Wrote T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times: “I don't understand the appeal of Dr. Phil. The guy goes to college on a football scholarship, plays middle linebacker for Tulsa, his team loses 100-6, he quits school and yet losers everywhere come to him for advice.”
Hitting it right on Dr. Phil
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I've always enjoyed reading Simers. Caustic, sarcastic, brutal. In other words, he'd be a fish out of water in Northeast Ohio. Before the Times went online, I'd buy the paper at the bookstore at the ridiculously inflated local markup cost just to be able to read Simers and Howard Rosenberg. Any guy who had the ability to piss off Tommy Lasorda into profanity-laced tirades is OK by me.
I have to post this, this is why I enjoy reading Simers so much.
Q: You’ve had your share of run-ins with athletes. Plaschke famously clashed with Raul Mondesi. Which athlete has been the biggest prick to you, and is there one particular incident that sticks out?
A: That’s a tie between Jim McMahon and Kevin Brown. McMahon blew his nose on me. It began months earlier when I parked a golf cart against the back door of the Charger locker room so he couldn’t run from us out the back door. I went to him each day and he would swear at me and I would ask him to slow down so I could write it all down. Later I asked him a question, he blew his nose on me and said there’s your answer.
As for Brown, after my first column he picked up a metal box and tossed it against the wall. Two years later I went back to him to mark the anniversary of his last great pitch.
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