More Cuts at ESPN

Because ESPN wanted him.

 

Why? Didn't they understand that there are only national elections in even-numbered years? And why didn't ABC News stick its oar in? News side is usually very sensitive about sports poaching stuff.

 

I think they figured 538 would become part of the national sports/stats argument.

Not sure it ever did.

 

No, their stat pieces were either wholly obvious but with decimal points thrown in, like "We prove the Warriors are good" or obvious and borderline insulting clickbait, like when they maintained the 2007 Patriots were the best team in NFL history because the Super Bowl was an outlier.

 

You couldn’t me more wrong.

 

538 was and is boring to read. And I like stats and graphs. But it pretty consistently felt like people standing outside of the subject matter and not in it. It lacked a certain human dynamic.

 

I like the site and am a regular for their podcasts. But, lacking a certain “human dynamic” would jive with what I’ve heard from acquaintances who worked there.

 

I gotta be honest, I am getting more and more fascinated by Get Up! Not the show itself, but the budget, the ratings, the content, the people in front of the camera.

I haven't watched much of it but it loosely resembles Sportscenter. Which is on concurrently. I turned Get Up on this morning, and they were going over Top Plays. Then on Sportscenter later, I saw the exact same 10 Top Plays. So I can watch Top Plays with Greenberg, Beadle and Rose commenting; or the exact same plays with Sage Steele and two other interchangeable jabronies commenting.

I am neutral to Greenberg, Beadle and Rose; I wouldn't turn off the tv if they appear, but I am not going out of my way to find them. I am just trying to figure out how this show differentiates itself (I know they had a discussion of best rap groups that wouldn't appear on Sportscenter).

There was an unfortunate Hollywood Reporter article that used the word "Woke" to describe the show before it began.
ESPN Plans to Wake Up Woke With New Morning Show
Uh-oh, that's a problem. If a show has "woke" in it's description, 35-40% of the country, the MAGA group, is going to either ignore it or actively dislike it. Greenberg vehemently denied using that word to describe the show. He knows what an anchor that would be.

 

At least that would make it different, though. I like Jalen on his podcast, and Beedle, but I'm not exactly excited at the prospect of them doing Sportscenter Lite or Cold Pizza 2.0 with Greenberg. Make the show Super Woke, or like a sports version of the Today Show, or something different.