ESPN's agenda is to make as much money as possible. That's the extent of it.

BTW Schilling was not filed for his first or second issue or some bland political statements. He worked there for 6 years and was given many chances. He had previously been suspended for comparing Muslims to Nazis and ultimately was fired for ripping on transgendered people.

(10-30-2017 12:56 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Hill did not get suspended for tweeting Trump was a white supremacist. She was suspended because two weeks after the initial tweet she told people to boycott ESPN's sponsors. Employer's tolerance for free speech goes out the window once the people who pay the bills threaten to take their money away.

Much like the rift that popped up between Bill Simmons and ESPN. They couldn't care less what people say until it affects their bottom line, then they bring down the hammer in a way even Thor would be impressed by.

Hill should have been sh!tcanned on the 1st tweet except the CEO Bob Iger loved it. He's a affluent exoburb liberal, gun control brown shirt that wants espn to be in politics, not out of it. He just hates it when the light gets shined on his cockroaches in the kitchen when they color too far outside of the lines.

Yeah, having a nuts race bomb throwing employee tell people to boycott her employer's clients should have gotten her ass sent to the unemployment line. Her show sucks donkey balls anyways.

(10-30-2017 01:06 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  ESPN's agenda is to make as much money as possible. That's the extent of it.

BTW Schilling was not filed for his first or second issue or some bland political statements. He worked there for 6 years and was given many chances. He had previously been suspended for comparing Muslims to Nazis and ultimately was fired for ripping on transgendered people.

Want to see something really sad/funny about Schilling, do a deep dive on his video game company...crazy stuff there.

The thing is, as viewers we don’t care for any of the views or opinions left or right from, Cohn, Schilling, or Hill.

I turn on ESPN to try and get away from all the nonsense - as an outlet. I want highlights and games and 30 for 30s and it seems like most of the US agrees but ESPN refuses to listen. I’d rather watch a random curling or rugby match over two talking heads talking politics.

(10-30-2017 01:51 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(10-30-2017 12:56 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Hill did not get suspended for tweeting Trump was a white supremacist. She was suspended because two weeks after the initial tweet she told people to boycott ESPN's sponsors. Employer's tolerance for free speech goes out the window once the people who pay the bills threaten to take their money away.

Much like the rift that popped up between Bill Simmons and ESPN. They couldn't care less what people say until it affects their bottom line, then they bring down the hammer in a way even Thor would be impressed by.

Exactly.

Having listened to Simmons away from ESPN he's certainly left wing... They ran him out because they thought he'd do damage to their bottom line by alienating their partners. ESPN goes after left and right employees when they think it will damage their bottom line.

(10-30-2017 01:53 PM)dubcat14 Wrote:  The thing is, as viewers we don’t care for any of the views or opinions left or right from, Cohn, Schilling, or Hill.

I turn on ESPN to try and get away from all the nonsense - as an outlet. I want highlights and games and 30 for 30s and it seems like most of the US agrees but ESPN refuses to listen. I’d rather watch a random curling or rugby match over two talking heads talking politics.

Which is exactly why I will watch sports on ESPN but will not watch SC6, Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn. Morning SportsCenter is decent - they at least show highlights from the previous day/night.

(10-30-2017 02:00 PM)bearcatdp Wrote:  I turn on ESPN to try and get away from all the nonsense - as an outlet. I want highlights and games and 30 for 30s and it seems like most of the US agrees but ESPN refuses to listen. I’d rather watch a random curling or rugby match over two talking heads talking politics.

+1

I don't like that we have any idea what side of the aisle any of these people are. Ill occasionally watch PTI but for the most part I agree, live sports an 30 for 30s is it.

(10-30-2017 01:53 PM)dubcat14 Wrote:  The thing is, as viewers we don’t care for any of the views or opinions left or right from, Cohn, Schilling, or Hill.

speak for yourself. Hill, Bomani Jones, Pablo Torre, and Will Cain are national treasures.

(10-30-2017 01:51 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Hill should have been sh!tcanned on the 1st tweet except the CEO Bob Iger loved it. He's a affluent exoburb liberal, gun control brown shirt that wants espn to be in politics, not out of it. He just hates it when the light gets shined on his cockroaches in the kitchen when they color too far outside of the lines.

Yeah, having a nuts race bomb throwing employee tell people to boycott her employer's clients should have gotten her ass sent to the unemployment line. Her show sucks donkey balls anyways.

+1

I'd love to hear someone convince me that Scott Van Pelt would have kept his job if he called out Obama voters as racist.

(10-30-2017 02:24 PM)jarr Wrote:  

(10-30-2017 01:51 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Hill should have been sh!tcanned on the 1st tweet except the CEO Bob Iger loved it. He's a affluent exoburb liberal, gun control brown shirt that wants espn to be in politics, not out of it. He just hates it when the light gets shined on his cockroaches in the kitchen when they color too far outside of the lines.

Yeah, having a nuts race bomb throwing employee tell people to boycott her employer's clients should have gotten her ass sent to the unemployment line. Her show sucks donkey balls anyways.

+1

I'd love to hear someone convince me that Scott Van Pelt would have kept his job if he called out Obama voters as racist.

+2

some people are blind when it comes to the double standard of the liberal media

Today is a good day.

Some people see vast liberal conspiracies everywhere. I'm sure we'll have no Christmas again this year, because of that war liberals are fighting to stop it.

Mark, didn't you hear? Christmas HAS been cancelled in DC this year. They can't find 3 wise men or a virgin.

Just kidding all.

Anyway, I do think that politics hasn't helped ESPN, but their problems started LONG before they starting airing anything political. As soon as broadband in the home reached a critical mass, the fate of their current business model was sealed. The biggest problem was that they didn't see it coming.

(10-30-2017 02:24 PM)jarr Wrote:  

(10-30-2017 01:51 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Hill should have been sh!tcanned on the 1st tweet except the CEO Bob Iger loved it. He's a affluent exoburb liberal, gun control brown shirt that wants espn to be in politics, not out of it. He just hates it when the light gets shined on his cockroaches in the kitchen when they color too far outside of the lines.

Yeah, having a nuts race bomb throwing employee tell people to boycott her employer's clients should have gotten her ass sent to the unemployment line. Her show sucks donkey balls anyways.

+1

I'd love to hear someone convince me that Scott Van Pelt would have kept his job if he called out Obama voters as racist.

Hank Williams Jr got fired from ESPN for saying Obama and Boehner playing golf would be like “Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu”. That statement pales in comparison to what we hear from Hill and the rest of the liberals about Trump.

I think I'm going to stay out of this thread unless it ends up in the political forum from now on. Too tempted to go on very long rants about the conservatives as victims of the vast liberal conspiracy culture. By all means keep going without me.

(10-30-2017 01:51 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  He's a affluent exoburb liberal, gun control brown shirt that wants espn to be in politics, not out of it.

This is not the first murmuring about ESPiN possibly not being able to afford the NFL going forward.

They are hemorrhaging $$.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wh...mn-1052792

Politics aside, have any of you all thought that maybe you have aged out of ESPN/Sports television? Sure we will always like live sports, and the 30 for 30's are great, but ESPN has to fill 24 hours of television. The NFL, and NBA are both celebrity focused leagues, and ESPN will continue to focus on the player and not the sport. Young people are more focused on the celebrity of sport. The NFL ratings are down, and its not because of politics. It has more to do with the product. The NBA is becoming more and more popular. It may just be that many of us are not the target audience anymore, and where ESPN fails is getting the younger generation to tune in.

(10-30-2017 05:55 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  This is not the first murmuring about ESPiN possibly not being able to afford the NFL going forward.

They are hemorrhaging $$.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wh...mn-1052792

ESPN is in no sense hemorrhaging money. It's odd that this has become the narrative. It makes Disney billions of dollars a year.