... but somebody really needs to slap Bill Simmons.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/blog/index?name=simmons&entryDate=20080220

I used to like his writing. I thought it had a certain grace to it...

But then I realized that he's just a mouth. An endlessly jabbering mouth, rattling off in some corner of the world where it's his job to say as much as possible about sports without bothering to relate to any facet of reality.