Bill Simmons Is Taking the Summer Off

I suppose he finally impaled himself with his laptop (or perhaps you prefer, "swallowed his own tongue"?) in joy over too much winning in Beantown, but it appears as if everyone's favorite Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, is taking the summer off. From his refurbished home page (and not matrix-like chronological blog).

Quick announcement from Bill: ESPN was gracious enough to give me 10 weeks off to finish my second book. My column will return right before Week 1 of the NFL season, just in time for another year of crappy football picks! If you're a fan of the "B.S. Report," we're still doing weekly podcasts, but that's it. Enjoy the summer.

I have yet to ~~compile all my columns for~~ write a book, much less prepare to write two of them, so I certainly don't want to chastise him for not doing what he, I assume, gets paid to do. And perhaps this little sabbatical was part of the deal that got him back in bed with the WWL to begin with.

Or maybe it was his little foray into the dangerous, albeit exciting, world of the blogosphere that got him all reminiscent about returning to his roots. But that seems a little too optimistic.

Whatever it was, we won't be reading Simmons until the NFL season starts up, which is a shame, because going that long without a mention of J-Bug is like Joey trying to make it through a foursome-filled night without knocking back a wine cooler or forty. (Plus, we're fine. We've got Reilly!)

Via Daulerio at Deadspin