Breaking: ESPN Signs Stephen A Smith to a 6 Year $120M Deal

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He's earned it, but christ this man along with Skip Bayless have been the catalyst for the fall of sports journalism.
 

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I'm from where Petey come from
I remember when he used to be on Redskins Report and the Bullets show on NBC 4! The late George Michael put him on :mjcry:


With Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilson, David Aldridge, Dave Dupree, and Steven A was the star on that show and this was like 25 years ago :sas1:
 

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This is egregious.

Stephen A Smith is not a journalist. He's not a broadcaster. He's not a reporter, not a real one anyway. He's not a sports historian or documentarian.
He's an opinionated, louder version of Colin Cowherd or Bill Simmons who happens to be on television.
He's one step up from being a blogger, though I suppose with an extremely high profile.

I suppose if the numbers indicate that he draws enough advertising dollars, he's "worth" 20 million dollars a year.
But on so many levels, a person like this should not earn that kind of money. If you were going to create your own earth and you built roads and cities and jobs for your civilization to function and thrive, at no point would you ever set the rules so a fukkin dweeb who gives sports opinions would earn 20 million dollars a year.

Congrats.
But this is fukking gross.
 

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Well worth that if not more. Imagine what BSPN looks like without SAS? He been carrying they ass for years specially as they let go of some of the best talent.
 
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This is egregious.

Stephen A Smith is not a journalist. He's not a broadcaster. He's not a reporter, not a real one anyway. He's not a sports historian or documentarian.
He's an opinionated, louder version of Colin Cowherd or Bill Simmons who happens to be on television.
He's one step up from being a blogger, though I suppose with an extremely high profile.

I suppose if the numbers indicate that he draws enough advertising dollars, he's "worth" 20 million dollars a year.
But on so many levels, a person like this should not earn that kind of money. If you were going to create your own earth and you built roads and cities and jobs for your civilization to function and thrive, at no point would you ever set the rules so a fukkin dweeb who gives sports opinions would earn 20 million dollars a year.

Congrats.
But this is fukking gross.

Yall some born insecure haters, I swear. It's smileys of the nikka on this site for a reason.
 

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SAS is a Republican shill and has been a c00n many a time, but I will say he has helped many black folks come up and will give you an interview to grow your platform.

He used to call into random podcasts that were probably getting 100 listens and was giving them interviews back in the day. Probably doesn’t have the time to do that now but he has been about putting people on.

He still be c00ning though :hubie:
 

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They paying people who talk about sports as much as the actual players now.
 

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What is this pose to mean?
SAS and other sports analyst out here peddling and promoting sports betting. The same sports betting that they have blatant conflict of interest in and can easily manipulate to viewers with their talking points and rhetoric especially with how SAS loves to bring up his "sources".
 

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He should thank his connections with Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson

Stephen plays the game well and he stays on the fence when it comes to serious topics don’t crosses the line

I just saw him sit back on his podcast with jenifer lewis when she was dogging black men about voting for trump and all he did was “ well well i voted for Kamala “ never once came at that broad about white men and latino men voting heavily for trump
 

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I don't think people understand how popular Stephen A Smith is. He works for the biggest sports channel, has a huge social media following (5 million IG, 6 Million Twitter, 950k youtube). Anybody who goes into a negotiating room with those numbers is gonna come out on top. I give SAS credit too for being able to transition into the social media/podcasting space. Yea a lot of older people have done it, but they haven't been as successful.
 
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