ESPN considering removing Jessica Mendoza from Sunday Night Baseball...

[posty 2,296]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/espn-considering-removing-jessica-mendoza-214756528.html

Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that ESPN is strongly considering removing analyst Jessica Mendoza from her role on Sunday Night Baseball. Mendoza signed a multi-year contract with ESPN last year and the company still intends to utilize her elsewhere.

Mendoza recently made headlines for criticizing pitcher Mike Fiers, a former Astro who provided details to The Athletic about the Astros’ sign-stealing scheme. It was an especially bad look because Mendoza also serves as an advisor for the Mets, who were tangentially caught up in the sign-stealing scandal until firing new manager Carlos Beltrán. Marchand stresses, though, that ESPN had been considering removing Mendoza from her role long before that and that her recent controversy had little impact on ESPN’s thought process.

Mendoza drew criticism this past season due to a potential conflict of interest given her new role with the Mets and as a national baseball analyst. The Dodgers, for example, limited Mendoza’s access last year. ESPN, however, didn’t seem to mind.

ESPN plans to keep Álex Rodríguez, entering the final year of his ESPN contract, in his current role on Sunday Night Baseball. Rodríguez had been an advisor for the Yankees until last season as well, though he managed not to provide reason to doubt his impartiality.

Play-by-play man Matt Vasgersian could be replaced by Jon Sciambi or Karl Ravech, per Marchand. Vasgersian, like Rodríguez, is entering the final year of his contract with ESPN.

ESPN has been considering David Cone, currently of the YES Network, and Chipper Jones for potential analyst roles on Sunday Night Baseball, Marchand notes. It sounds like big changes could be coming for the most prestigious regular season baseball broadcast.

[edjr 5,567]

The unwokest thing ESPN would have ever done

[posty 2,296]

Just now, edjr said:

The unwokest thing ESPN would have ever done

True dat...

Getting rid of Rodriguez would help as well IMO...

[TBayXXXVII 2,117]

Well, she does suck at her job, so it's not like it's not warranted.

[Drizzay 646]

What is Sunday Night Baseball?

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

Saw this last night and meant to post here given the discussions we have had about her suckitude.   I then got distracted with your mom.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,652]

Does this mean we won’t hear about exit velocity 10x a night? 

[RLLD 3,455]

8 hours ago, TBayXXXVII said:

Well, she does suck at her job, so it's not like it's not warranted.

Yeah, but thats because white men,.....

[TBayXXXVII 2,117]

12 hours ago, RLLD said:

Yeah, but thats because white men,.....

True.  We're all evil.

[Utilit99 4,099]

There should be no women in men's sports unless they are cheerleading in skimpy outfits.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

3 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

There should be no women in men's sports unless they are cheerleading in skimpy outfits.

Watching the Celtics game last night and they had one of the woman refs doing the game.  I had not seen her before.  She is definitely the worst ref I have seen and I thought the other women refs were absolutely awful.  I am sorry, but if Adam Silver wants to have diversity in their workplace, it has to be done on merit.  It is not like they force the teams to have a set number of white or Asian guys on each team to maintain diversity.