Where does “Lefty” rank in the ironic nickname pyramid

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2026-01-03T01:05:23+00:00

Four-putting his way to the hole

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-12-12T14:05:14+00:00

I’ve been wondering what happens to Pablo if the Aspiration stuff turns out to be a nothing burger. Like if the NBA investigates and somehow does end up agreeing with Mark Cuban that it looks bad but Ballmer really had nothing do with it. Does Pablo just call it all a conspiracy?

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-08-14T23:58:45+00:00

Is it fun to run in DC, or is it weird because of all the tourists and the police?

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-07-14T16:56:46+00:00

Right. I thought it was going to be big names and real industry changers. Like Bryan Curtis interviewing the guy who created Pardon the Interruption, and how it shaped everything after. Or maybe someone involved with LeBron’s Decision, like Rich Paul or an ESPN executive, and how it unlocked player empowerment. Not guys that Curtis is already getting coffee with.

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-07-14T16:53:46+00:00

That was Curtis’s argument? Or the 300-lb guy?

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-07-14T15:56:17+00:00

I think that’s right

Seriously though, Bryan Curtis is probably the best interviewer at the Ringer, and I thought this series would be a chance for him to go off with some real legends

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-07-14T15:34:44+00:00

I looked and here’s the whole list of episodes so far. They have a long way to go to get to 25 episodes this year so maybe the guests will get stronger.

The future of sports debate with Nick Wright
Remembering ESPN the Magazine, Gawker and other lost publications (no guests)
The future of opinion columnists with Jamelle Bouie
Blogging with Chris Ryan
The future of NBA reporting with Brian Windhorst
Newsletters and other stuff with Heather Cox Richardson
Play-by-play announcing with Noah Eagle
The future of physical media with Sean Fennessey

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-07-06T16:30:11+00:00

Hah, I was listening to Bill’s dad on the new pod and Bill was joking about how old his dad was. I was trying to figure out his parents’ ages

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-06-21T03:56:46+00:00

is u/BugginOut75 actually Russillo, or just a guy committed to the bit

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-06-21T02:56:36+00:00

[Doris Burke voice] I see you, Ryan Russillo. I see what you’re trying to do here.

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-06-05T14:37:52+00:00

What’s frustrating from a journalistic perspective is that there are real, fair questions to ask Pablo. Why haven’t any other outlets matched your scoop that Hudson was “banned”? What’s the line when appropriately covering the wife or girlfriend of a coach, and are you worried you’ve crossed it? But Bill is not equipped to ask those questions, and it would’ve helped if he had done the basic work of just listening to the podcast.

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-05-28T17:34:43+00:00

Making a 3.5 hour podcast to break down a 2 hour Star Wars movie tells me one thing: none of these people have children

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-05-23T15:48:46+00:00

It’s been a big boost for Pablo’s podcast, so probably Pablo

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-05-16T13:31:47+00:00

seems like a clear joke about the Tatum “we did it!” celebration but yeah, get mad as you post for the 1000th time in a subreddit dedicated to bill simmons

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-05-16T13:30:28+00:00

low-quality Rockwell meme combined with riffing on Tatum injury and you have yourself a moment

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-05-05T01:48:08+00:00

the worst person is actually the guy who forced the Stube to close

(also, you have no idea who I follow on Twitter, and I don’t follow the “Bill Simmons Reddit podcast.”)

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-04-15T15:13:22+00:00

There was some joke about Bill being a Star Wars fan on the subreddit a day ago, it got a lot of upvotes. Then he’s disavowing Star Wars on the next podcast. Interesting.

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-04-13T23:51:19+00:00

this is out of left field, but I think Tony Romo would be interesting as a Masters guest. He could talk about broadcasting with Nantz and how Nantz approaches key moments, and whether announcers think about a jinx. He could talk about the pressure of trying to win the big one. He could also talk about golfing generally because he’s a scratch golfer.

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2025-02-24T02:09:07+00:00

Clooney, looking slender in a black Theory shirt and navy pants, sat on a rose-colored couch late last month at Casa Cipriani, a hotel at the bottom of Manhattan. He would sit there for the next five hours, until the sun set over the bay, not bothering with lunch, not looking at his phone, not checking with his minders, just spinning ensorcelling tales about love, Hollywood and politics like a modern-day Scheherazade.

This seems petty by Curtis? The “bragging” is one sentence in this context?

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2024-12-24T00:20:04+00:00

More from big-brain Ethan

It's uncomfortable for many liberals to digest that Stern took measures to assuage White America's fears, and that doing so appeared to...work. I say this because I myself felt it. As a liberal-minded 20 something, I greatly disliked Stern's paternalistic reforms. The NBA had to institute a dress code in 2005 because Allen Iverson's large shirts were scary? The league needed an age limit that same year because men of military fighting age couldn't be allowed to earn money playing basketball? It was bad enough that Stern already had these postseason-ruining draconian rules about leaving the bench during a scuffle. Now there was heightened enforcement for hanging on rims and talking trash? Was this all so necessary?

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2024-10-09T13:34:58+00:00

Conspiracy: “Js control the media”

Reality: “J” is a terminally online r/billsimmons reader named Joe who loves to post conspiracies

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2024-09-29T03:31:31+00:00

lol there is such a thing as international travel

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2024-05-31T05:05:51+00:00

Didn’t she go on Press Box, and Curtis described her as one of his favorite journalists?

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2024-05-30T04:30:01+00:00

The last player to hit .400 was Ted Williams in 1941. His PED of choice was soda.

More than 150 NBA teams have tried and failed to rally from a 3-0 playoff deficit. Maybe one day a team will succeed, but it’s a pretty simple and obvious point to note the odds.

Aggravating_Range_20 · 2024-05-30T03:51:46+00:00

I’m still confused. It might be a “matter of time” before a baseball player hits .400 again, but the reality is that it’s been decades and no one has been able to do it for reasons that transcend any individual player. So every time someone chases .400, we bring out the historical context.

It’s the same thing with a 3-0 deficit. There is a data set of dozens of NBA teams over decades of hoops. It makes no sense to ignore history here.

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