened to but i still read this thread regularly captive by momentum
Behind jokes are nugget of truth. Bill was a rich kid asshole about the playoffs during trading places. Love to see it.
Typically it's him and Russillo on Sunday nights so maybe he'll wait until after the Sunday game If Miami goes up 3-0 it will be must-listen because he's been speaking the Heat into existence for like 2 months and it will be about how this is the worst matchup for Boston etc etc He will also continue to not believe that the Heat got Kevin Love for basically nothing
Eating dinner in Denver and this game was playing on a big screen. Great meal but ngl, it was kinda hard to enjoy eating with this raging erection.
I will be listening to the upcoming pod to laugh at him, but have to give a respect to him for being on the Mazzulla stuff before anyone and being the only person in America who thought the Heat could do anything. Somehow that kind of makes this whole thing funnier.
Bill is almost the personification of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. There’s an 80% chance “zombie heat” was a bad juju, reverse jinx attempt.
whoa whoa whoa, the only man in on the Mazzulla stuff early was the father of the body language doctor, the legend himself Mr Bill Simmons Sr
i'm like 99% sure he actually walked back the zombie heat thing (originally a michael schur!! concept) right around the start of the playoffs
i can't believe i gleefully hate-listened to some downer boston shit and these assholes still get in some damian lillard trade speculation
I'm only half way in or so and Russillo's inability to actually state an opinion or pick a side on anything is infuriating. He thinks he's so above hot takes or being reactionary that he ends up never saying anything of substance
It’s why I listen to Ryen. I don’t need 1st take in my life or an opinion on everything. I enjoy him just talking about it.
This thread has ruined my ability to listen to any podcast Russillo is on and not feel like I'm hearing someone's nails going across a chalk board every time he says "and everyone started saying _ and I was like...'" or whichever of the 10 versions of that phrasing he uses during every pod. Fuck you guys.
That was kind of a disappointing pod. Bill and Ryen were both pretty reasonable Ryen just completely ignoring Bill's Succession reference about Jack Nicholson's son was pretty funny
Are we really gonna do the impression thing where we pretend podcasters don't repeat themselves? Because look, I get it, I grind over the notes and sometimes you see it and you're like "wow...this guy says that a lot." But the same people doing the impressions would be repeating themselves just as much if they had to bang out a few pods a week, they just would, I'm sorry. Sometimes people will do the "thing" thing too much and you're just like 'wait what?' Anyways we got Life Advice coming up but first I catch up with Trent Dilfer, after this....
I did laugh audibly at the exchange that went something like this Bill: last year the Cs D was so good we were talking about them like the 04 pistons Ryen: you were talking about them like this
No one loves to straw man more than ryen. “People are saying you should build a team like the heat without superstars” no one is saying that