stephen a. smith vs. skip bayless

there should be another option. like "death".

So I guess we're voting for, "Which would you most prefer to be accompanied by?"

herpes vs aids

Smith. I'd even pick Colin Cowherd over Bayless.

Stephen A has entertained me on a few occasions, Skip hasn't. Skip just seems like a weasel.

Isn't Skip playing the role of insufferable jerk in this pair to make Stephen A. look like a completely reasonable dude?

Bayless has been an insufferable jerk for 30 years.

They are both awful, but i'll pick Bayless in the off chance i can get a meal from his brother.

cari champion ftw

I think skip and rick bayless are estranged. afaik skip has nothing to do with any of his family and lives a weirdly single minded unforgiving ascetic lifestyle, like a monk crossed with pardon the interruption.

unlike skip you actually get the feeling that stephen a actually believes the things that come out of his mouth, though he's every bit as dumb as skip so this is tough

my mind is blown over skip and rick being brothers

I've read Rick Bayless interviews talking about skip and he has nothing bad nor good to say, he just acknowledges that he has a brother named skip who writes about sports and how he himself has zero interest in sports.

If my brother were Skip Bayless, I too would have zero interest in sports.

unlike skip you actually get the feeling that stephen a actually believes the things that come out of his mouth, though he's every bit as dumb as skip so this is tough

― k3vin k., Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:20 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is totally true but it may actually make SAS worse.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Holy fuck Skip Bayless is 62?

u sound surprised.

leathery skin not a dead giveaway?

I mean yeah but I've always assumed there are kinds of wisdom that you can't avoid that come with being alive for 60 plus years.

lol, nope.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

today was the first in 1,311 games that Duncan did not make a field goal

i hope skip bayless will be okay

so bayless is skipping town monday. SAS would pick Zach Lowe to replace him if there were any justice in this warming world

I have never been buying nothing about you fam. You a joke. And after our private convo full of back pedaling you will never have my respect 🤡 https://t.co/do0yxFgUju

— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) August 10, 2020

The hardest thing to wrap my head around is considering the possibility that dame ever had any respect for skip bayless to begin with.

this article needs linking here:

https://medium.com/the-awl/stephen-a-smith-crab-rangoon-tweet-efa5f24c4f1c

STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am sensitive to the Holocaust
BAYLESS: Absolutely
STEPHEN A: BUT!

— Salò, or the 120 Days of SOCOM (@Hegelbon) July 25, 2014

PF Chang's waiter: "[Recites specials] Stephen A. Smith: (Acts surprised) "To me, that's preposterous. Crab Rangoon, things of that nature."

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) June 13, 2012

lol

Democratic mail-in ballots coming in from swing states this morning like pic.twitter.com/JYYaZxVv8n

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) November 4, 2020

I love that this is what he does now. can't argue with his logic btw

https://t.co/EBzo5qZtD2 pic.twitter.com/zCoKhuyC1g

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) February 6, 2024

https://nypost.com/2026/02/13/sports/espns-stephen-a-smith-giving-strong-consideration-to-2028-presidential-run/

In a 1-on-1 interview with Robert Costa, a national correspondent for “CBS Sunday Morning” and the chief Washington analyst for CBS News, Smith expressed his desire to move into politics and make a serious attempt at a 2028 presidential run.

Smith told Costa, “I will confess to you, I’m giving strong consideration to being on that debate stage for 2027” and running for the Democratic nomination. “I’ve got this year coming up 2026, to think about it, to study, to know the issues.”

im giving strong consideration that stephen a smith is a cia psyop

The downside is you have Stephan A. Smith as President. The plus side is he's no longer involved in sports. This is a tough one.

lmao how is this thread revive the way I find out that Skip and Rick Bayless are brothers?

m bison otm though, SAS is kind of like a dumb sports guy's idea of a smart guy

he's definitely gotten worse with time and turned into more of a chariacature

he’s the first man to figure out you
can furrow your brow to seem like you’re really thinking

SAS is kind of like a dumb sports guy's idea of a smart guy

not sure if this is true? he knows nothing about anything besides the NBA and maybe the NFL. i'll let other people speak to the hoops, but i guarantee the random fantasy football player/bettor knows more about football than SAS. his allure, such as it is, is not about being 'smart' or even correct, it's about being aggressively opinionated about literally everything. i have a hard time believing that anyone actually credits his proclamations as meaningful

i'll still take him over kornheiser, tho. what a useless unfunny prick that guy was

ya I don't know if anyone actually respects the guy's sports opinions, he's widely known for being a giant doofus, he makes for good TV though

SAS is kind of like a dumb sports guy's idea of a smart guy

Stealing Tony Kornheiser valor.

tbf there's essentially nothing as bad as wilbon opining on ovechkin (and inevitably comparing him, disparagingly, to jordan, about whom wilbon wrote a book)

i don't even like ovechkin but what a clueless hack

my read is that sas came from the newspaper world where having a big personality doesnt matter that much but once he got to tv, he found his voice in the character of screamin a. and now he has become his character and cant quit because hes making too much money and espn wants him to be this guy for several hours a day every day, hes like slurms mackenzie the party worm and this will kill him.

yeah when i load the espn app the lead stories are always SAS and/or McAfee think *this*! the athletic certainly has its issues, but at least they don't include that

idgi but tbf i am v. old and was amazed that people were interested in videos of the ball siblings' trials and tribulations several years ago

definitely not knowledgeable and he's lazy about actually knowing about sports. you said it better with aggressively opinionated about literally everything, but that describes large portion of streamers that people think are poignant, though. just speaking extemporaneously, regardless of how dumb what you're saying is

As J.B. would say Stephen A is like a dull knife that just ain't cuttin'...just talkin' a lot and sayin' nothing

*"loud" not "a lot" but definitely that as well.

sas has been floating this for awhile.. “studying the issues” is so funny.. someone is clearly in his ear saying this is viable, and maybe it is? but idk