The Sports Media Thread

[Rome]

Awful people don't wear Eagles jerseys to sacred historical sites.  Settle down, Esmeralda.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Excellent point!

[ice grillin you]

you are straight celebrating dilfer getting axed...like his analysis or dont hes not sean hannity or bob knight hes not a bad person.

whole reason i ended up in the government is because i got laid off and wanted to find a job with the best possible job security

guess what you do when you get laid off....you go and get another job

yea look at me...im a stooge in corporate america. granted i left on my own but the news industry being what it is, i wasnt too far away from the cutting line no matter where i ended up.

i know most of those people will be fine but unless its fox news or people doing corrosively bad work ill never have a dismissive attitude toward people losing their jobs.

you only care because its media gossip and you are obsessed with it...you dont actually care about any of these people....shtein you dont even know who half of them are....and if these were wall street layoffs or a retail box store was going out of business you really really wouldnt care

who is celebrating ?

saying someone sucked isn't celebrating, saying you wont lose sleep over this, isn't celebrating.

no one here is celebrating.....on twitter all day there have been espn haters celebrating and going back n forth with media people who's arguemnt with the haters has been that they should have empathy to3ards anyone who loses a job...lil guy follows a lot of these media people and so he co opted their arguments and brought them here for some reason

[ice grillin you]

jayme sire gone

also roger cossack who was barely ever on but whenever he was you learned something

[PhillyPhreak54]

Dallas Braden and his awful hair
Doug Glanville
Raul Ibanez
Jade McCarthy

Three Philly connections

[MDS]

you only care because its media gossip and you are obsessed with it...you dont actually care about any of these people....shtein you dont even know who half of them are....and if these were wall street layoffs or a retail box store was going out of business you really really wouldnt care

no one here is celebrating.....on twitter all day there have been espn haters celebrating and going back n forth with media people who's arguemnt with the haters has been that they should have empathy to3ards anyone who loses a job...lil guy follows a lot of these media people and so he co opted their arguments and brought them here for some reason

big box stores or wall street arent important jobs....theres another firm and another store....journalism is important, and espn is one of its biggest entities. if one place has, or had, the capital to support journalism for the sake of journalism, its espn. thats why these layoffs are so discouraging. they are getting rid of people who do good work and keep people who read words off a prompter or shout sports opinions to each other.

it has nothing to do with twitter....i would have the same reaction without it. the #1 thing you care about for sports is top 25 college football rankings, the hotness of anchors and lee corso putting on a mascot head. i guess those things arent in danger so hooray

[ice grillin you]

an online writer for espns hockey page is not important...a sportscenter talking head is not inmportant....certainly not as important as joe the plumber losing his job at home depot and not being able to support his family...again these are highly educated people with good resumes....they can get a job almost anywhere....shtein stark could retire today and be fine

your most important jobs in the country are whoever makes the nfl schedule and whoever works at neilson...losses there would cut deep with you

[MDS]

any person providing information that people want is doing something valuable and important...whether its sports, tech, porn -- more information is a good thing

but you are right the dudes who put the nfl schedule together have perhaps the most important job in the country

[PhillyPhreak54]

Britt McHenry
Andy Katz

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-layoffs-baseball-tonight-intentional-talk.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

They're killing themselves and I hope the whole thing burns to the ground

We get shtein ass debate shows and something trying to resemble a hip version of SC with Jemel Hill and Michael Smith.

ESPN News doesn't even do straigh highlights like before.

[MDS]

nobody watches highlight shows anymore

theres this thing called the internet

[PhillyPhreak54]

Ok.

Well farg the internet. Some of us like to see it on tv

[MDS]

theres not enough of you geezers left

world goin one way, j another

[PhillyPhreak54]

Marc Stein out too

Edit - Chad Ford too

[PhillyPhreak54]

Jay Cutler is the analyst on FOX with Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis