I’d rather have a vasectomy with no anesthesia than listen to Simmons talk about the NFL Patriots (except for that hour and a half long “There’s No Way the Pats Can Lose to the Giants” podcast he had with Aaron Schatz before Super Bowl XLII).

God, I remember in college when I read Bill Simmons obsessively. He was never an incredible writer, but it is AMAZING how absolutely insufferable he became as he got full of his own shit. I can still go back and enjoy shit like the Levels of Losing and the Rules for Sports fans. As half-baked and as sophomoric as a…