We greatly enjoy Bill Simmons (ESPN’s “The Sports Guy,” in case you just decided to check out the “Internet” for the first time today), but we fear his pop culture/sports combo platter might ruin sports if it falls into too many of the wrong hands. You see, there’s an art to it. We try it here sometimes. We fail at it sometimes. But the key to Simmons’ success is that he always brings it back to sports eventually. He mixes and matches. Because it works so well for him, however, we’re subjected to things like this, which has the fatal flaw of being on a sports web site (SI.com) and having absolutely nothing to do with sports. You don’t read “People” for a breakdown of Johan Santana’s pitching mechanics. And you don’t read SI.com to find out about “Seinfeld” guest appearances unless they can somehow be weaved into an analysis of the Red Sox bullpen. Let’s all try to remember that.

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