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morestuff posted:Genuinely not on board with the “Stephen A. Is good actually” hard turn of the last year or so I think it's not so much that everyone thinks Stephen A is good, but more like he's what we deserve.
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to me, him getting in on the bit and going full wrestling manager is just so fitting for the stupid state of sports hot take culture. like if they are going to run hours upon hours of people having mindless debates then at least realize how silly it is and lay it on as thick as possible. When he took himself more seriously I really didn't care for him but now that he's turned it up to 11 I find him wildly entertaining e: i should say it's not like I want to watch first take tho or his radio show. it's just in these short segments where he goes off its great fun BWV fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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Loud clown + 10% self awareness doesn’t do it for me
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morestuff posted:Loud clown + 10% self awareness doesn’t do it for me the way he says "high" in that video made me laugh
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morestuff posted:Loud clown + 10% self awareness doesn’t do it for me Exactly. I get that he went from idiot loudmouth to self-aware idiot loudmouth and is playing his gimmick perfectly, but that doesn't mean it's entertaining. He's just annoying.
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Metapod posted:by separating skip and steven a everyone has realized how good they are Who the hell thinks Skip is good?
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Stephen A is funny and about as entertaining as you can expect for someone in that role, until he gets serious like telling pro athletes that they don't want to make an enemy of him, then he's extremely funny
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Lockback posted:Who the hell thinks Skip is good? everyone who can appreciate a good troll
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Metapod posted:everyone who can appreciate a good troll I know it's a sad desolate wasteland that needs all the help it can get but you don't actually need to defend literally every single thing associated with the state of oklahoma MourningView fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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i will never defend anything from this loving shithole just by virtue of being from this goddamn shithole but i will absolutely defend a person hustling his way to millions by saying a bunch of stupid poo poo about sports
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He's a bad person and being dumb and lovely on purpose is still being dumb and lovely
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What if it's not an act?
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I'ts been brought up in this or the broadcasting thread multiple times but didnt Skip win a drat peabody or pulitzer or something for newspaper articles, I think we can say its an act.
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when skip was on first take there was a long profile on him (i think by grantland maybe) and it basically said he spends all his free time exercising and sitting alone at home watching sports and writing down his takes. he takes himself super seriously
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I don't know that I can find it but I remember some first hand accounts that Skip was a really nice guy and not at all like his persona on set. Metapod posted:i will never defend anything from this loving shithole just by virtue of being from this goddamn shithole but i will absolutely defend a person hustling his way to millions by saying a bunch of stupid poo poo about sports Successful, yes. "Good"? No.
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morestuff posted:Loud clown + 10% self awareness doesn’t do it for me he’s a fun meme but i often wonder if people are laughing at him because he’s a blowhard and a caricature of goofy self-important ny sports fans or if they’re laughing because he’s a wacky loud black man who doesn’t make them feel bad
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BWV posted:when skip was on first take there was a long profile on him (i think by grantland maybe) and it basically said he spends all his free time exercising and sitting alone at home watching sports and writing down his takes. he takes himself super seriously Also despite his brother being a world-famous chef, Skip apparently orders 7 chicken and broccoli dishes with no sauce from a Chinese restaurant and just eats that throughout the week.
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Basticle posted:I'ts been brought up in this or the broadcasting thread multiple times but didnt Skip win a drat peabody or pulitzer or something for newspaper articles, I think we can say its an act. He won a few awards for his columnist work but so have lots of lovely writers. There are people in this thread who treat him like he's Carl Bernstein just because he happened to be in the Pony Express documentary. His past as a Serious Journalist is really inflated, he fell into being a hot takey columnist who regularly got run out of whatever city he was in because everyone hated him pretty quickly.
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MourningView posted:He won a few awards for his columnist work but so have lots of lovely writers. There are people in this thread who treat him like he's Carl Bernstein just because he happened to be in the Pony Express documentary. His past as a Serious Journalist is really inflated, he fell into being a hot takey columnist who regularly got run out of whatever city he was in because everyone hated him pretty quickly. Yeah, his very first claim to fame was writing trash about Steve Garvey & the Dodgers. And the awards he won were state awards where the national winner was Rick Reilly. He’s always been garbage with a little writing ability.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Also despite his brother being a world-famous chef, Skip apparently orders 7 chicken and broccoli dishes with no sauce from a Chinese restaurant and just eats that throughout the week. Skip distanced himself pretty far from the rest of his family and from what I remember, it's really drat hard to blame him for that.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:Yeah, his very first claim to fame was writing trash about Steve Garvey & the Dodgers. And the awards he won were state awards where the national winner was Rick Reilly. He’s always been garbage with a little writing ability. Yeah a lot of his most famous reporting work was gossipy tabloid stuff about athletes and their personal lives.
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MourningView posted:Yeah a lot of his most famous reporting work was gossipy tabloid stuff about athletes and their personal lives.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:Yeah, his very first claim to fame was writing trash about Steve Garvey & the Dodgers. And the awards he won were state awards where the national winner was Rick Reilly. He’s always been garbage with a little writing ability. to be fair garvey probably deserved it
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Declan MacManus posted:to be fair garvey probably deserved it
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Crazy Ted posted:IIRC Garvey was known publicly as "that All-American family guy that every WASP is supposed to grow up to be" while behind the scenes he trying to pressure his wife into an open marriage and cheating on her with multiple women simultaneously. The "Honk if you're carrying Steve Garvey's child" bumper stickers were popular in SoCal for a long time.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:The "Honk if you're carrying Steve Garvey's child" bumper stickers were popular in SoCal for a long time. Yeah he was apparently SuperTurboWASP 1000 combined with 1970's California sexual trends when people weren't looking. The Wiki entry on his personal life is fun quote:Garvey was known as "Mr. Clean" during his time with the Dodgers. Manager Tommy Lasorda once commented, "If he ever came to date my daughter, I'd lock the door and not let him out."[29] At age 22, Garvey married Cynthia Truhan[29] in 1971. They had two children, Krisha and Whitney. Cynthia left Garvey for composer Marvin Hamlisch.[29] (Cyndy would later claim Garvey "gave me away" to Hamlisch after a private two-hour conversation.[29]) Garvey was already romantically involved with his secretary.[29] The couple filed for divorce in September 1981. Garvey later filed for an annulment from Cyndy in Detroit. After seven and half years, the annulment was granted.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:The "Honk if you're carrying Steve Garvey's child" bumper stickers were popular in SoCal for a long time. lmao
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Steve Garvey, the white Steve Harvey
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He was also really setting himself up to be Sen. Steve Garvey (R-CA), until...well... He also ended up comically broke, hounded by creditors and unable to cover his utility bills: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-me-garvey9-story.html Still, he helped win the first-ever pennant for my San Diego Padres so, it;s impossible to say if he is bad or not
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here’s an article from rick reilly when he was still Trying about garvey https://www.si.com/vault/1989/11/27...ays-he-is-broke
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oh my god you loving neeeerrrrrrrrrddddddddddd
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Dexo posted:How dare you open this vertical without Dan Rovell Rovell has ascended to his ultimate form: full-time sports gambling shill
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