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Behbigben15
The name's Ben Heck. I am 17-years old, and about to start my senior year at Queen Anne's County High School in Centreville, MD. I stand at 5 feet 8 inches and weigh 140 pounds. I am a Marylander, but I have been a Pittsburgh Steelers fan my entire life (my dad is from Pittsburgh).

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Skip is a Hockey Hater

by Behbigben15
created January 02, 2008, last edited February 10, 2009
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To all of you Hockey fans: Skip Bayless doesn't think Hockey is a sport.

I am not the biggest hockey fan, but I do watch it sometimes, and I really enjoyed the outdoor game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres, in which the game's biggest star, Sidney Crosby, scored the game-winning goal in a shootout to give Pittsburgh the 2-1 edge.  On "First and 10" a few minutes ago, socalled "expert" Skip Bayless bashed the NHL's decision to let Buffalo host an outdoor hockey game in the Buffalo Bill's Ralph Wilson Stadium.  Skip even said Hockey is not a sport, SAY WHAT!?!?!?!  It may not be as popular in the U.S. as Football, Baseball, or Basketball, but it certainly IS a sport which requires ALOT of athleticism.  I remember a user on AGM a while ago wrote an article about why hockey isn't a sport, and said that anybody that could skate can be a hockey player.  But, I bet he's never tried playing hockey before in his life.  I am not big into hockey, but I know enough to say that Hockey is as hard as Football, and that it is probably alot harder to play than Baseball, and Basketball.

People really need to stop bashing Hockey, I don't know what people have against it, but they obviously don't know what they're saying.  Skip is turning into a well-hated person (if he wasn't already), just like many other ESPN personalities (i.e. Stephen .A, Jay Mariotti, etc, etc, etc).

I think i've said enough about this subject, and I think i'll let our Hockey experts FrankD, Rawb, Metsjetsdevils, and others who know alot about hockey to say what they think about this bashing of hockey.


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SSreportersLegend
699 days ago
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Maybe that was the person writing this dumbass article
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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
699 days ago
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I don't like this new thing where they put elipses in the middle of long links.
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AfraidofedhochuliDraft Pick
699 days ago
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me neither
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SSreportersLegend
699 days ago
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It is supposed to read: Maybe he is the person who wrote this dumbass article.
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AfraidofedhochuliDraft Pick
699 days ago
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jesus...Skip started the year off right...2 hate articles in one day.
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Pittsburgh GunnyMajor Leaguer
699 days ago
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Skip Bayless? Never heard of him/her.
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Behbigben15All-Star
699 days ago
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You're lucky.
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Pittsburgh GunnyMajor Leaguer
699 days ago
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I suppose this is another one of those times where I should thank my lucky stars that I do not rely upon ESPN for my sporting information.
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Behbigben15All-Star
699 days ago
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Yeah, all I have is ESPN, ESPN2, and NFL Network. I don't have FSN, CSN, or any of those other sports channels:(
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The Ironman Jeff GarciaJV Squad
699 days ago
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In Skip's defense, he is still just coming to terms that there is a country called Canada.
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AfraidofedhochuliDraft Pick
699 days ago
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and that girls are built differently then boys
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SSreportersLegend
699 days ago
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And that 9+7=16
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LASportsblogAAA-er
699 days ago
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If I see two Skip Bayless features on the frontpage of AGM again I will blow my freaking mouth out of the back of my head.
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Ea34Div-I Stud
699 days ago
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I agree! The more attention we give this hack, the happier he is! Stop giving Skip Bayless attention! Don't let the terrorists win!
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LASportsblogAAA-er
699 days ago
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Guys like me and Ea who had to endure Jim Rome and Bill Plaschke and Skip Bayless on FSN West in the 90s know that you can't feed the punk-bitch breed of Troll.
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Tmil42AAA-er
699 days ago
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Here on the East Coast we get them too, albeit in smaller samples: Jim Rome has his national show (I like to call it Jim Rome Is Overcompensating), Bayless is on 1st & 10, and Plaschke is on that insufferable Around the Horn. All three are awful, I'll agree.
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LASportsblogAAA-er
699 days ago
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Ya somehow they've all somehow made it national. But before that Skip and Bill were Guest in Rome's forum segment of "The Last Word" a show with god awful lens quality. It wasn't as structured as Jim Rome Is Burning, and thusly was a slightly better program. Skip and Jim are "Tokens". They are the guys who relate to that idiot in your group of friends who says ignorant things about sports because he is just that, ignorant about sports. They bring That Guy into the audience so he can spit their rhetoric at us, thusly giving us all headaches. I've never met a person who uniformly agreed with Rome or Bayless or Cowherd that I liked as a person.
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Steel TownDraft Pick
699 days ago
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The problem is that it has become cool to bash hockey. Hockey may not make as much as the other sports, but really, it is doing fine.
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SSreportersLegend
699 days ago
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I think the fact that the US never wins anything hockey or soccer wise on the world stage is one of the reasons why we bash it.
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Ea34Div-I Stud
699 days ago
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So true. I have actually heard a lot of people say "If we're no good at it, it doesn't matter"- RIDICULOUS!
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CityhockeyfeverVarsity Captain
699 days ago
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Skip Bayless is a complete jackass and that is just being too kind. Hockey isn't a sport, huh? That assclown should go f**k off. So I guess poker tournaments and those caged fighting matches are, right Skip? What a piece of s**t... Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Ben. Maybe you guys can jam his e-mailbox with some kind words to tell him just what we think of his take on the NHL. That piece of garbage shouldn't even have a job.
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LASportsblogAAA-er
699 days ago
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Don't tell a guy called CityHockeyFever that Hockey isn't a sport... never...
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DRE-LOAAA-er
699 days ago
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Jim Rome and Skip Bayless... the cesspool of ESPN.
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SSreportersLegend
699 days ago
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Most of ESPN IS a cesspool.
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FrankDDiv-I Stud
698 days ago
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Now now...they had my boy Sid in the top 10 plays of New Year's Day not once but twice. I'd still prefer the NHL Network though.
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Anonymous Fanatic #1
699 days ago
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what these guys dont realize is that hockey is played on blades and ice thats alot harder then running on a wooden court in sneakers
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LASportsblogAAA-er
699 days ago
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Who are these guys, and why does it matter that skating is harder then running?
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LASportsblogAAA-er
699 days ago
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I personally actually like Hockey, just not ice hockey or the NHL. I don't ice skate well, I don't like the cold and the NHL is a marketing disaster. I enjoy roller and street hockey because it's much more like soccer with a stick to me and I can play it pretty well. People always equate Hockey :: NHL and that's just not true. That's like saying Soccer:: NASL. All hockey isn't NHL and all Soccer is not NASL...
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Napoleon15Red-Shirting
699 days ago
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Soccer = France's sport

France's sport = Not USA's sport

GO USA!!
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False ProphetAll-Star
698 days ago
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I'm a pretty big High School hockey fan. NHL is just a mess to try and follow
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Napoleon15Red-Shirting
698 days ago
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All you need to know is that the Avalanche are good and the Red Wings are bad.
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LASportsblogAAA-er
698 days ago
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Are you a Bruins fan too Nappy?
SKIP JR. This user is annoyed by the fact that Napoleon15 is Skip Bayless Jr.
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Falcon02520Legend
698 days ago
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wow Nap... ya come up with that all by yourself? I only ask because it is surprisingly close to what I said [here]
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Falcon02520Legend
698 days ago
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link didn't work above... try this url: http://www.a...erica's_Team?
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FrankDDiv-I Stud
698 days ago
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I've always thought that with a name like Skip he should be working as a copy boy at some small town paper. When he makes stupid comments like this he certainly supports my theory.

I think one of the most obnoxious things about Mr. Skip is that he pretends to be a mythological hockey guru. He's always the one dishing out worthless hockey knowledge that no one in their right mind should know. Things like, "In Game 7 of the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals, who took the fourth shot on goal?"

In the end, can you really get offended or take anything said by a guy named Skip to heart? I don't think so.
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LASportsblogAAA-er
698 days ago
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How about "Ace" or "Rocky" or "Dash" or "Kip" or any other stupid Baby Boomer nickname that they won't get rid of in their 50s.
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Cougar2000All-American
698 days ago
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We have to overlook Skip. He went to Vandy!
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IbeargRed-Shirting
698 days ago
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i think the article title should just be skip = hater. He hates on just about everything and everyone so hockey fans out there i wouldn't take it personally. The man might be the most perpetually annoyed person i've ever seen/heard. What's fun is when they have him on 1st and ten with Jamele Hill, the level of utter ridiculousness is entertaining. (for a short period anyway after that your head literally explodes, so be careful not to watch too long.)
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FrankDDiv-I Stud
698 days ago
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Here is the epitamy of cheesiness... http://youtu...=2mtbmBs3Q2U
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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer
698 days ago
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The new breed of sports writer is someone who yells outrageous, outlandish, and unsupportable claims across a table in an effort to garner "water-cooler" attention. The new breed of sports writer gets paid and gets publicity when they say something stupid, not when they say something smart. And we really shouldn't call them writers. They border on professional wrestlers at times, creating characters for themselves, making threats, and generally being ridiculous.
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LASportsblogAAA-er
698 days ago
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No, Rawbee, that's the last generation.

We're the Leaders of the New School, it's us who can control the future.

How are these 40 and 50 years olds the New Breed? If anything, refering to the young heads on ATH (Adande and Mike Smith) are two of the more intelligent and informed writers out there.
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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer
698 days ago
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we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
698 days ago
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Bayless isn't a real columnist so consider the source of opinion.
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