Grab some popcorn because there are few things more volatile and entertaining than thin-skinned Bill Simmons when he feels scorned.

And whoa, does he he feel scorned after Mike and Mike — who work for the same company, ESPN, mind you — played an audio clip of Simmons on with Colin Cowherd (another ESPN employee) talking about LeBron James.

Simmons thinks Mike (Golic) and Mike (Greenberg) used his sound bite out of context, and it probably doesn't help that Golic also said on the air, "That's what I'll say about Bill Simmons. So, you know, he grabbed a headline, which is something I know he loves — and that's one of the most ridiculous lines I've ever heard in any sport in my life."

And now the gloves are off, based on a series of Simmons tweets that popped up around noon. Here are a couple:

Simmons isn't wrong, and he'd come out of this looking pretty focused on an actual slight, but then he can't resist also complaining about the ESPN Ombudsman's recent column looking at his suspension.

Regardless, it's a curious situation all around. We will be interested to see if ESPN disciplines Golic since Simmons has gotten in trouble before for bad-mouthing colleagues.

Is this part of a grand scheme from ESPN to make the talented but seemingly volatile Simmons mad enough that he leaves? That would seem like a strange end game, but there is precedent for ESPN cutting bait with an ego it no longer felt it could manage, and the three-week suspension for Simmons that ended not too long ago could have been a turning point.