Black List -- Skip Bayless

I couldn't leave James Carville / Gollum all by his lonesome on my black list. So, I've chosen a new member: Skip Bayless. Mr. Bayless is a part-time analyst on ESPN, and a full-time a**hole.

I dislike Mr. Bayless for many of the same reasons that I dislike Carville -- he's condescending to his fellow analysts and focuses more on insults and elementary school bully-ness than actually providing, you know, some sort of insight.

So why do I bother watching a man I so clearly despise? It's a waste of my time, right?

Wrong. I watch Skip Bayless because I wait in eager anticipation for the day when he gets crushed. And I want to clarify that when I say crushed, I don't mean it in the figurative, "Gee, I hope a fellow analyst verbally destroys him in a debate and makes him look foolish"-sense. I mean it literally.

I haven't really thought about it too much, but the ideal scenario I have floating around in my head is this: Some sort of fur-clad Mongol warrior-looking type walking onto the ESPN set with a large club and/or sword, and Bayless cowering in the fetal position while pleading for mercy. Something like that.

Truthfully, I've heard various anecdotes about Bayless being a nice guy "off-camera." That's fine, but hearing that doesn't deter me from my aforementioned wish. I'm perfectly fine with him getting pulverized "on-camera" -- if he's going to be a jerk there, it's the place where he deserves it -- and being left alone off-camera where he's "a nice guy." The very least it would do is make for some riveting television.

While we're on the topic, I guess I don't understand the fostering of separate on- and off-camera personalities for a sports commentator. Last I checked that was called acting, and not sports analysis. Please do what you are PAID to do, Skip.