Jalen Rose Calls Out Skip Bayless

[Drip]

This was very refreshing.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/jalen-rose-calls-skip-bayless-air-trumped-high-214530179.html

 

[heyabbott]

 

[slappy4428]

Nice...

 

[User 11148]

That was sweet watching Bayless stammer around ...

 

[NDub]

Bayless is a cocksucker who deserves any legit burn thrown at him. Until this short clip, I've never seen a second of that ****fest "First Take," but I've heard all about Bayless. I'd guess most of the jabs people get at him are in a sports-related argument. But something more personal like this hopefully takes this prick down a peg. It looked like there was some legit heat there between Rose and Bayless. Go Blue.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Oh my. Bayless has been trading on this story for at least the last 10 years -- he used to do quite a bit of radio out here in the Bay Area and would tell it to give some context as to why he loved Rick Barry so much as a kid. (Barry was also hosting radio out here at the time.) For anyone with access to the complete Skip Bayless archive, and the inclination to subject yourself to that much listening, you'd probably find this story at least two dozen times.

 

[Biscayne]

Lynn Hoppes just spit out his coffee. :D

 

[Starman]

Jalen Rose is a dickbag of the first water too, always quick to play the "you never played the game" card.

But it was fun to watch him score the rhetorical two-handed slam in Skippy's face. If you didn't play the game, don't pretend that you did.

I saw Rose play in high school. He played the "Magic Johnson" position: the C/PF who brought the ball up on every play and did basically whatever he wanted.

 

[Spartan Squad]

I agree with starman I don't care who called out Skipper so long as someone put him in his place. Couldn't have happened to a douchier guy.

 

[Starman]

Well, Jalen is close.

Jalen is a Douchebag All-American while Skippy Boy is a Douchebag Olympic Gold Medalist.

 

[heyabbott]

Well, Jalen is close.

Jalen is a Douchebag All-American while Skippy Boy is a Douchebag Olympic Gold Medalist.

On the Dream Douch-Bag team, Rose is Laettner and Skip is Ewing

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Well, Jalen is close.

Jalen is a Douchebag All-American while Skippy Boy is a Douchebag Olympic Gold Medalist.

On the Dream Douch-Bag team, Rose is Laettner and Skip is Ewing

The team's official sponsor:

 

[Starman]

Skippy is the Douchebag Larry Bird: a by-acclamation Hall of Famer.

And in honor of Larry Brown, he always Douchebags The Right Way.


Jalen is more like the Douchebag Reggie Miller: a long career of consistent and usually unspectacular douchebaggery punctuated by a couple moments of highlight-reel douchebagging.

Never among the most brilliantly outstanding douchebags but almost always among the top 15.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I remember a couple years ago, I was out with some writers and we were debating who is the biggest douchebag in the sports media with the caveat that they had to have been a writer at some point.

It was pretty much Bayless vs. Lupica vs. Albom.

Outing athletes vs. getting your colleagues fired vs. being a complete fraud.

 

[heyabbott]

I remember a couple years ago, I was out with some writers and we were debating who is the biggest douchebag in the sports media with the caveat that they had to have been a writer at some point.

It was pretty much Bayless vs. Lupica vs. Albom.

Outing athletes vs. getting your colleagues fired vs. being a complete fraud.

does that make Dan LeBastard the douche-bag queen?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think DLB would have a hard time cracking that trio.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I don't think LeBatard would be on the 12-man squad. For starters, we have not even discussed Jay Mariotti.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I don't think LeBatard would be on the 12-man squad. For starters, we have not even discussed Jay Mariotti.

I can think of at least five more who would be locks before I even consider DLB.

 

[MileHigh]

And even then I wouldn't consider DLB.

 

[old_tony]

It really doesn't reflect well on our profession when so many of the top national guys put on TV are total douchebags.