That was the very first thing that popped in my head.
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The Rise and Fall of ESPN (1 Viewer)
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rockaction
Footballguy
I think I'll just leave this here.
"I have no desire to be a politician. My life is pretty well."
"I have no desire to be a politician. My life is pretty well."
rockaction
Footballguy
In all seriousness, this guy thinks that the Democratic Party wants him to run and he will do so depending on whether or not he thinks the Democrats have come up with anybody acceptable. He actually went on to say that he didn't know all the issues cold yet but that he could get up to snuff and wipe the debate floor with the other candidates with a "couple of months" (paraphrased because he might have said "three months" but I'm not going back to watch that garbage) preparation. :/
He was dead serious the whole time. This man doesn't have an ironic of humorous bone in his body, and he's not very bright. Oof.
Eephus
Footballguy
This isn't disqualifying for the office
rockaction
Footballguy
Touché. Sad that it doesn’t.
Hastur
Footballguy
He(or most anyone) can follow this book to the letter and garner 20% of the popular vote.
rockaction
Footballguy
This time, I voted for Epictetus, a deceased Greek slave and stoic philosopher.
I can understand not liking Stephen A. Smith's style or delivery.
But I think he's very bright.
But I think he's very bright.
rockaction
Footballguy
I'm not really willing to give him the benefit of the doubt considering he's been yelling some not-well-thought-out takes on sports in my ear whenever I hit the ESPN website or mistakenly leave the channel on. Has he ever discussed a high-level analytical concept during his show? Has he ever said anything you've heard where you nodded your head and said "good point"? It's not necessarily the style or delivery at all. It's that his points are always reductive and emotional, lowest common denominator. He bleats hot, bad, emotionally overwrought takes in one's ear.
How about this? I'll succinctly analyze the three minutes I spent watching that interview. First of all, he didn't use the adverb "well" correctly, and it was an egregious grammatical mistake. Second, anybody who thinks they can study for three months and be prepared for the presidency is naive at best. Then to say that you'd "wipe the floor" with the other candidates in a debate is grossly hubristic. Bad combination.
So in three minutes his three main statements were all wrong in some way. Wrong with respect to the English language and its usage; wrong about the nature of the office he claims that he might seek to hold; and wrong about his own prowess as a debater.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I remember him from my freshman year Ancient and Medieval Political Theory course.
I liked Epicurus better.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
In the sense that Smith is now the highest paid clown in America, I agree that he is very bright. No one should ever listen to him for real analysis of anything, though. He is a clown show, and he is banking big off it, so props to him.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Seems to be a prerequisite these days.
We'll disagree that "he's not very bright". No worries there.
⚡DEADHEAD⚡
Footballguy
Agree with this completely. He's a television personality, bright in ways that the Kardashians are bright. Occasionally substantive, but mostly a loudmouth who needlessly uses too many words to get his point across. Why? To suck the air out of the room and to come across as "smarter" than he really is and to even intimidate fellow panelists. I've come across people like this in my life. There's not much to them. He's a helluva opportunist though. I'll give him that.
I remember years ago when he was just the basketball guy for ESPN. I'd pray that he wouldn't get folded into football. That stayed true for maybe two years or so.
Relatedly, I turned off DirecTV two or three months ago. I don't miss ESPN outside of PTI, and even that is just an occasional thought. At 52 though, I'm not the target audience. Guess how much ESPN my 12 year old sport-loving son watches? Yep. Zero.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Manster
Footballguy
I have ESPN+ so I can get college baseball games that are not on our local channel. I don't have a service that has the actual ESPN channels.
ESPN is owned by Disney. ESPN is in bed with the SEC. Lots of $$$. I think they are doing fine. People take it in differently. The days of Sportscenter being must see tv are over
Same here or 30 for 30
That’s it.
Everything else is hot garbage.
ESPNU
ACC
SEC
Big 10
Big 12
Have a sports package (not ESPN Plus) and watch a ton of NCAA Baseball on those ESPN networks.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
I used to love pti. Haven’t watched in quite awhile
Yeah that was a good show …..been a decade for me since I watched it.
NFL Primetime was required viewing when it was Berman and Jackson…..the good ol days.
Desert_Power
Footballguy
Seems like a good deal for Rich. Gets to keep his role at NFLN and gets more distribution for his show
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