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SirFozzie
07-22-2005, 12:34 PM
Willie Wonka meets with the stars of sport. (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=bayless/050722&num=0)


I read this..

Someone get a strainer for my brain, please? I think it melted.
heybrad
07-22-2005, 12:43 PM
Skip Bayless is the best example of why ESPN journalism is the bottom of the barrell.
Logan
07-22-2005, 12:45 PM
Hey Brad!
Buzzbee
07-22-2005, 12:47 PM
Skip Bayless is the best example of why ESPN journalism [sic] is the bottom of the barrell.
Fixed.
moriarty
07-22-2005, 01:01 PM
Skip Bayless is the best example of why ESPN journalism is the bottom of the barrell.

And if you needed another example, Steven A Smith has a new show on ESPN coming out ...
HomerJSimpson
07-22-2005, 01:03 PM
And if you needed another example, Steven A Smith has a new show on ESPN coming out ...


Is it called "Who is going to watch this crap?"
sabotai
07-22-2005, 02:50 PM
I think it was going to be called "Quite Franky...I don't know what I'm talking about, but I yell at everyone so it got me this show." But that was too long and just shortened it to "Quite Frankly".
Leonidas
07-22-2005, 04:13 PM
Whoever said what ESPN does is journalism?
Eaglesfan27
07-22-2005, 06:15 PM
The "Quite Frankly" commericals are the most annoying commericals I've ever seen.
WrongWay
07-23-2005, 07:17 AM
Skip Bayless is the best example of why ESPN journalism is the bottom of the barrell.
I would still take him over Woody anyday. Woody makes more shit up when talking about Sports than I do. Never quote the Woodster.


Back to Bayless: What was up with his Comment that Lance Armstrong was not an athlete, because Bicycling is not a sport???

Now, I believe that Nascar and Golf are not sports and Jockeyes are not athletes, see the horse below them for an athlete, but Bicycling? Unless they are riding on a motorized bike, how can you not consider them an athlete?

I am clueless on this.
Ragone
07-23-2005, 10:41 PM
I think his theory is anyone can ride a bike.. just like anyone can swing a golf club.. drive a car ride a horse.. etc.. therefore its not a sport

didn't say its a good theory.. but i think thats the one he works off of
RPI-Fan
07-23-2005, 10:59 PM
Back to Bayless: What was up with his Comment that Lance Armstrong was not an athlete, because Bicycling is not a sport???


I thought that was Jayson Whitlock? As that anti-ESPN blog says, "That's equivalent to Jessica Simpson saying Albert Einstein isn't a scientist"
Ragone
07-23-2005, 11:01 PM
Jason whitlock is the most overrated piece of fat trash on the planet.. If Stuart scott, Stephen A Smith and Jason Whitlock all died in a plane crash.. i think it would be declared a national holiday.. :)
ISiddiqui
07-23-2005, 11:20 PM
The only 'produced' shows I watch on ESPN anymore are the sports specific highlight shows (Baseball Tonight, NFL Primetime, and once again NHL Tonight) and some of the sports reporters shows (PTI, AtH, Sports Reporters).
CHEMICAL SOLDIER
07-24-2005, 11:08 AM
Jason whitlock is the most overrated piece of fat trash on the planet.. If Stuart scott, Stephen A Smith and Jason Whitlock all died in a plane crash.. i think it would be declared a national holiday.. :)
Wouldn't that be made into a song as ''The day the music died....'' ;)
Ragone
07-24-2005, 01:52 PM
Wouldn't that be made into a song as ''The day the music died....'' ;)


more like "That was the day.. the bad sports journalism.... died...... and i was singing.. bye bye bad journalism guys"
bryce
07-24-2005, 06:56 PM
10 years ago, Skip Bayless couldn't get a job in Dallas, so he went to... ESPN (even though he obviously wasn't as prevalent as he is now.) But that should tell you something about ESPN's credibility, if you consider the national stage of journalism more prestigious than the local scene, which is a fair assumption, I'd think...

Granted, Bayless getting run out of town might have had something to do with his whole "Troy Aikman is gay" campaign that he pushed down our throats for some God-only-knows-why reason. (To this day, not only do I not know what his agenda was in that crusade, but what was his point, for that matter, too???...)

Bayless and SA Smith (not coincidentally, both are employed by ESPN) both represent everything that is wrong with 'journalism,' if that term can even be used in reference to those two individuals. It's pure shock journalism, schtick if you will, no value added whatsoever, with no resources and/or sources 99% of the time to accredit what they spout.

ESPN has become one of my last sources for sports news. Even SportsCenter is a few and far between occurrence in my home now.

edited for typo...