Bill Simmons Ripped Me Off
Written by slanch   
Tuesday, 02 June 2009 13:59
Notice this passage from Bill Simmons' latest article in ESPN the Magazine, or as I like to call it, "That thing I get in the mail and throw out without opening."
We reached the "ending badly" point with David Ortiz five weeks ago. Remember inSuperman II when Clark Kent gave up his superpowers so he could be with Lois Lane -- lesson No. 184 on how women ruin everything -- and then a bully beat the crap out of the suddenly mortal superhero in a diner? That's been Big Papi since Opening Day.
And then there is THIS, from my piece last week about Big Papi:
And yet, despite all this, despite Ortiz' struggles the fans of Boston have embraced him still. Sure a smattering of boos followed him after some of his many strikeouts, but those reactions are out of love, the fans have looked to Papi for so long as indestructible, you knew when he came up that he'd come through for the team. For all of us, it's like inSuperman 2 when Clark Kent gets beaten up in the diner and starts bleeding from a cut for the first time. How could this happen to him, he's Superman, how could it come to this, David Ortiz struggling to even get a hit?

I can't believe Simmons is reading my stuff, and then STEALING it. How else could we BOTH have used the same Superman 2 reference, albeit, slightly different? I refuse to believe that anyone else, prior to me writing my bit thought to compare Superman 2 and Ortiz.

Therefore, ESPN, I'm ready for an apology/job offer. After all, unlike Rick Reilly I work every day and I don't write stories that are 3 months too late.



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