My reason I have cut so far back on blogging is on the internet - all over the internet. Thank you Steve Mason for substantiating my disgust for sports trash talk. It isn't about the field/court anymore. All things are open and in season. Sports radio is all about bashing in order to increase ratings. The TV is also fair game for the ratings grab. So much drama and not on the competitive playground of the desired sport. Our society is nastier.
The HOF speech of 'His Airness', in which he takes shots at everyone he used getting to the top is one example. Dwight Howard ripping his former team and teammates, and the Twitter war of tweets from Revis and Sherman, Merril Hoge crusade to run Tebow out of the NFL - these are examples that bring us to the ESPN's First Take stupidity between Sherman and Bayless. Click here. to see the word war and then Steve's reporting of it. Go ahead - I won't go on 'til you get back.
Where is Bobby Jones, former Tar Heel, 1972 Olympic Basketball star, former Nuggets and Sixers star? He never engaged in the on-the-court fiasco trash talking. He was not only a great basketball talent, he was notoriously quiet both on and off the court. When an opponent talked him down he simply beat him to the spot, for the rebound or a dunk, which ended the discourse. Now the beaten player talks even more so as not to look 'defeated'. This whole epidemic of creating news instead of reporting it has become an ugly monster.
Personally I used to listen to sports talk radio every moment of the day. Now I listen only to Dan Patrick, SVP & Rusillo, or Mason and Ireland. I just can't watch any of the "shows" other than Sportcenter or an actual game on TV. It just wastes my time to hear 'experts' promoting their own agenda, or forcing the listener/watcher to be filled with such fluff or garbage.
Skip Bayless has become a personality without substance. His inanities are for the explicit purpose of grinding his mills. He is an inconscionable self-promoter. Richard Sherman is an articulate ball player. He is also a self-promoter of the first round! Please bring back real sports reporting. Leave the whip-and-chair TV antics to politicos and the like.
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