Woj Bomb (Courtesy of Schefter)

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[Della9250]

$20M? That's a lot of eff you money. Thanks to social media, all gigs in major sports are basically 24/7. Sounds like he wanted out of the rat race and, with a lot of what's going on at the WWL, wanted out on his own terms.

That is what is left on his deal -- he signed a five-year extension for 35 million in 2022 -- it's not per year. So he made 15 mil the past two years alone. At 55, I think almost everyone could make just that last.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[WriteThinking]

That is what is left on his deal -- he signed a five-year extension for 35 million in 2022 -- it's not per year. So he made 15 mil the past two years alone. At 55, I think almost everyone could make just that last.

I totally agree. I never wonder how anybody can walk away from a huge amount of money, at least when they've already gotten a lot of it. That's exactly when you can walk away.

 

[playthrough]

And those high school war stories are the ones you go on to tell your kids and grandkids, not how you covered the Super Bowl and talked to Patrick Mahomes in a media day scrum for 10 minutes.

 

[Rockbottom]

Woj speaks the truth. You aren't truly a sports journalist (in my eyes, anyway...) until you've hacked out 15 inches in 15 minutes - with FULL stats at the end - soaked to the bone and then trying to get the 7-11's pay phone to connect properly to your Trash-80. Having performed that minor miracle hundreds of times, it is indeed WAY WAY WAY harder than any other facet of journalism I've experienced.

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[MileHigh]

Woj speaks the truth. You aren't truly a sports journalist (in my eyes, anyway...) until you've hacked out 15 inches in 15 minutes - with FULL stats at the end - soaked to the bone and then trying to get the 7-11's pay phone to connect properly to your Trash-80. Having performed that minor miracle hundreds of times, it is indeed WAY WAY WAY harder than any other facet of journalism I've experienced.

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I could not agree more.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

My career would have been much the poorer without covering high school sports. So many great stories. A little hypothermia thrown in, but so what?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

And those high school war stories are the ones you go on to tell your kids and grandkids, not how you covered the Super Bowl and talked to Patrick Mahomes in a media day scrum for 10 minutes.

The people in the biz for the right reasons will be telling those high school war stories to their kids and grandkids. The people in the biz for the wrong reasons will forever brag about being in the Mahomes scrum even though they got nothing out of it.

 

[Readallover]

Why Adrian Wojnarowski left $20 million on the table by leaving ESPN: 'Time isn't in endless supply'

 

[DanOregon]

Do you think Woj ever cost some kid a scholarship?

 

[Songbird]

general manager?