But thank god they finally did- now I can watch ESPN football shows without having to see this braying jackass ten times a week. I don’t think I’ve ever talked to one person who didn’t find this guy to be anything but an obnoxious ass, the type who thinks he’s edgy and controversial, when in fact he’s just a dick. His departure statement is the height of pomposity:
“I want to thank ESPN for 12 great years of talking football on TV and the radio. I have grown as much as I can at ESPN and decided to expand my horizons. **I have created a brand ** and it’s time to expand into other opportunities in TV, radio, Internet, publishing, movies and public speaking, among others. My resume speaks for itself as a football analyst, and I believe I can talk all sports with the best of them”
What brand exactly- slimy know-it-all perv? The only three ESPN analysts I have ever despised are Sean, Trev Alberts and Steven A. Smith, and now two of them are gone. Alberts had the audacity to think he was underappreciated and quit showing up for work- what balls. May and Holtz are brilliant without that smug smartass, whose now I’m told on something called CSTV with a bunch of third raters, like himself- good career move, Trev. Now if only they can dump Emmitt Smith, a guy who speaks English like he just fell to Earth last week, I’ll be a happy guy.
Happy Trails Sean, I’m sure other networks are dying to have a sexual harrassment lawsuit in waiting on their payroll!
Well, I thought that ESPN focused primarily on the I-95 corridor between NYC and Boston anyway, so showing partiality to the Knicks is probably a job requirement.
Steven A. says the lengthening of golf courses is an action of bigots trying to stop Tiger. It is stupid. Tiger is very long . It is the short hitters that get eliminated by longer courses. Yet he keeps saying it is an anti Tiger move. He learns very slowly.
I don’t expect everyone to hate him, but I can’t understand why anyone would not see why people might. His incapability to control the volume of his voice alone drives people nuts, not to mention his frequently asinine opinions, his provincial attitude and unwavering belief that he’s 100% right about everything. Some people might enjoy this stuff, I can accept that, but you really couldn’t put this together?
I watched his show in the beginning when he had it, but he ended up saying that he doesn’t care about another sport besides basketball and every other team was secondary to the Knicks (so far as his like for that team went). I can see why people don’t like Stephen A.
I think Stephen A is a bright guy who knows the sports he knows and will glady admit there are some he doesn’t know. My problem with him is he thinks YELLING is a way to get a point across. And yeah, it doesn’t enter into his mind he could be wrong about any topic.
I completely agree. It’s just that his show was supposed to be a “sports show”, when it was just a basketball show waiting to bust out. It eventually did. He does basketball pretty well and gets some interesting guests.
Sorry, what I meant to say was…
OH COME ON NOW! THAT’S PRE-POSTER-OUS! ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT ELTON BRAND ISN’T GOING TO GET IT DONE THIS YEAR? QUITE FRANKLY, I’D TELL YOU THAT HE CAN’T** NOT** GET IT DONE!
Steven A Smith is the most ignorant commentator I can remember on that network. He has a lot of trouble forming coherent sentences. NOT to menTION that ITS reaLLY HARD to LIS-UN to the STUPIT way HE TAWLKS.
LOL. My main problem with Steven A. Smith is that he is a one trick pony: you can tell some producer/network head/agent said to him as a newbie “Hey buddy we need you to be controversial and confrontational - that is how you get airtime and be a star” & that is his one trick disagreeing strongly with anything that anyone says. Watch any night currently and you can see him take Walton to task for saying the sky is blue.
re the OP I think Salisbury is gone at least partially for his Cryptkeeper/Captain Obvious jab at senior analyst Clayton. He also tussled with Berman. In part I think it can be conceptualized that part of why he was canned was for breaking ESPN’s equivalent of the SDMB’s “No personal Attacks/Don’t be an A$$hole” rule
I just watched that Cryptkeeper video; it was pretty hilarious.
I believe that Salisbury got the axe because the folks at ESPN finally realized that he couldn’t get off the bench in his entire career, and thus it’s impossible to take him seriously as an “expert.” If he’s such a gosh darned expert, why didn’t he apply any of it when he was still playing???
All kidding aside re the Cryptkeeper bit- how unprofessional can you get? No place at all for that on a real show on a real network, and has Sean looked at his swollen face in the mirror lately?
And yeah, very stupid to give Steven A. a show where he covers all sports, when he only likes one or two.
Stephen A. is tolerable in small doses. I used to like the “Old School/Nu Skool” bit they used to do with him and Skip Bayless (who, BTW is unwatchable in any other segment…so since they don’t do this segment any more, Bayless is now unwatchable). And I didn’t hate SAS’s interview show, it was a decent departure from the usual late night talk shows and was basically what Jim Rome (also tolerable in small doses) does except with an audience.
But lately they have had Stephen A. doing Sports Center anchor duties.
