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

[mozichrome]

If you're Mina do you really leave what you built up at Nfl live for countdown

But I guess she can do nfl live from the mnf location kinda like she does ATH just setting an area to film

 

[Silkk]

Letting go of Pollack is crazy….But he won’t have ANY problem finding a job with CBS or UGA somewhere.

 

[Mister Terrific]

Y’all didn’t go watch Little Mermaid now look atcha

 

[Rev]

If you're Mina do you really leave what you built up at Nfl live for countdown

Shyt is tricky…unless you make NFL Live the true MNF pregame show?

It should be anyway.

 

[Legal]

Shyt is tricky…unless you make NFL Live the true MNF pregame show?

It should be anyway.

It really should. As is, Monday Night Countdown serves no real purpose.

 

[richaveli83]

 

[Rigby.]

Yeah it's ultimate freedom.

I honestly would like to work more tho to be honest. I work way less than I did at my old gig. I'm in the space of wanting to build myself so if I could find a 2nd job in media I would love to do it. I've just had issues with conflict of interest and people want exclusivity.

That’s good shyt. It seems like dudes there just kinda do more cross-promotion/podcasting rather than really go out and do their own thing, now that I think about it. When you think about KOC, fukk ass Russillo, Murdoch, etc, I do think their brands are directly tied into the Ringer, so I guess there’s not much value in trying to build up a solo brand

I really can’t think of anyone off top that would even seem like they’d wanna try something different there…I think they do a good job of pitching a sense of unity and community

 

[Rigby.]

Don’t give a F abt NFL, but Kimes is one of the few legit figures in that sport. Checks every box, would get max deal elsewhere as mentioned, and gives them actual entertainment (which I don’t think many of their former or current NFL heads give much of) plus worthwhile intellectual analysis of football

Idk why you wouldn’t run full NFL coverage through her, as long she could take the burden

 

[RammerJammer]

Letting go of Pollack is crazy….But he won’t have ANY problem finding a job with CBS or UGA somewhere.

CBS would be good, he can replace Rick Neuheisel’s trash ass

 

[BuddahMAC]

They better keep Mina, she one of the best they have

I can see Mina getting a Pablo deal where she gets in the contract to be part of Lebatard/Meadowlark but also still retained to do NFL Live/MNF/etc... (Pablo is still doing ATH & PTI while signed to Meadowlark for his own thing).

 

[zayk35]

This like when all the OGs we grew upon in the 90s were moving on. I just don't remember them put out there by name tho. I mostly remember them all just moving on to much bigger and better things

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Thats’s why Stephen A is still here

He yells and screams and is wild corny but these square ass white people think he’s cool as shyt

White people hate Stephen A.

They think he's Farrakhan

Fat Elephant Cac still has a job?

Uh yeah, somebody's gotta be LeBron's public relations in the media

Why is Jalen a c00n?

Just wondering coz I thought dude did great work in the community?

He's not, nikkaz just call anybody they don't like a c00n.

Jalen's been a solid ass dude for 30 years, going back to when he didn't snitch on Ed Martin when Webber did.

Your absolutely wrong the show is 100 percent better without max and his all over the world takes... stephen a was right he had no chemistry with max and compare to mad dog and irvin. Reddikk and the rest of them and it aint close

MAX sucks and i understand he panders to us in the black community but that doesn't take from the fact he sucks..

Dude, some of us just like nuanced views to balance out the "hot takes".

Max was a smart dude who would change his opinion based on new information like a logical person.

He didn't just spit shyt out and stir shyt up for no reason.

Even the take he gets clowned for the most, the "Brady's going to fall off a cliff" take, wasn't a bad take. Max was just playing the odds. It's not his fault Tom Brady beat all the odds.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I can see Mina getting a Pablo deal where she gets in the contract to be part of Lebatard/Meadowlark but also still retained to do NFL Live/MNF/etc... (Pablo is still doing ATH & PTI while signed to Meadowlark for his own thing).

Those type of deals typically result in where the talent eventually leaves the company.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

That’s good shyt. It seems like dudes there just kinda do more cross-promotion/podcasting rather than really go out and do their own thing, now that I think about it. When you think about KOC, fukk ass Russillo, Murdoch, etc, I do think their brands are directly tied into the Ringer, so I guess there’s not much value in trying to build up a solo brand

I really can’t think of anyone off top that would even seem like they’d wanna try something different there…I think they do a good job of pitching a sense of unity and community

I'm always afraid of just tying myself to one company. On one hand it's a positive that I have freedom with the Ringer and don't work that much but on the other hand I'm cognizant of the fact that I have to build myself as a brand in case the situation ends and that I want to build myself so that endless opportunities come to me. If you get on TV, you're talking 7 figures.

Back when I was at the Action Network, they kinda worked me to death.......I would write NFL and NBA game guides, do 3-5 podcasts a week, do twitter spaces, do color comentary on NBA bet streams and occasionally write columns. It was a lot but I felt like I was building myself constantly and doing great work.

I really just want to see how far I can take things and how much money I can make. I feel like I haven't even touched the surface of my potential yet. I'm doing gambling podcasts but I could just as easily talk hip hop and pop culture with the best of them. I was a DJ for years doing all sorts of celebrity parties before this.

 

[tremonthustler1]

When I went up to ESPN, someone told me they actually lost one of their writers (I forget who) to the Portland trailblazers front office so you're onto something.....however it takes a very unique skillset to work for a team.

you gotta be very in tune with everything that goes on. I'm an introvert, but I learned early on to not give a fukk about the big stars. Just be cordial to them. They have enough going on. I always try to know the fringe guys more because they're more likely to head elsewhere, find new teams and a brand new circle of people. They're more willing to talk because nobody talks to them. They're more willing to understand your situation since you're in a similar rung in your field. That has helped out big time for me because those players let bigger players know that you're not an a$$hole.