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Bill Simmons

14 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 13, 2023 by Bill Simmons · across every show →

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Feb 13, 2023 negative
Opinion
Simmons: ESPN paid Rick Reilly more despite Simmons being more important
“They'd hired Rick Riley, and it was after they had signed me, and he made way more money than me, and I just couldn't believe it, because I was more important to them than he was.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 42:31 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023
Insight
Simmons: Sports journalists cannot be authentic without personal fandom
“I never understood why somebody would be covering sports if they didn't love sports, and if you love sports, you have to have a favorite something. You can't just be an atheist, a sports atheist, basically. You have to have a player you love, or a team, or wha…”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 27:06 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simmons: Early Newspaper Pitch Presaged Future Internet Column Formats
“I remember I spent two weeks. I pointed out this whole Sunday thing for the Sunday paper, this whole page that I wanted them to give me. And it was like, it had like a 600 work column. It had these lists. It looked a lot like kind of what the internet would lo…”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 14:18 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023
Insight
Simmons: Attributing career success to luck is a 'loser attitude'
“I think when people talk about luck, it almost feels like it's kind of like a loser attitude where it's like, oh, that was lucky. It's like, I don't feel like there's a lot of luck with this stuff. Opportunity can be luck, but you still have to like nail the o…”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 1:19:13 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simmons: Sports-driven talk shows have not worked on TV in 15 years
“Especially sports-driven talk shows, there's really no record of them working in the last 15 years.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 1:01:35 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Simmons: Yahoo tried to recruit him away from ESPN in 2007
“That I had, my contract was coming up the beginning of oh seven and Yahoo was trying to get me to jump over, which I didn't want to do.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 37:08 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Simmons: ESPN canceled scheduled 2008 Obama interview over political bias concerns
“ESPN squashed it, and they squashed it for reasons that... I didn't fully understand. ESPN was very worried about... Bias, or... Seeming like they were biased one way or the other, with Democrats, Republicans, whatever it was. And they were just like, well, yo…”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 42:04 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Insight
Simmons: Long-form interviews work better as podcasts than TV shows
“What I didn't count on was that it's just more fun to listen to a podcast. You can listen to it on your own time. You don't have to watch it.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 1:00:58 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023
Insight
Simmons: Column writing has a shelf life as readers tire of writers' voices
“People get tired of writer's voices. I'm going to run out of things to say at some point.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 36:52 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Opinion
Simmons: ESPN relationship was irreparable after unpaid suspension
“I think that thing that really got me was that I got suspended without pay for the first two weeks, and I already felt like I was underpaid for them, and I was killing it for them, and it was kind of irreparable after that.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 54:08 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Insight
Simmons: Creative Spitballing Cannot Happen Over Zoom
“The spitballing is what gets hurt. You can't do it on Zoom. You can't.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 1:16:22 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023
Insight
Simmons: Writers only retain audiences by being unpredictable and adding creative hooks
“I just want people to come back to read me, and the only way they're going to keep coming back is if I'm unpredictable. It can't just be like, here are my top 20 trades. It's like, what's the extra hook? What's the extra gimmick?”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 29:59 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023
Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2023
Simmons: Writing 10,000 to 11,000 words weekly at ESPN caused burnout
“I was writing 10, 11,000 words a week. And it was unsustainable. Like I really started to burn out and Jimmy came along.”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 31:12 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Opinion
Simmons: ESPN was much more political and sinister than Spotify
“I think ESPN was way more political and way more sinister. Spotify's not sinister, but it's also a big company that has a lot of opposing objectives”
Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 1:16:45 The Ringer: Bill Simmons
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