Former FanHouse employee updates

i'm hearing dan graziano, best known as a baseball writer but most recently toiling the nfl landscape, has landed a pretty good gig but i'm not at liberty to give any details. sorry. don't mean to tease, just wanted to add his name to this list.

 

Graziano announced today he's NFC East blogger for ESPN.com

 

Who did he replace?

 

that was the word i got last week and alluded to a few posts above. good for dan...

it's not the ideal gig -- no benefits, from what i hear -- but the salary is stellar. he replaced a guy named mosley, i believe, who i never read.

 

Yeah, Dan replaced Matt Mosely and has already put up two quality blog posts. No benefits is never fun to deal with, but in this environment a gig like the one Dan got is impossible to pass up. He'll kick ass at it like he did over at FanHouse. Now let's just hope we can see more updates like this one about the other ex-FanHousers still out there trying to land on their feet.

 

Mosely was definitely not one of the better NFL bloggers, which is surprising that they didn't hire someone better since that is arguably the NFL's most talked about division.

For $100K a year (some of them make more...) I could deal with paying for my own benefits.

I think ESPN does something where the "freelance bloggers" are able to purchase health care at a very reduced rate. They do something similar at Yahoo.

 

If you take a job in middle age without benefits, you are a fucking idiot.

 

No, if you don't have benefits, you are a fucking idiot. But if your job pays enough that you can afford to get your own insurance, or if your spouse has insurance he/she can put you on, then why would you require your employer to provide them?

 

what versatile said. i'd think dan is being paid enough to make the no-benefits a non-issue. or else he wouldn't have taken this job, which several others had already turned down...

 

The no-benefits thing works for some and not for others. I scrape by freelancing full time because my wife has awesome health insurance through her work. I'm not putting anything away for retirement and have no life insurance, so I don't want to go on this way forever, but right now most of the bills are getting paid.

If I couldn't be on my wife's health insurance I probably would have taken a job at Kohl's or Starbucks or something, but I'd jump at a job like this or the Peegs.com job if I lived in the right part of the country.

 

Mosley is a tool who is full of himself. He's on ESPN radio in Dallas in the afternoon and is below average. A main reason he landed the blogging and radio gigs at ESPN is because he's tight with Trey Wingo.