The Bill Simmons Podcast<\/a>, the two ex-ESPNers turned their attention toward that shared bond.<\/p>\nAs two people who have previously been mentioned as potential successors to Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon, Simmons and Torre unsurprisingly had some thoughts on the future of the daily debate show. That included Simmons sharing that not only has he shut down such talks with his \u201cUncle Tony\u201d in the past, but that he believes the show should end whenever its current hosts want it to.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember the lasts couple years I was at ESPN, [Kornheiser] had this whole thing he kept saying \u2014 and I was like, you know, pretty close to him at this point \u2014 and he would always be like, \u2018well when Mike and I turn it over to you and [Dan] Le Batard,’\u201d Simmons recalled. \u201cAnd finally I got mad at him and I was like, \u2018you gotta stop that. I don\u2019t wanna take over PTI. That\u2019s your show. You guys are gonna die with that show. Nobody wants to take that show. Nobody wants that responsibility. It\u2019s your show. Like stop even thinking that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ringer founded added: \u201cThe show should die when they don\u2019t wanna do it anymore. Nobody should take the show over. Come up with another idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Torre took it a step further.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also fully think that the show will die when they die,\u201d the Pablo Torre Finds Out host said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike literally on the set,\u201d Simmons joked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, they\u2019re not gonna stop doing it,\u201d Torre continued.<\/p>\n
At this point, there\u2019s no reason to think that PTI will be slowing down anytime soon; in fact, the biggest reason the duo didn\u2019t extend the show to an hour following the cancellation of Around The Horn is reportedly because ESPN failed to match their asking price<\/a>. And to Simmons\u2019 point, it\u2019s hard to imagine the show continuing after Kornheiser and Wilbon no longer want to do it, although that doesn\u2019t appear to be a problem that the Worldwide Leader will be facing anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Simmons and Pablo Torre clearly don\u2019t agree on everything, but they maintain a connection via Pardon The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[11562,7,26669,5567,25225,26670],"class_list":{"0":"post-104028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-bill-simmons","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mike-wilbon","11":"tag-pardon-the-interruption","12":"tag-the-bill-simmons-podcast","13":"tag-tony-kornheiser"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114626644377871491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}