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ESPN Now I Can Die In Peace
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Bill Simmons, writer of the popular ESPN Sports Guy column, replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox's historic championship season and says good-bye to a lifetime of suffering ... at least for now. "The Red Sox won the World Series." To Citizen No. 1 of Red Sox Nation, those seven words meant, "No more ‘1918’ chants. No more smug glances from Yankee fans. No more worrying about living an entire life, that’s 80 years, followed by death without seeing the Red Sox win a Series." But once he was able to type those life-changing words, Bill Simmons decided to look back at his Sports Guy columns for the last five years to find out how the miracle came to pass. And that’s where the trouble began. Pretty soon, the Sports Guy was second-guessing himself, rewriting history, sniping at his own past predictions, pounding the table — that’s what sports guys do, right? By doing so, he let himself get sidetracked by the suffering of the Boston Bruins, frustrated by the false promise of the Celtics, and driven into a state of ecstasy by the dynastic New England Patriots. The result? "Now I Can Die in Peace," a hilarious and fresh new look at some of the best sports writing in America, featuring sharp critical commentary and fresh insights from the guy who wrote it in the first place, Bill Simmons. Bill Simmons writes for ESPN.com’s Page 2 and ESPN The Magazine. A former sports reporter for the Boston Herald, he founded the award-winning bostonsportsguy.com web site in 1997 and was a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. He commutes between his home in Los Angeles and Fenway Park. Hardcover: 304 pages.
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Product #: 556706
Price: $24.95
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