Sports Media: Skip Bayliss Leaving ESPN for FOX $6 Mil/yr UPDATE: UNDISPUTED OVER!
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But why would he do that. The way to handle Skip is just to ignore him. Nothing makes him more happy than when an athlete acknowledges that they listen to him. It made his fucking year when Durant made comments about him. If Durant were to say, "I dont know who Skip is and we certainly dont listen to armchair point guards." That would have hurt Skips feelings even more than Jalens comments.
LeBron should NEVER acknowledge that he hears or even knows Skip...EVER. If Lebron would ever to do that it would blow Skips head up even more. Nothing kills an attention whore more than ignoring them.
Again,you dont know what the hell you talking about...Tebow did not take the Broncos to the playoffs..The reason why the Broncos entered the playoffs is because we(Yes,Im a Bronco fan) needed the Chargers to beat the Raiders...
Tebow had his chance to put the Broncos in the playoffs but he didnt...He couldnt beat a Kansas City Chiefs when it counted in that season finale...The defense gave up one touchdown that whole game and yet Tebow couldnt do shit in that game...
For you to say that Tebow put the Broncos in the playoffs is idiotic.....If it wasnt for the defense who saved our asses from his horrible play in those wins,we wouldnt had a chance to sniff the playoffs...
Im sick and tired of people like you and Skip Bayless saying he did it all on his own we he didnt...It was horrible to watch him play because he can barely throw the ball and yet somehow when he drives down the field and win the games for us,everybody wants to give him the credit and forget how he stunk up for 3 1/2 quarters..
Never in my life,I've seen someone get so much praise for playing so horribly for most of the game and yet when someone like Peyton Manning who is actually a great quarterback who get criticize for his playoff appearances is ridiculous...
It saddens me to say this but I want him to fail in New York and prove me and everybody right because Im so sick of people acting like he's a good quarterback when he's not...
And for the record the only reason why Tebow became the starting quarterback is because his stupid ass fans wanted him to play....I wish these stupid ass Tebow fans would just go away because Im sick of them...
Dude
You could have saved all of this. I dont give a rats ass about the Broncos or Tebow or why they went to the playoffs. My point is that Skip was right about Tebow being a winner for WHATEVER reason. You missed the whole point.
Then dont say that Tebow took the Broncos to the playoffs.....
How is Tebow a winner?
It was the defense who won those games not him?...
You seriously need to stop sucking off Skip because yall dont know shit about football....
My name aint April. My name is tough like yours
I told you my name is Internet Thug...raaaaar
Look at my tat son
That is only showing where you waste your money
you have NO muscle tone!
Then dont say that Tebow took the Broncos to the playoffs.....
How is Tebow a winner?
It was the defense who won those games not him?...
You seriously need to stop sucking off Skip because yall dont know shit about football....
C/S if rtebow was all of that they would not have treaded him for an older guy that is good but only have a few years in him.
I think Elway is drafting a quarterback this year if not most likely next year...He is going to mostly drafting DT's and a running back..
Im not taking anyway from Tebow but for him to say Tebow won those games is ridiculous..I have no problem saying the defense play horrible in those 4 loses but its mostly due to Tebow's inability to throw the ball accurately...
I guess his coach really hated him and told him not to even score on JV. Helluva coach. His ass didn't even average double figures on JV. Fucked up - MVP of a prestigious camp and then he can't even be allowed to score on JV.
http://beermugsports.com/beermug/20...-as-a-shtty-high-school-basketball-playe.html
http://beermugsports.com/beermug/20...-as-a-shtty-high-school-basketball-playe.html
His story was pure bullshit, that's why it took him until the next day to explain it
And regardless, no matter how good he was in high school, to compare himself to Russell Westbrook is blasphemous.
I remember Skip Bayless said the dummies shit I ever heard. "I know more about Lebron James than Lebron James do, and my word is more concrete than Lebron James is about himself".......WTF??
That is only showing where you waste your money
Why you worried about another mans muscle tone?..
Goodbye good riddence.
http://www.si.com/more-sports/2016/04/26/skip-bayless-espn-first-take-fox-sports
http://www.si.com/more-sports/2016/04/26/skip-bayless-espn-first-take-fox-sports
Skip Bayless personified the worst of ESPN, from the network’s pathological need for self-aggrandizement to its penchant for disagreement as theater. ESPN executives enabled this professional wrestling heel for years because his show—the unctuous First Take with Stephen A. Smith—over-delivered in its time slot. Through controversy after controversy and near-daily mocking of LeBron James, ESPN’s suits looked the other way if the show drew 400,000 viewers and beyond on ESPN2, which it often did during the NFL season. The show is consistently the highest rated non-game programming on ESPN2, even when it falls into the 300,000s during the NFL off-season.
On Wednesday ESPN p.r. put out a preemptive press release announcing that Bayless would be parting ways with the network after 12 years. His contract is up in August. For months, Bayless and his reps have been talking with Fox Sports executives about the 64-year-old joining that network and having an afternoon debate show on FS1 built around him. Fox Sports Networks president Jamie Horowitz, a former ESPN executive, has long been a fan of Bayless and was the lead executive on First Take through many of its most controversial days. It is a match made in heaven if you like sports television from hell.
Expect FS1 to announce in the not-too-distant future that Bayless has signed with them—and likely for about $5-6 million per year, according to multiple sources. Given FS1’s anemic afternoon ratings, any new show has a shot to get an uptick in viewership, but crafting a network around sports bloviators is a strategy doomed to fail in the long run. In the interim, Bayless will cash a nice check and say many outrageous things. It will be interesting to see the reaction of Fox NFL analyst Troy Aikman, a standup guy in broadcasting who has made it very clear what he thinks of Bayless on a personal level.
In an interview with SI.com on Tuesday, ESPN vice president of production Norby Williamson said Bayless made the decision to leave. ESPN executives praised Bayless on his way out and said he would work on First Take through the end of the NBA season.
“We wanted Skip to stay and we had discussions with him, but he ended making the decision,” Williamson said. “I respect his decision. His contract was coming up, and he decided to go in another direction.”
Asked what that other direction is, Williamson said, “I’m not here to comment on that other direction.”
Williamson declined comment on ESPN’s financial offer to Bayless, which was believed to be $4 million per year.
Williamson also said he was confident that First Take will continue to grow as a franchise, citing the strong numbers the program had in the first quarter of 2016. He would not give a timeline on announcing replacements. “We have a history of—without bragging—navigating change, and I would say successful change,” Williamson said. “We have built something over quite a time here. Stephen A. and Skip created a great chemistry together, which clearly resonates, and the numbers don’t lie with viewers. But I think we have a track record of managing change, innovating and moving forward.”
Sources told SI.com that Max Kellerman and Will Cain are leading candidates to replace Bayless. “I’m not going to comment on anyone being a fit for the next iteration of First Take,” Williamson said.
ESPN executives have always enabled First Take for a singular reason—it makes money.
“The show is a performer but even beyond that it has made a strong connection with sports fans,” Williamson said. “I appreciate the fact whatever opinion you want to have about this show, and that’s why there are different flavors of ice cream. Fans clearly have a connection to this show and what we offer with it. That’s going to continue, and we are here to serve fans. We have a big tent to do a lot of different sports and studio shows.”
This has been a remarkable week for ESPN given we’re less than 48 hours from the news that Mike Tirico is leaving the network for NBC Sports. In an age of cost cutting at sports media companies, ESPN saved millions between Tirico and Bayless (even as the company said it wanted both to re-sign), and more talent salary reductions are expected throughout the year. Williamson said any narrative that ESPN is hemorrhaging talent should be looked at in broader terms.
“I like our hand, and I like what we do,” he said. “We are in the strongest position of any sports media company, we will continue to be that way, and we will continue to invest and continue to innovate.”
On Wednesday ESPN p.r. put out a preemptive press release announcing that Bayless would be parting ways with the network after 12 years. His contract is up in August. For months, Bayless and his reps have been talking with Fox Sports executives about the 64-year-old joining that network and having an afternoon debate show on FS1 built around him. Fox Sports Networks president Jamie Horowitz, a former ESPN executive, has long been a fan of Bayless and was the lead executive on First Take through many of its most controversial days. It is a match made in heaven if you like sports television from hell.
Expect FS1 to announce in the not-too-distant future that Bayless has signed with them—and likely for about $5-6 million per year, according to multiple sources. Given FS1’s anemic afternoon ratings, any new show has a shot to get an uptick in viewership, but crafting a network around sports bloviators is a strategy doomed to fail in the long run. In the interim, Bayless will cash a nice check and say many outrageous things. It will be interesting to see the reaction of Fox NFL analyst Troy Aikman, a standup guy in broadcasting who has made it very clear what he thinks of Bayless on a personal level.
In an interview with SI.com on Tuesday, ESPN vice president of production Norby Williamson said Bayless made the decision to leave. ESPN executives praised Bayless on his way out and said he would work on First Take through the end of the NBA season.
“We wanted Skip to stay and we had discussions with him, but he ended making the decision,” Williamson said. “I respect his decision. His contract was coming up, and he decided to go in another direction.”
Asked what that other direction is, Williamson said, “I’m not here to comment on that other direction.”
Williamson declined comment on ESPN’s financial offer to Bayless, which was believed to be $4 million per year.
Williamson also said he was confident that First Take will continue to grow as a franchise, citing the strong numbers the program had in the first quarter of 2016. He would not give a timeline on announcing replacements. “We have a history of—without bragging—navigating change, and I would say successful change,” Williamson said. “We have built something over quite a time here. Stephen A. and Skip created a great chemistry together, which clearly resonates, and the numbers don’t lie with viewers. But I think we have a track record of managing change, innovating and moving forward.”
Sources told SI.com that Max Kellerman and Will Cain are leading candidates to replace Bayless. “I’m not going to comment on anyone being a fit for the next iteration of First Take,” Williamson said.
ESPN executives have always enabled First Take for a singular reason—it makes money.
“The show is a performer but even beyond that it has made a strong connection with sports fans,” Williamson said. “I appreciate the fact whatever opinion you want to have about this show, and that’s why there are different flavors of ice cream. Fans clearly have a connection to this show and what we offer with it. That’s going to continue, and we are here to serve fans. We have a big tent to do a lot of different sports and studio shows.”
This has been a remarkable week for ESPN given we’re less than 48 hours from the news that Mike Tirico is leaving the network for NBC Sports. In an age of cost cutting at sports media companies, ESPN saved millions between Tirico and Bayless (even as the company said it wanted both to re-sign), and more talent salary reductions are expected throughout the year. Williamson said any narrative that ESPN is hemorrhaging talent should be looked at in broader terms.
“I like our hand, and I like what we do,” he said. “We are in the strongest position of any sports media company, we will continue to be that way, and we will continue to invest and continue to innovate.”
Global warming's on the rise, but we're about to see a real decline on the Take thermometer: Skip Bayless, the Troll King of ESPN, will leave the Worldwide Leader at the end of August. While he'll stick out his contract until then, he will reportedly make his final appearance on First Take, the show he and Stephen A. Smith turned into a ratings juggernaut, the day after the end of the NBA Finals in June.
Bayless, one of ESPN's most popular and controversial personalities, has been with the network since 2004. Deadspin is reporting that he'll take hisLeBron–baiting talents to Fox Sports, where he should be right at home among the network's growing roster of antagonists, which already includesColin Cowherd, Jason Whitlock, and Clay Travis.
I honestly wouldnt mind seeing him and Whitlock go at it troll to troll on tv. If Fox Sports execs had half a brain that would be the play.
Interesting how the put whitlock with cowherd.
Ok
Sadly I just saw a few minutes of the new show with Shannon Sharpe.
Lil Wayne theme song...
And the new girl Joy looks like a younger Molly clone
ESPN should sue....it's the same exact show.
And I ain't watching.
Sadly I just saw a few minutes of the new show with Shannon Sharpe.
Lil Wayne theme song...
And the new girl Joy looks like a younger Molly clone
ESPN should sue....it's the same exact show.
And I ain't watching.
Rookie safety Xavier McKinney made the game-clinching interception in the closing seconds of the season-ending victory over the Cowboys and then immediately cued up an old tweet from Fox Sports rabble-rouser and Cowboys fan Skip Bayless.
“Yeah, man, I didn’t even get to see when he first said it, and I saw it, somebody just mentioned it to me, probably a couple days ago,’’ McKinney said. “So, I had one kinda in my bag a little bit, trying to play with it a little bit.’’
Bayless on April 24 took to Twitter to post his thoughts on the Giants taking McKinney with the 36th-overall pick in the draft: “Glad the Giants took the Bama safety, Xavier McKinney, I did not want the Cowboys to take.’’
https://nypost.com/2021/01/05/miles...les-players-thought-of-confusing-qb-decision/
McKinney not long after getting his first NFL interception to eliminate the Cowboys from playoff contention tweeted back at Bayless: “Happy Belated New Year’s Skip’’ with a winking emoji.
Judge said as soon as he saw the interception and saw McKinney darting around his first reaction was “stay in the damn end zone.’’ McKinney admitted that was not his first thought.
“In college, I remember I caught one and I was in the end zone, it was the end of the game, and it was kinda like this same scenario, and in college, I caught the interception and took a knee,’’ McKinney said. “Everybody was like, ‘Man, you need to run it out.’ So when I get this one, as soon as I caught it, my first instinct was just to go, because I was just trying to take it the distance, to be honest, but I heard Logan [Ryan], really I heard Logan tell me to get down, and as soon as I heard that, I just slid and I was happy with the end result that we got with that.’’
“Yeah, man, I didn’t even get to see when he first said it, and I saw it, somebody just mentioned it to me, probably a couple days ago,’’ McKinney said. “So, I had one kinda in my bag a little bit, trying to play with it a little bit.’’
Bayless on April 24 took to Twitter to post his thoughts on the Giants taking McKinney with the 36th-overall pick in the draft: “Glad the Giants took the Bama safety, Xavier McKinney, I did not want the Cowboys to take.’’
https://nypost.com/2021/01/05/miles...les-players-thought-of-confusing-qb-decision/
McKinney not long after getting his first NFL interception to eliminate the Cowboys from playoff contention tweeted back at Bayless: “Happy Belated New Year’s Skip’’ with a winking emoji.
Judge said as soon as he saw the interception and saw McKinney darting around his first reaction was “stay in the damn end zone.’’ McKinney admitted that was not his first thought.
“In college, I remember I caught one and I was in the end zone, it was the end of the game, and it was kinda like this same scenario, and in college, I caught the interception and took a knee,’’ McKinney said. “Everybody was like, ‘Man, you need to run it out.’ So when I get this one, as soon as I caught it, my first instinct was just to go, because I was just trying to take it the distance, to be honest, but I heard Logan [Ryan], really I heard Logan tell me to get down, and as soon as I heard that, I just slid and I was happy with the end result that we got with that.’’
Skip Bayless’ mega-troll schtick continues as he baits more players into his trap of controversy
Trae Young, Draymond Green get sucked into the hot-take vortex
deadspin.com
WHERE THE F*CK WAS ALL THIS GRACE WITH KYRIE!!!!!!!!
Bullsh*t SAS
this is called self preservation selfishness and hypocrisy and protecting YOURSELF by PROTECTING your OWN
Of COURSE you would NEVER sh*t on Skip
Cause then you setting precedent to sh*t on YOU.
That's IT That's ALL
this is NOT FAKE OUTRAGE or misguided or misdirecting
JUST LIKE YOU WOULD ACCUSE KYRIE?
Skip is a habitual line stepper
and is MUCH worse that Kyrie cause it is deliberately hurtful clickbait hot take bullsh*t he is spewing.