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ESPN Layoffs (1 Viewer)

Ryan Lundberg is gone too. I'm sure most people here are not up early enough to listen to Lundberg and Mike Golic Jr., but I kinda like him. Feel bad for that guy.

 
ChiefD said:
ESPN is now Mtv.

Everything but the music......
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MTV had to change for the same reason ESPN has to change. The expansion of the internet and mobile devices watching ESPN for scores & highlights is worthless when we can just check on our phones. Similarly going to MTV for music videos is worthless when we can just goto youtube.Both channels HAVE to change to stay relevant. I think MTV did a great job figuring this out years ago. Now its ESPNs turn.

 
Good thing ESPN has a channel dedicated to a single sports program that hasn't been relevant since before the Obama administration.  

 
And yet somehow Bomani Jones survived the cut.Between his tv spots and his radio show he brings the suck every chance he can and does it very well.

 
tom22406 said:
And yet somehow Bomani Jones survived the cut.Between his tv spots and his radio show he brings the suck every chance he can and does it very well.
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I don't listen to him often because I don't care for his shtick but does he talk about anything other than the NBA?

 
Hey guys...I have the steps to MLB promotion success:

  1. Let's never have a dedicated MLB show during the day
  2. Let's layoff a bunch of our MLB talent for the shows we do have
  3. Let's hire MLBNetwork's show and put it onto ESPN2 in the 4-5pm timeslot everyday
  4. Pro$it
I mean, how tone deaf do they think this is.  It's one thing to let people go.  It's another to co-brand with a league's channel.  It's an entirely different thing to co-opt that product as your own when you can't do the ####### job.  Just flat out idiotic and shows the problem with the network isn't with the talent, but with management.

s part of a new collaborative effort between ESPN and MLB Network, the two entities today announced that ESPN will add MLB Network’s popular studio program Intentional Talk to its afternoon lineup starting Monday, May 1. The year-round, weekday show will air Monday through Friday on ESPN2 from 4-5 p.m. ET during the season, and will air as a 30-minute telecast in the offseason. Intentional Talk will also continue to air in its regular 5 p.m. timeslot on MLB Network.

Intentional Talk is an open forum where everyone and everything are the subject of discussion and baseball’s entertaining personalities are always on display. Veteran sports broadcaster Chris Rose and 2004 World Series Champion Kevin Millar will continue to serve as the primary co-hosts for Intentional Talk, with ESPN MLB commentators now periodically appearing on the show. MLB Network will continue to produce Intentional Talk and the show’s format will remain intact.
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http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2017/04/espn-adds-mlb-networks-intentional-talk-afternoon-lineup-new-content-collaboration/

 
Ramblin Wreck said:
I don't listen to him often because I don't care for his shtick but does he talk about anything other than the NBA?
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Having a 3 hour radio shows forces him to talk about something else but it's basically just NBA and NFL talk when it's not racial(which comes up a lot).

 
shadyridr said:
MTV had to change for the same reason ESPN has to change. The expansion of the internet and mobile devices watching ESPN for scores & highlights is worthless when we can just check on our phones. Similarly going to MTV for music videos is worthless when we can just goto youtube.Both channels HAVE to change to stay relevant. I think MTV did a great job figuring this out years ago. Now its ESPNs turn.
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I'll still sit and watch the highlights. My kids watch sportscenter all the time. I don't think espn has to make a dramatic change like MTV did, ESPN will always show sports like they always have (besides hockey)

 
Baloney Sandwich said:
The funny thing is that those in Boston know that Michael Smith from his days with the Boston Globe made Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X. ESPN trots him out on this new show with what amounts to verbal black face yet nobody calls them out on it.
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ESPN has doubled down on sports with higher minority participation and it shows in their entertainment shows as well with Smith and Hill manning the prime spot. 

You see more NBA and more NFL, while baseball coverage has dropped considerably and hockey doesn't even exist.  

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I can't speak to why they did this, maybe their analytics show AA viewers were an opportunity?  Not sure. 

 
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So what are the options for sports talk, for people that don't like hyperbole, screaming and shouting?  

Russilo and kannell was seriously the only show I could stomach.  

 ???

 
TripItUp said:
So what are the options for sports talk, for people that don't like hyperbole, screaming and shouting?  

Russilo and kannell was seriously the only show I could stomach.  

 ???
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Dan Patrick and Bomani.

 
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FatUncleJerryBuss said:
Dan Patrick and Bomani.
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Dan Patrick

Bomani is absolutely awful.  Len Elmore was  ridiculously bad. Dilfer was subpar as well but much better than previous 2 I mentioned.

Will add my favorite sports to listen to is KSR but have to be Kentucky fans to fully appreciate

 
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TripItUp said:
Yeah, probably have to go back to Patrick and cowherd.  Not a bomani fan.
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If you need help, we're here for you. Colin is not good for your mental health, he's not a good influence for you. Even Gitmo does not carry his show. Peer group, medication and intensive therapy will get you back on your feet in no time. 

 
Update as of Thursday afternoon:

SC Anchors

Jay Crawford, Jaymee Sire, Jade McCarthy, Darren Haynes

Radio

Robin Lundberg, Reese Waters

"Hot" blondes

Britt McHenry

NHL

Pierre LeBrun, Scott Burnside, Joe McDonald

MLB

Jayson Stark, Jim Caple, Dallas Braden, Doug Glanville, Raul Ibanez, Jim Bowden, Doug Padilla (Dodgers), Mark Saxon

NFL

Ed Werder, Trent Dilfer, Paul Kuharsky (Titans), Ashley Fox, Jarrett Bell

NBA

Ethan Strauss, Calvin Watkins (Rockets web), Justin Verrier

College

Andy Katz, Len Elmore (hoops analyst), Charles Arbuckle, Brett McMurphy, Dana O'Neil, Brendan Fitzgerald (ESPNU), Danny Kanell, Eamonn Brennan (college hoop), C.L. Brown (college hoop), Austin Ward (B1G football), Jesse Temple (Wisconsin.B1G), Brian Bennett (B1G), Max Olson (Big 12), David Ching (SEC), Greg Ostendorf (SEC), Chantel Jennings (Pac 12), Ted Miller (college football), Derek Tyson (recruiting), Jeremy Crabtree (recruiting)

Soccer

Mike Goodman, David Hirshey (ESPNFC writer)

Golf

Dottie Pepper

Boxing

Marysol Castro

General

Dr. Jerry Punch (misc.), Roger Cossack (legal analyst), Johnette Howard (general columnist), Jean-Jacques Taylor (Dallas web columnist), Melissa Isaacson (Chicago web columnist). Jane McManus (ESPNW), Josh Parcell (TV producer), Chris Hassel, Rufus Peabody, Tom Farrey (OTL), Steve Delsohn (OTL) Dave Tuley (gambling writer), David Lombardi, Dan Sharfin

 
Was Roger Cossack really full time at ESPN? I have to imagine his services could have been better utilized (and still can) as a freelancer. 

 
This goes way back but I basically stopped listening to ESPN radio when Erik Kuselias left The Sportsbash.  

I see from Wikipedia that he's on NBC Radio now, but I don't get that where I live.  Will have to investigate a podcast.

 
Dickie Dunn said:
Update as of Thursday afternoon:

SC Anchors

Jay Crawford, Jaymee Sire, Jade McCarthy, Darren Haynes

Radio

Robin Lundberg, Reese Waters

"Hot" blondes

Britt McHenry

NHL

Pierre LeBrun, Scott Burnside, Joe McDonald

MLB

Jayson Stark, Jim Caple, Dallas Braden, Doug Glanville, Raul Ibanez, Jim Bowden, Doug Padilla (Dodgers), Mark Saxon

NFL

Ed Werder, Trent Dilfer, Paul Kuharsky (Titans), Ashley Fox, Jarrett Bell

NBA

Ethan Strauss, Calvin Watkins (Rockets web), Justin Verrier

College

Andy Katz, Len Elmore (hoops analyst), Charles Arbuckle, Brett McMurphy, Dana O'Neil, Brendan Fitzgerald (ESPNU), Danny Kanell, Eamonn Brennan (college hoop), C.L. Brown (college hoop), Austin Ward (B1G football), Jesse Temple (Wisconsin.B1G), Brian Bennett (B1G), Max Olson (Big 12), David Ching (SEC), Greg Ostendorf (SEC), Chantel Jennings (Pac 12), Ted Miller (college football), Derek Tyson (recruiting), Jeremy Crabtree (recruiting)

Soccer

Mike Goodman, David Hirshey (ESPNFC writer)

Golf

Dottie Pepper

Boxing

Marysol Castro

General

Dr. Jerry Punch (misc.), Roger Cossack (legal analyst), Johnette Howard (general columnist), Jean-Jacques Taylor (Dallas web columnist), Melissa Isaacson (Chicago web columnist). Jane McManus (ESPNW), Josh Parcell (TV producer), Chris Hassel, Rufus Peabody, Tom Farrey (OTL), Steve Delsohn (OTL) Dave Tuley (gambling writer), David Lombardi, Dan Sharfin
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I actually really liked Jay Crawford, that sucks.  when i google the female's that, save dottie pepper who was terrible, were fired their instagram is by far the most popular thing about them.  I am just saying....

 
Don't know how many of you listened to the new(ish) early morning show First & Last with Robing Lundberg and Mike Golic. Thought it was pretty good, they actually talked sports and saved the drama for Mike & Mike. I get up around 5-5:30 am so I catch the end of their show. Lundberg wasn't on today but they have rotating hosts so didn't think anything of it until I saw he got booted. Show has only been on for a few months, kinda bummed.

And Golic's son makes the cut, nepotism is not dead!

 
Dickie Dunn said:
Update as of Thursday afternoon:

NHL

Pierre LeBrun, Scott Burnside, Joe McDonald
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these three guys. They have to have other jobs already/prevously correct? Or are these guy just website article guys? never have seen any of them on tv, and they only cover hockey like 10 mins a week...

 
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