[Jetsfan0099]

[The Reverend]

+1 for Suggs. Makes me sick the way Bayless is talking down to Suggs.

[Jetsman05]

I like it.

[Smedsthejet]

Fair play to Suggs - too many journalists try to twist people's words and, as he says towards the end, put words in people's mouths. There's too much fishing for stories.

[cworth27]

Tell us something we don't know Terrell

[santana]

[A1elbow]

Why would Suggs waste his breath on him? Bayless is a crappy shock journalist who just tries to have contentious opinions to get people to tune into a crappy ass ESPN-spinoff channel's morning show. I haven't watched Take Two (or whatever they changed it's name to) in a couple years, but they have the worst people on there.

That crossdresser... ...they have is especially bad.

[Chaos]

What happens when a smart ass analyst meets a smart player.

[Mr_Jet]

Bayless (and Stephen A. Smith too) have let their TV careers go to their heads. It's hard to believe Bayless was ever a print journalist with the way he acts now. Hell I didn't even know he had been a print journalist until I saw him on that 30 for 30 episode about SMU's death penalty sentence. He's just another TV character and that's probably what ESPN wants him to be. He's basically like an actor playing a character now. The shit he says now is just to get a reaction out of the person across the table from him and the viewers watching the show. It wouldn't surprise me if he didn't really believe half the shit he says on that show. He's gone from sports journalist Skip Bayless to "TV personality" Skip Bayless. Athletes shouldn't even give him the time of day anymore. Because it wouldn't be about Bayless interviewing and covering the athlete, it would be about how Bayless could use that athlete to bring attention to himself.

[S-Dubb]

Skip is a douche though. Some of the stuff he said about Tebow was just incredibly douchy. Sizzle should eat him.

[SecondHandJets]

With the prolifiration of twitter, half the sportsnews we get is from athletes themselves. Sooner rather than later, it's going to get bigger and more common with a video component. All these journalists know it, so they need to sensationalize everything in order to draw viewers.

[A1elbow]

SecondHandJets, on 23 January 2012 - 07:33 PM, said:

With the prolifiration of twitter, half the sportsnews we get is from athletes themselves. Sooner rather than later, it's going to get bigger and more common with a video component. All these journalists know it, so they need to sensationalize everything in order to draw viewers.

The players won't be on breaking down plays and explaining what the average viewer doesn't see. No amount of twittering will replace insightful analysis.

[Mr_Jet]

S-Dubb, on 23 January 2012 - 08:12 PM, said:

Skip is a douche though. Some of the stuff he said about Tebow was just incredibly douchy. Sizzle should eat him.

He most definitely is but a part of me just feels part of his doucheness is for show. When it comes to Bayless I don't see it ending well for him. Something tells me he's going to have a Jimmy the Greek/Don Imus type of moment and he'll end up getting fired the next day.

[Jetsfan115]

Good for suggs. and he's right. these a-holes like bayliss twist players words to make them sound liek the bad guy and suggs called him out on it and he is such a douche he tries to get out of it by telling him to watch his language. suggs handled it perfectly

[SecondHandJets]

A1elbow, on 23 January 2012 - 08:49 PM, said:

The players won't be on breaking down plays and explaining what the average viewer doesn't see. No amount of twittering will replace insightful analysis.

Most journalists don't do any of that. Analysts do. Guys like Skip and Cimini report, they don't add any insight into the game.

[Chaos]

From the Vikings punter Chris Kluwe:

[A1elbow]

Chaos, on 24 January 2012 - 12:06 AM, said:

From the Vikings punter Chris Kluwe:

Chris Kluwe is a tabletop gamer?

SecondHandJets, on 23 January 2012 - 10:46 PM, said:

Most journalists don't do any of that. Analysts do. Guys like Skip and Cimini report, they don't add any insight into the game.

Most of the "analyst" don't do that much breakdown. They're all journalist to me, trying to serparate them by emphasis would be exacting. Most of the "journalists" don't do much more than read a story from some local high school paper about how a kid with no legs is the team's punter or whatever.
Sports media sucks, but nothing about it is getting replaced by social media except when TO wants to announce whatever he is doing that no one cares about.

[S-Dubb]

Mr_Jet, on 23 January 2012 - 09:07 PM, said:

He most definitely is but a part of me just feels part of his doucheness is for show. When it comes to Bayless I don't see it ending well for him. Something tells me he's going to have a Jimmy the Greek/Don Imus type of moment and he'll end up getting fired the next day.

He does seem Don Imus-ish. He's the epitome of a douche.

[bluelinecop]

Skip does get away with too much. He needed a slap in the face, even though I don't think it will chane him one bit. I like the way Suggs kept his cool.

[SecondHandJets]

A1elbow, on 24 January 2012 - 06:19 AM, said:

[/size]Most of the "analyst" don't do that much breakdown. They're all journalist to me, trying to serparate them by emphasis would be exacting. Most of the "journalists" don't do much more than read a story from some local high school paper about how a kid with no legs is the team's punter or whatever.
Sports media sucks, but nothing about it is getting replaced by social media except when TO wants to announce whatever he is doing that no one cares about.

Say what you want but I learn a ton of shit every game from Collinsworth and Jaws. They know how to break down the action away from the football. That's what I really want. I don't need someone telling me that Ray Rice ran the ball, I have eyes, but telling me how so and so made a nice block on the backside is what I don't see on TV.