MLB analysts Dallas Braden, Raul Ibanez, and Doug Glanville are gone too.
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I'm interested in what Glanville will do. Smart guy, U Penn grad. I like him.
MLB analysts Dallas Braden, Raul Ibanez, and Doug Glanville are gone too.
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Chris asked that they not podcast it
Just saying they keep the old war horse on, but let the eye candy go. Jaymee is a lot easier on the eyes than ol' Linda.
As folks on twitter are saying, they fire Katz and keep Joe Lunardi? OK...I would love to see Katz at CBS. It's one thing to fire a bunch of guys that don't add. Katz is the one person I go to for college basketball that does not seem to be a real homer for a conference or a team.
The liberal angle is just bogus. If that were the reason that ESPN was failing, wouldn't you expect it to only affect them? It's not though. Their competitors are seeing big dropoffs as well. FS1 is down lots of subscribers, too. They just had a big employee layoff about a year ago. Cable subscriptions are down across the board. Unless your theory is that viewers are so angry at ESPN's liberal view that they're cancelling their entire cable subscription in protest, then that angle just doesn't hold water.
There are legitimate reasons why ESPN is not doing as well as they were (and to be clear, they're still very, very profitable). Being too PC/Liberal is way, way far down the list.
As folks on twitter are saying, they fire Katz and keep Joe Lunardi? OK...
You cancelled Direct TV because of politics in sports?I doubt there is a lot of direct cause and effect but I know the politicization of sports has really turned me off in general. We cancelled our DirecTV last month as I couldn't justify it any more.
Sports should be an escape from politics.
You cancelled Direct TV because of politics in sports?
You cancelled Direct TV because of politics in sports?
I believe Lunardi is a freelance guy. He has a full-time job as a VP of Marketing at St. Joseph's University. So he's probably getting paid by ESPN on a contract basis with no benefits.As folks on twitter are saying, they fire Katz and keep Joe Lunardi? OK...
I doubt there is a lot of direct cause and effect but I know the politicization of sports has really turned me off in general. We cancelled our DirecTV last month as I couldn't justify it any more.
Sports should be an escape from politics.
That's not what I said. I hope you aren't naive enough to believe that people make entertainment purchasing decisions in some sort of vacuum. Lots of factors go into those decisions, many of them subconscious.
Sports was an escape for me from the grind of life including politics. Less interest in sports, less time to watch and a $140 monthly bill were some of the factors that led me and my wife to cancel. We had RCA/DirecTV/AT&T since 1998.