All these so called ESPN reporters losing their jobs and Woj will take over their position pretty much Imagine how pissed they all gonna be
Welp three out of four people who quoted me agreed with me and a couple liked so you're that one guy. all I am saying is I would much rather have everyone else who didn't get fired than her. but ramona shelbourne gets to stay.
I wonder if Bill Simmons snatchs up a bunch of quality people and twirly creates grantland 2.0 on a broader scale. The way of sports news has gone to the internet and ESPN blundered that long ago with "ESPN insider" and all click bait articles. True fans who are dedicated will go for the smart sensible articles and pods. Not click bait trash. That's been overtook by social media. Death to ESPN is fine by me.
They basically get rid of most of the team beat writers and lots of those stat geeks. No surprise, most of them are kind of traditional, boring and old school stuff. Wow is like TMZ and this sh't sells, a lots. It's a fact that we are living with 50% of the population being morons among us that voted for another moron. Welcome to the new era of trash.
I am kind of surprised that Amin is still there if they are going to get Woj. Amin clearly took a shot at Woj several years ago and Woj blasted him and ESPN hard with the reply.
I wouldn't call the writers they let go of "traditional". Analytical is probably a better term for the group they let go. The ones they kept were pretty much all the dummies who say idiotic things that people tune in to hear. That's why personalities like Beadle, Kellerman, and Amin "hate hard" are still there but guys like Stein, Chad Ford, and Ethan Sherwood Strauss(who I never cared for, but he was a smart writer) are gone. Your right though that this is ESPN trending towards the TMZ format for sports. ESPN is trash.
Disregarding him being laid off (don't ever want to see a competent guy fired), I like that I won't be able to read his biased **** anymore. He is probably one of the leading figures who hate Harden/Rox because he is a mavs fan.
As someone who has been laid off twice, I know how much it sucks. That said, other sports media folk are acting like they're sending these ESPN guys to the gas chambers with their eulogies on Twitter. Calm down. It's bad but it ain't THAT bad. With that said, I'm surprised to see Stein go. Delicate Rockets fans of course think he is some sort of anti Rockets guy but that is not the case. He was probably in the top 5 NBA guys at ESPN. I'm sure he'll land on his feet though. I'd like to see him join the Ringer; he'd give them something new.
My sentiments exactly its become toxic, and spreading. To where like you said trash up lifting trash, trash protecting trash.
Many of the people fired were beat writers though. Simmons has no use for that; it's all columnists and stats people on his side. The one guy I think might have a good shot in the new future of sports media is Eamonn Brennan. I always thought he was quality. But dinosaurs like Stein, Chad Ford, Andy Katz, Jayson Stark? Unless the NBA/NCAA/MLB are hiring more guys, they might be out of luck, and certainly hard pressed to find salaries like their ESPN ones.
Only ones safe are probably ones with strong ties to ny/la/bos as those media markets are still important. I don't like what ESPN has become, but it's hard to enjoy their demise considering how important they were to creating the sports word that I love.
