The quote from Friday: TITANS (-2.5) over Jets Confession time: I helped with the planning of "The Fantasy Show," ESPN's new weekly fantasy football show (Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.). There were numerous meetings and conference calls, multiple memos, even a couple of points where I flew off the handle because I wasn't getting my way. All in all, it was a weird/frustrating process and I'm not sure I liked it. But we ended up with a solid cast: The eternally youthful Rob Stone, the always great Ron Jaworski, and Internet cult hero Matthew "The Talented Mr. Roto" Berry, and if that's not enough, we have Danni from "Survivor" lurking as a more elaborate, infinitely more attractive version of Stat Boy on "PTI." And it's a real fantasy show -- not one of those pseudo-shows where the dopes tell you that it's a good idea to start LaDainian Tomlinson this week. You will get something from this show every week. I promise. Why am I mentioning this? Because I was ready to plug the show in this space until Berry -- who's the key to everything, much like Stu Feiner was the key to the old "Sports Advisors" shows back in the mid-'90s -- recommended Chad Pennington as one of his Week 1 fantasy sleepers this week. Now I'm going to hold off on plugging the show until Berry's drug test comes back. The link to the whole thing.
Bill Simmons is a Red-Sox ass kissing motherfucker. I wish they would just rename ESPN.com what it really is: RedSox2.com (With Simmons, Caple, and Stark)
"Why am I mentioning this? Because I was ready to plug the show in this space until Berry -- who's the key to everything, much like Stu Feiner was the key to the old "Sports Advisors" shows back in the mid-'90s -- recommended Chad Pennington as one of his Week 1 fantasy sleepers this week. Now I'm going to hold off on plugging the show until Berry's drug test comes back." He should've listened to Berry.
Yeah, people forgot pretty quickly how about 2 months ago 80% of this site thought that Pennington was done and as recently as last week most fans were certain that this was Chad's last year with the Jets before Clemens took over.
Hehe. . . but Simmons still cracks me up now and then. His recent Raiders stuff was gold - GOLD, I tell ya.
yup, saw that and it was funny...the guy is definatly entertaining, whether you wanna drink that david ortiz/tom brady ball sweat lemonade with him or not ats_suck:
I have to agree. I read his columns every week. I could care less about his affiliations to Boston sport, he is entertaining and fun to read. Way more so then a nit like Lupica.
Exactly he wears his fanship on his arm, and though I dislike anything boston its hard not like Billy S....he's wrong and readily admits it...
He can be entertaining but I wish he would be more objective and not kiss Larry Bird's Belichick's and David Ortiz' asses every week. And he also said he was looking forward to seeing the end of the season when the Jet fans were wearing paper bags over our heads at the games. We'll see Wet Willie Simmons. We will see.
