Word: bayless
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Then, Gossage's rants were mostly entertaining; now they appear to be the mark of a middle-aged man who may be clinging too closely to the past. "The saddest thing to me," says ESPN commentator Skip Bayless (who has called Gossage a "throw-hard blowhard"), is "the ex-athlete who can't let go." Gossage's rank dismissal of the talent ("The pitchers can't pitch") and fortitude ("The game is getting really soft") of today's players, as well as the character of younger baseball writers ("They don't have any respect for the game"), is destructive nostalgia...
...them play in the last two games.’“It was [Johnson] making me realize that this was really the fair thing to do.”And that’s where my Skip Bayless-styled self-righteous indignation kicks in. What did Murphy expect Johnson to do? Was there any doubt someone would ask for the suspensions to be shortened?It isn’t as if Bryant and Schober had pulled a page from Terrell Owens’ playbook, turned on their teammates, and poisoned the atmosphere in the locker room while attempting...
...Bayless, who left for Cornell Sunday night, said he came to visit some old high school friends, staying with Jennifer W. Hsu ’08 on the second floor of Matthews Hall. Bayless said he met Hsu through a summer program at Stanford...
...visit the Fogg Museum, and I watched part of the figure skating show [Evening with Champions] last night. I also went to the Boston Bubble T Stop, which was better than the stuff at Cornell,” Bayless said...
...Bayless said a down point this weekend was when he heard about Cornell’s 34-24 loss at the football game...