“But he engaged in criminal behaviour. He needs more than “I’m sorry.””

Dude. He had a little too much to drink and went into the wrong condo. Pay a fine and be on his way. I bet you love full prisons

Is that seriously your take on this?

I’m no regular listener, but he is generally well-informed, particularly w/r/t the NBA, and seems to avoid throwing down takes for the sake of throwing down takes. Obviously, this also means that he’s automatically disqualified from ever hosting Skippy and Goatface’s Morning Sports Holocaust.

Ryen will refer to that incident intermittently on his show, he openly hates that guy as do others.

“He couldn’t coherently answer any questions,” Schultz said.

It’s not some guy at bar, it would be the same folks who made a simple fantasy auction draft a pr problem for ESPN just last week. It’s not about right, wrong, or neutral anymore, only “optics”; bad optics hurt your brand through the steam and traction that can be gained social media, and that effects  are real…

I can’t wait for the Stugotz hot takes to come from this.

Man, he really let himself go after Scott Van Pelt broke up with him.

“above goldfish level”, which is what? Like 15-20% of the American populace at this point? Casting the widest net means pandering to the lowest common denominator, and it never ceases to amaze me how it’s ESPN’s and not our country or culture’s fault that they felt the rightful need as a massive employer to avoid a…

It just sounds like they didn’t want to be meme-bait, not that they were afraid liberals couldn’t handle the mere mention of the name Robert Lee without soiling their trousers with rage. Besides, whenever you think “no one could possibly be offended by this”, someone will come along and ask you to hold their beer.…

I dunno, maybe they just thought that this announcer’s first ever game for them shouldn’t devolve into a series of cheap jokes at the expense of his name? I think ESPN is poorly run but I don’t get the beef here. They want him to call football games, not deal with endless hot takes like “No joke: ESPN just aired a UVA…

But not exactly true. ESPN has, in the last 6 months, become increasingly political. And has, repeatedly through its hosts’ commentary, attempted to pressure the NFL, NBA, and MLB to become more political. But not really the NHL..? Because fuck those guys?

What ESPN did was by far the most rational thing they could have done, if only it wasn’t leaked. It almost hurts me how people can make this political. A week ago at UVA there was a fucking race riot centered around Robert Lee...ESPN wanted to avoid humiliating their broadcaster or at worst create more violence so…