Whitlock done all around ESPN

Simmons is a hypocrite!?! I'm shocked — SHOCKED! — at such a revelation. [/sarcasm]

 

Wretch, I know you're joking. But I'm genuinely surprised by his statement. Not in a betrayed way. He has a right to his opinion. No skin off my back. But it just paints him in a light that's the total opposite of his shtick.

 

Jason, what's with capitalizing the first words of sentences in your posts? Is that really you?

 

i Go bacK and forTh...just depenDs on If i'm feeling Lazy.

 

Touche, sir.

 

Hey I love Whitlock as much as the next guy, but let's all keep in mind that TV is a visual medium and I'd argue that he's the most obese man to appear regularly on camera since Ironsides (or at least Conlin). Looks matter quite a bit in the world of TV, and Jason's size XXX-L just doesn't cut it for Skipper and Walsh and the rest of the signal callers in Bristol.

 

Um, since most -- and yes, this a sexist generalization -- of the viewers tuning in to watch the shows that Jason was on are male, his looks and appearance are probably not much of a concern. Who gives a fuck what these guys look like? Lupica isn't exactly Johnny Depp, but people don't watch these shows to ogle the hosts. (At least I hope not, because that would be really disturbing.) They watch them for the point/counterpoint arguments about sports topics. At least that's the ideal. Of course, that certainly isn't the case if Jason isn't allowed to have a dissenting opinion from Lupica and whoever else is now on The Sports Reporters -- I used to watch the show regularly, but the morning and I have fallen out of favor with each other -- but that should be what these shows are about, not Jason's waistline.

I'm starting to despise ESPN more and more. Thanks, guys.

 

Oooohhh that Mitch Albom...He's so sexy.....

 

I'd read 6,200 words of some writers. Simmons ain't one of 'em

 

Point/counterpoint has devolved on most ESPN shows to scream/scream louder. Or worse, scream for the sake of screaming even though the topic you're screaming about wouldn't normally raise your pulse one iota.

So much of this comes off as fake made-for-TV bullshit, and great paychecks or not, in the long run it hurts our industry because it makes us look like fucking clowns.

 

Honestly, I don't think a lot of the viewers of these shows are that interested in the lifestyles and habits of the sportswriters sitting on those panels. The reality is, they look like clowns mostly to those of us in this forum.

 

The Little Unit . . . the Dwarf . . . the Bastard . . . Skippy . . . Eddie . . . clowns?

Yes.