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=== Tropes named by Bill Simmons: ===
* [[The Tyson Zone]]
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Yup, these are my readers." at the end of his mailbag columns, always in response to a series of letters that reveals how obsessive or bizzare his fans are.
** "I will now light myself on fire" when having to admit an unpleasant truth he doesn't like (e.g., admitting Kobe Bryant, star player for the Los Angeles Lakers and someone Simmons actively dislikes, was the [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060414&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines 2006 NBA MVP]). Exchange "light myself on fire" for any number of physically painful actions.
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** And with the launch of Grantland, even his ''internet columns'' have footnotes.
** [http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6855994/revenge Lampshade] [[Lampshade Hanging|hung]]
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* [[Game of Nerds]]: Kind of. He wrote about being introduced to new statistical analysis methods in baseball and basketball, but he doesn't fully accept the new concepts that challenge conventional wisdom. For example, he still thinks stats like RBI's and pitcher W-L record are meaningful.
** And back when she wrote her opinion, his wife the Sports Gal would call his husband and his buddies' fantasy league The League of Dorks for this and other reasons.
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* [[Southies]]: His old Boston buddies come across like this sometimes.
* [[The Trope Without a Title]]: The Oklahoma City Thunder, aka "The Team That Shall Not Be Named", as a service to the people of Seattle, who are still bitter about the Seattle Sonics being sold and moved out from under them.
** He eventually renamed them "[[
* [[Twitter]]: He attempted to use Twitter to organize up-to-the-minute taunting chants at Celtics games.
** [http://twitter.com/#!/CelticsChants/status/13870364675 Which] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJl-0TML4i4 worked.]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell NBA?]]: The Sports Guy has been less than thrilled at how the NBA lockout is taken care of. In particular, he has given shots to the owners for paying their players too much and granting massive contracts that eventually brought the NBA to its crippling problem, the agents for making the players go for more money than they could possibly handle [[
* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: His "Ewing Theory" is that Wolverine Publicity as applied to sports teams sometimes holds them back, and that losing a star player who gets all the attention forces the rest of the team to step up. He claimed the best application of this was Tiki Barber, who retired abruptly and complained about his former team, only to watch them win the Super Bowl with one of the greatest upsets in history in his absence. Over Simmons' Patriots. With Simmons ''in the crowd.'' [[Catch Phrase|And he will now light himself on fire.]]
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