Wednesday, April 26, 2017
-100
It seems I've mostly been posting about ESPN lately but it's hard not to when they offer up so much material. Today, a big one: ESPN fired 100 people today and some of them are names you'd recognize. Some of the more familiar names: Ed Werder, Roger Cossack, Jay Crawford, Trent Dilfer (one of the best NFL analysts out there), Jayson Stark, and the one that hits me the hardest, Danny Kanell. Russillo and Kanell is just about the only thing on ESPN worth watching (or listening to) so losing half the team hurts. Russillo is reportedly still going to be on the radio but will be cut back on the TV side but it still leaves me concerned. Maybe I'll get to dump the ESPN app the same way I dumped ESPN.
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Those were some big names. Very interesting articles and breakdowns of how they've gotten to this point. I'm really curious to see how the dominoes keep falling...all the way to the players bank account. I really hope it does bring down salary caps and all these $20M a year contracts. It's killing the Tigers, that's for sure. Miggy, JV, Scherzer, V-Mart, Kins, Prince, Sanchez (you suck), Price, etc.
Other names in the 100:
Andy Katz
Mark May
Punta Cana, DR
Wow, Katz and May weren't on the list when I looked.
This has to hit the leagues eventually. If ESPN can't afford to pay crazy prices for rights I doubt the other networks are going to keep them so inflated. That's going to hit the salaries in every league unless they come up with other ways to make up the money. Could we possibly get on-demand games at reasonable prices? It's definitely going to be a game-changer.
My father-in-law, CPA and has never had cable, etc., still can't believe how so many big games (Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, etc.) are on free TV.
You'd think it's only a matter of time before channels offer their own "direct to customer" options. But even then, the data they used with HBO and NFL Sunday Ticket basically says you'd either have to jack up the prices or hope you somehow get 50 million subscribers.
Can you imagine if more cable subscribers read these articles to actually see how much of their monthly bill goes toward the ability to watch NBA games? That was staggering. WHO WATCHES THE NBA IN THE REGULAR SEASON?
Ump in the DR
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