Bill Simmons

It's like Dave Cowens took a job at Suffolk Downs.

That story was nuts.

The Larry Bird 1985 bar fight that happened in the playoffs that we didn't find out about until all of a sudden he was having issues with his thumb.

And he was the best player in the league and he was in the hottest streak he'd ever had.

And then all of a sudden his shot was going sideways and he had an obviously swollen thumb.

And then it turned out he was in a bar fight in Boston.

And then it got reported by Dan Shaughnessy and everybody got mad at Shaughnessy that he kind of...

Kind of told a tale about Byrd, but actually it was a real story and he should have written about it.

It was one of the things that cost him the title.

That was weird.

But it turned out he punched some dude in the bar.

Paul Pierce getting stabbed was awful.

Oil can Boyd.

which was one of our best pitchers during the 1986 season when we went to the World Series and then had 13 pitches to win the World Series.

And I don't know if you remember, but we fucking lost the World Series to the Mets.

But Oil Can Boyd, he did make the all-star team and spun out and disappeared and was actually on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

And there are all these rumors that he was doing drugs and all that.

And he was just really unraveled in all these different ways.

Um, and then, um, came back and pitched and then became so unreliable that they couldn't pitch him in, in game seven.

And, um, it was one of the many reasons why they lost to the Mets.