The end of Mark Madden? UPDATED: He's FIRED!

Yes, please, lets recycle Savran and Steigerwald AGAIN. Christ almighty, no wonder that town is stuck in the 1970s, thats when most of these talking heads arrived and they never left because they kept getting re-hired.

 

There aren't many of the "shock jocks" I like, pretty much anywhere.

Madden's past with the Steelers, the Penguins, Jim Leyland, the various wrestling freak shows, yadda yadda blah blah, I know little or nothing about and care less. What tore it for me was his column a couple years ago after the 13-year-old girl, Brittanie Cecil, was killed by a puck fired into the stands at a Columbus Blue Jackets game, and the NHL took the entirely reasonable step of extending protective netting over additional sections of the stands, and Madden went apeshit-ballistic in a column, bellowing that extending the netting would "destroy the game" (in reality of course it's barely noticeable), and adding for good measure that Cecil was probably a ditzy airhead playing with Barbie dolls in the stands, this is what happens when chickies come to hockey games, and she pretty much deserved whatever she got.

Jesus Flaming Christ on a plutonium-powered pogo stick, I'm a brutal and crass hardass 97% of the time, but that was pretty much without qualification the most asinine thing I have ever read in a supposedly legitimate publication. Madden should have been snuffed from the airwaves and the printed page forever, pretty much the next morning.

Ted Kennedy I'm much less concerned about, he's a big boy and can take care of himself, and the last thing he probably cares about is some fucking fatass maggot like Mark Madden saying snotty things about him, but since it continued the basic pattern as shown in the Brittanie Cecil incident, it's time to drop the pill on Mark. Nighty night, fatboy.

 

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08149/885330-80.stm

 

At least corporate ESPN made a firm judgment on a matter of "taste".

Overdue? Yeah. But we're grateful for small favors.

 

That's a very determined Red X.

 

I won't celebrate, but I ain't shedding any tears either.

 

Now this is VERY interesting:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08149/885374-139.stm

 

Meaning the references to Smizik's issues with Madden. That might be fair criticism of the P-G, though good luck finding a decent reporter in that town that didn't at least have some issue with Madden.

 

Idiots. Single-digit IQs.

Anybody with a functioning cerebral cortex would have problems with Madden.

 

Don't think for a minute that isn't 100 percent accurate -- those are the kinds of guys who always get hired for this kind of plum job --- then they get fired or re-assigned when people in charge realize that dry, dull sports yakking and references to the 60's and 70's and the way sports used to be is not exactly the way to build an audience that isn't likely to die off in the next five years.......

 

Too often when the great unwashed speak of their "freedom of speech", what they asking for is freedom from consequences.

Judge as you like the gentleman's words. His employers had clearly defined what they considered appropriate speech for their station. They concluded he violated the standard and terminated him.

End of story.

BTW: who really gives a rat's ass about Pittsburgh sports talk radio? Get a grip.

 

The people on this thread apparently care.

But this isn't just about Pittsburgh sports talk radio. It is about some jackass who made all members of the sports media look bad finally facing some consequences for his behavior.

Plus, Zag wanted to argue, so that kept things moving for a bit.