sports and/or sport writing

lots of quality reporters gone, lots of terrible on-air blowhards get to stay

Jayson Stark
For 17 yrs I've had a dream job covering baseball for ESPN. Today is my last day. Thanks to all the great people at ESPN, MLB & all of you!

damn, i always enjoyed his presence as the esoteric stat nerd

oh no, i liked him a lot. mr positive vibes dork trivia head.

espn doubling down on the hot take culture huh?

wow Ethan Strauss gone!

aww fuck they got ethan

he was the only guy whose gamers i actually read because i enjoyed the writing. and he was amazing on the truehoop pod.

yup

spending billions of dollars on broadcast rights then laying off reporters who make a combined tiny fraction of that when yr subscriptions decline will surely solve the problem... not

man this is brutal. strauss was a quality reporter. stark was reaaaaaallly longwinded but i liked him too

hoping buster olney and kevin arnovitz are safe

"was" should be "is" obv, they're not dead and they'll find work easily

actually they were ritually killed

strauss being let go seems really bizarre given the warriors popularity, right?

they got justin verrier from the truehoop crew as well. quality reporter on the pels.

Don't think most of these talented folk will be out of work for too long, tbh.

Bucci Mane is out too, only cawlidge hawkey voice rip :(

espn is one of the big employers if these jobs go away forever the pool is smaller, some will be lost to easy better playing pr jobs

Or wait, that might be fake news🤔 xp

they must expect getting savaged by their carriage fee negotiations.. kinda like how fox 86'd o'reilly. $5 per subscriber RIP.

http://deadspin.com/a-running-list-of-espn-layoffs-1794664091

i'm pretty stunned that they let ethan go, he had ascended really highly in the company and w/ the warriors... so weird. but maybe he was making too much money.

on the one hand, ESPN was definitely carrying... a lot of people. like college football recruiting analysts assigned to one single conference etc. some of those guys, also the beat writers, should be able to find more locally-based work, tho prob for less money. but the biggest names like jayson stark or whatever... there's not that many places out there that will pay what he's accustomed to making after 17 years at a place like ESPN. like, yahoo, fox, mlb.com.... it's not a large pool. kinda scary that really nobody is safe.

https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/857314772777279488

i have no sense of media salaries, can anyone take a stab at how much ethan might have been making?

my range is pretty wide but i would definitely say 6 figures without a doubt

losers like amin elhassan are always bragging about how much money they make, you have to hope people with some actual talent like ethan are getting paid

yeah i would be very surprised if he wasn't making six figures

that a lot plus all the traveling

i these things aren't planned/done this way but it is a bizarre look to let key beat writers go when the teams they cover are making deep playoff runs. calvin watkins who covers the rockets was let go too.

stopped reading Stark ages ago, only guy i read on espn.com recently was the Mets guy who left last winter, Adam Rubin.

on the bright side, @ least trent dilfer go t fired

also len elmore

the only bitter response i saw was . . . danny kanell!

@dannykanell
Poured my heart and soul into ESPN for last 8 years. Moved my wife and 3 kids to CT to go "all in" 5 years ago. Bummed it ended in 3 minutes

andy katz seems like a big one

yeah that one is crazy

they axed my guy dr. jerry punch too. my childhood crumbling in front of my eyes.

this all has resulted in (so far) a two-day moratorium on the truehoop podcast which is not fucking cool, that's what i listen to when i shoot hoops or drive places.

yo, henry abbott got canned too

or at least thats how it appears?

just came to post that, disgraceful

sad

explains the end of the pod. this is traumatic.

also marc stein

wow again

really don't get the timing of why this all had to be now -- why not wait six weeks to lay off the nba guys? it's like if they'd fired mel kiper jr. on monday

the share holders arent concerend with that.

STEIN??? he's like the one of the three or four most connected nba reporters.

this is crazy

yeah thats maybe the biggest one yet for me. kev did ya boy amin make it out? he and haberstroh have been silent on the tweets.

if they can guys like stein, what exactly are they the worldwide leaders in?

insane