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Apologies in advance for stumbling into the business end of what we do -- after all, you want to read about sports, not about us writing about sports -- but the most exhausted trope in the history of the world is making another run around the track. Bill Simmons has been feuding with Nate Jones over Twitter (if you want to learn more, you can sift through their tweets).
Eventually, Simmons tweeted this:
BTW, I'd love to know how bloggers would react if ESPN hired a digital attack dog to go after all bloggers who wrote anything anti-ESPN.
Obviously I'm only answering for myself here. Is the criticism warranted? I've received enough of that before to appreciate its value. Is the criticism unwarranted? Whenever I've received criticism I felt was unwarranted, I've just defended myself in a civil manner and moved on. Years of stern criticism from readers and commenters have left my writer's ego in smoldering embers, enabling me to focus on other things and live a life without nasty Internet feuds. Ahh, the luxuries of the sometimes-wrong.
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If ESPN sent out dogs like that, there would not be a blogger remaining on the planet.
I call it... The Avaslug!
I am the 1st and probably only official member of the David "Dr." Jones fanclub.
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by UZ on Feb 27, 2010 5:46 PM EST reply actions
As a blogger who has written something critical of an ESPN “preview” of the Devils, I feel I am qualified enough to tell Mr. Simmons to grow a spine and do it himself.
I am also not at all concerned about what ESPN could do. The readers and users of the Internet aren’t dumb enough to be fooled by phony corporate haters.
Devils in my heart! Devils in my mind! Devils in my eyes! Devils until I die!
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by John Fischer on Feb 27, 2010 6:43 PM EST reply actions
I would also like to add that Bill may be in a bad mood because the Celtics lost to the New Jersey Nets in Boston.
Devils in my heart! Devils in my mind! Devils in my eyes! Devils until I die!
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by John Fischer on Feb 27, 2010 6:43 PM EST up reply actions
I would rather watch Olympic curling . . .
. . . than read Bill Simmons on Twitter.
I’ve written critically of ESPN, but not in any manner that involved an “attack.” If Simmons wants to offer reasonable constructive criticisms, I’ll listen to them. Given Simmons’s history, I’m not holding my breath, but I find it amusing that he thinks we’re worse than he is. Simmons is an ignorant pompous cheap-shot artist. I’d stake my sports writing against his any day of the week.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Feb 27, 2010 7:06 PM EST reply actions
What exactly is going on?
I still am not sure what is going on. I went to Nate Jones’ twitter feed and saw him yelling about Simmons. I go to Simmons’ twitter feed and see him talking about the digital attack dog, but I’m missing some kind of context for all this. What happened?
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by David Fucillo on Feb 28, 2010 12:04 AM EST reply actions
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