{"id":1638,"date":"2014-08-05T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2014-08-07T22:27:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:27:40","slug":"tuesday-teabag-august-5-2014-stephen-a-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Teabag, August 5, 2014 – Stephen A. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen A. Smith is a walking, talking teabag.\u00a0 The Machine has always found his shtick \u2013 loud, obnoxious, with an emphasis on over-enunciation \u2013 annoying.\u00a0 In fairness, we do appreciate his basketball IQ and knowledge of the Knicks, but for Christsake, do you have to yell all the time?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a rhetorical question.\u00a0 Seriously, DO YOU HAVE TO FUCKING YELL ALL THE TIME???\u00a0 You\u2019re not selling mattresses or speaking at a Mega-Church.<\/p>\n

Stephen A. (it’s not confirmed, but we\u2019re told the A stands for either Asshole or Annoying) recently got himself suspended<\/a> by the suits at ESPN for his comments last week regarding the Ray Rice issue.\u00a0 The \u201cissue\u201d is a nice way of saying the time Ray beat the shit out of his fianc\u00e9 (now wife) and dragged her unconscious body out of an elevator in Atlantic City.\u00a0 I mean, we\u2019ve all been there before, right fellas? [crickets].\u00a0 Anyway, while the rest of the world was up in arms about the lenient, 2 game suspension<\/a>\u00a0the NFL handed out to Ray, Stephen A. had a slightly different take on the matter.<\/p>\n

After his obligatory intro about how men have no business putting their hands on women, he then shifted gears a little to focus on \u201cthe elements of provocation\u201d and assessing its role in domestic violence matters.\u00a0 Quoting Stephen, “let’s make sure we don’t do anything to provoke wrong actions.” \u00a0He then doubled-down on that crazy, explaining “we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”\u00a0\u00a0Umm, not quite sure how else to interpret that, but I think he means we should focus on what the woman did\u00a0that forced a man the beat her. \u00a0Don’t believe us. \u00a0Take a listen:<\/p>\n