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Post by Roosevelt on May 10, 2020 12:39:08 GMT -5
The older I get the more I enjoy reading Phil Mushnik. In this one he has a go at Stephen A. Smith, premium sports-less sports channels as they offer no refunds, and the silly debate over Jordan v James.
Stephen A. Smith’s ramble on CNN was really something else
No more phone calls, please! We have a winner!
First, a moment to give thanks for being truly blessed throughout this pandemic to have been served by relentless over-the-air geniuses — especially Mike Francesa and Stephen A. Smith, both of whom take themselves very seriously as per their advanced media megalomania.
Both stir themselves into a thick gravy for Blowhard Stew, to be served to audiences eager for double-talking redundancies, bad guesses dished out as facts and generous slices of Self-Promotional Pie for dessert.
We had to wait to see if it was a record, and last week it was confirmed: Smith, chosen and paid $10 million per to be ESPN’s Mr. Knows Everything, on March 22 appeared on CNN, breaking the broadcasting record for giving the longest non-answer answer in public discourse history.
What Smith could have achieved in four words — “I have no idea” — he accomplished in a speech that blended Professor Irwin Corey’s mangled-English stage routine with Sinclair Lewis’ phony evangelical money-chaser, Elmer Gantry.
CNN anchor Michael Smerconish opened with a crack about the paucity of live sports programming on ESPN during the pandemic, to which Smith delivered one of his rambling say-nothing, grammar-defying speeches. I don’t know where to insert the commas, periods, colons, semicolons or Bartolo Colons, let alone where paragraphs end, but hang on to your Fritos, here goes:
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Post by ThatGuyRich on May 10, 2020 16:32:43 GMT -5
HaHa Rosey, Your thread was eloquent and perfectly descriptive of both Smith and Francesca. They are both very impressed with themselves.
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Post by Roosevelt on May 10, 2020 18:34:00 GMT -5
HaHa Rosey, Your thread was eloquent and perfectly descriptive of both Smith and Francesca. They are both very impressed with themselves.
You mean Phil not me.
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