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    Pollack took fucking shots at Texas every chance he got and I never found any of his commentary worth a fuck. May he be cast into the Tartarus of the sports commentary realm and wind up with a job for

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On 6/10/2023 at 5:14 AM, Napoleon said:

 


Oregon Duck, loved Oregon & Hockey  and loved how much Linda Cohn loves hockey  

 

I find this one very attractive and awful as a sports presenter. 

I have looked up her background and know that she swam at UT and the. USC but she comes across as someone who has never followed sports, but acts like a sports fan for her job. 

Fit body, bleached hair, spray tan, authentic as a Seven Dollar Bill.

Her brother was a UT QB for a couple of years as well.  

#304

The Athletic employed 500 people as part of "journalistic staff"?!?!  What the hell does that include?

20 people = 4%.

5 people = 1%

#307
1 hour ago, PittsburghTiger said:
New: The Athletic is laying off nearly 20 reporters today or about 4 percent of journalistic staff as part of company reorg, per internal note from publisher David Perpich and EIC Steven Ginsberg.

 

Not just ESPN

 

I know Twitter is a hawt take machine, but it is stuff like this that makes me roll my eyes. Context matters. Company life cycle knowledge matters. 

The Athletic, a service I stopped subscribing to when they inked their deal with Texags, btw, had amazing retention rates. That's why they lost tons of money and never had a down round. They were pushed by their investors to grow, grow, grow (including McConaughey's fund, btw), and grow, grow, grow they did. They did this via a low subscription price, top notch journalists, and heavy marketing. The theory was, gee, if you grow rapidly enough and gain enough market share, one of the media giants will come along, hungry for growth, and buy you out. They eventually eclipsed 1.5M subs and were almost to 2M at exit.

They raised $50M at a $500M valuation in January of 2020. Two years later, after surviving the pandemic in relative health, the NYT, a media giant hungry for growth, came along and put all investment rounds and the founders (some of them deeply) in the money with a $550M deal. Success story for all involved.

18 months later, the NYT cuts some fat on some writers who cashed out or who represent the bottom 5% of performers in the organization, and it's cast as this horrible deal on Twitter. Laying off 20 writers on a bloated payroll after more than a calendar year of the deal being done is actually showing some patience. They should be doing that shit every year, and I would have expected it to be happening in bigger numbers.

The NYT will figure out pricing sensitivities related to churn, move prices upward and bloated expenses downward, and cross sell with other assets and wind up having a still-growing business line that adds to the bottom line. But dipshits on Twitter and elsewhere will drag the whole thing out of ignorance. 

The NYT has already cut The Athletic's losses into almost half, btw, and that's prior to layoffs. It will be profitable within the next few years. In the meantime, the net operating losses that haven't expired from year's past will be an asset applied to tax filings going forward and further adding to the NYT bottom line.

Frankly, that's all Disney is doing too. They let everything get out of control at ESPN because it printed money. One day they looked up with dwindling subs and a changing landscape and realized, "hmm, maybe paying 200+ personalities over $1M per year isn't showing us quite the return we once expected, and we can manufacture newer personalities at less than a third of what we're paying some of these dipshits? time to fire a chunk of this bloat and start fresh." And they'll be better for it.

#308

ESPN has run a terrible biz model for the last few years while also advancing a political agenda that most sports fans could care less about.

Hopefully a bunch of those fuckers get their asses fired without golden parachutes...

 

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#309
𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: ESPN is firing 20 on-air personalities today, per @AndrewMarchandNotable personalities such as Max Kellerman, Keyshawn Johnson, Jay Williams, Steve Young and Suzy Kolber are among those also considered to be at risk.More here:https://t.co/rk5lKslW4E

 

#310
BREAKING: ESPN has let go Jeff Van Gundy, per @AndrewMarchand

 

#315
18 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Yeesh @ van gundy. Should’ve canned mark jackson first
 

"ESPN is expected to replace Van Gundy on its No. 1 team. Internally, JJ Redick, Doris Burke and Richard Jefferson are the most likely candidates."

none of those three strike me as major upgrades to JVG, so it's probably a cost-saving measure.

#316
12 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

I wanna kiss Suzy Kolber.

Thanks, Joe. 

#317
NEWS: ESPN has let go Max Kellerman and Keyshawn Johnson, The Post has learned.https://t.co/VkxbmHlrU6

 

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#318

I cannot think of a single espn “personality” I’d give two shits about if they were to be fired. 
Get rid of all of them and focus on the sports

#319
I cannot think of a single espn “personality” I’d give two shits about if they were to be fired. 
Get rid of all of them and focus on the sports
Same. I only watch ESPN for the live sports. And even then, the announcers are muted in place of music I'm listening to. Don't care at all about these talking heads.
#320

I never understood why they pay so much money for game announcers. Nobody cares about the announcers. Just rotate a bunch of low level jags who will do it for nothing. No one is going to stop watching their team play because the announcer sucks. 

#323
1 hour ago, satyanash said:

so it's probably a cost-saving measure.

Every single move they make is cost-focused. Nothing to do with performance or even ratings. Most likely they replace these folks with younger, cheaper and even stupider former players/coaches.

#325
53 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

I never understood why they pay so much money for game announcers. Nobody cares about the announcers. Just rotate a bunch of low level jags who will do it for nothing. No one is going to stop watching their team play because the announcer sucks. 

truth.  As if anyone will watch an NFL game because Tom Brady (at $37 million a year!) is in the booth.  Besides, he's almost as lame and boring as Drew Brees.  What a waste of $, could have helped starving kids. 

#327
Today I join the many hard-working colleagues who have been laid off.Heartbreaking-but 27 years at ESPN was a good run. So grateful for a 38 yr career! Longevity for a woman in this business is something I’m especially proud of. Next step- a project that gives back. ❤️

 

#328
I cannot think of a single espn “personality” I’d give two shits about if they were to be fired. 
Get rid of all of them and focus on the sports

As much as Berman gets shit on…he’s the goat for calling nfl highlights

The rest of their nfl guys are boring

I think JJ reddick is starting to become a good commentator, even if he was a douche in college


Bill waltons awesome

The rest are meh.
#330
20 minutes ago, satyanash said:
Today I join the many hard-working colleagues who have been laid off.Heartbreaking-but 27 years at ESPN was a good run. So grateful for a 38 yr career! Longevity for a woman in this business is something I’m especially proud of. Next step- a project that gives back. ❤️

 

We riot!!

#332

Sign a contract with Pat McAfee for $17M per, lay off some of the names above that we’re making a quarter or less of that, decisions make no sense.

I listen to ESPN radio if I’m in the vehicle most of the time. The constant rotation of shows has gotten to be annoying compared to what it was with the consistent lineup they had for years.

#333
14 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


Bill waltons awesome

The rest are meh.

Walton is great...as long as he isn't calling your team's game which you would like to watch in its entirety.

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#334
None of this is funny. TNT is gonna have the Van Gundys calling games together and ESPN is gonna give us more Perk x Doris Burke. America got worse today.

 

#335
1 hour ago, Bartles said:

Every single move they make is cost-focused. Nothing to do with performance or even ratings. Most likely they replace these folks with younger, cheaper and even stupider former players/coaches.

sure, but Mark Jackson's no spring chicken either. No reason he had to stick around.

#338
17 minutes ago, Brew said:

Sign a contract with Pat McAfee for $17M per, lay off some of the names above that we’re making a quarter or less of that, decisions make no sense.

 

Accurate or not, they figured that McAfee brings his own eyeballs.  Enough to warrant a $17M salary.

#339
36 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


As much as Berman gets shit on…he’s the goat for calling nfl highlights

The rest of their nfl guys are boring

I think JJ reddick is starting to become a good commentator, even if he was a douche in college


Bill waltons awesome

The rest are meh.

Walton is a beating as announcer trying to stay with the actual game being played. With that said I’d be 100% down with a “Walton-cast” a la what Peyton & Eli do for NFL. 
That would completely play to his strengths. 

#340
59 minutes ago, satyanash said:
Today I join the many hard-working colleagues who have been laid off.Heartbreaking-but 27 years at ESPN was a good run. So grateful for a 38 yr career! Longevity for a woman in this business is something I’m especially proud of. Next step- a project that gives back. ❤️

 

She starting a dildo company?

#341
2 hours ago, Hermanator said:

I never understood why they pay so much money for game announcers. Nobody cares about the announcers. Just rotate a bunch of low level jags who will do it for nothing. No one is going to stop watching their team play because the announcer sucks. 

That's just completely wrong. People complain about announcers being shitty and annoying all the time. It's kind of a hard job.

#342
ESPN NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay has been let go by the company as part of today’s layoffs, per @AndrewMarchand. McShay was at ESPN since 2006 and was one of the top voices for their draft coverage.https://t.co/usQ0jf69e2

 

#343
If Suzy Kolber doesn't get sexually harassed by Joe Namath one night on TV I may have never ended up where I am now as an artist and that's a very strange thing to think aboutAnyway ESPN did her dirty she deserved better
So basically if you don't like me the person you are actually mad at is Joe Namath

 

#345
1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

I think JJ reddick is starting to become a good commentator, even if he was a douche in college

Hell, he's the biggest douche out of the three in this clip.

 

#347
46 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

That's just completely wrong. People complain about announcers being shitty and annoying all the time. 

Exactly. No matter who the announcers are people complain all the time. Whether it's Romo making tens of millions a year or the bottom barrel guy nobody remembers his name doing panthers vs Texans at noon. Some people will thing he's great and others will think he sucks.

The ratings for the games have nothing to do with the announcers and everything to do with the teams playing and the time slot. 

Any money above the minimum spent on variables that don't affect ratings is wasted money. 

#348
26 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Live sports is all that's worth watching on ESPN now... what a fuckin' disaster

Now? Hasn't it been like that for about a decade minimum?

#349
On 6/14/2023 at 1:42 PM, LTtxfan said:

ESPN has run a terrible biz model for the last few years while also advancing a political agenda that most sports fans could care less about.

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#350
On 6/12/2023 at 1:16 PM, BurntOrange&White said:

The Athletic fucking sucks.

yes

On 6/12/2023 at 2:15 PM, BurntOrange&White said:

Buy for me sugary daddy ❤️ lol

https://12ft.io/

Although it didn't work for athletic

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