Bill Simmons as an ESFP might be the worst typing I've ever seen...
Congratulations, that is the 100,000th time someone on this site has used that exact phrase.
Zarathustra said:
He is about the most obvious ENTP I can think of
I'll defer to your typing, since I think he's full of shit and don't read his crap. I'm sure you're in a much better position to judge.
Zarathustra said:
- constantly making brilliant, accurate, and insightful connections between athletes/aspects of one sport and another, and one sports era and another (Ne).
Characterising anything from Simmons as "brilliant", "accurate", or "insightful" makes me seriously doubt your understanding of those terms. I suspect Simmons is lightly retarded.
Zarathustra said:
- very congenial (and somewhat fake): he's notorious for tearing certain athletes and coaches apart (and accurately, most of the time), but, if he ever actually meets them face-to-face, he (admittedly) throws it all out the window and totally sucks up to them (Fe).
Again, if you can put up with his bullshit enough to read it, I'll defer to your typing, but Simmons has never struck me as a Fe-user. I'm very skeptical that he's Ti/Fe. Simmons is way too much of an asshole to be Fe, and I don't think he even realises what a complete asshole he is. He's also incapable of objectivity, which IMO is a critical, indispensable element of Ti.
Your description above doesn't seem Fe to me. It honestly reminds me a lot more of some extraverted Fi-users I know, who act really friendly in person and shit-talk people when they're not around. I'm not sure that sort of behavior is limited to one type, but at the very least, I'm certain it's not unique to Fe.
Zarathustra said:
Damn, throwing the race card just like that?
Did you want an essay with citations? How much Rick Reilly have you read? Have you noticed that in black-white conflicts, he
invariably sides with whoever is white? That he perpetuates all the worst stereotypes about admirable, hard-working whites and lazy, athletically gifted minorities? That he is horrified whenever a person of color breaks a white person's record? I'm not saying the guy is Mel Gibson, and I don't believe he's consciously prejudiced, but I think there are clear trends in his writing over a period of well over a decade.
And I'm not sure what you mean by accusing me of "throwing the race card". I have to say, I think it's a very relevant topic in this discussion. If Reilly does harbor unconscious prejudice, it seems very likely that would affect his perception and criticism of Jordan's speech.
Zarathustra said:
Fine, Rick Reilly is Hitler. And so am I! Sweet heaven, quit Godwin-ing unless you're going to post something beyond a transparent trolling attempt.
Differing Fe/Fi interpretations of Jordan's speech is an interesting topic, but if you're just here to attention-whore yourself, there are plenty of grown-ups for me to talk with on this forum.