SG refutes rumors

[vtbub]

One other thing: Some readers are convinced that this site will fall under the ESPN Insider umbrella at some point. That's simply not happening. You will NEVER have to pay for a new column. If I wanted to charge people for columns, it would have happened three summers ago. The whole concept makes me uncomfortable. Let's say I have a bad week, and people are reading me and thinking, "Wait a second, I'm paying for this?" I can't imagine anything worse. Short of seeing another giant caricture of myself where I look like Damien Omen.


---Bill Simmons

[Franklinnoble]

Rock on. Bill Simmons rules.

[Chubby]

That he does!

[DeToxRox]

I bet he was wearing a Sex Pistols shirt as he wrote that

[Maple Leafs]

Let's say I have a bad week, and people are reading me and thinking, "Wait a second, I'm paying for this?" Apparently it's OK as long as the "people" are just his editors.

[korme]

bill simmons is my idol.

[Ksyrup]

Either he's got some leverage that Rob Neyer didn't, or he's got bigger balls than Neyer.

[Franklinnoble]

Either he's got some leverage that Rob Neyer didn't, or he's got bigger balls than Neyer.
Probably both.

Simmons is probably the most widely-read columnist on espn.com by far, and that gives him a ton of leverage. He could very easily take his gig elsewhere or go solo if he wanted to.