Bill Simmons, also known as "The Sports Guy," writes a column for ESPN. He regularly blends his wide interest in sports with pop-culture references, and on the whole, I enjoy reading his stuff.
But every once in a while, he goes off the reservation and says something absurd - like his whole campaign to become the Milwaukee Bucks' new GM. It might have started out as a joke, but as he was reading that fifth or sixth email from a Bucks fan that supported his campaign, I think he actually started to think that he was qualified for the job.
It was at that point that reality stood in the way of his fantasy world. A world where you could get a job running a NBA franchise just by writing a NBA column and owning Clippers season tickets. Simmons seems to know a lot about basketball, but every once in a while he'll say something that tells me that he's never played the game at a competitive level.
For example, in the second part of his recent MVP column, he tal...
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