More Cuts at ESPN

Paging MLB Network. Karl and Jayson would make great additions to your staff.

 

Once interviewed for a baseball gig at ESPN and one of the editors said Stark was a first-class dude, but pretty brutal to edit. Not sure why he told me that, considering I wasn't even in house. But now every time I see Stark I'm reminded of that. He's a future Spinks winner IMHO. Cooperstown-bound.

 

Jaw dropping. There are few reporters in baseball who deliver more for the dollar than Jayson.

 

There was one name I was hoping not to see come up today, as he was my former SE and a damn good guy to have a beer with. His name just came up. Once more names came it, I could kind of see it coming because he was mostly a reporter and writer and the trend was leaning that way. Still really sucks.

 

Sounds as if they are working their way up to the "personalities." Trent Dilfer also cut loose:

 

Trent Dilfer is out.

 

Was literally on LinkedIn and got a message saying wish so and so well on their anniversary with ESPN. Glad I held back and checked bc, yup, they got let go today. brutal

 

It's the biggest draw, but I always thought football coverage at ESPN was overstaffed. It seems like they had been thinning the ranks of ex-players over the last few years, but it still appeared bloated.

 

Some times you don't have to overthink things. ESPN pays the NFL $100 million dollars for each and every MNF game. And the NFL gives MNF the dregs. Rams-49ers. Colts-Jets. Bears-Vikes.

Yeah, I know. Espn gets to use NFL footage for their blab shows. You think that is worth $1.6 billion every year?

Oh yeah. They get a playoff game. That usually involves a Texans team with a qb shitting the bed.

Not only should whoever negotiated that contract be fired, they should be executed.

 

It's interesting to me everyone seems to go out of their way to say how much they love/d ESPN. Maybe that's standard operating procedure when getting laid off, but just something I noticed.

 

On the timing of this...it's a pre-draft news dump, right? They're hoping draft coverage sweeps this away quickly?

 

College football writer Ted Miller out: