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re: ESPN fired Howie Schwab
Posted on 6/13/13 at 10:37 am to jimithing11
Posted on 6/13/13 at 10:37 am to jimithing11
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won't be long until ESPN loses the monopoly
heh
ESPN has bought and paid for just about every major sporting event out there...so we are stuck with them at least in terms of broadcasting games for now
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Posted on 6/13/13 at 10:38 am to WDE24
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It may say more about the sports watching public.
Exactly. The morons in this thread who obviously still watch ESPN are fueling their programming
Posted on 6/13/13 at 10:42 am to jcole4lsu
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Jamele Hill
Wish they would fire that racist bitch...
Posted on 6/13/13 at 10:43 am to Shankopotomus
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ESPN has bought and paid for just about every major sporting event out there...so we are stuck with them at least in terms of broadcasting games for now
True
Sad part is
CBS > ESPN for NFL, CFB and CBB
NBC > ESPN for NFL
NFLN > ESPN for NFL
TNT > ESPN for NBA
FOX > ESPN for NASCAR
CBS, NBC > ESPN for Golf
CBS, NBC > ESPN for Tennis
Posted on 6/13/13 at 10:48 am to jimithing11
quote:
CBS > ESPN for NFL, CFB and CBB
NBC > ESPN for NFL
NFLN > ESPN for NFL
TNT > ESPN for NBA
FOX > ESPN for NASCAR
CBS, NBC > ESPN for Golf
CBS, NBC > ESPN for Tennis
Truth...
FOX,TBS,MLBN > MLB
Posted on 6/13/13 at 10:51 am to jimithing11
When Augusta sold out to ESPN for Thursday-Friday Masters coverage, I know then it was all over
Posted on 6/13/13 at 11:33 am to Shankopotomus
It's a true sad day. Schwab sort of represents the "old ESPN". It showed that guys could advance based solely on their talent, and even a mom's basement research guy could get on TV based on his knowledge. He made a living making people look smart about sports, and he was a walking encyclopedia, and also by all accounts, a genuinely good person.
He's sort of a hero to every person who has a blog. He's the dream scenario, not Bill Simmons.For him to get fired shows that ESPN no longer values loyalty or sports knowledge. It's a shame. The Schwab is a cult hero.
He's sort of a hero to every person who has a blog. He's the dream scenario, not Bill Simmons.For him to get fired shows that ESPN no longer values loyalty or sports knowledge. It's a shame. The Schwab is a cult hero.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 12:06 pm to Baloo
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For him to get fired shows that ESPN no longer values loyalty or sports knowledge. It's a shame. T
Do a lot of billion dollar companies value loyalty over profitability?
Posted on 6/13/13 at 12:08 pm to jacks40
the only couple things i like about ESPN is the ticker at the bottom of the shows and espn news so i can just get the highlights
Posted on 6/13/13 at 12:26 pm to jcole4lsu
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Skip Bayless
So they should fire the guy of one of the most popular shows on ESPN for some guy that does research?
Posted on 6/13/13 at 12:28 pm to jcole4lsu
How will I know how many bags of chips I need for the weekend now? ESPN is terrible, I watched every morning but I can't take Mike & Mike and surely can't take Jemele Hill and Skip. I now only watch the 30 for 30's and live events.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 12:28 pm to Baloo
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.For him to get fired shows that ESPN no longer values loyalty or sports knowledge.
Meh. Business is business. It's foolish to think that you are owed some sort of loyalty from a company when you are not the founder.
Doesn't change the fact that I despise ESPN.
This post was edited on 6/13/13 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 6/13/13 at 12:35 pm to jcole4lsu
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Lets fire the guy who basically built the research department for us instead of getting rid of the ridiculous contract of someone like Jamele Hill or Skip Bayless.
People don't like objectivity and facts.. they like to hate on people whose opinions are so far to the opposite end of the spectrum compared to their own, even though it takes no ability to have wrong opinions.
Skip Bayless is actually a very knowledgable journalist. He just figured out that trolling is what gets ratings.
Jamelle Hill... not so much. She's turrible.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 1:01 pm to brewhan davey
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Skip Bayless is actually a very knowledgable journalist. He just figured out that trolling is what gets ratings.
This. I actually liked Skip ever since Cold Pizza.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 1:09 pm to Zamoro10
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Seriously, never understood the point of his role with today's technology.
wow, so you think the info just naturally exists as if someone doesn't have to complie and organize it first?
Posted on 6/13/13 at 1:12 pm to jcole4lsu
Good
Schwab was too good of a person to work for those frickers anymore
Schwab was too good of a person to work for those frickers anymore
Posted on 6/13/13 at 1:19 pm to jacks40
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Do a lot of billion dollar companies value loyalty over profitability?
False choice. One, you assume that Howie Schwab is preventing ESPN from being profitable, which I highly doubt. Secondly, continually cutting jobs to raise the stock price is a terrible business practice in the long run because you fire people who know what they are doing. The fact that we value companies more highly for doing so is kind of sick and misguided, but that's another discussion.
Finally, I'm not a stockholder in ESPN, so I don't give a shite about their stock price. I'm a consumer and care about their quality of product.... which got worse with this decision. That's what I care about.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 1:20 pm to beaver
ESPN is probably just hiring consultants to do what he did, at a much lower price point. And obviously he doesn't apparently drive ratings, so it makes sense.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 1:29 pm to Baloo
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False choice. One, you assume that Howie Schwab is preventing ESPN from being profitable, which I highly doubt. Secondly, continually cutting jobs to raise the stock price is a terrible business practice in the long run because you fire people who know what they are doing. The fact that we value companies more highly for doing so is kind of sick and misguided, but that's another discussion.
Finally, I'm not a stockholder in ESPN, so I don't give a shite about their stock price. I'm a consumer and care about their quality of product.... which got worse with this decision. That's what I care about.
Posted on 6/13/13 at 1:32 pm to Ford Frenzy
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why didn't they offer him a lower salary?
Well the fact is they might have and he might've refused it, we will never know
Times change and his postion probably isn't really needed anymore with technology but there is something to be said for loyalty which apparently ESPN bow gives zero fricks about
I swear I am very, very close to saying frick ESPN and never watching anything in there except live events. Not that I watch much other than that anyways but I usually leave it on in the background while I do other stuff considering the rest of TV usually sucks just as bad
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