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On Tuesday,

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Sage Steele announced she's leaving e
ss p n after settling her lawsuit with

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ESPN and Disney so that she could
exercise her first amendment rights more

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freely. Um, okay. Right. Uh,

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will Steele benefit from leaving E S P N?

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I actually thought she'd
left a while ago. This.

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Is.

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Uncomfortable. Uh, I mean, was anyone
really checking for her? I mean,

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what's what.

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She really hasn't been
on air the last two.

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Years. Nobody's really
asking for, you know,

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Sage Steel to host any for any show.

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She didn't do great when
she had N B A countdown.

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Even ESPN gave her like a 1 2 7 2 sentence
statement, barely mentioned her name.

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Uh,

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she'll end up at some as far as whether
it will she'll benefit in the long run.

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I mean, maybe short term
she might end up on some,

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she might make the Michelle Tafoya or
Jason Whitlock route and start some show

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where she gets to tout her first and
maybe her second Amendment rights.

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She can practice her first
Amendment rights in front of,

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on like a podcast nobody will
listen to. How about that?

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She's absolutely not gonna benefit in
the long run. We can say that right now.

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So, Blum agree or disagree?

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I actually wholeheartedly agree with DJ
because of the absolute prominence that

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ESPN has. What's Sage Steel doing now?

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Like she came from Comcast SportsNet
in the Mid-Atlantic to go to ESPN in oh

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seven and looked like a really promising
young anchor and did well there

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for a number of years. But did.

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Comcast Mid-Atlantic bring her back or.

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Uh, probably not.

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They're not NBC Sports Washington now
owned by the same guy who owns the, uh,

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capitals and wizards. I would think that
they're not gonna bring her back. Okay.

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I mean, that would be quite
the return journey there.

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She'll probably end up on undisputed
with Skip and she'll make some deranged

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point.

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They'll get her suspended there and we'll
be going over this again in a couple

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months. So no, it's not gonna
benefit her at the end of the day.

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Her saying some things that she shouldn't
have said in the first place led to

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this debacle when she went
on Jay Cutler's podcast.

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She's tried to do the Will Kane route,

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but I don't know if she's
got the complexion for that.

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You know, even though they
both agree with each other.

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I'm gonna agree with DJ because
you said at the end of the day,

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which you say a lot. Good argument.
Dj. Excellent work. Jeopardy,

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thanks for watching. Stick with Deadspin.