Bill Simmons

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.

And in 2012, oil cam boy admitted that he was smoking crack every day during the season.

So, uh, our fears were valid, but that was just really weird.

Looking back, he made a dope on the Celtics that happened recently.

And that was crazy.

Irving fryer.

missed the 1985 afc championship game he was not our best receiver but one of our best offensive players and he was a kick returner he was the number one pick in the 84 draft and he missed it because he had a hand laceration and then it turned out his his wife stabbed him in the kitchen in the hand and it became the story that came out and that story was nuts but obviously the winner here is aaron hernandez and we don't need to go into this um but

This Vrabel Rossini story is really nuts and it's been interesting to watch everybody who has a platform try to figure out ways to talk about it because