Deadspin
Last week, The New Republic, in a post about Sen. Barack Obama calling into a Philadelphia sports talk radio station, unleashed the following groaner:
Appearances like this give Obama a useful pipeline to white working-class voters. It actually reminds me of a half-cocked theory I've been toying with, which is that younger, edgier sports chatter—most prominently on ESPN, but also on talk-radio stations across the country—seems to be injecting elements of African-American culture into white working-class minds, and in a pretty favorable light. (Who doesn't love Stuart Scott?)
(Emphasis ours.)
As you would probably suspect, the writer (the otherwise awesome Noam Scheiber) watched as commenters gave a collective, "Uh ... we can think of a few people."
Whatever your thoughts about Scott's most famous Deadspin moment, we always found the more indicative Stu Scott moment to be his adminition to fans for booing athletes. We do, to be clear, like everybody, wish Stu all the best in his current health battle. But we're voting on approval ratings here.
So: Do you like the Stuart Scott? Do you not like the Stuart Scott? Lemme know.
Comments
Here's (not) looking at you, Stu. BOOYAH!
He ruined the pleasure of flipping my pillow over on a hot summer night = disapprove.
Does the JUGGS machine get its own poll?
Wouldn't Stuart Scott have to be black to inject elements of African-American culture into white working-class minds?
The options in this poll really should have been YAH and BOO.
He done made his kinfolk so ashamed...Pookie and Ray-Ray and LaKeisha and them.
Disapprove.
You see ... wha' ha' happen' wuz ...
DO NOT WANT
Loved him about 10 years ago, but his act's gotten old fast. The only good thing he's done recently is Stump the Schwab.
SS is a great catch...
/leaves room.
He has a glass eye
and can't make sense with his voice.
Stu Scott, disapprove.
/Disapproval, haiku slam style
His eye, like me, just keeps getting lazier with age.
Stu was the first reason I stopped watching Sportscenter.
Appr( .)ve
I prefer to have my elements of black culture injected into my life from appropriate sources like Elvis and Pat Boone, but I'm old school.
Uh, Stu? You are less "street", "urban" or "edgy" than the BYU Basketball team. You are more vanilla than a milkshake. There are Presbytrerians from Nantucket who are blacker than you. Give it up.
He hosted David Blaine's magic whatever show. If that's not a disaprove I don't know what is.
@EdFinnerty:
I turned mine over and found Billy D. Williams
/family guyed
I dont hate him.
Then again, I havent seen sportscenter in at least two years.
The fuck is a Stuart Scott?
Not only does HE suck, but he inexplicably created a legion of shitty imitators. I can't believe 17 people voted yes.
No, Mr. Scott, I don't want to hear the drummer get wicked. I'm trying to watch sports.
There is nothing more grating than a lame white guy trying to sound like a cool black guy, unless it is a lame black guy trying to sound like a lame white guy trying to sound like a cool black guy.
Stuart Scott, get out of here wit 'chu bad self.
And get well soon.
he puts the boo, in boo-yah.
I've slept with him!
I will abstain from voting until I can uncover where, exactly, he attended college.
Stu's condition is an age old problem:
+ Watch video
@Gourmet Spud:
There is nothing more grating than a lame white guy trying to sound like a cool black guy, unless it is a lame black guy trying to sound like a lame white guy trying to sound like a cool black guy.
Except for a cool white guy trying to sound like a cool black guy who actually sounds like a lame white guy trying to sound like a cool black guy which sounds like a lame black guy and oh no I've gone Stuart Scott cross-eyed.
Stuart Scott: More Meets the Eye
I'm just glad Stu's not a teacher, he wouldn't be able to control his pupils. Anways, doesn't look like the Ayes have it for him today.
Smithers, are they saying "Booooo?" or "Stuuuuuu?"
I am abstaining. I can't pick on the guy with cancer. Sorry.
Appearances like this give Obama a useful pipeline to white working-class voters...
...Through which to tell them they're typically racist. Faux pas, Mr. Obama, faux pas.
Disapprove, but in that mild "he's lame and trying too hard way," not the "I wish him a fiery death" way.
I think more then anything why I disapprove is I'm certain he knows better. I don't believe for a second that he's bringing his A game with that crap. Greenberg can't help himself, Stu can.
I love the Family Guy parody where Peter flips over his pillow and Billy Dee Williams face is on it.
"Hey Peter, welcome to the cool side of the pillow"
I approve more of the Schwab than Stuart Scott
@J-No: I can. Along with his kinfolk, Pookie and Rae-Rae.
Van Peezy is way more street than our boy Stu. For real, though.
I'm not sure I can disapprove of anything more than I can disapprove of Captain Jockhandler.
Now Mitch Albom and Stuart Scott know what they have in common!
8.7 out of 10 people think they suck.
Stuart Scott, proud Nubian prince
Keeper of the Bristol flame; late night
Sportscenter coming up next: booyah.
(Spoken word.)
@Chamomiles Davis: If the typical white person is racist, and Obama is half white, does that make him typically half-racist?
I approve of his ESPN commercials, but disapprove the man himself.
If he put on a wig, he would look exactly like Aneesa from Real World: Chicago.
/ You know you all watch the show
While I wouldn't want to watch Stu Scott, I'd definitely love to drive with him in the passenger seat, because I wouldn't have to check my mirrors ever.
Disapprove.
As nausea inducing as the undercarriage of Chris Berman.
Hope you made a promise to God that if you lived, you'd stop the poetry.
Lemme know.
I'm still trying to wash my mind clean of his "catch phrases."
Disapprove.
That glass eye freaks my out.
Stu Scott's only redeeming quality is that he, too, hates Duke.
They were able to remove his appendix in Pittsburgh before that Monday Night game last fall, but there was nothing they could do for the booyah.
Disapprove.
You know you're not considered "black" when half an hour of comments go by without a Martin Lawrence joke.
How about a Media Approval Poetry Slam:
Watching highlights out of your one eye that can see.
Masturbarting to MJ's Come Fly With Me.
Ruining SportsCenter highlights with your bad poetic flo.
Lemme Know.
Approve? I must say NO!
As the kids would say, EPIC FAIL.
Until he disavows his relationship with Farrakhan, I must disapprove.
disapprove, he ruined the bright young career of one Chet Harper
Sweet Sassy Molassey!
Have some!
We never really saw eye to eye.
Disapprove.
@shea_guevara: I prefer the term "graycist."
I approve of the badass manner in which his eye became JACKED UP! But I solemnly disapprove of his being on the airwaves.
hater(s) in the house.
Booyah?
Boono, eh.
@Charles: They're saying "Stuuu-urns"?
It's a BYOB, Stu. Bring your own BOOYAH!!
Dis.
The question should not be about his approval rating, but about if he is "More Next" than my cup of Starbucks.
Clayton says the cup of Starbucks moves on in the bracket. Sorry, Stu.
Can't stand this fuckwad, and it has zero to do with the eye(I'm blind in my left eye, so that's not even a factor). He tries too hard to be cool, and fails at it miserably. And then there's his name-dropping...
I can't believe this isn't 100% disapprove.
Stu Scott is the reason people took any interest in bashing sports broadcasters in the first place.