Hey Spurs Fan?

Yeah, you got screwed. And now they’re going back to LA. I just have three things to say.

1) The fact the NBA referee does not call a consistent game is why they have such a strong conspiracy theory market. Stars don’t foul. You need blood in the 4th quarter to call a foul. Only a 28 power sweep will be called for travelling. If they were more consistent in their calls, stupid shit like this doesn’t happen.

2) Then again, reputation preceeds. And if a referee IS going to eat his whistle, a team with a reputation for hitting the decks at the slightest provocation is going to get jobbed. I know, Fisher mugged him, but do I need to get out a Spur flopping YouTube?

3) Ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha. THE NBA DOESN’T LOVE YOU LIKE THEY LOVE KOBE!

Enjoy the Summer,

The Grand National Championships.

Those of you who were here from the beginning know about Brandi Hawbaker

If you don’t? Here’s a cliffs notes. Reasonably attractive, but mentally disturbed poker player/con artist.

But to get you up to speed, she fell in with noted poker author David Skalansky and his Two Plus Two Forum. And when things were good? David was thrilled with the exploitative purproses for his website.

All that and worse, after the jump.

LET’S GET DIRTY! 

There is a tendency of bloggers to piggyback onto things that its easy to hate.

People that hate them? Sure. Things that now suck? All right. Rockin’ bewbs? Check.

Anyway… why are we here? Not just the rocking boobs. We are talking about Bill Simmons. Pre-Jimmy Kimmel, he was gold. Post-Jimmy Kimmel, he’s become a sort of a lefty one out guy of bloggers. The issue?

He still goes off on each and every subject like what he talks about is sancrosanct. And he is, after all the Boston sports guy. And we know how everybody loves Massholes. He got knocked off the throne. It happens.  

But he always has this core group of defenders who will vault to his aid every time his name gets sullied by anybody in the blogosphere. And as conspiracy theories go, there is one that says every ESPN intern must leap to defend Simmons aid whenever his name is sullied.

I didn’t believe it at first. After all, he does have a reigon of itnerant douchebags that love everything he does. And a lot of people don’t get tripped up by someone they kind of hate. He does not have a cabal of people who protect his rep.

Then Deadspin decided to run a home-field check on various media personalities. There were some surprises. Rachel Nichols is 78% loved? Well okay then. Brent Musberger is 62% loved? That will make my take team partner enraged when he hears that.

But as for Bill Simmons on Deadspin, which is to ESPN as a supermodel is to keeping cake down? 75% approved. This means this guy…

Is more beloved than…

And just a touch more liked than…

Yep. Bill Simmons is more regarded than Bob Costas. And as an ex-Costashead?

Upsets. George Mason to the Final Four, Eli over Brady, Obscurity over Couric, now Simmons over Costas. Time has taken its toll on the regard of William Jefferson “Bill” Simmons. Can Costas beat back the backlash and become the tiniest American hero? The answer lies ahead in what many are calling 2009′s biggest commentary match-up.

Yeah. Deadspin likes Bill Simmons over Costas. What the hell is that?