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SIMMONS ON TWITTER
- @sportsguy33 Loved this one. RT @30for30: 30 for 30 returns on WEDNESDAY with Brett Morgen's doc "June 17, 1994" (6/16, 10pm). http://tinyurl.com/37n47tf about 10 hours ago
- @sportsguy33 Good Lord. 1 day ago
- @sportsguy33 My live running diary for Game 5, Celts-Lakers on ESPN.com http://tiny.cc/rxk3c and NBA.com http://tinyurl.com/3akqw27 ... starting shortly. 1 day ago
- @sportsguy33 Good take on Germany's win from ABC's color guy: "Thdgdgdg cbfbfbs hjssjsjk gpppgakg fkkffkkffd dhdhjkds dhd syyffk wptrpp." 1 day ago
- @sportsguy33 A few Jonathan Papelbon-types too. RT @MichaeltheG1: The Germans look more like Barry Pepper than anything this year. 1 day ago
- @sportsguy33 It's always disappointing when Germany's World Cup team doesn't have at least 4 guys who look like Billy Zabka. 1 day ago
- @sportsguy33 Fantastic tie. Got the point. Proud day for American soccer - hung with the big boys and nearly stole the game. 2 days ago
- @sportsguy33 I'm officially in "let's get to extra time and take a tie" mode. This is excruciating. I can't take it. 2 days ago
- @sportsguy33 Prediction for 2019: ESPN premieres its "40 for 40" doc, "Pariah: the Robert Green Story." 2 days ago
- @sportsguy33 This is suddenly not all kinds of awesome. 2 days ago
- @sportsguy33 This is all kinds of awesome. 2 days ago
- @sportsguy33 RT @adamcarolla: Carolla in USWeekly.com: Aniston Has "Too Much Testosterone," "Thinks Like a Man" on Simmons' podcast http://bit.ly/b02uiw 2 days ago
- @sportsguy33 Woulda thought it was Bynum limping. RT @lewkay: Saddest sight I've seen in a while. A woman walking through the Luxor in a wedding dress. 3 days ago
- @sportsguy33 Bar argument/physics question: what's the slowest possible pitch (MPH) you could throw that would reach home plate? 3 days ago
- @sportsguy33 A couple just got engaged in my section. I'm trying to start a "Welcome to hell!" chant for the guy, not catching on. 3 days ago
- @sportsguy33 Sox up 12-1, fans no longer standing for Boston runs. Meanwhile, we just noticed the bat adult is wearing a wedding ring. Who is this guy? 3 days ago
- @sportsguy33 2 weird subplots so far: 1) Mike Lowell's AB music is London Calling; and 2) Boston's bat-boy is like 35. More of a bat man. 3 days ago
- @sportsguy33 Jamie Moyer's line: 8 ER, 9 hits, 3 outs. He was throwing single digits. 48 yr-old pitchers are not meant for interleague play. 3 days ago
- @sportsguy33 First Fenway game in 2 yrs, bottom of 2nd, already thru a Fenway frank, hot italian sausage and a chicken finger. Thinking about the cycle. 3 days ago
- @sportsguy33 Wow - Kobe's pass with 40 ***** left down 6 that Rondo stole for clinching hoop was truly awful. I bet MJ did a fist pump after that one. 3 days ago
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