Thursday, April 24, 2008

Jeremy Schaap is a Dick

I actually like E:60, ESPN's newsmagazine show. It's sort of a poor man's Real Sports, less pretentious, but more of the ESPN bullshit we all hate.
But the one thing I like most about it is that each story is introduced during a contrived producers/reporters meeting.
But if the meetings are contrived the dialogue isn't because twice in two episodes Jeremy Schaap has looked like such a dick.
During the discussion of a story about gymnastics coaches who were accused of molesting their students, Jeremy Schaap rightfully tried to point out that there's a difference between accused and convicted.
But Lisa Salters pointed out that as a parent she didn't care, to her just being accused was enough. She repeated the words "as a parent" about 20 times until Schaap snapped "I know what the words 'as a parent' mean Lisa."

Then when Rachel Nichols was pitching a story Schaap tried to interrupt, leading Nichols to say "stop talking for a second."
Schaap fired back "don't tell me to stop talking."

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