When it comes to Fox Sports personality Skip Bayless, he’s leveraged an entire, successful media career by being loudly and stubbornly wrong about athletes and major sporting events.
So, when basketball fans (or fans of sports in general, really) all marveled at Saturday’s epic game between top-seeded Gonzaga and No. 11 seed UCLA in the men’s national semifinal, it seemed inevitable that Bayless would chime in with something to undercut the moment.
That, he did.
Basically, Bayless watched UCLA and Gonzaga go back-and-forth for 45 minutes — a game that ended with Jalen Suggs’ banked-in buzzer beater — and thought it wasn’t in the all-time-game conversation because Suggs’ shot was “lucky.”
No idea how you can call that an all-time great college basketball game when it was won by a lucky shot.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) April 4, 2021
And sure, there’s always recency bias when it comes to all-time great proclamations, but in every sense, that game on Saturday night was just a delightful basketball-watching experience.
A classic game with an all-time ending. pic.twitter.com/VUxuOsNNlW
— Chris Vannini 😷💉 (@ChrisVannini) April 4, 2021
Fans lashed out at Bayless’ tweet for what it was — a disingenuous cry for attention.
Skip bayless when he gets a chance to hate on another athlete for no reason pic.twitter.com/LVC1PX4CkX
— Josh🍇 (@IcyKenyan) April 4, 2021
“GONZAGA HAS JUST WON THE GAME ON A BUZZER BEATER!”
Skip Bayless: pic.twitter.com/i4GAvX7grE— Booger McFarland Burner (@BoogersBurnAcc) April 4, 2021
It is truly a lifestyle for this man. Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t commit this hard. https://t.co/F0alSDdLfL
— Tyler Parker (@tylrparkr) April 4, 2021
These are the trash takes that cost Fox Sports a whopping $32 million.
It's amazing just how low the lowest common denominator really is. https://t.co/2zrhHUC3OH
— Brad Evans (@NoisyHuevos) April 4, 2021
Lesson to future generations: This is how to make $8 million a year. https://t.co/8uDObyF2Mu
— Benjamin Wolk (@benjaminwolk) April 4, 2021
Fox pays this guy $8M a year for you to get pissed at him on Twitter, while mid-market sportscasters work 13 hour days at a $45K salary doing feature stories on your kids. https://t.co/GgWebsPiBb
— Ari Alexander (@AriA1exander) April 4, 2021
Skip Bayless every time he sees a future star player he can hate on for his career. pic.twitter.com/YyHrkuqRzn
— Flight’s Burner (@FRBurnerAcct) April 4, 2021
Society if Skip Bayless never spoke again https://t.co/wiVPizIoU6 pic.twitter.com/3uo4mzbTDe
— RAVI (@basedrav) April 4, 2021
Skip makes money for throwing out completely awful takes https://t.co/xK1McQAG4c
— Dan (38-11) (@jazzfandanman) April 4, 2021
How does this man still get paid to talk about anything? https://t.co/Lb5O1e0ycp
— Casey Patrick (@cvp51) April 4, 2021
Bruh stay hating…🤦🏽♂️ https://t.co/lSJXLe8tA8
— Darrynton Evans (@ItzLiveee) April 4, 2021
