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

[FSP]

What's the point for 90% of the sportscenter anchors... Neal and stan is cool late night or van pelt..

Other than that they need to cut programming like high school football or basketball and other irrelevant sports

I agree. I cringe watching 45 year old grown men talk abuot high school football recruiting for hours on end during the offseason

Like ya'll don't have anything else to talk about?

 

[FSP]

stephen a needs to join skip. sports ain't same without skip schooling stephen a time after time

You think he got schooled by Skip? He gets obliterated by Kellerman on a daily basis. Skip knew how to pull back and keep it trollhundred for the sake of entertainment

 

[Straw Hat Luffy]

Damn mike and mike ending? Or is that one mike just leaving?
That's crazy af to me for the simple fact its like part of my teenage memories. Just pulling all nighters and that shyt would just come on and I'd watch it.

 

[The G.O.D II]

They are keeping the main guys. Just getting rid of the auxiliary personalities like sideline reporters. And getting rid of people no one knows, like that dorky cac sports center host and the bland black dude who co host

 

[Michael's Black Son]

This aint the 80's/90's espn isn't the primary option for highlights and sports news like it was back in the day.

Sportscenter is wakk,1st take sucks without skip,pti and ath cool.

Games,30 for 30's and occasionally espn:60 the only things on that channel I watch now.

The game done changed Nba.com/nbatv,nfl network and mlb network is better than watching john anderson corny ass talk over highlights.They'll be cutting more personalities based off ratings a year or 2 from now.

exactly. cut the 10 hours of sportscenter a day and do a damn mini 30 for 30 every fukking week. And if its not a live MAJOR sporting event or original programming, get rid of it.

Dont wanna see SAS yelling all morning and don't wanna see those PTI fukkers debating bullshyt at 5:30. Fans are more connected to athletes thru social media and the on air personalties are annoying as fukk.

When Lavar Ball is a higher draw than your whole on air roster, the ship is going down fast. ESPN News is pointless and so is ESPN2 if theres no live game on. If they are gonna bother to hire athletes to be on air, at least get ones who can convince current players to do some exclusive interviews or something.

Having Lil Wayne and Rae Sremmurd on air is corny as fukk and pandering. Get these lame music artists off the damn network if they arent singing and rapping.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Will probably hit the generic Sportscenters the most. That morning SC before FT usually has about 4 or 5 anchors standing there when they send it over to SAS

If they cut half the NFL roster, they could hit that 40 number pretty easily. Guys like Bettis, Brunell, Saturday probably gone.

I could see Rusillo and Kanell getting cut since SAS took their first 2 hours of radio. They only do one real hour of radio out of the 3 that air on ESPN 2 pretty much...

They could also hit that number by cutting all their local team reporters like the guy who covers OKC and/or the Cavs...

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

What's the booking info for Sage Steele?

Generous Men Only
No African Americans

 

[Absolut]

i have no idea how espnu and even espn2 even are still things anymore. if you want to have espn, and then an espn-1 or espn+ or something when theres more than 1 desirable game to air then so be it. you dont need 3 24/7 all day networks with their own standalone daytime and nighttime programming. but ive been preaching this shyt for YEARS. put the actual games on espn3, or if you want then bundled with cable do like comcast does and have an extra channel that just shows games when theres a game on the other network at the same time. comcast had their own warriors feed on the main bay area sports feed, and giants/dodgers on bay area plus. also lol @ the irony of this week old news being posted from a yahoo article about a company struggling to stay afloat in 2017

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Gotta feeling my baby Cassidy H. Is gone

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

They stretched themselves so damn thin with all these channels and shyt.

 

[jadillac]

bring back roy firestone.

 the game been missing this

 

[mozichrome]

As long as PTI and Around the Horn stays the same, im good

 

[NYC Rebel]

I just don't care enough to sit down and hear sports opinions anymore from personalities who decide to come down from their ivory towers and talk about teams they glaringly make obvious that they know little about.

 

[the artist known az]

I can see most of the cuts coming from Sportscenter & people who cover the NFL. The rest will probably radio personalities across the country.
With Sportscenter, they'll probably go back to re-running the same episode until 12pm and do that one live since they do the coast to coast now. With the NFL shows, I never understood they need NFL Live & NFL Insiders