Skip Bayless and Steven A. make Michigan bet on the air
Personally I can't stand either of these two, but they did a 9 minute segment on Michigan this morning on first take.
Steven A. Smith's comments: Michigan will be at least .500, but will be lucky to make a bowl game. He also said they will lose to OSU and MSU.
Skip, on the other hand, guaranteed that Michigan will beat either MSU or OSU and made a bet with Smith.
Nothing groundbreaking here, just some offseason fluff.
Darren Gardner?
Lucky to make a bowl game?
Big Blue?
Good lord.
Darren Gardner is an accomplished lawyer.
Lucky to make it to a bowl game is a plausible statement about a bad team.
Big Blue refers to Kentucky. Kentucky is a bad team.
So I think what he's trying to say is, Kentucky has hired a senior Australian lawyer to oversee its football squad, and that that squad will have difficulty winning a lot of games. Where else can you get that combination of insight and analysis?
But how on Earth did they fit this into their schedule between talking about Lebron and Deflategate???
SCREAMIN A. Smith
Skip SAYLESS
I was hoping the bet would be if we used a block M in our logo and if not, they would quit media in any form so we would never hear from them again.
Wow, this is just a reminder of how much I hate the both of them.
I can barely tolerate Skip while he is saying good things about Michigan. I used to think Stephen A had a lot of potential. Now I think both are living worst-case scenarios of media personalities who "mark out on their own gimmicks."
Worst thing that ever happened to them was getting the show together.
Not really. I think of First Take as a leper's colony for terrible broadcasting. We keep Skip and Stephen A and the clowns like them isolated there, they don't infect other shows with their terribleness. That way, we can just avoid one awful show instead of having to be on guard on every show.
Thank goodness ESPN has filled the rest of its schedule with vastly superior programming.
I don't hate either of them personally, I just hate the caricatures ESPN thinks they need to be. Skip and Stephen A are just doing what their bosses tell them to do, and they're getting paid handsomely at that.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
both the player and the game when the player is complicit in the shitty game he's playing in. Stephen A and Skip are both obviously 'All-in', so they deserve any sort of disrespect or hate that they get, IMO.
I agree that I can hate the play, the playwright, AND the actors.
Even the ushers if you'd like! Fuck the ushers!
ESPN has already gotten rid of Simmons and Cowherd this year for being too opinionated. I hope that Smith and especially Skip follow them out the door.
They were too vocal about their own opinions. Skip and Stephen A are vocal about ESPN's opinions, which is exactly what ESPN wants.
August 4th, 2015 at 11:42 PM ^
Don't forget Keith as well.
Except that Skip bankrolls the show ...he is the one that has kept himself on the air through all the different reiterations.
And LOL at the slip up on Gardner ..
Reminds me of the 47-21 ass-whipping of Brady Quinn and ND in South Bend a few years ago. Tom Hammond of the NBC Olympic gymnastics broadcasts and at that time ND play-by-play guy called our Quarterback BRAD HENNE and our stud Defensive End Lamar Woodland.
Bayless and Smith deserve one another and I love they have the show together - it makes it that much easier to avoid the two of them.
#ESPNsucks
I like it how Stephen A kinda yells instead of talking. It shows just how right he is.
Thanks for keeping it real for me.
Any way they could both lose?
We finish much better than .500, beat both MSU and OSU, make a nice bowl game and a meteor hits the ESPN studio while Smith and Bayless are broadcasting and they both die.
Mostly, I want both their careers to die.
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Just blame the one-armed man again.
Don't pin this on me. I want nothing to do with it.
that was too gross for even me to post.
I hate Skip but he does like M. His brother went to school there.
As lame as Skip is, his brother is rad, so this was a nice reminder to maybe whip up some camarones a la diabla and margaritas tonight.
He has a ton of recipes that I go to all the time. From basic stuff like guacamole and drinks to pretty wild authentic regional stuff. Since Mexican tends to be a crowd pleaser (interesting enough but not scary to anyone) and conducive to drinking and fun, I almost always turn to his recipes when we have people over and just about everything goes over great.
What rock do I live under where I didn't realize Skip Bayless and Rick Bayless were brothers? I feel dumb, and should go eat at Xoco tonight.
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Large indeed.