called into the evening VSiN Live program<\/a> on SiriusXM with Patrick Meagher and Dustin Swedelson. In the chat with Meagher, Smith did not address Beadle\u2019s criticism directly. However, he went on the record to state that he was caught off guard by Beadle and Decker not being informed of his impending move to their timeslot. And that it was not his business who SiriusXM did or did not tell before it became public.<\/p>\n\u201cI want to state for the record just so everyone knows what kind of man I am and what kind of teammate I am. I had no idea that folks did not know. I was told by SiriusXM to wait until this morning on The Howard Stern Show to make the announcement. Whatever communication they had with anybody who\u2019s there, where they\u2019re staying, where they\u2019re being moved to. Who\u2019s staying, who\u2019s going or whatever. It\u2019s none of my business,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut let me be very, very clear. It would always be my concern because I would never in a million years be unprofessional and inconsiderate of a contemporary or a colleague. If somebody was not made aware of my arrival, meaning the people that directly would be impacted by my arrival on SiriusXM, it is something that I would have made sure of. So I just want to let anybody out there who was listening, along with you all know, I\u2019m proud to be back. I\u2019m happy to be back and be part of the team. But that operative word is team. The people I work with are my teammates. And I don\u2019t do stuff like that. Whatever management and the bosses at SiriusXM have decided to do is their business. That has nothing to do with me. But as it pertains to what has something to do with me, that is not something I would ever do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith also answered critics and skeptics who believe his daily SiriusXM show will just be a copy and paste of what he does on\u00a0First Take\u00a0each and every weekday on ESPN.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve done radio at Fox, I\u2019ve done radio at ESPN, I\u2019ve done radio at SiriusXM and I\u2019ve never been accused of doing First Take on radio. Never. And that won\u2019t happen now,\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n
Smith is adding the SiriusXM job to his daily ESPN gig, his own podcast, and his many cable news appearances in the evening. Did we also mention his acting ambitions with\u00a0General Hospital\u00a0and\u00a0Law & Order too? At this point about the only place you won\u2019t find Stephen A. Smith is MeTV watching re-runs of Matlock and Hogan\u2019s Heroes.<\/p>\n
Finally, Stephen A. Smith returned to the Michelle Beadle controversy once again, professing one more time that he would never try to embarrass a colleague publicly and be insensitive in allowing them to not be given a heads up about being replaced beforehand and insisting that he was merely following instructions from SiriusXM.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe in blindsiding anybody or backstabbing anybody. You see me coming. I don\u2019t sit up there and apologize for anything, who I am, what I stand for, and what I do. I don\u2019t roll like that. I would never put my contemporaries or colleagues, just do something and be so insensitive where I know they didn\u2019t know and I decided to go on the air and announce it anyway. I would never do that. I was instructed to do it on this date on this time on Howard Stern\u2019s show and it was my belief that everybody was aware internally of what was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a very passionate case from Stephen A. Smith and there is nothing in his track record that would indicate he would try to pull a stunt like this on Cody Decker and Michelle Beadle. Regardless, it is a very unfortunate situation and certainly an awkward start to his new tenure with SiriusXM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith made the surprising announcement that he was launching two new shows with SiriusXM including a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,27255,6,1871,27256],"class_list":{"0":"post-107511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michelle-beadle","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-stephen-a-smith","12":"tag-vsin-live"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114634119717038806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}