Comments on: The Skip Bayless Interview Part I: Colorful, Conscious and Of Course, Controversial http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/ Bangin’ and Scorin’ Every Trip Down the Floor Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: The Skip Bayless Interview Part II: Colorful, Conscious and Of Course, Controversial | The Starting Five http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/#comment-24137 The Skip Bayless Interview Part II: Colorful, Conscious and Of Course, Controversial | The Starting Five Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:51:07 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=4064#comment-24137 [...] Bonds, Michael Phelps, Donovan McNabb, LeBron James, Alex Rodriguez and of course Terrell Owens. Part I blew up over the Internet unlike any piece drawn from TSF. Many sites linked to the interview [...] [...] Bonds, Michael Phelps, Donovan McNabb, LeBron James, Alex Rodriguez and of course Terrell Owens. Part I blew up over the Internet unlike any piece drawn from TSF. Many sites linked to the interview [...]

]]> By: Skip Bayless Interview Part II Will Be Posted March 9th | The Starting Five http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/#comment-24093 Skip Bayless Interview Part II Will Be Posted March 9th | The Starting Five Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:32:08 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=4064#comment-24093 [...] before 9. This part needed it’s own context so that’s the reason for the delay. The first shot across the web mainly because of some controversial content regarding Troy Aikman and the [...] [...] before 9. This part needed it’s own context so that’s the reason for the delay. The first shot across the web mainly because of some controversial content regarding Troy Aikman and the [...]

]]> By: Terrell Owens: Village Idiot or Village Scapegoat? « Temple3 http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/#comment-23948 Terrell Owens: Village Idiot or Village Scapegoat? « Temple3 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:10:17 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=4064#comment-23948 [...] Jerry Jones’ principal focus is not on winning games. A significant portion of his attention is on keeping the Dallas Cowboys relevant as a media/marketing entity.  The Dallas Cowboys have not won a playoff game since 1996, and they remain at the top of the 24-hour news cycle because of high profile signings, soap opera-style drama, and their history of winning.  The Cowboys will be opening a new stadium next year and football remains a business.  Jerry Jones’ principal focus is on the business of football.  When it comes to winning games, Jerry Jones is as preoccupied with being perceived as a genius as anything else.  He is still fighting the ghost of Jimmy Johnson and as he punches air, he begins to look more and more like Don Quixote every day. [...] [...] Jerry Jones’ principal focus is not on winning games. A significant portion of his attention is on keeping the Dallas Cowboys relevant as a media/marketing entity.  The Dallas Cowboys have not won a playoff game since 1996, and they remain at the top of the 24-hour news cycle because of high profile signings, soap opera-style drama, and their history of winning.  The Cowboys will be opening a new stadium next year and football remains a business.  Jerry Jones’ principal focus is on the business of football.  When it comes to winning games, Jerry Jones is as preoccupied with being perceived as a genius as anything else.  He is still fighting the ghost of Jimmy Johnson and as he punches air, he begins to look more and more like Don Quixote every day. [...]

]]> By: MODI http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/#comment-23862 MODI Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:35:07 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=4064#comment-23862 Thanks for that Rhoden article! Very sad though Thanks for that Rhoden article! Very sad though

]]> By: TheScore.com Blog - The Score http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/#comment-23724 TheScore.com Blog - The Score Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:49:48 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=4064#comment-23724 [...] Announcing points us to an interview that The Starting Five scored with Skip Bayless, who authored a book on the 90s Dallas Cowboys that "challenged Troy [...] [...] Announcing points us to an interview that The Starting Five scored with Skip Bayless, who authored a book on the 90s Dallas Cowboys that "challenged Troy [...]

]]> By: Rick http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/#comment-23651 Rick Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:25:19 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=4064#comment-23651 I have never liked Skip. All of his columns have a recurring theme: Find an alleged sore spot or weak spot in someone and then pick at that until it generates pain and controversy. The more pain and controversy, the better. He had a failed radio show in Dallas and he onced offered on that show that both of his parents were alcoholics and life was hard at home. I've thought that his unrelenting rancor and ego trip grew out of that beginning. Some of his colums were interesting, but most seemed mean spirited. Two good ones that I remember to this day( and I think he would also) are one about the " back side" of the horse track and " Why Dallas should not get the World Cup." But, on his best day, he was NEVER better than Blackie Sherrod. I have never liked Skip. All of his columns have a recurring theme: Find an alleged sore spot or weak spot in someone and then pick at that until it generates pain and controversy. The more pain and controversy, the better.
He had a failed radio show in Dallas and he onced offered on that show that both of his parents were alcoholics and life was hard at home. I’ve thought that his unrelenting rancor and ego trip grew out of that beginning.
Some of his colums were interesting, but most seemed mean spirited. Two good ones that I remember to this day( and I think he would also) are one about the ” back side” of the horse track and ” Why Dallas should not get the World Cup.”
But, on his best day, he was NEVER better than Blackie Sherrod.

]]> By: Temple3 http://thestartingfive.net/2009/02/24/the-skip-bayless-interview-part-i-colorful-conscious-and-of-course-controversial/#comment-23650 Temple3 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:40:11 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=4064#comment-23650 OK: I don't believe anyone has said that about Bayless here -- yet. I think you're on to something, though. The problem is the paradigm -- and what missing may be his objection to the very setting of the question. His employer's business model is not contingent on making moral judgments on athletes like Phelps. There is no money in that sort of thing, usually. But, there is all manner of loot to clock by routinely revisiting the case of Bonds or Vick or Owens -- so they do it over and over and over and over and over again. Maybe his apparent appetite is equated with a bit of negro bloodlust, when its really just an unmitigated desire to get it on -- with anyone and everyone about anything and everything. OK:

I don’t believe anyone has said that about Bayless here — yet. I think you’re on to something, though.

The problem is the paradigm — and what missing may be his objection to the very setting of the question. His employer’s business model is not contingent on making moral judgments on athletes like Phelps. There is no money in that sort of thing, usually. But, there is all manner of loot to clock by routinely revisiting the case of Bonds or Vick or Owens — so they do it over and over and over and over and over again.

Maybe his apparent appetite is equated with a bit of negro bloodlust, when its really just an unmitigated desire to get it on — with anyone and everyone about anything and everything.

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