Clay Travis, Boobs and CNN

Do we even need to guess who Travis had on his show this morning? When I heard the tease it was an immediate "click."

 

And the circle is complete.

Fox Buys Clay Travis' 'Outkick' Sports-News Site - Variety

 

it pays to keep politics out of sports

 

WTF




News: I'll Be Joining Buck Sexton In Rush Limbaugh's Radio Time Slot Starting June 21st – OutKick

 

Was just coming here to post the latest update. The grift is complete. Goodness, what a schmuck.

 

republicans buy gold bond and ovaltine too

 

But he voted for OBAMA!!!!

I've heard a bit of Buck Sexton - damn his name even sounds like a conservative talk show host - but he's actually listenable and doesn't figure his listeners are morons and will swallow anything.
And I've actually enjoyed listening to Outkick the Coverage the last few days with Jonas Knox filling in with Brady Quinn. I do wonder if the whole play was for Fox to "swallow" the site incorporate the Outkick brand as they saw fit, maybe have Travis contribute an article now and then, or what. They would be wise to keep Knox and Quinn and ditch the political stuff.
My guess is that this has been Travis' play since Limbaugh announced he was dying. Prior to Covid and George Floyd he would go against the grain and be a contrarian for the sake of trying to make a name for himself, but he wasn't anti-facts or common sense.
He looks around, realizes he has as much ability to become the next Limbaugh as any other clown in the realm and makes the move to COVID denier/All Lives Matter Guy. Sells OTC at peak, One thing for sure, he and Whitlock look a lot smarter to Trumpers when they talk politics, than when they try to talk sports to sports fans.

 

Clay Travis is a tough listen. Then again, Dave Portnoy is a tough listen, and apparently people want to listen to that, too.

I don't know Buck Sexton.

 

Buck Sexton has been in the Limbaugh guest host rotation for a long time. I think he's had his own show for a few years as well, so he's an experienced radio guy familiar to Limbaugh's audience. He's not the worst of the lot, but I'm not sure he's the best either.

 

I do wonder if this is a situation where they'll end up dumping one or the other after a year based on audience preference. Two hosts agreeing on everything is horrible radio. And if you have two hosts who disagree, I'm thinking the audience will generally prefer one or the other. This is IHeart's way of covering their bases on whether to go with a conservative (Sexton) or a Trumper like Clay.

And now with Whitlock doing The Blaze and Will Cain on Fox News the sports world is devoid of righty political talkers, though I've heard Gottlieb is creeping into that territory - surprised Doug has the time between cramming in anecdotes that remind people that he was a big time college player, knows a lot of famous people and has a great life.

 

LOL poor Ken Matthews.