In merely mentioning Bill Simmons, I am inviting the internet to start yelling underneath my browser window. He has become a vector for whatever you want to say about the sports media, the regular media, podcasting, nepotism, labor relations, contemporary liberalism, navel-gazing, blogging, or Gen X white maleness. There have been thousands of words written about him on all of those topics. The last thing the world needs is another opinion about Bill Simmons; it’s all been said and it’s all painfully boring.
And yet here I am, throwing another blog on the fire, because something surprising — nay, shocking!