Skip Bayless to stay at Fox Sports. 4 years/$32 million.

[BiggWebb79]

Just in time when Bron retires
Skip is gonna cry when Bron retires

You know Bron gonna invite Skip to his Hall of Fame induction and shyt on him like Jordan did Wilbon

 

[KidJSoul]

It's cool as fukk they remained tight. Skip begged SAS to come on First Take. Dude wasn't even on ESPN at the time. From that, to the top talking head in the world probably, was started by Skip seeing that talent and putting him on. Then he leaves the show. The next few years, while having competing shows, neither one ever said one bad word about the other, nor tried to diss the other show.

Now you find out in a reverse, SAS been reaching out this entire time to bring him back... Not only that, but had no intention of fukking over Max to do so, who I'm sure will ultimately take the baton when SAS moves on from the show..


Just nice to see no bullshyt feuding and grown men looking out for each other and pulling each other up the ladder

How would this have worked

 

[Rell84shots]

All that money and they're still losing to First Take

 

[jetflyinglimousineriding]

This dude has been skating at FS1 making all that money barely having to work only doing a debate show in the morning and then getting to call it a day after
Looks like FS1 finally going make him do more with an afternoon show.

 

[Pimp]

He needs to shut up about other peoples money. All this hating on Dak getting the max while he doesn't take any hits and gets the max just to talk.

 

[Da King]

He needs to shut up about other peoples money. All this hating on Dak getting the max while he doesn't take any hits and gets the max just to talk.

The fact that you even respond like that is why he’s getting paid so much

 

[MikelArteta]

Skip's brother gotta be after reading that

hasn't skip even said his black nanny raised him more than his mom or something like that

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

How would this have worked

As the article said, this was NOT for Skip to come back to First Take


The emphasis of the move was not to put the “First Take” band back together, but rather to bolster the network’s burgeoning new subscription platform, ESPN+.

The duo would have appeared on ESPN on a variety of programs in an effort to drive viewers to watch and subscribe to ESPN

Even when Fox Sports had an agreement with Bayless to stay, ESPN was still determined to add a Smith and Bayless show to ESPN+. This is the area that Disney, ESPN’s parent company, is focused on and looks at as its future.

ESPN executives broached the idea of having Bayless stay on FS1 in the mornings, debating on “Undisputed” with Sharpe, while Smith continued on ESPN’s “First Take” in the mornings with Max Kellerman.

Then, in a rare cross-pollination between ESPN and Fox Sports broadcasters, Smith and Bayless would still team up for their ESPN+ program.

Ultimately, there were too many hurdles to make such a cross corporation setup feasible.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

As the article said, this was NOT for Skip to come back to First Take


The emphasis of the move was not to put the “First Take” band back together, but rather to bolster the network’s burgeoning new subscription platform, ESPN+.

The duo would have appeared on ESPN on a variety of programs in an effort to drive viewers to watch and subscribe to ESPN

Even when Fox Sports had an agreement with Bayless to stay, ESPN was still determined to add a Smith and Bayless show to ESPN+. This is the area that Disney, ESPN’s parent company, is focused on and looks at as its future.

ESPN executives broached the idea of having Bayless stay on FS1 in the mornings, debating on “Undisputed” with Sharpe, while Smith continued on ESPN’s “First Take” in the mornings with Max Kellerman.

Then, in a rare cross-pollination between ESPN and Fox Sports broadcasters, Smith and Bayless would still team up for their ESPN+ program.

Ultimately, there were too many hurdles to make such a cross corporation setup feasible.

I wonder would they let him make one off appearance on Stephen A's World?

That would likely be easier to pull off than having them both do a full on ESPN+ show together. I do think that they'll eventually figure out a way to make it work and the discussion comes back up down the road. Especially since all parties involved seem to want to make it happen.

 

[manyfaces]

I’m a NY Times best selling author dodo

@Regular_P you know you my guy, but this shyt hilarious

 

[Pimp]

The fact that you even respond like that is why he’s getting paid so much

I don't even watch his show. I work.. I see clips on Instagram.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Just in time when Bron retires
Skip is gonna cry when Bron retires

He'll prolly start shytting on Giannis or Luka

 

[jetflyinglimousineriding]

"Michael Jordan would have never picked Paul George, he would have picked Donovan Mitchell instead"
Might be some of the dumbest trolling I've heard

 

[pete clemenza]

So they were going to kick Max Kellerman to the curb and SAS was cool with that

 

[Jplaya2023]

So they were going to kick Max Kellerman to the curb and SAS was cool with that

i think max would be a rotating guest and they would give him a podcast for his trouble