This is low key tough for me because I genuinely hate pretty much every "analyst" on ESPN with a few exceptions. I dislike their anchors and their 'set up men' as well. I could go name more, but I don't want to type too much so here's my four in order:
4. Jeff Van Gundy - He'll somehow manage to turn the Bobcats v.s Suns into a LeBron James rant, which will then be accompanied by an absolute love fest of praise between he and Breen for the Heat. Seriously, hearing him do Heat games is truly unlistenable. Then again, I'm talking about a guy who said the Heat was going to shatter the Bulls 72-9 record when he hadn't even saw them play a game yet...
3. Trent Dilfer- This guy is such a drama queen, it's ridiculous. Just a couple of weeks ago when some of the KC Chiefs' fans apparently cheered for Matt Cassell after getting knocked out of the game, he goes on a rant on how fans want instant gratification and how they're less educated about the game of football compared to fans in the past because of the highlights and fantasy stats... What he failed to mention of course, is that the company he works for, is a huge proprietor in both of those things he mentioned and is directly responsible for the 'dumbing down' of the average sports fan. How about some accountability mixed in with a lot more STFU. One of the worst QB's to ever win a Superbowl.
2. Larry Merchant - when he talks, it sounds like he's going in and out of a stupor, and his analysis on the fights reflect that as well because I have no clue what the hell fights he be watching because he's consistently wrong not only because he's old as shyt, but also due to not being able to put aside personal biases and grudges.
1. Stephen A. Smith- I initially didn't have a problem with this dude until he begin overstepping his boundaries outside of his 'expertise', which in turn he expose himself as an idiot with a delusional sense of self-importance. When he went on to defend that ESPN writer for that Jeremy Lin headline, and the first words that he uttered was that and I quote verbatim "the black community has to recognize that we share a level of culpability in any kind of incident like that that transpires..." I was done with this idiot. I don't think if I'd be able to contain myself if I met him in person because since then, I always wanted to catch that fade with him (not trying to be tough). Black people are unjustly blamed for enough in this country and yet this guy wants to throw us under the bus for one of his melanin-deficient colleagues who thought a racist joke would be funny? Just because you can put words together eloquently don't mean that you nice. The guy is a babbling buffoon who loves to hear himself speak.
DIShonorable mentions: Mark Schlereth, Lou Holtz and his big ass glasses,
Jon Ritchie (the former Raiders fullback who use to be on First take. Idiot said he wouldn't have done anything to Sandusky if he would've caught him in a shower molesting a little boy. He said he would've been too shocked and devastated; then he said if he did do anything, he would've ran and called the cops. Didn't say anything about stopping the act
Matt Millen (off the strength of him crying like a bytch for Paterno & Penn State on national TV when shyt started to hit the fan.)