Bill Simmons references Pearl Jam, again haha

jets521
jets521 Posts: 804
edited September 2010 in The Porch
From his latest column discussing the NFC west at the Seattle Seahawks:
Seahawks (1-1): Won nine games total in 2008 and 2009, overpaid a college coach, gutted their team and somehow ended up with the league's fifth-highest payroll ($138.8 million ). Throw in a general Washington sports malaise -- the Mariners might lose 100 games, the Zombie Sonics look like a title contender, Kevin Durant flashed GOAT potential in Turkey, the Jake Locker Heisman Bandwagon careened off I-5 and flipped 35 times, and the state's two biggest sports highlights of the past three years involved the WNBA and MLS -- and it's hard to imagine the Hawks winning more than six games.

You can't overstate how devastating the Sonics/Durant double whammy has been for Seattle fans. After my gushing Durant column last week, my former editor KJ, a lifelong Sonics die-hard, sent me an e-mail that simply read, "Cue up Eddie Vedder: 'I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why can't it be mine?'" Any time sports drives a fan to quote "Black," the single most depressing song by a Seattle band other than "Black Hole Sun," you know something truly hideous has happened.
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  • LukinFan
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    who's bill simmons?
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  • jets521
    jets521 Posts: 804
    LukinFan wrote:
    who's bill simmons?

    A well known columnist for ESPN.com
    Since joining ESPN in 2001, in addition to writing for ESPN.com, he has also hosts his own podcast on ESPN.com titled The B.S. Report, appeared as a special contributor on the television series E:60, and serves as an executive producer of ESPN's documentary project, 30 for 30. He also has written two best-selling books and worked as a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Simmons is known for his style of writing which is characterized by mixing sports knowledge and analysis, clever prose, pop culture references, his non-sports-related personal life, and for being written from the viewpoint of a passionate sports fan.
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    Tweeter Center, Camden - 5/27/06
    Verizon Center, Wash. DC - 5/30/06
    Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN - 6/14/08
    Madison Square Garden, NYC - 6/19/08
    Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/28/09
    Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/30/09
    Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/31/09
    Madison Square Garden, NYC - 5/21/10
    Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia - 10/21/13
    1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore - 10/27/13
    Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia - 4/28/16
    Enterprise Center, Saint Louis - 9/18/22
  • Yes Way
    Yes Way Posts: 453
    LukinFan wrote:
    who's bill simmons?

    Just so you know, Bill Simmons is hilarious. And to understand his reach, go to one of his columns with a video link, follow that link, and look at the comments below. You'll start to get it. Plus, 30 for 30 on ESPN was his idea. They guy is good.
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  • Dru_Cortez
    Dru_Cortez Posts: 953
    What about
    "Down in a Hole"?
    That's gotta be 1 of the
    saddest Seattle songs
    ever.

    I love the lyric he quoted, but really-
    "Black" as a reference to sports fan(atic)s?
    Isn't that like using Metallica for
    baby-making music?
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    Cheers.
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  • Citizen Zack
    Citizen Zack Posts: 1,763
    Bill Simmons is my favorite sports writer. Definitely check it out articles on ESPN.com if you're not familiar with him. He mixes in tons of pop culture references and is almost always really, really funny.

    And he's PJ fan: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060421
    "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." - Thoreau

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  • Vedderhead1
    Vedderhead1 Posts: 189
    Indeed Simmons is great, and there are many at ESPN who give PJ props on a regular basis... 8-)
  • OceanInDisguise13
    OceanInDisguise13 Posts: 937
    Citizen Zack wrote:
    Bill Simmons is my favorite sports writer. Definitely check it out articles on ESPN.com if you're not familiar with him. He mixes in tons of pop culture references and is almost always really, really funny.

    And he's PJ fan: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060421

    Whoa that's a pretty awesome article. Thanks for the link. Enjoyed reading it immensly!
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