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[QUOTE="creatorsgam, post: 307535"]
I have only written one letter to the editor in my life, and that was in response to a Simmons column. Back in the summer of '04 or '05 I was working a night shift while home from college stocking shelves at a Tops grocery store. When I got home around 8 I was always irritable as I never got used to the night shift. In my fresh copy of "the Mag" that morning, I found a scathing attack on A-Rod, calling him a quitter on Texas. Of course this was sour grapes, at the time it seemed that he was incapable of writing a legitimate piece of "journalism" without several references to his love for the Red Sox, and he was clearly upset that the trade never went through. That said, I responded immediately and when I woke up that evening I had an email from ESPN letting me know that they we're using my letter in the next issue (happened to have that horse Smarty Jones on the cover). Anyway, the point of all this is that Simmons, although occasionally hilarious, is a self-absorbed tool, and his writing often stinks of "homerism."  If I cared about Boston sports, I would just buy the Globe. More often than not he cannot comprehend that he works for a national publication. Maybe that has changed, but at the age of 30 I find myself turning away from ESPN, little by little.
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