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ESPN Layoffs

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by Rockets34Legend, Jun 30, 2023.

  1. Buck Turgidson

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    Nature shows, Always Sunny, South Park, Diners Drive-ins and Dives, Seinfeld
     
  2. J.R.

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  3. sealclubber1016

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    Most predictable signing ever.

    Dude saw dollar signs when Woj retired, now he can slide right on in.
     
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  4. JW86

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    LOL guess the gambling man won
     
  5. Rockets34Legend

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  6. Joe Joe

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    Shams...getting the Woj and Lowe paychecks.
     
  7. Commodore

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  8. boomboom

    boomboom I GOT '99 PROBLEMS

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    RIP

    Never watched a single episode.
     
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  9. JW86

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    Uhm…what is this?
     
  10. A_3PO

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    IMO, daytime TV is mostly trash. Including ESPN. I've watched this show ~5-6 times in my entire life and lost brain cells each time.
     
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    worst show. Basically sportswriters would be the panel and argue diff sports topics. The host aka Italian Carson Daly gives them plus or minus points on how he feels they debated each take. Goes to a knock out rock and they determine who won for the day.
     
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    This show was awesome when I was in high school, but I hadn’t watched a full episode in years. I still DVR PTI, and sometimes I catch a bit of Around the Horn at the beginning of the recording. Over time, Around the Horn has come to embody why newspapers are dying, the sportswriters feel out of touch and irrelevant.
     
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    i'm convinced there's more to the story. methinks something happened behind the scenes and woje was forced to retire and run some community college sports program. maybe he had a jordan gambling debt to the irish mafia worth like $7 mil, and they came to iyespiyen to collect.
     
  14. rockets1995

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    Around the Horn Host Max Kellerman was way better. With better writers. Most of them left over the years.

    This fill in is terrible Tony Reali he was on PTI as a Mail Guy lol. He got promoted when Max left for Boxing HBO. He worked both for PTI and Around the Horn than Full Time Around the Horn.
     
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    “…an agreement that will result in Smith continuing to star on “First Take” on ESPN while scaling back some of his other required appearances on the network, which would free him up to talk even more about politics, sources briefed on the agreement told The Athletic.

    Smith will remain a fixture on “First Take,” his daily morning flagship show on ESPN, but will be less omnipresent on the rest of the network, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the terms of the agreement were not expected to be announced publicly. Smith will not be a regular on ESPN’s premiere NBA pregame show anymore, though he could still make occasional appearances on top basketball studio programs, as well as the “Monday Night Football” pregame or during other big time events.”

     
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  16. Kilgore Trout

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    Oh yeah still remember him as Stat Boy on PTI.
     
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  17. raining threes

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    End of an era

    Man ESPN has been flushed down the toilet.
     
  18. raining threes

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    It's no longer ESPN,

    IT's the Chinese SAS network.

    They laid people off to pay SAS 100 mil. LMAO
     
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    that around the horn, pti, and that other show with the fat guy and his dad used to be in heavy rotation. nobody watches live TV anymore.
     
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    I watched it pretty often from 2002-2004. I remember liking the Woody guy.
     
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