Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

at a 61 percent pay cut

61% paycut and 14% reduced workload when he was already working part time anyways

And just to make it crystal clear ESPN didn’t want to keep him, Mayne said, “I don’t have some big vendetta against ESPN. It’s not, ‘Those b*stards!’ Nothing like that. It’s all good. They gave me 27 years. I gave them 27 years. It doesn’t seem like they wanted me to stay very much. It almost seems like they offered me something that I would turn down, and I did.”

Makes complete sense why they threw him the lowball offer that they did.

 

[Rigby.]

And it's no secret you're seeing more and more female reporters and analysts along with former players.

They're cheap.

I welcome it, give a couple women the show and prove contract. Hopefully they shine and it inspires more women to wanna learn about sports

 

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[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

No wonder they were willing to give him the boot.

That much just to do Sportscenter

 

[duckbutta]

Don't know what is more outrageous, a 61% paycut or paying somebody over 1 million a year to do one show that has had declining ratings pretty much every year for the last 5 years

 

[aceboon]

I don’t even watch most MNF games during the season because the matchups are often weak and the presentation is worse. Whereas SNF always has my attention. Even if I don’t watch the full game I at least watch the first few minutes. It feels like the finale of the football week, whereas MNF feels like some off brand shyt that doesn’t count.

ESPN needs to throw a bag at Peyton. Pair him with someone like Tirico.

Tirico signed with NBC years ago

 

[charknicks]

Mayne was out here making $10k/SportsCenter show. Son was eating good. And worked less then half a year.

I can understand them wanting to cut his salary. Stephen A Smith out here working like a Jamacian EVERY DAY. TV, Radio, ESPN+, and K Mayne out here eating good.

 

[Morethan1]

Mayne was out here making $10k/SportsCenter show. Son was eating good. And worked less then half a year.

I can understand them wanting to cut his salary. Stephen A Smith out here working like a Jamacian EVERY DAY. TV, Radio, ESPN+, and K Mayne out here eating good.

He been on Dan Lebatard show all week.
He's been golfing calling in to give updates.

He will be ok

 

[KnowledgeDropper]

They just paid over a billy for La Liga rights so they had to cut elsewhere

 

[Rev]

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

MMA reporter Ariel Helwani announces he's leaving ESPN, reportedly headed to Action Network

ESPN must have not wanted come up on the break to keep him. Even he seemed surprised about leaving ESPN.

 

[DetroitEWarren]

MMA reporter Ariel Helwani announces he's leaving ESPN, reportedly headed to Action Network

ESPN must have not wanted come up on the break to keep him. Even he seemed surprised about leaving ESPN.

Dude was really good at covering MMA, probably the best MMA talking head in the whole industry imo.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

dude stays getting fired/cut

 

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[I AM WARHOL]

It’s dying