ESPN mass layoffs

[Corona]

Stuart Scott is prob rolling in his grave.

 

[Graves The Elder]

he's actually resting quite peacefully tbh with his diginity intact.
no one would rob him of that

 

[Kingz]

Because of this thread I put on Around the Horn again today. Most of the episode was dedicated to racism. lmao.
The baseball player Adam Jones is claiming some Boston Sox fan hurled some racist insults at him. The Red Sox, the mayor of Boston and all sorts of others have publicly denounced what the fan did.

Is that enough? Not according to the panelists! Tim C. said we need to punish teams and owners who 'let' this happen, and possibly doing so from banning every fan from some games. Empty stadiums will teach the evil racists how bad they are. Then we have J.A. Adande. He droned on and on about how evil this was. He then said he was tired of hearing how this doesn't represent real Boston. He said YES it does. This racist incident proves that Boston is racist, and it also proves THE UNITED STATES IS RACIST. He literally just said America is racist because one drunk asshole yelled at a million dollar athlete.

J.A. then condemns America for 'letting this happen' and 'doing nothing about it.' Did that mother fucker not just see that the story was led by the apologies from the Sox team and the Mayor of Boston?

Then as a typical liberal J.A. says all that matters is how Adam Jones "feels." If he feels like he is a victim of racism then he is.

Then they talked about how baseball is only 8% black and how baseball is not a 'safe space' for black players and fans and we need more black people in baseball. Baseball is too white, and black players were not even comfortable standing together with Colin Kaepernick to sit out for the national anthem because baseball is a "white boys sport."

I'm not kidding.

Please give it a watch. This is now what sports television is like on ESPN.

"Too white" but not "too South American" which has more to do with the dwindling percentage of African Americans. I can't imagine the percentage of whites has gone up too much if not gone down since there was enough American blacks to satiate liberal sensibilities and Latin American players were basically at around a small minority of big leaguers.

It also begs the question as to why blacks are so turned off by a sport simply because they aren't the predominant race represented. Surely blacks are a huge part of baseball history but say the league was 20 percent black or even half...yet Bryce Harper or Mike Trout are still the best players. They just call it a white boy sport

Anyway..ESPN is unbearable now. MTV of sports basically. They will sooner abandon sports and re-brand as a liberal shark tank before they admit they blew it by telling the people what they should want instead of giving them what they want.

If Adam Jones was harassed beyond basic sports banter than that is unfortunate.

Most you can expect from the Red Sox is they identify the guy and don't let him back. Only a liberal is more concerned about vetting who's coming into a baseball game in a vulgar city than they are vetting who comes into the country from a violent, bizarro region of the world. The Red Sox bare no responsibility outside that and certainly the city of Boston doesn't need to acknowledge it at all.

We aren't a collective(yet) no matter how much liberals want people to be exactly the same..their sensibilities will be breached in a free world and unfortunately for them, people aren't afraid to tell them to go fuck themselves now.

 

[TeTe]

What a bloodbath. I'm sure they'll get replaced with more recent grad blonde idiots who know fuck all about sports.

 

[Graves The Elder]

at one tenth the salary..

 

[DangDaGawd]

As much as I hate some of the crap said on this network, their talent and how much they're paid have little to do with their current struggles.

Less and less people are subscribing to cable plans, which reduces their subscriber base. I think I read something that 3 million households in the USA have dropped cable in the last 4 years.

Also, they just paid the NFL a ton of money to keep MNF and the NBA a ton of money to keep playoff basketball.

They need to figure out how to adjust to the internet era quickly.