Simmons and ESPN part ways

Yup. Especially in the age of Bleacher Report Top 10 List Slideshows.

 

What exactly is (was) Grantland anyway?

 

Bill Simmons vanity project

 

Long form journalism. Usually very, very good.

 

Tmac is Simmons. Simmons is Tmac!

 

Deadspin -

"The four editors’ exits were coordinated, and Simmons, according to this source, told the editors who jumped ship with him that a condition of their employment was that they couldn’t warn anyone at ESPN they were leaving, in order to hit the site as hard as possible.

“He put his beef with [ESPN president John] Skipper above the jobs of dozens of people,” one Grantland staffer said."

Didn't realize Simmons sabotaged the site on the way out.

 

As long as you didn't accidentally read an article by Charles Pierce or Holly Anderson

 

Holly's writing about "Justified" was good, sports related, she's kinda meh, Didn't like Pierce that much.

I liked Simmons but honestly, Zach Lowe is why I kept coming back.

 

This. I don't think I read a single article on that site that wasn't written by Lowe.

 

Gee Simmons is a ****. Shocking

 

Yeah, I really have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who hitched themselves to his wagon.

 

At grantland, to a person, he is praised.

 

Deadspin has a ridiculous beef with Simmons.

 

Pierce was the worst.

 

I read deadspin and like some of it, but Clay Travis has them pegged, and that's true whether or not you hate Clay Travis.

 

What did Clay Travis say about them?

 

Yes, he was. Holly was alright when she wasn't trying to force stupid ass pop culture references in the middle of sports articles.

 

So, when was she alright?

 

When she was writing about shitty tv shows no one watched

 

She sucked.