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re: Simmons done at ESPN - contract bought out
Posted on 5/15/15 at 3:26 pm to Walking the Earth
Posted on 5/15/15 at 3:26 pm to Walking the Earth
If all you care about are live sports and hate any type of sports personality or commentary then fine. I admire your dedication.
But as far as that sort of thing goes, Simmons and Friends were so much better than almost everyone else at ESPN it wasn't even funny. SVP and Russilo are solid, a couple of the college football guys.
Bayless, Stephen A, Cowherd, Mike and Mike, Michelle Beadle, Kellerman, Marcellus Wiley, Wilbon, Lebatard, Bomani Jones, Jemele Hill. Every single ex NFL player they hire as a football guy. I mean Jesus who wants to watch Wendi Nix ask NFL players cliched questions and received cliched answers for an hour every day? They all cater to the lowest common denominator. It's atrocious. Say what you want about Simmons, but at least he's not unoriginal
But as far as that sort of thing goes, Simmons and Friends were so much better than almost everyone else at ESPN it wasn't even funny. SVP and Russilo are solid, a couple of the college football guys.
Bayless, Stephen A, Cowherd, Mike and Mike, Michelle Beadle, Kellerman, Marcellus Wiley, Wilbon, Lebatard, Bomani Jones, Jemele Hill. Every single ex NFL player they hire as a football guy. I mean Jesus who wants to watch Wendi Nix ask NFL players cliched questions and received cliched answers for an hour every day? They all cater to the lowest common denominator. It's atrocious. Say what you want about Simmons, but at least he's not unoriginal
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Posted on 5/15/15 at 3:30 pm to tigerfan88
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If all you care about are live sports and hate any type of sports personality or commentary then fine. I admire your dedication. But as far as that sort of thing goes, Simmons and Friends were so much better than almost everyone else at ESPN it wasn't even funny. SVP and Russilo are solid, a couple of the college football guys. Bayless, Stephen A, Cowherd, Mike and Mike, Michelle Beadle, Kellerman, Marcellus Wiley, Wilbon, Lebatard, Bomani Jones, Jemele Hill. Every single ex NFL player they hire as a football guy. I mean Jesus who wants to watch Wendi Nix ask NFL players cliched questions and received cliched answers for an hour every day? They all cater to the lowest common denominator. It's atrocious. Say what you want about Simmons, but at least he's not unoriginal
great post
ESPN really does look more more like CNN/Fox/MSNBC everyday. Simmons & Grantland, along with SVP and Russilo are more like Daily Show and Colbert Report
Posted on 5/15/15 at 3:45 pm to tigerfan88
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If all you care about is live sports...
Fortunately for me, I never said that.
However live sports make up their revenue stream and are the reason they can charge every cable or satellite subscriber 5 or however many bucks per month...even the ones like me that don't even watch them.
Simmons was strictly a prestige buy. Revenue wise, he was at best a blip and at worst actually costing them money.
Right or wrong and love him or hate him, the notion that ESPN somehow "made a mistake" (as a few on here have implied) is simply not supported by the facts. Considering the really dick way that they handled this, they seem to be exceptionally confident of that.
They will not lose viewers and they will not lose revenue. That's my sole premise. I'll leave Simmons' place in sports journalism to the MSB historians.
This post was edited on 5/15/15 at 3:48 pm
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