Nah, JJ isn’t as well-liked as Pat. His whole spiel is being the anti-hot take. But other players with podcasts like Paul George are already surpassing him in popularity and as a go-to spot. I don’t see the upside for JJ that other sees outside of being the foil to Stephen A.
Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread
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I used to like JJ when he first got on. I get his angle of sticking up for the players of course. But dude be sounding like a Karen being too emotional about everything sometimes. Like he taking it personal lol. It just sounds annoying now. Even more than Stephen A.
No, that’s literally EXACTLY what that means.
Not true at all unless you’d rather MLB become the NBA where the off court happens take more precedent and attention than what’s actually going around on the field.
As a matter of fact, that’s actually what MLB seems to want since they had no issues with SAS essentially using his platform to shyt on the Angels since it brought attention to the sport even if it wasn’t in a good way.
Rob Ninkovich sure has been on Get Up a lot for someone that is supposedly being let go. Usually they pull talent off air until their contract expires if they know they aren't bringing him back.
Either they worked out some form of an extension or he's awfully generous in doing ESPN that solid.
Either they worked out some form of an extension or he's awfully generous in doing ESPN that solid.
It's background noise when I WFH as there's nothing else on TV to watch.
That’s a great way to put it. These shows are all background noise
Nah, they'll use people pretty normally if they're going to let their contracts run out. This just happens to be the perfect storm of his agent getting him a shytty enough deal that actually expires in the summer, and literally everyone of actual importance usually taking their time off in the middle of the summer, before the preseason actually starts.
If I'm him, I'm firing my agent and linking up with someone new ASAP. This man is about to be jobless right after just about every NFL broadcast partner has already set their personnel for the season.
Creh better hope that NBC Sports Boston or NESN have a spare spot or something.
Not sure how you're surprised by this possibility, considering how often brehs regurgitate talking points from them.
It's pretty normal, but you also typically don't hear it leak out months in advance as it creates an awkward dynamic when everyone in the room knows that he's being laid off. They would have been better off just pulling him off air and letting the contract run out like they're doing with the other talent they just laid off.
Right, but other talent aren't NFL analysts that are about to lose their jobs right before the damn season starts. That man is auditioning for another job live on air because he really doesn't have any better option right now.
Dan wanted him at Meadowlark a few years, so I’m guessing that where he’ll probably go for the time being. Honestly, HBO was probably why they hadn’t tossed him to the bushes sooner.
Something I’ve noticed though is that ESPN has been randomly using those laid off talent to fill in screen time as they did it again with Matt Hassleback who looked like they called him 5 minutes before and asked him to show up on air.
Wouldn't be surprised to hear that the strategy of "Hire Pablo, and have him twiddle his thumbs while a New York office is set up" was actually just waiting on Bomani.