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Love him or hate him (we love him), Bill Simmons is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, sports columnists on the Internets. Simmons has penned a new book, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy, to be released tomorrow. You can get the book via Amazon for less than 20 bones (or clams or whatever you call them). The book weighs in at right around 700 pages, but don't let that dissuade you from buying it, as Simmons himself said in an interview with the Huffington Post: "If you like my columns, you're going to enjoy the book. At the very least, it's a book that you can stick next to your toilet, read 5 pages at a time and finish five months from now. It will be the best five months of dumping you've ever had. Your colon is going to love this book."

You gotta give Derek Lowe some credit for taking it like a man. After his sinkerball silenced the Phillies’ bats for five innings, he hung a few up in the zone and suddenly the Dodgers were trailing the game. Even though those homers were just over the wall, he didn’t blame the ballpark. Even though Shane Victorino only got on base in the sixth because of a botched play by Rafael Furcal, Lowe didn’t fume and call out his players like John Lackey did in the Angels-Red Sox series.

As I’m sure everyone who reads this column has Phillies playoff fever, I’m not even going to waste your time with a rant this week. (Also, I’m on vacation about to go to the Tampa Bay v. Chicago ALDS game and the tailgate is calling me.)

touchdown, Dallas's most prominent wide receiver imitated mounting a sprinter's starting blocks and then took off upon hearing a non-existent gunshot (who knows, it may have happened inside of his head). This resulted in a yellow, sand filled bag to be tossed high into the air and a kickoff from the 15-yard line. Did this act of entertainment warrant a 15-yard penalty? I don't think so and you'll be hard pressed to convince me otherwise. It's entertaining; it's entertaining in the way that Chad Ocho Cinco's Riverdance celebration was entertaining, or how his faux-Hall of Fame jacket was entertaining (though not an end zone celebration). It's funny. Chad Johns–, er, Ocho Cinco knows how to entertain. Not only that, but he's good at what he's actually paid to do: catch leather spheroids. There is nothing taunting about an end zone celebration and more often than not it doesn't "show up" anyone involved. Most often, it accomplishes what it aims to do: entertain. People laugh. Unfortunately, there are those who react like your mother would if your grade school principal called home saying you were eating one of your classmate's boogers. (See: Joe Buck's reaction to Randy Moss "air mooning" the Green Bay crowd in 2005.)

Fresh off a thousand word treatise on how some dude recently ate potato chips while peeing in the stall next to me, I did not have the energy to write a linear story on the Eagles' Monday night debacle against the Redskins. Instead I decided to take a page out of the book of ESPN.com’s comedic genius Bill Simmons, and write about the hometown team in diary style. So to the anonymous Philly expat in New York who used my latest piece as a platform to whine about how we don’t cover sports here at the Phillyist, this one’s for you: