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Dan Patrick leaving ESPN (1 Viewer)

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el centro

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I just saw this article on ESPN.com - that Dan Patrick is leaving ESPN next month. Did anyone listen to his show today? Did he say anything regarding his leaving? What in particular is he oign to pursue? I always thought he was at his best when he & Oberman were tag-teaming... maybe they'll be linked again together in the booth this season.

 
el centro said:
I just saw this article on ESPN.com - that Dan Patrick is leaving ESPN next month. Did anyone listen to his show today? Did he say anything regarding his leaving? What in particular is he oign to pursue? I always thought he was at his best when he & Oberman were tag-teaming... maybe they'll be linked again together in the booth this season.
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Last week, he was hinting about puruing another opportunities . . . one of those was replacing Barker on the Price is Right . . .
 
Good riddance. He monopolized 3 of the worst hours of radio every day.

Bring on Brian Kenney. He's the most underrated sports media personality right now. Sort of ESPN's Tim Duncan.

 
Why is the Price is Right a surprise? Considering the goofball circus ESPN is, it's a very logical move.

 
to me going from ESPN to the price is right is a downgrade
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I dunno....Bob Barker allegedly got to get pretty friendly with Diane Parkinson once upon a time. Who'd Patrick get chummy with? Olberman? Trey Wingo? Suzy Kolber*shudder*?Advantage: Barker.
 
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Pittsburgh United said:
I won't miss Patrick. His sneering, sarcastic tone made my skin crawl every time he opened his mouth.
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I agree! Since Dibbs left the radio-show, I can't even stand to listen to him for 30-seconds! I turnoff SportsRadio now when he's on... Mike-n-Mike aren't much better. Strictly a Cowherd guy here!However, I did enjoy the Olberman-Patrick combo of `96-97! Good stuff.
 
Loomba said:
Still a downgrade. The PIR is for old ladies and preteen kids.
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I don't know if it's true, but one website (actually Yahoo answers with a link that didn't work) had Barkers pay at $10mil/year. I doubt Patrick is making anything near that at ESPN.
 
This PIR talk just doesn't seem legit to me. Think about it - Bob Barker would make you feel like he was really happy that you were having a good time acting like a fool on that stage. He seemed like he was having a good time right alongside you, while just maintaining a slight bit of gravitas.

Patrick on the other hand seems like he's always making fun of the guy who gets a bit too excited. You would be standing there getting ready to spin that wheel for the biggest payday of your life, and this sneering jerk would be looking at the audience and getting them to laugh at your big ### or your home-made "I love the Price is Right" shirt.

 
Im in the "Could care less / Good Riddance" group. If he is seriously going from espn to The Price is Right...I couldnt think of a better idiot to be the replacement.

 
Who knows if the Price is Right thing will really happen, but I could see Patrick pulling it off. My guess is the PIR producers want a modern sensitivity imbued on the host role, so Patrick's more dry sense of humor wouldn't necessarily preclude him. I have to admit though, I could see Kenny Mayne being the PIR host a lot easier than I could imagine Patrick.

 
Uh, couple weeks ago Patrick brought this up on his show to make fun of it. He was invited to interview for the show, but declined.

He was making jokes about "Patrick's Pets" (the ladies), etc. He made enough PIR jokes to not get the job, admitted that, and said he has already denied the invite to apply.

It's really not happening.

 
Loomba said:
Still a downgrade. The PIR is for old ladies and preteen kids.
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This is the biggest game show of all time. Its still a huge hit with college students, and has a wide age group for a fan base. It is the Opera of game shows and its fans are die-hard. Sure lots of house wives watch it, but they're also the group advertisers throw the most money at and if Patrick can become the established face of that show the way Barker was then he'll make far more money then he does at ESPN. Also its not like it’s a time consuming gig, he could still do plenty of sports if he wanted.
 
Jason Wood said:
Who knows if the Price is Right thing will really happen, but I could see Patrick pulling it off. My guess is the PIR producers want a modern sensitivity imbued on the host role, so Patrick's more dry sense of humor wouldn't necessarily preclude him. I have to admit though, I could see Kenny Mayne being the PIR host a lot easier than I could imagine Patrick.
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If you lined those two up and told me I could slap the #### out of only one of them, I'd have a hard time making that decision. Both of them make my skin crawl with their constant tone of sarcasm.
 
DocT said:
Uh, couple weeks ago Patrick brought this up on his show to make fun of it. He was invited to interview for the show, but declined. He was making jokes about "Patrick's Pets" (the ladies), etc. He made enough PIR jokes to not get the job, admitted that, and said he has already denied the invite to apply. It's really not happening.
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I listened to DP and he was all jokes about PIR. From what I heard yesterday on his program he is just ready to move on, maybe to nothing for a while.IMO ESPN must have pissed him off somehow, because he and Oberman were just on Letterman promoting their shows. I liked that he got good interviews, plus he was alot better than Rome.
 
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rm77478 said:
IMO ESPN must have pissed him off somehow, because he and Oberman were just on Letterman promoting their shows. I liked that he got good interviews, plus he was alot better than Rome.
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Considering that he was with ESPN for 18 years, he was not that mad at them.
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I am not sure what the length of time someone worked at a company has to do with the degree to which that person can be mad, pissed off or upset in any way.
 
I listened to the first 5 minutes of his boring radio show, and he was trying to pimp himself off to Hollywood.

He actually believes he is relevant.

 
DocT said:
Uh, couple weeks ago Patrick brought this up on his show to make fun of it. He was invited to interview for the show, but declined. He was making jokes about "Patrick's Pets" (the ladies), etc. He made enough PIR jokes to not get the job, admitted that, and said he has already denied the invite to apply. It's really not happening.
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So what you're saying is it's a possibility?
 
Already the worst show on radio. Good guests, but still terrible. Came up with stupid angles on topics and rambled on and on about his inovative thinking. Between that and his constant use of retorical questions drove me nuts. GB XM radio.

 
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Dan Patrick's ESPN Exit

by Josh Grossberg

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:21:54 PM PDT

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The Big Show might go on, just not on ESPN.

Sports TV stalwart Dan Patrick, whose quip-happy highlights and back-and-forth with Keith Olbermann elevated SportsCenter from the cable backwaters to primo water cooler fodder, has announced he's leaving ESPN next month.

Patrick, 51, dropped the bombshell Monday during his syndicated daily radio program, The Dan Patrick Show, appropriately enough during the "Big Show" segment with Olbermann. Broadcasting from San Francisco, site of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game, Patrick told listeners that he didn't have any formal plans and that he was becoming a "free agent."

"I've spent 18 years here. It's been home, but I thought I was starting to take it for granted," the sportscaster told listeners.

Patrick said he planned to make the announcement last week but held off because ESPN executives unsuccessfully tried to persuade him to remain with the network.

"There's no bad blood," he continued. "If there was animosity, I wouldn't be doing radio shows after this one today."

Patrick's last day on the radio will be Aug. 17, and his final week will be a retrospective of greatest hits from the syndicated show, which he started in 1999 and has become his primary job at the network after easing back from SportsCenter duties in recent years.

"I felt I was doing my job, but I wasn't satisfied," said Patrick. "I wasn't going anywhere with it, I wasn't getting better. My bosses knew I felt this way the past couple of years."

Patrick said he wasn't sure about his future TV or radio gigs except that he wasn't going to take over for Bob Barker as host of CBS' The Price Is Right. Patrick said he turned down a request to audition.

"I was flattered to be asked but just didn't see that as a career move at this time," he said.

While he's not sure what the future holds, he said he hoped that he intends to spend more time with his four children.

"That plays into this. All my children have been born while I've been at ESPN," he said, before launching into an anecdote about his nine-year-old daughter, Molly.

"She asked me, 'Are you still going to be famous?' I said, 'We'll have to wait and see.' Then she asked, 'Are we still going to get to go to Disney World?' I said, 'Not in the way we have in the past.' "

The Disney-owned ESPN issued a release praising Patrick for all the great calls made and ratings home runs scored.

"Dan has accomplished so much over the past two decades at ESPN and fans and newsmakers have turned to him for his steady and trusted approach," said Norby Williamson, ESPN's executive vice president for production.

Patrick got his first break under his real name, Dan Pugh, as an on-air personality with rock station WTUE in Dayton, Ohio, where he also played basketball at the University of Dayton in the late '70s.

In the mid-'80s, he was hired by CNN, where he worked for six years as a reporter. In 1989, he joined the Bristol, Connecticut-based ESPN to take over the anchor desk at SportsCenter. When Olbermann joined as cohost in 1992, the duo's on-air chemistry and witty analysis helped take the show to new horizons and expand its rabid fan base.

The two coined many catchphrases, including Patrick's "Welcome to the Big Show" and "en fuego," and helped inspire Aaron Sorkin's short-lived ABC dramedy Sports Night.

Along the way, Patrick parlayed his pop-culture cred into cameos in such films as BASEketball, The Waterboy, Benchwarmers, the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard, and the upcoming Adam Sandler film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He also appeared in music videos for Brad Paisly's "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishing Song)" and Hootie and the Blowfish's "Only Wanna Be with You," both times referring to the artists as being "en fuego."

Patrick earned a Sports Emmy for Best Studio Host in 1998 and was named National Sportscaster of the Year in 2000 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

He called it quits from SportsCenter last year, after 17 years of service. But he remained in the ESPN empire, hosting The Dan Patrick Show and, on sister network ABC, hosting NBA Countdown through last month's finals.
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Tackling Dummies said:
rm77478 said:
IMO ESPN must have pissed him off somehow, because he and Oberman were just on Letterman promoting their shows. I liked that he got good interviews, plus he was alot better than Rome.
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Considering that he was with ESPN for 18 years, he was not that mad at them.
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I am not sure what the length of time someone worked at a company has to do with the degree to which that person can be mad, pissed off or upset in any way.
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Sure, he could be mad, but cashing ESPN checks for 18 years tells me that he was not that angry enough to leave before now. Besides that, nearly two decades in the media and on the same network is almost Cal Ripken-esque.
 
Michael K?

The show started by calling it simply "ESPN Radio". Guess he's not a lock yet.

 
Nothing will ever compare to the glory days when Sportscenter was must-see TV. Berman & Ley, Keith & Dan, Stu & Rich. But with the advent of ESPN News and the over-commercialization of Sportscenter, it's been a long time since I felt the need to watch. Dan's radio presence was never close to what he brought as an ESPN anchor, hopefully he'll get a new gig that will reinvigorate him. He always seemed like a really smart and witty guy, he appeared on Howard Stern a few times and never took himself too seriously.

 
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