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wizards8507 said:
Holy shit.

Skipper resigned, citing substance abuse.

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That job would cause anyone to use drugs for an escape.

IrishLax said:
Bodenheimer's 13 year run was orders of magnitude better than John Skipper's 6 year disaster... so this has to be good news for anyone rooting for ESPN to succeed. Too bad Bodenheimer comes in saddled with so much of Skipper's shit. And I'm sure whoever the permanent guy they eventually choose to fill the shoes will be worse than both of them.
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Heard they're trying to get Walt Disney resurrected so he can work his magic one more time.

wizards8507 said:
I'm at a hipster coffee shop with my mother-in-law.
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So many jokes there, but I'll leave it alone.

wizards8507 said:
I can pound a $6.50 cinnamon roll latte with the best of them when MiL is paying. Rich old lady has more money than sense.
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Tightwad.
 
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Probably comes out tomorrow morning saying his Twitter was hacked, apologizing profusely.
 
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Katie Nolan has a podcast called Sports?. First episode is out and i Listened to it. She swears alot and its bleeped which is kind of dumb. I enjoyed her bits talking about NFL games but then she interviewed some comedian guy who knows nothing about sports bar the average stuff and it was kinda lame. I guess the premise is every week she interviews TV/comedy/movie folks who have passing interests in sport.
 
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dublinirish said:
Katie Nolan has a podcast called Sports?. First episode is out and i Listened to it. She swears alot and its bleeped which is kind of dumb. I enjoyed her bits talking about NFL games but then she interviewed some comedian guy who knows nothing about sports bar the average stuff and it was kinda lame. I guess the premise is every week she interviews TV/comedy/movie folks who have passing interests in sport.
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I really dislike when any sports show brings on guests that have 1.) nothing to do with sports and 2.) know nothing of sports...

I can see a show bringing on Michael Rapaport or whatever and the interview is thick with him talking about his love of NY sports teams but when Dan Patrick brings on the dude from Big Bang and he clearly doesn't know football from ping pong, yeah, he shouldn't be on a sports themed show,... ever.
 
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ACamp1900 said:
I really dislike when any sports show brings on guests that have 1.) nothing to do with sports and 2.) know nothing of sports...

I can see a show bringing on Michael Rapaport or whatever and the interview is thick with him talking about his love of NY sports teams but when Dan Patrick brings on the dude from Big Bang and he clearly doesn't know football from ping pong, yeah, he shouldn't be on a sports themed show,... ever.
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seems like Nolan has dropped the weekly guests from her pod and its a much more entertaining show now.
 
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IrishLax said:
It was only a matter of time until she was reassigned (can't fire her without causing a firestorm), and I'm surprised they were able to do this so delicately. Well done by ESPN management.
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Being framed as "her decision" which is a total lie.
 
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She's the only reporter, media member, analyst, whatever you want to call them... that I literally cannot stand.

Horrible and lazy.

Tom Hammond, Justin Hopkins >>> Jamele Hill.
 
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Polish Leppy 22 said:
Curt Schilling, you're fired.

Jemele Hill, you're being reassigned.
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The problem was that Schilling got warned for several incidents.

Hill has been reprimanded 1.5 times. I assume she gets 1.5 more strikes before she's out.
 
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Meatloaf said:
Don't know why you put that in quotes. Skipper apparently liked slamming some nose beers.
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Yeah, but that's not why he got the boot.

If "substance abuse issues" were the real reason, he would've been reported to be on a company retreat and then gone to rehab on the down low, and then returned to the company.

Instead, he was at the bar with his guy Dan LeBatard drinking beers like three days after he stepped down... I don't think that's how you address your substance abuse issues if you just stepped down from one of the biggest jobs in media for it.
 
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IrishLion said:
Yeah, but that's not why he got the boot.

If "substance abuse issues" were the real reason, he would've been reported to be on a company retreat and then gone to rehab on the down low, and then returned to the company.

Instead, he was at the bar with his guy Dan LeBatard drinking beers like three days after he stepped down... I don't think that's how you address your substance abuse issues if you just stepped down from one of the biggest jobs in media for it.
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all he did was go heavy on some of the office skirt
 
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wizards8507 said:
Watch this right now.

30 for 30: The Two Bills
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Pretty good story. I wish we had a way of seeing another man's mind. Belichick would probably be on my short list.

Aquinas, CG Jung, Alan Turing, Einstein, Jeff Bezos would also be on that list. All of them so thoroughly understood their domain and direction, there were able to make truly novel contributions/dominate their competition.
 
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Disney earnings beat: $1.89 per share, vs expected EPS of $1.61
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The Walt Disney Company reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations on Tuesday, but revenue missed estimates.

Here's how the company did compared with what Wall Street expected:

Adjusted EPS: $1.89 vs. $1.61 expected according to Thomson Reuters
Revenue: $15.35 billion vs. $15.45 billion expected according to Thomson Reuters
That adjusted earnings per share figure accounts for the recent tax overhaul and other one-time benefits totaling about $1.6 billion.

Shares of Disney rose about 1.5 percent in after-hours trade.

Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger told CNBC's "Closing Bell" that the company will price ESPN Plus, the company's first direct-to-consumer streaming service, at $4.99 per month. That product will roll out with the relaunch of the ESPN app this spring, Iger said.

In a December call with analysts, Iger explained that this ESPN streaming service was really intended to be an add-on for the "ultimate sports fan" subscriber...
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Parks and resorts were a bright spot during the first quarter. The segment brought in $5.15 billion in revenue, besting a StreetAccount consensus estimate of $4.86 billion.

But Disney's other businesses reported revenue that fell short of Wall Street projections. Here's how much each segment brought in compared with what analysts projected, according to StreetAccount consensus estimates:

Media and networks: $6.24 billion vs. $6.35 billion expected
Parks and resorts: $5.15 billion vs. $4.86 billion expected
Studio: $2.50 billion vs. $2.75 billion expected
Consumer and interactive: $1.45 billion vs. $1.52 billion
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Michael Smith Confirms Jemele Hill Was Forced Out at SportsCenter

Well, Michael Smith just fired back on the James Andrew Miller ESPN podcast about SportsCenter’s origins and disabused everyone of the notion that Jemele was leaving SportsCenter on her own.

Proving, yet again, that I was right. (As I generally always am unless it comes to selling pants. What’s up, Twitter stock! Hope y’all climbed on board alongside me).

So what exactly did Michael Smith say? He confirmed what I told y’all over the past several weeks, ESPN executives forced Hill off by changing the show.

Quoth Michael Smith:

“There was a time we weren’t even talking to each other (on the show) anymore. Like no more Michael and Jemele, not less, not here and there. No more Michael and Jemele talking. No more of their commentary. It’s just strictly live shots and analysts. That’s what pissed me off so much. I was like, wait a second, you all acknowledge that one of the strengths we have going for us as a show is Michael and Jemele’s chemistry, but Michael and Jemele don’t fucking talk to each other? How does that make sense?”

Smith went on to accuse the ESPN of pushing the panic button and giving in to critics. Saying his bosses at ESPN “weren’t built to take (the criticism).”

“Instead of saying ‘no, this is the vision for this show, this is what we’re doing. This show is about Michael and Jemele and their opinions and their chemistry, and they’re going to do ‘SportsCenter’ their way.’ Instead of sticking to that vision, we immediately tried to merge two things. It was very frustrating…They got what they wanted, which was Michael and Jemele being muted. And that frustrated the shit out of us.”

Ratings, of course, had tanked for the SC6 show meaning ESPN was actually, for the first time in a long time, actually looking at the ratings and doing what the public wanted. The public had voted with their eyeballs, no one wanted WokeCenter. They wanted SportsCenter.
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IrishLax said:
Yeah, that is what I expected. And it was executed with extreme savvy by ESPN to avoid waves getting her out of there. She was utterly terrible as a host, and her/Smith are delusional about people wanting to see their (lack of) chemistry.
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Some people liked it. His & Hers did extremely well in a middle-of-the-day time slot on ESPN2. Didn't translate to the 6pm flagship audience, though.

Extract whatever theories you'd like from that, but I'm neither implying them nor endorsing them.
 
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wizards8507 said:
Some people liked it. His & Hers did extremely well in a middle-of-the-day time slot on ESPN2. Didn't translate to the 6pm flagship audience, though.

Extract whatever theories you'd like from that, but I'm neither implying them nor endorsing them.
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IMO, His & Hers was actually good, because it wasn't trying to be "SportsCenter". When you build a brand people have an expectation.

And yeah, daytime TV demographics are much different than the post-work 6PM demographic on many levels.
 
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