Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless has turned annoying into an art form. His presentation is a symbol of everything that's wrong with ESPN. Period.
He was on one of the yak-yak shows (First and 10?) and said the Indians wouldn't make the playoffs.
He said the Indians "made a deal with the devil" with Fausto Carmona (what?) and suggested the Indians will see the "1-10 Fausto" in the second half.
Does Bayless watch sports or just talk sports?
Yes, Carmona was 1-10 in 2006. But that was because the Indians moved him around in his first Major League season. He was a spot starter, then a late reliever, then a closer (where he failed in spectacular fashion) then a starter again.
This season, he has had one, maybe two bad starts. But the key is he has started all season, will continue to do so, and will not see Buffalo in 2007.
And he knows that.
I wonder if Bayless did more than just rummage through the stat book to come up with his "deal with the devil" ridiculousness.
Fausto may not be 10-4 in the second half, but I really doubt he'll return to 1-10. Not with that sinker.
As for Bayless, his know-it-all attitude is just stunning. Whatever happened to a little bit of journalism?
posted by Zach @ 11:20 AM
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Bayless also said during the NBA Finals that the Cavs are probably the seventh or eighth-best team in the Eastern Conference. He said the Nets and Wizards (at full strength) are better than the Cavs.
He said during the first half of the Cavs season (while LeBron was allegedly "struggling") that LeBron James is one of the most overrated athletes ever, and probably the single most overrated player to ever put on a basketball uniform. He basically said LeBron was a joke.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised Bayless didn't break out the "deal with the devil" line about LeBron.
Skip Bayless is a stooge. That's the reason ESPN relegates him to late mornings on ESPN2, when Bayless' audience amounts to convalescent homes and factory break rooms not showing Jerry Springer.
He doesn't know much about sports. Listening to him for three minutes will tell you that. But ESPN likes him (kind of) because 1) He's loud. 2) He's opnionated. 3) He ruffles feathers by making outlandish assertions, which purportedly gets people talking.
If you remember the scene from Austin Powers when Dr. Evil recalls his childhood, he says his father made outlandish assertions like he invented the question mark.
Every time Skip Bayless makes a "LeBron is Satan" assertion, or predicts the Earth will open up and swallow Fausto Carmona, or whatever, I just say "Skip, you're inventing the question mark again."
Skip isn't any better than the tipsy guy at the local bar who insists that the Indians will trade Grady Sizemore to the Yankees this month because George Steinbrenner secretly controls Indians management behind the scenes. Before I get mad, I try to remember that.
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