JR: Welcome to the show Skip, how are YOU?
Skip Bayless: Doing great. Great to be in the jungle.
JR: Most people call you Skip Clueless, but I would never call you that to your face. I would wait until you hung up. How does that make you feel that millions of clones and others, I might add, view you in that light?
[Stunned silence]
Skip: [clears throat] Well, actually, Jim, Skip Clueless is my real name, but I was not sure how much credibility I would have, so I changed my last name.
[Stunned silence]
fade to commercial....

I wish Jim Rome really was burning. I wouldn't care if he never did another interview.

Hey, where else can you make such a great living just by being an idiot and pissing people off?

Please note that the answer is no, <b>nobody</b> is paying <b>me</b>.

I thought that I'd post the disclaimer myself before anyone (everyone?) else got around to it.

I don't listen to him or watch him although I did for a time. He probably wonders why uncivility rules in our society.

Politics?

You forgot to beat the topic to death. This is the Jim Rome specialty, to take a 20-second topic and talk about it for a half hour.

"You know, clueless. As in "not a clue". Or as Webster defines it, "Not having a clue". Noah. Not Emmanuel Lewis "Webster". Noah Webster. Not the Biblical Webster. (Pause for effect) You clones know what I'm talking about."

You mean like half those guys on WFAN who repeat their catchphrase of the day every 45 seconds because they think it is so clever?