Is Undisputed The Worst Show Ever?

[Rembrandt Brown]

My disgust began with Shannon's giggle at the 42 second mark. A minute later, I'd had all I could take.

His fangirling for LeBron is the worst thing on TV. He legitimately seems smitten. Every day, they talk about LeBron and he launches into this routine like he's a school girl and his crush's name just came up at a slumber party.

Most people will agree that Skip Bayless is a troll and a hack, so I'll chalk that up as a given. But today I realized that Skip's monster is perhaps even worse than Skip. There just is not a worse possible pairing. Never again will I click on the Ambiguously Sports Duo's role playing.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Here is Jason Whitlock circa 2012 on the dumbing down of television-- His show is not nearly in the same ring of Hell as Undisputed but I wonder is he'd stand by his commentary today and how he would apply it to his network's programming:

Dec 21, 2012

Previously, I’ve explained that First Take is a black barbershop conversation. “Black enough” conversations are a frequent topic in black barbershops. President Obama’s “blackness” is dissected on a daily basis, as is President Clinton’s (I’m not joking). Unless you’re covered in tatts, have more than three baby mamas or are currently working regular shifts selling bean pies and Final Calls for the Fruit of Islam, your blackness can and likely will be questioned at some point inside a black barbershop.

For decades — even centuries — intelligent human life forms were able to distinguish the difference between conversations appropriate for the barbershop and not appropriate for mass broadcast distribution. There’s a lot of sex talk inside the barbershops I frequent. Brothers lose it when Josina Anderson appears on ESPN. Should this be a segment on First Take?

Our public conversations are being dumbed down. Why?

Because there’s a growing mass of American humanity demanding a dumbed-down conversation they can access. [...]

Why?

The mass incarceration created by our immoral war on drugs. Mass incarceration corrupts the values of a free society. We wrongly think our world-leading incarceration rate makes our society more civil and safe. It is rotting our core, polluting our values, unleashing corruptive forces that powered the Wall Street mortgage crisis, the urban warfare we read about every day and all the other forms of greed-induced fraudulence plaguing America.

It’s not just the prisoner who is corrupted by the degradation of incarceration. It’s the jailer, too. It’s the community that houses the prison. It’s the loved ones of the prisoner and the prison employees. It’s society as a whole. Our love of guns and paranoid preparation for a race war are fueled by the paranoia and race tension found within prison walls. The unfairness of the drug war and mass incarceration breed a bitterness and cynicism throughout society that undermines our ability to see the characteristics that bind us, to see the good and necessity of working together.

Despite the myths spawned by Grover Norquist and other Ronald Reagan groupies, the Soviet Union collapsed from the internal wounds of mass incarceration not because of Reagan’s military might and foreign policy. The Soviet Union couldn’t withstand the pervasive corruption. We can’t either.

Let me take this back to First Take, the show that features barbershop conversation. A common trade learned in prison is barber. I’d estimate that a good 10 to 15 percent of black barbers have been incarcerated. Who sits around at a barbershop talking all day? Who frequents barbershops selling colognes and hot clothes? Ex-cons. The unemployed.

Who is at home with the free time to watch First Take at 10 a.m. every weekday? Nightshift workers and the unemployed. The unemployment rate for black men is around 13 to 14 percent. I’d think that number is significantly higher for black male ex-cons.

First Take is catering to a growing demographic. Rob Parker at one time owned a barbershop in Detroit — “Sporty Cutz,” I believe, was the name. He knows the demographic well. He knows what they talk about and what they want to see talked about on TV.

He and ESPN are not trying to elevate the conversation and uplift the victims of America’s mass incarceration crime. Parker and ESPN simply want to make a buck, no different from the corporations building prisons all across America.

 

[killagram]

Rembrandt means..whore..didn't cha know... Shannon Sharpe..is a champion amongst everyone but CACS...WHORE

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Rembrandt means..whore..didn't cha know... Shannon Sharpe..is a champion amongst everyone but CACS...WHORE

Shannon sounds like he wants to invite LeBron to share a couple bottles of wine.

I'm not suggesting he's actually gay but he's riding this gimmick hard. He sounds irrationally infatuated. Constantly.

 

[ronmch20]

I'll bet anything the OP cast the ONE vote for "the worst show ever". Hey Board members looks like we have our own equally coonish Jason Whitlock.

 

[killagram]

Shannon sounds like he wants to invite LeBron to share a couple bottles of wine.

I'm not suggesting he's actually gay but he's riding this gimmick hard. He sounds irrationally infatuated. Constantly.

Is that all you see him do? He speaks of our lost civil rights all the time..I fuck with Shannon da long way.. brah

 

[Amajorfucup]

Here is Jason Whitlock circa 2012 on the dumbing down of television-- His show is not nearly in the same ring of Hell as Undisputed but I wonder is he'd stand by his commentary today and how he would apply it to his network's programming:

Dec 21, 2012

Previously, I’ve explained that First Take is a black barbershop conversation. “Black enough” conversations are a frequent topic in black barbershops. President Obama’s “blackness” is dissected on a daily basis, as is President Clinton’s (I’m not joking). Unless you’re covered in tatts, have more than three baby mamas or are currently working regular shifts selling bean pies and Final Calls for the Fruit of Islam, your blackness can and likely will be questioned at some point inside a black barbershop.

For decades — even centuries — intelligent human life forms were able to distinguish the difference between conversations appropriate for the barbershop and not appropriate for mass broadcast distribution. There’s a lot of sex talk inside the barbershops I frequent. Brothers lose it when Josina Anderson appears on ESPN. Should this be a segment on First Take?

Our public conversations are being dumbed down. Why?

Because there’s a growing mass of American humanity demanding a dumbed-down conversation they can access. [...]

Why?

The mass incarceration created by our immoral war on drugs. Mass incarceration corrupts the values of a free society. We wrongly think our world-leading incarceration rate makes our society more civil and safe. It is rotting our core, polluting our values, unleashing corruptive forces that powered the Wall Street mortgage crisis, the urban warfare we read about every day and all the other forms of greed-induced fraudulence plaguing America.

It’s not just the prisoner who is corrupted by the degradation of incarceration. It’s the jailer, too. It’s the community that houses the prison. It’s the loved ones of the prisoner and the prison employees. It’s society as a whole. Our love of guns and paranoid preparation for a race war are fueled by the paranoia and race tension found within prison walls. The unfairness of the drug war and mass incarceration breed a bitterness and cynicism throughout society that undermines our ability to see the characteristics that bind us, to see the good and necessity of working together.

Despite the myths spawned by Grover Norquist and other Ronald Reagan groupies, the Soviet Union collapsed from the internal wounds of mass incarceration not because of Reagan’s military might and foreign policy. The Soviet Union couldn’t withstand the pervasive corruption. We can’t either.

Let me take this back to First Take, the show that features barbershop conversation. A common trade learned in prison is barber. I’d estimate that a good 10 to 15 percent of black barbers have been incarcerated. Who sits around at a barbershop talking all day? Who frequents barbershops selling colognes and hot clothes? Ex-cons. The unemployed.

Who is at home with the free time to watch First Take at 10 a.m. every weekday? Nightshift workers and the unemployed. The unemployment rate for black men is around 13 to 14 percent. I’d think that number is significantly higher for black male ex-cons.

First Take is catering to a growing demographic. Rob Parker at one time owned a barbershop in Detroit — “Sporty Cutz,” I believe, was the name. He knows the demographic well. He knows what they talk about and what they want to see talked about on TV.

He and ESPN are not trying to elevate the conversation and uplift the victims of America’s mass incarceration crime. Parker and ESPN simply want to make a buck, no different from the corporations building prisons all across America.

Ahhh yes.. ESPN criticism before he went crawling back with hat in hand and also before they ran his fat ass out the building a second time for being an unbearable workplace cancer.

Whitlock is the biggest hypocrite and POS of the lot. Atleast Shannon and Skip are having fun and everyone seems to be in on the joke. Unlike Whitlock who takes himself way too serious while virtue signaling and moralizing and trying to appease the white masses by being the contrarian who is hyper critical of all things black.

 

[babydaddy]

2 things that's gonna happen every show is shannon gonna talk about lebron and skip gonna bring up the cowboys.

 

[ronmch20]

Is the OP really Entrepronegro posting under an assumed name?

 

[RAY V.]

Man ya'll leave old school Shannon Sharp alone, i be relating to all of the shit he says on there
Get em' Unc Shannon!

 

[Ballatician]

I like Undisputed during football season.

 

[SpiritualPorn]

Shannon is alright.

Skip is ridiculous

 

[IVEBEEN]

It's a very entertaining show, shannon's LeBron defense an skip's trolling included, oh and fuck Jason whitlock, you just told on yourself Op.

 

[zx10 rider]

Shannon rides LeBron jock skip rides Tom Brady’s jock there a match made in heaven

 

[crazyace718]

Is that all you see him do? He speaks of our lost civil rights all the time..I fuck with Shannon da long way.. brah

 

[M3MD]

My disgust began with Shannon's giggle at the 42 second mark. A minute later, I'd had all I could take.

His fangirling for LeBron is the worst thing on TV. He legitimately seems smitten. Every day, they talk about LeBron and he launches into this routine like he's a school girl and his crush's name just came up at a slumber party.

Most people will agree that Skip Bayless is a troll and a hack, so I'll chalk that up as a given. But today I realized that Skip's monster is perhaps even worse than Skip. There just is not a worse possible pairing. Never again will I click on the Ambiguously Sports Duo's role playing.

It's Shannon's shtick man... It's not that serious. It's just to entertain and make folks laugh.

 

[AllUniverse17]

My disgust began with Shannon's giggle at the 42 second mark. A minute later, I'd had all I could take.

His fangirling for LeBron is the worst thing on TV. He legitimately seems smitten. Every day, they talk about LeBron and he launches into this routine like he's a school girl and his crush's name just came up at a slumber party.

Most people will agree that Skip Bayless is a troll and a hack, so I'll chalk that up as a given. But today I realized that Skip's monster is perhaps even worse than Skip. There just is not a worse possible pairing. Never again will I click on the Ambiguously Sports Duo's role playing.

Is this your first time watching the show?

Every Lebron topic on that show is an act. Skip started his act over a decade ago. Shannon has to match Skip's act for the segments to work otherwise there is no "debate".

Other then Lebron topics, the show does have alot of value. I cant name ONE sports tv show head who keeps it all the way real like Shannon when it comes to race/social topics. Not a single one.

 

[DaMostHy]

Is Rembrandt Brown aka Costanza the worst poster in BGOL history?

 

[KingTaharqa]

Shannon is alright.

Skip is ridiculous

But Skip dickrides Tom Brady and Michael Jordan so he's tolerable to LeBron haters like the OP. Skip became the highest paid "analyst" on TV catering to them.

 

[Big Tex]

That’s definitely art vandalay with the different typestyles and long ass posts.

 

[JustChillin]

Better than First Take.....

 

[shaddyvillethug]

That’s definitely art vandalay with the different typestyles and long ass posts.

Man I was just finna say this

Costanza is easy to spot

He almost fooled me

 

[g0nbad real bad]

Somebody come get the OP.

 

[Pworld297]

Shannon is alright.

Skip is ridiculous

Yeah I'm use to Shannon overtop
Praise for LeBron but Skip constantly saying crazy shit especially the way he's been hatin on Kawhi, it's ridiculous!

 

[pookie]

Shannon is alright.

Skip is ridiculous

Yeah I'm use to Shannon overtop
Praise for LeBron but Skip constantly saying crazy shit especially the way he's been hatin on Kawhi, it's ridiculous!

Yeah that Kawhi hate is really stupid. He made a whole 10 minute debate on how Kawhis buzzer beater to beat the 76ers was lucky, acting like he was a basketball scientist with his “the ball is supposed to bounce this way or that way and I’ve never seen it do that”,mannnnnn shut the fuck up. In the game to beat the Bucks he on there talking about “he was 1-8 from the 3 point line”

Shannon is cool but he does bring Lebron name up to much, no matter what sport they are talking about he’ll slide a “that man from Akron” in there, other than that he is the only reason I watch the show

 

[Pworld297]

Yeah that Kawhi hate is really stupid. He made a whole 10 minute debate on how Kawhis buzzer beater to beat the 76ers was lucky, acting like he was a basketball scientist with his “the ball is supposed to bounce this way or that way and I’ve never seen it do that”,mannnnnn shut the fuck up. In the game to beat the Bucks he on there talking about “he was 1-8 from the 3 point line”

Shannon is cool but he does bring Lebron name up to much, no matter what sport they are talking about he’ll slide a “that man from Akron” in there, other than that he is the only reason I watch the show

Yeah bruh it's utterly ridiculous the arguments he be trying to make. The thing is he's been doing it for years and has made a lot of money doing it.

 

[Varis]

Oblongs was the worst cartoon ever

 

[D'Evils]

I like Undisputed during football season.

This.... Shannon gives great insight on Football for obvious reasons...

But Undisputed works better in Basketball season when they have former players on like Stephen Jackson to balance the discussion....

Shannon goes to fanboy during Basketball topics and Skip is Skip....

 

[Ballatician]

This.... Shannon gives great insight on Football for obvious reasons...

But Undisputed works better in Basketball season when they have former players on like Stephen Jackson to balance the discussion....

Shannon goes to fanboy during Basketball topics and Skip is Skip....

Same with the other show with Cris Carter, I don’t like to hear him talk basketball, but his football insight is golden. Fox sport shows beats First Take during football season, I wonder what the ratings are during NFL season?

 

[killagram]

Street shit..brah

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

It's Shannon's shtick man... It's not that serious. It's just to entertain and make folks laugh.

I know. I'm not trying to build a Media Matters group to take it off the air like Tucker Carlson. I just don't see how it works. It's some Idiocracy shit.

Is that all you see him do? He speaks of our lost civil rights all the time..I fuck with Shannon da long way.. brah

Is this your first time watching the show?

Every Lebron topic on that show is an act. Skip started his act over a decade ago. Shannon has to match Skip's act for the segments to work otherwise there is no "debate".

Other then Lebron topics, the show does have alot of value. I cant name ONE sports tv show head who keeps it all the way real like Shannon when it comes to race/social topics. Not a single one.

I may have seen a clip or two before this year but I've just recently really delved into what FOX Sports is pushing these days.

Mike Wilbon has been less real on race/social topics than Shannon Sharpe? Sharpe does not seem to be out there on some Dave Zirin shit or doing/saying anything significant, so I'm not seeing a basis for people spinning him as redeemable for political, social or racial reason.

]Shannon is cool but he does bring Lebron name up to much, no matter what sport they are talking about he’ll slide a “that man from Akron” in there, other than that he is the only reason I watch the show

I've only seen the show during NBA season but the way LeBron is the sun of their universe just discredits the entire program for me. It's so ridiculously cheap.

 

[Amajorfucup]

I've only seen the show during NBA season but the way LeBron is the sun of their universe just discredits the entire program for me. It's so ridiculously cheap.

Thats the case for all the sports debate shows tho. Metrics largely determine what these shows allot air time toward. And nothing moves the meter like Lebron. The guy hasnt played in months and he still occupies more airtime than all other teams and players.

 

[LordSinister]

Did this fool just quote Coonlock?

I can only watch his show to see the other brothers stomp a mud hole in his arguments.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Thats the case for all the sports debate shows tho. Metrics largely determine what these shows allot air time toward. And nothing moves the meter like Lebron. The guy hasnt played in months and he still occupies more airtime than all other teams and players.

I don't have numbers to quantify it so this may be an "agree to disagree" issue but, while all shows overcover LeBron for easy ratings, it's very obvious that conversation on "Undisputed" defaults to "'I'll defend LeBron no matter what' vs 'Here is every anti-LeBron argument possible'" in a way unlike any other show.

 

[footloose]

Y’all bugging. This my shit