The 2016 NBA Finals may have ended Cleveland’s sports championship drought, but there was another curse exorcised in Oakland last night: Skip Bayless’ tenure at ESPN.
Bayless is taking his talents from the Worldwide Leader in Sports to the fledgling Fox Sports network, where he will be paid a princely sum to join other Bristol castoffs like Colin Cowherd. With ratings barely making a dent in the sports marketplace, Fox is hoping Bayless’ inflammatory rhetoric will get people to tune in, if just for the outrage and spectacle of it all.
Bayless has earned a reputation for being one of the most controversial figures in sports media over the past decade, mainly because his shtick involves spouting nonsensical opinions and getting into arguments with First Take co-host Stephen A. Smith. Import icloud keychain to 1password.
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No one escapes Skip’s crosshairs if it can create debates on Twitter and get his name in the headlines, but no athlete has felt Bayless’ wrath more than LeBron James. I mean, anyone that says Johnny Manziel would be more beloved in Cleveland than the King is obviously looking for attention, right?
Well, now that the 'Embrace Debate' era in ESPN looks to be winding down, Skip's coworkers are finally getting to share their pent-up opinions about his brand of sports talk, and it hasn't been pretty. After the Finals ended last night — with LeBron winning the MVP, by the way — multiple ESPN and sports media pros took to Twitter or TV to give Skip a salty sendoff as he travels to Fox.
It started with Scott Van Pelt’s not-so-subtle advice to “find a new act”:
Scott Van Pelt is forever my favorite. The statement to end all statements to LeBron haters. pic.twitter.com/qnrWCFObVH
— J.C. De Leon (@jcdeleon1) June 20, 2016
Next, came Danny Kanell with some grade-school shade:
Bye, Felicia https://t.co/qpeK5LcRpw — Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) June 20, 2016
Then came resident MLB guru Keith Law with some harsh parting shots:
… https://t.co/VmiTyzUbdI
— keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 20, 2016
The twitters are alive with the sounds of old hot takes coming back to haunt their makers — keithlaw (@keithlaw) June 20, 2016
Even NFL Network staple Rich Eisen got in on the Skip roast with a pretty solid left hook:
And the best part: @KingJames ends @RealSkipBayless career at ESPN that he built by trolling on him by shutting him the F up.
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— Rich Eisen (@richeisen) June 20, 2016
Good luck, Fox!
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There have been plenty of cases of people and organizations who should really know better spreading misinformation tweetedbyfakereporteraccounts, but a particularly egregious one came from Fox’s Skip Bayless on Undisputed Wednesday. The “@SportsTalkBarry” Twitter account has been around for a while making fun of sports media, and between the name “Barry McCockiner” and the bio of “Host of @classactpod. Backup: @TroopLoverBarry. Marijuana is deadly. I have as many Finals MVP’s as Steph Curry. Tom Brady is an overrated system QB. Parody,” it’s pretty obvious anything there shouldn’t be taken seriously.
But apparently Bayless didn’t get that memo, as in an Undisputed debate about Chris Paul and James Harden’s reported tensions in Houston, he credulously discussed “reports” (without even citing his source) of Paul mocking Harden’s appearance. The only “report” there seems to be a SportsTalkBarry tweet, one that came where he pulled the age-old move of changing his display name to “Adrian Wojnarowski” and one that got a bunch of verified accounts to comment on it:
LOL pic.twitter.com/aTBU0zRaIB
— Barry McCockiner (@SportsTalkBarry) June 18, 2019
And here’s how Bayless discussed that Wednesday:
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“The reports are that this has been going on for two years. There was the one report yesterday that this got so bad in practice going back two years ago that Chris Paul was making fun of James’ manboobs in practice to the point where he broke down in tears and had to leave a couple of practices. That’s when you’re hitting bottom.”
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Nah, the only one hitting bottom here is Bayless, if he didn’t already reach that with his insane meltdown over Kawhi Leonard winning Finals MVP. And this is worth remembering the next time Bayless does a puffy interview where he says the same things to the likes of Complex, Recode, The Washington Post, THRor whoever else, most of which go on and on about how Bayless sincerely believes all his ridiculous positions, how hard he works out, and how he’s “prepping his brains out” for each day’s debate. Well, the Bayless version of “prepping his brains out” this time involved falling for an obviously fake report, one that should have triggered alarm bells for its substance and then yet more alarms for its source. But Bayless instead decided to just relay that as a real report on air. Embrace stupidity.
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