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ESPN's Bill Simmons suspended for being truthful

ESPN columnist Bill Simmons got into trouble for some critical tweets he made regarding the ESPN show First Take and its back-and-forth between the always-wrong commentator Skip Bayless and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman.

At one point in the back-and-forth, Sherman told Bayless, "I'm better at life than you."

Simmons responded to the segment by tweeting the following messages:

"It's amazing to me that people get so worked up about First Take. Who cares? Just don't watch it. There are like 800 TV channels."

and

"I am not defending this segment - youtu.be/j6x-O3kb1sI - I thought it was awful and embarrassing to everyone involved. Seriously."

and

"But what bothers me about the reaction to that segment is people saying Richard Sherman 'won.' Nobody won. Everyone lost. Including ESPN."

I'm sorry, ESPN, but Simmons is right. That show is awful, especially the before-mentioned segment. Unfortunately, ESPN, when it's not airing live games, has become just like cable "news" channels, where they spend more time letting commentators shout back-and-forth at the top of their lungs what their opinions are than just reporting the news. Thank dear sweet baby Jesus that March Madness is about underway and ESPN will be forced to showcase college basketball games with more regularity than people yelling about these games. If I wanted to hear that, I... Nevermind, I'd never want to hear that...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/bill-simmons-suspended-twitter-first-take_n_2880226.html

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