Oftentimes I post here about my various archnemeses, of which I have quite a few considering my tender age. Today I want to post about one of my heroes: ESPN.com and Jimmy Kimmel Show writer Bill Simmons.

Bill Simmons gets to do what I do, that is make rambling posts about popular culture and sports, but he gets paid for it. He does movie reviews (his reviews of Rounders and Hoosiers were some of my favorites) as well as keep diaries during award ceremonies and sporting events. And for all of this he makes money. This, along with writing jokes for a late night television show, is his job.

And he and I are in agreement on many things. In his latest diary of last night's Grammy awards, he makes the following observation:

9:02 -- The Dixie Chicks cover "Landslide." Wait a second ... the Smashing Pumpkins already covered this song. Shouldn't there be a rule that you can't cover a cover? Is that a re-cover? What happens when P. Diddy samples it for one of his crappy rap songs, does that make it a re-re-cover? I'm really annoyed.

If this looks familiar (besides the P.Diddy stuff), it's because I registered a similar complaint here month or so ago. Here, finally, is a writer who speaks to me, who says the things that I want to say only with the benefit of a copy editor, who remembers the same obscure sports moments from spring training baseball games 15 years ago that I do. All this and he came up with The Unintentional Comedy Ratings Scale, which we should all know and memorize.

So let's all give a Festival salute to Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy. "He writes like people talk..."