The premise of Bill Simmons most recent column is this: Bill Simmons sends an email 25 years into the past to the eighth grade Bill Simmons. This reeks of deadline floundering. I almost didn’t click through. But Simmons actually has a thesis. For sports fans, life is good, as evidenced by the things we complain about. For example:

ESPN’s Web site doesn’t put all the baseball and basketball box scores on one page like a newspaper does, so every night, you have to click on each individual game to see the scores. You will complain about this….

Sometimes on Sundays, when you’re checking your up-to-the-minute fantasy scores on whatever Web site you’re using, so many people are checking at the same time that the site will load slowly. You will complain about this….

I once participated in a fantasy baseball league in which the commissioner heroically typed stats into a spreadsheet from the pages of USA Today every week. We almost had to throw out the first three weeks of the season because our guy used an AVERAGE function to calculate staff ERA instead of entering individual innings pitched and earned runs.