2009 NBA Year in Review

Check a sweet slideshow of the distant future, 2009, in the NBA.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/96910-2009-the-year-in-review-in-the-nba

The Legend of Mike Vanderjagt: Best Kicker Ever or Drunken Fool

Who is the best place kicker to ever play in the NFL? This question can not be answered without deciding which qualities determine who is the best to ever kick an oblong ball through two sticks.

One important factor must be about being the best to play during your time period and also being innovative while your at it. If you want to use those qualities, Lou Groza is the best ever.

It seems as though the place kicker is only in the game when the game is on the line, so the ideal kicker would have to be Adam Vinateri.

Maybe the "athlete" who had a very long career and was reliable enough to score the most points ever, and then the best ever would have to be one of the unbiological brother Anderso(e)n: Morten Andersen or Gary Anderson.

If you happen to be Al Davis then all you must care about is pure power, and then there is no question that Sebastian Janikowski takes the cake.

But when it comes down to it, you want a kicker that is going to get the ball through the uprights the highest percentage of times possible, and then, and only then may I add, is Mike Vanderjagt the best kicker ever.

Vanderjagt's humble beginnings started in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. His parents did not know it yet, but their son would become the greatest to ever play his position in a league they had never heard of, the NFL.

Vanderjagt's youth was a rough one. While all the boys at school where playing hockey, Mikey (as my sources say he liked to be called at the time), would be kicking a deformed rugby ball over and over in the alley's of Oakville. This of course led to him being called terrible names that an American like myself, has no use in saying and even trying to understand. But, to prove himself worthy, Mikey would kick his deformed rugby balls on ice during intermission periods of any local hockey games he could find.

Mikey would set up the ball at the middle of the ice and the people in the stands would of course start mocking him. Mikey would then go on to kick the ball at the heads of all his mockers with each them throwing the ball back at him, so he could continue his act until the zamboni would almost run him over.

This hard work of kicking people in the head, developed immense accuracy for Mikey, now known just as "Jagt". Jagt acquired many fans, and by the time that he reached high school, he was now the main attraction for all his schools hockey games.

In a recruiting trip to Canada, the hockey coach for Michigan State University had come to Jagt's high school and was so impressed by getting kicked in the head from such a distance, he gave Jagt a scholarship for the football team on the spot...to play quarterback.

Jagt did not do so well playing QB seeing as how he had no experience so he went to Community College for a year and then eventually found his calling as the punter and place kicker for West Virginia.

Jagt was so impressive that the Canadian Football gave him a call up immediately after his graduation. He was not that great in his first couple seasons in Canada, but this young man would not let pure stats hold him down. After four seasons in the CFL he was picked up by the Indiapolis Colts as a free agent.

The odds were against him to do well, but undettered as he always was, he went on to become one of the most accurate kickers the league had ever seen. In 2003, he made all 37 field goals that he attempted, and made the All-Pro team.

Peyton Manning once called called Jagt "our drunk idiot kicker" after Jagt said that Peyton was, in short, soft. But the fact was that Jagt was good enough to get away with saying that kind of stuff because of his performance. Unfortunately for him, once his performance started to decline, no team wanted him, not even the Cowboys, well not more than three years. Jagt's career ended in 2006 after a debacle of a season with the Cowboys.

To be totally serious though, Vanderjagt has to be considered one of the best of all time. There is no doubting that his 88.5 career field goals percentage is the best the NFL has ever seen. No matter how you look at it, you want a kicker that is going to put the ball through the uprights at the highest percentage.

Jagt's performance on the field, even though mostly in a dome, gives him a good argument as being the best ever. Well, best ever if forget the fact that he missed a lot of important kicks...

The Transition Of Power in the NBA From West to East

Here is a little something that I did in my spare time. It's lengthy, but has a lot of good stuff in it.

It seems as though that every professional league here goes through a pendulum swing of power, from one conference to another.

Here is an in depth look into the NFL, MLB, and NBA's history of dominance of conference's with most of the time spent on the NBA.

In the NFL from 1984-1996 the NFC won every Super Bowl and only lost one from 1981-1996. Then immediately following that stretch from 1997-2006, the AFC won eight out of the ten Super Bowls.

The MLB, after following a decent amount of research, probably is the most even when it comes to winnings streaks for a conference (yes the AL and NL are no longer real leagues because they both answer to one commissioner). But going back to 1975 the NL won six of the following eight World Series, and then immediately following that streak the AL won sixteen titles to the NL's only eight starting with the Baltimore Orioles in 1983 and the Boston Red Sox in 2007. Once again a lot more even the NFL and NBA, but still when you win two-thirds of the time it's a lot more uneven than the ideal winning percentage of one half.

The NBA has the longest history of domination by conference, and this can largely be explained by the dominance of single teams.

Of the 62 total NBA championships to date, four team, the Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, and Spurs have won 41 times! That is 13% of the number of teams in the league today winning 66% of every title played for.

To go even farther, if you add in the Pistons, Warriors, and 76ers, who all have won three championships, to the Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, and Spurs, you have 23% of the teams winning 80% of the titles!

These teams have all been a major part of the pendulum of power in the NBA as well. Let's start at the beginning so you can see the true swaying back and forth of power.

In 1947, the first season of the precursor to the NBA, the Basketball Association of America, the Philadelphia Warriors from the Eastern Conference defeated the Western Conference champion Chicago Stags.

The East would not see the title again until 1955. In that seven year stretch the West won every year highlighted by George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers winning five of those doing it back to back and then the first three peat in the association's young history.

When the Syracuse Nationals, now known as the 76ers, won in 1955 the pendulum swung back to Eastern Conference. In a stretch of sixteen seasons the West only one the annual contest between the best of the East and West only once when the St. Louis Hawks defeated the Boston Celtics in 1958. This then inspired Bill Russell and Red Auerbach and their Celtics to win eight straight titles, with a total of 11 in that time period of Eastern dominance.

The West did catch up, but did not surpass the East. From 1971 to 1988, the West won ten titles and the East won eight. A 56 winning percentage by the West can by no means be described as dominant, with neither conference able to have a streak longer than two in a row.

The Pistons and then the Bulls took the pendulum back to the East side from 1989-1998, with the Pistons going back to back, then the Bulls three peated twice with the Houston Rockets from the West winning a title when Jordan retired for the first time.

From 1999 to the present we have seen a domination by the West, with the Lakers winning three in a row with Shaq and Kobe, and the Spurs winning four in nine years. There was a stretch of five in a row by the Spurs and Lakers from 1999-2003, and from then to now the Larry O'Brien trophy switched hands every year.

There is the argument that since most of these stretches of domination were by single dynasty-esque teams, that the competition in their respective conference was weak. And, this can be a very pressing point especially when you look at the NBA where seven teams have won over 80% of the time.

What I have to say against that is that winning begets winning.

There was no question that during this past stretch of domination by the West where only two teams won the title, that the Western Conference was far superior to their eastern counterparts.

During that stretch the Kings, Suns, Mavericks, and even the Timberwolves who were all considered not as good as the Lakers and Spurs, seemed to be leaps and bounds better than the middle group in the East. And the reason for this one-sidedness can be explained by European soccer, surprisingly.

Each country in Europe has a top soccer division, and the top team(s) in the each country gets to play in the Champions League. Now, to win in the Champions League you have to be as better than every other team in Europe.

Unfortunately for the mid-level clubs in each country, there is no way they can compete with the top teams unless they build a team that is comparable with all the top teams from all over Europe. So, what eventually happens is what has happened in England where there are four teams that are always at the top, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Liverpool.

Now, take that and compare it to the NBA, where the dominant conference is the Champions League and the other being the Premier League.

The teams in the Champions League have to all build up to play against the Manchester United's of the world mostly because they have to play them at least four times a year, and they get a shot to knock them out in the playoffs. On the other hand the teams in the Premier League only have to play the teams in the Champions League twice and they can play each other in the playoffs for a chance to take out the winners of the Champions League in the finals.

The difference between US sports leagues and the European club style is that the Premier Leagues don't have any Champions League teams in their conference. This leads to complacency, and also leads to one conference dominating the other, because you only have to be a little better than your top competitor within your conference. And if your top competitor is not in the Champions League, you don't have to be a Champions League caliber team for a shot to win the championship.

Another key difference is that US leagues allow for more competitive balance, and this is why there is a pendulum effect of one conference being better than another.

What I am truly saying is that bad teams are rewarded with top talent by means of the draft. In basketball one player can affect a teams performance more than any other sport. This is because is has the smallest amount of players playing at one time, and the top players can play for the whole game. So, by bad teams getting top pick after top pick, the bad conference will eventually get a lot better because the MJ, Magic, and LeBron's of the world make such a huge impact.

This all helps the Premier League become the Champions League, because the players in the Champions League get old and retire and do not get the top talent in the amateur draft, all the while the top talent for the worse conference go into their prime, and the pendulum goes back to the other side.

Now here is the point where I am going to give you, the much respected reader, an opportunity to understand fully why I say that the East has taken over the power in the NBA.

Sure I could be like all the talking heads on ESPN and talk radio and give you no reasoning and history behind why I say this. But if you actually have read this far, I just gave you the history, and I now going to give you the reasoning.

I can't put a finger on the exact moment when the pendulum started to swing back to the East, but I believe that there was a series of events that happened that caused it to occur in this order: when the Pistons beat the Shaq, Kobe, Karl Malone, and Gary Payton Lakers; Shaq being traded to Heat; and/or when Brian Colangelo took the job in Toronto.

When the Pistons beat the star studded Lakers it was an amazing thing.

Everyone thought that the Lakers could not lose after Derek Fisher's miracle game winning shot with .4 seconds against the Spurs. But, the Pistons took it to the Spurs and shocked the whole world.

This gave the East hope, because then they knew it was possible to actually take on the West, but they would have to do it in an unique way that really could not be duplicated.

The Pistons created the perfect storm of personnel, coaching, and management to win their last title. The whole concept of amazing defense and tenacity in a period of time when it was frowned upon by the league office, was revolutionary. As a side note I say it was frowned upon because of the changes of rules to take down the hardcore Pat Riley Knicks, original Bad Boy Pistons, and Dennis Rodman's of the 1990s, to inspire more points which leads to more fan interest and money.

The Pistons showed that beating the West was possible, and when Shaq was traded to the Heat for Lamar Oden, Caron Butler and Brian Grant, it told the East that it was OK to acquire top talent by other means not called the draft. I say this because I just can't recall any star players even wanting to play in the East during that time period, because most of the stars in the NBA were playing in the West.

Lastly, I really believe that Bryan Colangelo moving to the East was really the catalyst for the change we are about to see the in NBA.

What Brian Colangelo brought to the Phoenix Suns was an extremely innovative style of play that while it was copied from Don Nelson, was perfected in Arizona. Colangelo brought in Mark Dantonio who coached a fast paced style that was extremely conducive to winning. While that style has never won a championship, it allowed lower quality teams to compete with teams like the Lakers and Spurs who were winning championships.

Colangelo resigned from the Suns and signed with the Toronto Raptors to be their GM all in early 2006. When this happened Mark Dantonio did not have the proper support system around him, and as we have all seen this season, he left for the Knicks, and the Suns have been what can only be described as ugly without him.

Colangelo also brought the idea of signing players from Europe to the East. This was something that he did amazingly well with the Suns. It can be seen that the foreigners signed by the West such as Pau Gasol, Manu Ginobli, Tony Parker, Leandro Barbosa, and others were far more successful than the ones in the East; Darko Milicic comes to mind as the prime example.

So now, we are in a state where the Eastern Conference seems to be superior to the West. With the big three in Boston, LeBron in Cleveland, the Pistons being the Pistons, Dwight Howard pulling down everything for the Magic, the Bosh and crew Raptors, and now Derek Rose who is looking like he is going to be a star in Chicago. All of this is happening while it seems like the only up and coming team in the West are the Hornets.

So maybe I am wrong and the West will be able to keep up with the East, but if history has told us anything, the arm of the pendulum seems to be going eastward.

Andris Biedrins...WTF!?

Andris Biedrins, who the hell do you think you are? Shaq? Dwight? Kareem? Russell?

I mean really. You just put up 17 pts and 21 boards.

21 REBOUNDS, I mean come on!

I know you play for a team that is conducive to nice fantasy stats, but god damn. Why must you do it against my team.

But what is really scary is that this is the second time that you have grabbed 20 rebounds this season.

I remember you as a softy that only put up decent rebound numbers because the rest of your team refused to play defense, but bringing down 20 plus boards not once, but twice means you aren't soft.

What confuses me even more is that if you continue to put up the numbers you have so far this season (15 pts, 12 reb, and 1.5 blks), then you have to be considered one of the top centers in the league.

I mean sure, we are in a time when there are no real dominant centers, but to say that you are one of the best big men in the NBA no matter when it says something.

I look at the Western Conference, and you lead all centers, and every other position now that I actually look into it, in rebounds in a conference that has Yao, Shaq, Al Jefferson (he is good, I promise), Camby, Boozer, Duncan, Oden, and all the other dominant big men in the supposed better conference.

Biedrins, you are second in the league in rebounding to Dwight Howard. I never thought I would ever say that besides for maybe after the first game of the season, in which Biedrins had a career game.

They say the numbers don't lie, no matter how much as our soon-to-be-out-of-work-President would like to say otherwise. So, Andris Biedrins you are officially a beast on the boards, and have proven no matter how much I would love to say this fececiously, I just can't, you should seriously be considered for MVP.

Gary Bettman Has Gone Too Far With The Avery Suspension, But Still Can Go Farther

David Stern, Roger Goodell, Bud Selig, and Gary Bettman.

Now ask yourself, who does not belong? And the answer is Bettman.

See, Stern, Goodell, and even Selig all have the respect of the players and coaches in their respective leagues. In every interview that you see a coach go off on a referee you will always say "I don't care if they fine me". This is because they know that their respective commissioner is does not let things like that slide.

Bettman is a whole other story.

He runs a league that basically celebrates fighting. Now, I will be the first one to say that fighting in the NHL is probably the only reason why I would watch a telecast of a game. Fighting is basically the lifeblood that keeps the on the fence fan, on the fence.

The problem is that if you are not going to fine or suspend a player for fighting, then you really have no reason to penalize anyone for anything besides for an illegal hit such as the Marty McSorley and Donald Brashear.

So when Gary Bettman suspended Sean Avery for saying that other players are getting on his sloppy seconds, a known fact, he, being Bettman crossed the line.


I mean really is calling a guy out for taking your sloppy seconds really worse then bashing a guys face in until he is flat on the ice?

This whole Avery thing got us at The Skip Bayless Report thinking about what else the NHL and Bettman is going to start suspended players for. Here are the ten most probable new reasons why a player would get suspended.

1. Not growing a playoff beard even if you are not in the playoffs.
2. Wearing the wrong color skates (I don't know if thats possible but hey, the NFL does it).
3. Being exciting.
4. Being a role model.
5. Getting on the news.
6. Getting on SportsCenter top 10.
7. Getting any publicity at all for a league that doesn't really have any now.
8. Going out in public.
9. Having a personality.
10. Being Sean Avery.

The Untold Storylines for Jaguars-Texans MNF Game

The Jaguars and Texans...Really Roger Goodell?

I mean could you have thought of a better matchup than these two perennial boring teams? I suppose I can see how this could have been interesting when the game was announced. Houston was an up and coming team, and Jacksonville was a team a lot of "experts" were picking to go to the Super Bowl.

Besides for all of that, this game is going to suck, but as always, we here at The Skip Bayless Report like to give you, the paying consumer, the point of views that the mainstream media does not look at. So here are some untold storylines for this upcoming MNF game.

Andre Johnson in the wake of the Plaxico Burress shooting himself in a night will play for the first time without a gun tucked in the back of pants. How do you think he always gets so open?

On the other hand Matt Jones will continue to be packing because, well he is Matt Jones.

At half time Tony Boselli will be put in the middle of the field and have to choose which team he likes more, by going to their respective sidelines. The Vegas odds are about even right now because of the home field advantage, but Jacksonville is the team that drafted him in the rookie draft and let his career die in an expansion franchise, and Houston is the team that made him the face of the franchise and he repaid the favor of being injured that whole time.

The Jaguars are going to implement their own version of the wildcat offense, but will put DT John Henderson to get all the snaps. This is a result of Henderson saying that he could run a better offense than what the Jaguars have now. Did I mention Henderson will also be calling all the offensive plays as well? Expect a lot of running up the gut.

Look out for Kevin Walter, apparently he is the starting Wide Receiver for the Texans, who knew? I blame the East Coast sports bias.

Listen for Mike Tirico to sling out random stats on every unknown player that gets anywhere close to the ball for the whole first half. In the second half listen for Tony Kornheiser being an old conceited fool.

That's all folks, and as hard as I just tried I don't think I even convinced myself to watch the game, this overall is a terrible matchup and even though it may turn into a good game it won't be because these are two good teams.

What Chris Johnson Could Have Been

I think it is a good time right now to reflect on this past years draft, and say which players are doing well for themselves, and which aren't. One player I like to think about is Chris Johnson. Coming into the NFL draft he was unknown to everyone, besides he ran the fastest 40 for RB in the history of the combine.

The Titans select Johnson with the 24th overall pick in the 2008 draft, and exactly all of Nashville said a cumulative: "Who the hell is Chris Johnson?" I know because I was with a Titans fan the day of the draft, and in the aftermath he threw a boot at the ceiling, swore off his teams chances in 2008, talking to other Titans fans on the phone and agreeing that he is fast and should be good.

Well all I know is that Johnson has 833 yards with five games left, and if those are not legit numbers for a rookie, I do not know what is.

But, the other side of the story is that Johnson could have been absolutely terrible, and in effect destroying the Titans season. This has happened to a lot of teams, and here are some prime examples of wha t Chris Johnson could have been.

Rashaan Salaam, 21st overall pick in 1995 draft, Chicago Bears
The man won the Heisman in 1994 with Colorado, and dropped very nicely to the Bears in a time when they were in transition from the Walter Payton days. In five NFL seasons Salaam had 1684 yards with most of them being in a 1000 yard season in the first season.




Curtis Enis, 5th overall pick in 1998 Draft, Chicago Bears
Ok, so another guy that had a very dominate college year, and the Bears were in a time of transition after Rashaan Salaam was deemed a failure. So they pick up Enis to become the next great NFL back. Let's just say that never happened. The numbers speak for themselves, in three NFL seasons, all with the Bears, he ran for 1497 yards, and not one single 1000 yard season.

Cedric Benson, 4th overall selection 2005 draft, Chicago Bears
We all know this guy sucks. In his fourth year out of Texas, this one time great college running back has proved he was a waste of money. The Bears picked him up to backup Thomas Jones, and he was good at that, and when the Bears put all the chips on the table with Benson when they traded Jones, Benson proved he was a waste of body on the field. In three and a half seasons Benson has 1911 yards, and didn't have a job for a good portion on the season.

So you may see the pattern right here. It is just basically a jealous Bears fan hating on the success of the Titans running back selections in the draft. I mean Eddie George, Lendale White, and Chris Johnson are way more legit than these three fools. You should be happy when you continually are able to draft good players.

But back on point, I feel that Chris Johnson would made this list have more symmetry.

Cardinals vs. Eagles: Why we should care

If you are either a Cardinals or Eagles fan, please stop reading here, and we won't have a problem.

For everyone else, I really ask you why would you want to spend your thanksgiving watching Donovan McNabb and Kevin Kolb have a quarterback battle? No, one really. But, here at the Skip Bayless Report, we believe in reporting all sides of the story; so here are 10 reasons why someone would watch the Cardinals vs. Eagles:

1. Your fantasy not only has Anquan Boldin or Larry Fitzgerald, but you also have Kurt Warner, Tim Hightower, and Kevin Curtis.

2. You revel in the fact you get to see a rare matchup of two bird mascot, and one of them is not a bird of prey.

3. You bet your girl/boyfriend who is from Philly/Arizona, that their team would lose, and you don't want to sound like an idiot.

4. In a post-Thanksgiving coma you are unable to move from the couch and the game is on the channel that you happen to be watching. But remember you are in a coma and you can't change the channel.

5. You want to see the Philadelphia fans embarrass themselves, and seeing as how there is a high probability of Santa being there, you may see something good.

6. You anti-establishment and you like seeing teams break the two games on Thanksgiving mold.

7. You have NFL network and you want to get your moneys worth.

8. You have NFL network and you want to impress your guy friends who don't.

9. Your fantasy team has David Akers or Neil Rackers (but this is a bad excuse, because you will root for the boring).

10. You just saw the Titans blow out the Lions and Cowboys destroy the Seahawks, and you just pray that you can get a good game of football.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Oklahoma City Thunder to Court King James

Sure you may be watching the morning ESPN reports about summer of 2010 in the NBA. The big names of Bosh, Wade, and LeBron will all be free agents, and we all are talking about it because LeBron played in Madison Square Garden. The ESPN "rumor" being spread around is that LeBron wants to play in New York with either the Knicks or the Nets.

Well who cares when we all know the true suitors of King James are the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Yes, the Thunder...Did I stutter (well you can't really tell, but thats besides the point)?

From what I hear from league sources, is that the Commish himself has made backwards deals with LeBron and his major sponsor Nike to convince LeBron to go to OKC 2010.

But why? Oh dear god why would anyone want to go to Oklahoma?

Well when I sat down with my source, he told me that the Commish doesn't want to look like a fool for actually convincing all of the owners to allow the Seattle to OKC move to happen. The man is never is wrong, and if he were to start now, his question would be in power.

Look what happened to Gary Bettman. He convinced the owners of some extremely cold weather hockey teams to move down south, and compete with consumers entertainment money. Well the NASCAR and different types of animal fights have entrenched themselves as the main source of spending money in the likes of Atlanta, Nashville, Carolina, and even Phoenix. Once the novelty of the teams wore off people stopped caring without a huge name player for the city to attach to.

So basically, David Stern does not want to look like his now powerless colleague, and he will do that by any means possible.

LeBron James, the Renaissance Man of the Renaissance city.

Pierre for MVP

Stop the presses! You heard it first here at the Skip Bayless Report, Pierre Thomas, RB for the Saints is going to win the NFL MVP.

Kurt Warner? Kerry Collins? I am pretty sure both of those guys lost this week, but guess who didn't Pierre Thomas.

Pierre Thomas was able to out rush the likes of Reggie Bush and Deuce McAllister, a Heisman Trophy winner and a two time pro bowler respectively, who both combined to have 82 less rushing yards than our man Pierre.

S0 why am I am making this outlandish prediction of Pierre for MVP when it seems totally absurd to do so? Because I am also predicting that the Saints are going to not only win the rest of their games, but they are also going to do it on the back of Pierre Thomas who will average 357 yards in his remaining five games.

357 does seem like an odd number, but this is the number he IS going to average because it is how many yards he needs per game to break Eric Dickerson's record for rushing yards in a season of 2105. My math would put Pierre at 2110 yards for the season, and making him the savior of the city of New Orleans.

Some other noteworthy accomplishments of Pierre during this streak should include:

Week 13 @ Tampa Bay

• Ending Robert Brooks' career.
• Dismantling the Pirate Ship in Tampa Bay and taking it to sea.
• Beating the Buccaneers so bad their uniforms turn into the classic creamsicle orange.
  

Week 14 vs. Atlanta

• Play linebacker and effectively end Matt Ryan's season.
• During half time, convince President Bush to give Michael Vick a pardon...Yes, he's that good.
  

Week 15 @ Chicago

• Make Walter Payton roll over in his grave
• End Brian Urlacher's deal with Old Spice, by proving that Old Spice cannot stop the sweat that just the idea of Pierre gives Urlacher.
• Inspire Rex Grossman to not suck
  

Week 16 @ Detroit

• After running for 500 yards in the first half, he will actually switch sides and give the Lions their closest game of the season.
  

Week 17 vs. Carolina

• Actually transform into a Panther and eat Julius Pepper
• Be ordained a Saint by the Pope himself. And by week 17 Pierre Thomas will be the Pope.
  

Now I am not going to predict anything in the playoffs because as we saw last year in the Super Bowl, anything can happen in the playoffs. Whereas the playoffs are not predictable the regular season is, and this all is going to happen.

Intro to the Skip Bayless Report

I have finally succumb to all of my followers to actually blog about my true love in life, sports (sorry Skip). The one thing about sports is that for the most part it is boring and predictable after you spend your whole life watching it. That is why I have come to write the Skip Bayless Report, to make the sports world a lot more interesting and a lot less predictable.

The one thing that the man every ESPN watcher out there hates about Skip Bayless is that he says the exact opposite to what everyone thinks, and he gets paid to do it.

I say if Skip can get paid to do that, I can at least aspire to do the same.

So what can you aspire to see and hear on the Skip Bayless Report:
1. Exactly opposite to what you are hearing on ESPN
2. Words
3. Real Stats
4. Stats that I made up
5. Predictions that you should not bet on
6. Arrogance in that everything that I say is the sole truth
7. Words
8. I wonder if I just repeated that last one
9. Only two more things to make a top ten...
10. A complete top ten hopefully that left you unsatisfied like just about everything else in the media

So please leave all the disgruntled comments your heart desires, and if they are good enough, I may feature you on my blog just like ESPN.com does.