Comments on: Mike Lupica’s Body Count Continues

By: thesportshernia

thesportshernia — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:39:24 +0000

Late on this, but next time I see Lupica at a Yankees game, and I tend to see him, he’s getting a gigantic wedgie.

By: rabidwolverine

rabidwolverine — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:23:46 +0000

lol…I don’t read him. I used to read him. I’m not jealous of him…who cares? I just think it’s fascinating that someone so spectacularly untalented is given top-billing. When his column first appeared, it was fresh and amusing. But he’s still telling the same joke 4, 5, 6 years later. Time for some new material. Perhaps it’s just laziness. He knows most suckers like Farvicodin will still read even if the product is bad just based on blind loyalty and nostalgia.

By: ThrowinThreeQuarters

ThrowinThreeQuarters — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:09:03 +0000

Let’s give Simmons a break. His whole schitck was the “suffering average guy who could make funny jokes about his constant suffering”. It’s not his fault that all the teams he cheers for are powerhouses now, even if it does make him a little intolerable sometimes. I think this Boston success has been bad for his career.

By: cjzimm

cjzimm — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:24:28 +0000

“F*ck Lupica” – D. Jacobson

By: sjh42

sjh42 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:21:13 +0000

How does Lupica still have this much pull? What is he doing that another columnist couldn’t? Does he still draw readers?

By: T-web

T-web — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:15:38 +0000

Farvicodin: I think the hate for Simmons comes from the fact that so many people feel they could do exactly what he does. He’s not a reporter and he’s not a columnist in the traditional sense. He’s a sports fan who cracks a bunch of jokes, brags about his teams, and makes some good (and some bad) observations about the sports he likes. That sounds like what most sports bloggers & commenters do. Simmons, though, is making millions off of it while getting VIP trips to the Super Bowl, World Series, All-Star Game, etc. It’s a matter of jealousy.

I say good for him. While many of us feel, on some level, that we could do what he does and do it better, he had the balls to actually do it. He skip traditional newspapers and a 9 to 5 job and started the Boston Sports Guy Schtick in the 1990s, which led him directly to the charmed life he’s now living. I can’t hold that against him.

By: farvicodin

farvicodin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:34:22 +0000

Rabidwolverine and others: I never understand all the hating on Simmons… The guy continually writes funny, interesting, provocative columns and all he gets in respone is haters like you who have nothing to add. Give me a break, you don’t like him? Don’t freacking read him, people like you are so annoying.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:40:03 +0000

try reading a Sunday column from Lupica.

It’ll make you call Simmons and apologize for bashing him.

By: Dornoch

Dornoch — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:20:09 +0000

I don’t read Lupica. I could care less what he has to say. And while I am hardly a fan of Simmons it is completely assinine to say he hasn’t written anything entertaining in “years”. Gimme a break. Are you saying he used to be entertaining and then it just came to a sudden halt?

So you’ve been reading his un-entertaining articles for years? Lupica too? How else would you know? Do you eat food you hate, watch TV shows you don’t like and screw women who you find not attractive, with the rest of your day? If you don’t like Lupica or Simmons you should at least grow a pair big enough to stop reading them. It wouldn’t be that hard.

By: jgp3553

jgp3553 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:16:51 +0000

They can have reporters from all over the country,

Theoretically, but have you seen a journalist based in a “real” Southeast city ever on a program or write a column on their webpage? And Tim Cowlishaw and Dallas are not really the Southeast. They have jouralists who are originally from the South like Ivan Maisel and Chris Mortensen, but they have national beats and work for ESPN. I mean real journalists and writers from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, New Orleans Times Picayune, Memphis Commercial Appeal, any Florida papers (minus Miami, which isn’t really a “southeastern” city) and so on. I’ve never seen guys from those cities on shows like “Around the Horn,” but the show claims to cover the entire country.