Major layoffs coming for wokESPN - IT HATH BEGUN - 300 axed (not a question)

[EternalShinyAndChrome 3,845]

Couldn't have happened to a better network!

Get woke, go broke!

[BufordT 427]

17 hours ago, KSB2424 said:

Really surprised at Jeff Van Gundy

Same here. One of my favorite announcers in any sport. Not sure who he p!ssed off.  Mark Jackson leaves Nikola Jokic off his MVP list but gets to stay.

[DonS 3,292]

21 hours ago, Cruzer said:

Can't imagine Kolber will be unemployed for long - NFL Network or Fox will scoop her up. 

Suzy can definitely find a "job" at Joe Namath's house.

I don't know what it is, but there is something about her that makes me want to kiss her as well. 

 

 

[League Champion 1,896]

I'm glad Max Kellerman's over the top, pandering WOKE arse is gone!! 

[BufordT 427]

20 minutes ago, League Champion said:

I'm glad Max Kellerman's over the top, pandering WOKE arse is gone!! 

He was even driving his own black cohosts nuts with that shhtuff.

[League Champion 1,896]

8 minutes ago, BufordT said:

He was even driving his own black cohosts nuts with that shhtuff.

He definitely was. I was embarrassed for him. 

[League Champion 1,896]

12 hours ago, BufordT said:

He was even driving his own black cohosts nuts with that shhtuff.

Jason Fitz was another blowhard that went out of his way with white guilt. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,951]

Max Kellerman fits the white guilt profile to a T,  he checks all the boxes, and he uses it to get ahead. It’s his schtick. So phony.  You gotta love how people use it and then get rewarded for it. 

[League Champion 1,896]

3 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Max Kellerman fits the white guilt profile to a T,  he checks all the boxes, and he uses it to get ahead. It’s his schtick. So phony.  You gotta love how people use it and then get rewarded for it. 

He's like every other racist Liberal. He goes out of his way to convince everyone that he's not a racist and panders to the Woke culture for personal gain. 

Like most other liberals, he's a fraud. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,951]

3 minutes ago, League Champion said:

He's like every other racist Liberal. He goes out of his way to convince everyone that he's not a racist and panders to the Woke culture for personal gain. 

Like most other liberals, he's a fraud. 

Yup. Rich kid, Ivy League, other factors. Now he lectures working stiffs for a living that want to hear about sports.  

[edjr 6,578]

2 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Max Kellerman fits the white guilt profile to a T,  he checks all the boxes, and he uses it to get ahead. It’s his schtick. So phony.  You gotta love how people use it and then get rewarded for it. 

    He's still better than Tony Reali

[edjr 6,578]

 

 

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20 hours ago, League Champion said:

I'm glad Max Kellerman's over the top, pandering WOKE arse is gone!! 

 

ESPN had writers and producers who decided on the tone and shape of the content. 

Kellerman didn't have the power to say "No" to the kind of scripts he was given. Stephen A Smith did, which is why you often seeing SAS taking mostly "centrist" takes on things. Zach Lowe had a pretty extensive background from Grantland and was seen as a type of "prestige sports" kind of analyst. Much in the vein of something like The Ringer right now. 

Someone like Wojnarowski is seen as a valuable insider. He had the power to not get in the middle of stuff like that. 

Kellerman really had no niche. He wasn't giving a medical angle, a legal angle, a former player or coaches angle and he wasn't an analytics guy or a true "insider" He had nothing to offer other than being the mouthpiece for the producers and writers and corporate interests who needed someone who could not say "No"

It's unfortunate that "Playmakers" was cancelled because the NFL wanted it gone. ESPN probably could have had some real traction with original scripted content based around the sports world. That and family friendly "reality shows" like an American Gladiators or American Ninja Warrior, but with retired NFL/NBA/MLB guys, etc, etc. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,951]

ESPN ruined their product. When a football crazy country stops tuning into the non live action programming of that sport that should have told them something. Nobody watches their Sunday morning pre game or Monday night pre game anymore.  The shows suck and have jerk offs on them.  

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4 hours ago, edjr said:

    He's still better than Tony Reali

Kevin Blackiestone. If you’re friends with him, is it okay to call him, blackie?

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On 6/30/2023 at 10:17 PM, KSB2424 said:

Really surprised at Jeff Van Gundy

 

On 7/1/2023 at 4:18 PM, BufordT said:

Same here. One of my favorite announcers in any sport. Not sure who he p!ssed off.  Mark Jackson leaves Nikola Jokic off his MVP list but gets to stay.

Mark Jackson sent packing.  The new ESPN NBA top dogs in the booth are Mike Breen, Doris Burke and probably Doc Rivers.  Yikes

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5 minutes ago, BufordT said:

 

Mark Jackson sent packing.  The new ESPN NBA top dogs in the booth are Mike Breen, Doris Burke and probably Doc Rivers.  Yikes

I like Doris Burke in the girls college bball games.

[BufordT 427]

1 minute ago, TBayXXXVII said:

I like Doris Burke in the girls college bball games.

Not a fan but there's no doubt she's paid her dues.

[Mike Honcho 5,106]

IT HATH BEGUN - 300 axed 

 

I think most of the 300 died by arrows.  

[TBayXXXVII 2,485]

1 minute ago, BufordT said:

Not a fan but there's no doubt she's paid her dues.

Yeah, she's been around a long time.  I think all the ladies who work the women's college games are really good, Burke, Rowe, Rebecca Lobo, Leiberman, etc.

[nobody 2,567]

1 hour ago, BufordT said:

 

Mark Jackson sent packing.  The new ESPN NBA top dogs in the booth are Mike Breen, Doris Burke and probably Doc Rivers.  Yikes

Mark Jackson is an absolutely terrible announcer.  I can see why he failed as a coach.

[edjr 6,578]

15 hours ago, nobody said:

Mark Jackson is an absolutely terrible announcer.  I can see why he failed as a coach.

Think of all the greats we had the luxury growing up listening to. In all sports. 

I think the downturn started with Joe Morgan being hired.