More Cuts at ESPN

When I was laid off, I was very unhappy and very hurt. But I wasn't mad at the Herald or anyone there. I was older and had one of the higher salaries in the department. Just business, and you should always be businesslike about business, even if you think you're on the short end of a poor decision. My years there were some of the happiest experiences of my life. Why be angry at a place that gave you that?

 

Bob Ley addressed the layoffs on OTL. I wonder if anybody else will on air.

 

Any word on Jen Lada?

 

As others have noted, Werder probably ends up on NFL Network. Ditto with Ravech and Stark on MLB Network.

The college football guys are the ones in a bind. No one does college football as well or as comprehensively as ESPN. I'm sure a couple might land at Fox Sports or SI.com, but they won't have the multimedia platform they have now.

 

Jay Crawford as well:

 

I know he is likely restrained from what he can actually say, and he will likely be one of the only ones to bring it up at all, but I found his phrasing that colleagues "will be leaving us" interesting. Almost makes it sound voluntary. But he probably knows anyone who takes five seconds to look deeper into it will get the whole truth.

 

That seems a bit ... harsh.

 

Carnage.

 

I'm shocked that Jayson Stark got fired. For me, he was a must read whenever his byline came up. Shit, I used to run part of his notes column in our section every Sunday when he was at -- where? -- Philly.
Sad to see Dana O'Neil go as well. True pro.

 

I'm sure I'm overstating this, but this feels like an early signal the sports boom/bubble is about to pop in even more dramatic ways. The TV deals got too large to justify. An entire society is increasingly more interested in games than actual life. It can't continue forever, can it?

 

The ones you don't hear speak loudest