Bill Simmons, ripping sports media in general:
Worst debate coming out of the game: Will Bill Self stay at Kansas or "sell out" and jump to Oklahoma State to become the highest-paid college coach? There's nothing funnier than when sports columnists and radio hosts -- for the most part, a group of people who will appear on any conceivable show no matter how terrible it is, as long as they're getting paid at least $50, and by the way, if you want them to spend three months ghostwriting someone's forgettable biography, they're available for that, too -- complain someone else is selling out. Give it a rest. I guarantee that if you offered any sports media member three times as much money to work somewhere else, 99.99999999 percent of the time, they'd take it. They would. So please, shut the hell up and spare us the "selling out" stories.Seriously. Meanwhile, Mike and Mike this morning devoted more than an hour to... drunken and hostile fan behavior! Compared with the guys down the dial, who generally celebrate such things. Posted by Stephen Silver at April 9, 2008 03:29 PM