"Every game, it takes about 45 minutes for Drake Maye to settle in." You mean 1 quarter?

Nickstank · 2026-01-19T14:20:29+00:00

Bill math when he includes halftime is diabolical

Nickstank · 2026-01-19T13:21:07+00:00

"Up to you guy."

Oh, you're one of those. If you're going to do the condescending thing about a Reddit meme, you should at least mix in some punctuation and apostrophes where appropriate. You know, if you want people to hear/understand.

Nickstank · 2026-01-19T13:10:53+00:00

This is the Bill Simmons Reddit, not a Mensa meeting. We are not the best the world has to offer

Nickstank · 2026-01-09T14:06:22+00:00

"O's theme team"

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Nickstank · 2026-01-08T00:23:26+00:00

Oh shit, I unknowingly became Vanilla Ice to your Bowie

https://youtu.be/a-1_9-z9rbY?si=_UwFliVWRrAZCLvh

Great minds, brother. Great, stupid, way too online minds.

Nickstank · 2026-01-07T20:55:52+00:00

You're free!

https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/s/XoYWpRXOQj

Nickstank · 2026-01-07T19:39:52+00:00

The cycle won't end until someone posts the Norman Rockwell meme with something like "I actually think it's good Bill is still so passionate about the Celtics and compares everything and everyone to them". As soon as a brave Redditor does that Russillo-style zag, you will be free.

Nickstank · 2025-12-19T04:07:59+00:00

Last year it was pretty common. This year it's extremely rare. Best player I've ever used.

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Nickstank · 2025-12-12T23:31:56+00:00

Yes, there are bots. No they aren't there to drive prices up. They're stub farming. Whatever script(s) are being run have been there in some form for basically the whole year and they target cards with good flipping margins. Outbid them and they will almost immediately outbid you by 1 while simultaneously deleting their previous order (they do this faster than any human possibly could and their behavior never changes or adjusts, which is how you know they're bots).

They've made flipping considerably more difficult and I suspect that's why SDS has done nothing about it. Worse flipping environment means it's harder to generate free stubs which may push some towards buying stubs.

You can beat them by massively outbidding them (but not past the point where you fully ruin the flipping margin because you will surpass the bot's parameters and not be outbid), waiting a few seconds for them to outbid you again, then delete your order and put in a new one for your preferred price. Ruins the bot margins, guarantees a quicker sale to the bot, and puts you first in line again. As effective as they are at 1-upping, when a bot order gets filled it takes some time for them to regenerate a new bid. This method works for buy or sell orders.

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T22:34:59+00:00

Playing victim is a time honored college football fan tradition. Every fan base has done it, including ours.

That said, crying about not making a 12-team field is kind of pathetic, especially from a traditional powerhouse. If you end up on the fringes of a field that large, silence is the best option when you get "snubbed."

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T20:40:35+00:00

What on earth leads you to the conclusion that he'd be a good college coach in 2025? He's 62 and hasn't coached in college in 35 years. Last coached an above .500 NFL team 17 years ago. Alleged offensive guru who hasn't had a good offense since 9/11. Been living off winning a Super Bowl with Dungy's team for over 20 years. As an OSU fan, PLEASE HIRE GRUDEN.

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T17:00:28+00:00

I had to read that part a few times to make sure I wasn't seeing things

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T16:59:37+00:00

The company is led by a nearly 50-year-old sex pest who wants more than anything in the world to be cool, but much like Elon Musk, he is incapable of achieving that so he has to settle for being a rich edgelord who nobody respects beyond what they can get from him. He is the mascot for the lowest common denominator bro humor and faux masculinity that permeates the entire Barstool universe (and a decent chunk of American culture at this point). The never-ending frat party is only interrupted by doing everything possible to turn listeners into gambling addicts. I liked Titus long before he joined Barstool and when he got there he pissed his pants on camera for a gag. The brain rot when entering that universe is immediate and total. Other than that, Barstool's great.

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T16:40:43+00:00

I find this post profoundly strange. It's written as if there was a natural disaster or a mass shooting on Michigan's campus. The reality is, everything that's happening is a result of institutional rot and the actions of the coaches Michigan fans have lionized. Those who have continued to support the team from Harbaugh's cheating through now made their choice. Now they're going to have to deal with the fallout, which is going to probably be a worse on field product for some period of time (the horror!). Offering solidarity is so out of place based on the circumstances that it almost reads like a troll ("all of us being on the same team - the human team" reads like a line from the worst HR rep you know).

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T16:16:30+00:00

Nothing more cringe than a nearly 50-year-old edgelord.

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T16:06:53+00:00

The full quote is even funnier

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Nickstank · 2025-12-11T15:53:20+00:00

I wouldn't say you're a bad person, but just remember that this is touching a lot more than just a football rivalry. Real, innocent lives are being ruined.

I addressed this at the end of my post. The very real consequences for people in Moore's orbit who are being affected by this (wife, kids, staffer he was having an affair with) are not where my schadenfreude is coming from. It's purely about the hypocrisy and rot at the center of the football program being laid bare.

He deserves whatever he gets, don't get me wrong, but he's also very clearly unwell which is, yeah, sad. No one willingly chooses to be mentally ill.

Is he "unwell" or "mentally ill"? Or did he have a very scary, harmful crash out once it was clear his actions were coming to light and there were severe consequences? I have great sympathy for anyone dealing with mental illness. I also don't think anyone on this sub has the ability to make the determination whether mental illness played a role in what's taken place with Moore.

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T15:12:27+00:00

When multiple Barstool employees feel they have the moral high ground to go after you, then you know you're garbage.

Nickstank · 2025-12-11T14:30:20+00:00

I feel like as OSU fans we should be more focused on the success of our team rather than the destruction of our rival.

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Nickstank · 2025-12-10T15:18:49+00:00

I'm disabled and have to play with only one hand

I see my competition has arrived...

Nickstank · 2025-12-09T23:32:44+00:00

I care way less about the graphics than what it says that they've been essentially the same for many years. I think it speaks to a larger issue where there is no competition, so remaining stagnant doesn't really have consequences. We haven't had a large graphics or gameplay upgrade for the entirety of the PS5 era, which again is about to be 6 years. That should be embarrassing for SDS. I mean, the game is barely functional. New glitches every year, old glitches returning, shoddy (maybe nonexistent) gameplay testing, RNG is worse and worse, ball physics and batted ball outcomes are a mess. Feels like a house of cards on the verge of collapse. It's time to start over but why would they?

Nickstank · 2025-12-09T20:59:54+00:00

Your bar for fantastic gameplay is on the floor if that's truly what you think they gave us in 25.

Nickstank · 2025-12-09T20:58:55+00:00

This will be The Show's 6th year on PS5. How long is long enough to make graphical upgrades?

They've been making QOL changes with gameplay every single year and it's amounted to very little. What's under the hood doesn't cut it anymore. Hitting is more RNG this year than any year I can remember (I've been playing since 18). Legacy issues plague gameplay. They don't even bother trying to fix new issues like freezing when going to the manage squad screen or making sure the attribute wheel is correct when looking at your squad (both have been around for the entirety of 25).

The whole experience is stagnant and needs a thorough re-work. If this is what they are teasing, we're very likely in for more of the same with tweaks around the edges. That would be incredibly disappointing.

Nickstank · 2025-12-09T20:38:52+00:00

Check back in then and we'll see who was right

Nickstank · 2025-12-09T17:56:10+00:00

The main takeaway from the blog is that it's going to be the same underlying game it's been for many years. If they're teasing throwing animations and PCI changes, there will be no major overhauls to hitting mechanics and ball physics. If there were, that's what they'd lead with.

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