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.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/857314772777279488
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
i have no sense of media salaries, can anyone take a stab at how much ethan might have been making?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
my range is pretty wide but i would definitely say 6 figures without a doubt
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah i would be very surprised if he wasn't making six figures
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
that a lot plus all the traveling
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
stopped reading Stark ages ago, only guy i read on espn.com recently was the Mets guy who left last winter, Adam Rubin.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
on the bright side, @ least trent dilfer go t fired
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 27 April 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
also len elmore
the only bitter response i saw was . . . danny kanell!
@dannykanellPoured 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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 April 2017 01:13 (seven years ago) link
andy katz seems like a big one
― Spottie, Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
yeah that one is crazy
they axed my guy dr. jerry punch too. my childhood crumbling in front of my eyes.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 27 April 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
yo, henry abbott got canned too
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 April 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
or at least thats how it appears?
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 April 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
just came to post that, disgraceful
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
sad
― Spottie, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
explains the end of the pod. this is traumatic.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
also marc stein
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
wow again
― Spottie, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 April 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
the share holders arent concerend with that.
― Spottie, Friday, 28 April 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
STEIN??? he's like the one of the three or four most connected nba reporters.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 April 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link
this is crazy
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 April 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Spottie, Friday, 28 April 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
if they can guys like stein, what exactly are they the worldwide leaders in?
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 April 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
insane
― nomar, Friday, 28 April 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
lotta talent out there if someone wanted to put an nba reporting network together
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 April 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
woj gotta bring it all together and have yahoo take over.
― Spottie, Friday, 28 April 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
guess it's going to wind up with everyone directly working for the leagues they're covering
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 April 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
wowwwww marc stein, thats booty
― nice cage (m bison), Friday, 28 April 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
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assholes yelling at each other? the same day they axed almost all of their baseball guys they announced they picking up 'intentional talk' from the mlb network which is basically kevin millar and some other idiot yelling GOT HEEEEEM
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 28 April 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Looks like chad ford is out too
― sknybrg, Saturday, 29 April 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
also david thorpe i think
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 April 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
jeeeeeeez
― Spottie, Saturday, 29 April 2017 06:33 (seven years ago) link
wooow
― k3vin k., Saturday, 29 April 2017 06:55 (seven years ago) link
i'm a little shellshocked by all this tbh
― Clay, Saturday, 29 April 2017 07:01 (seven years ago) link
damn, i loved thorpe
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 29 April 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
i only saw one passing reference so hopefully he's ok. very interesting guy even if i didn't always agree with him.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:45 (seven years ago) link
he's a long talker and a hilarious name dropper but i always enjoy his perspective
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Pretty much all these guys had good things to offer
― Spottie, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
ESPN hired Woj!
― Spottie, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 07:58 (seven years ago) link
And the conspiracy theories are flying:
http://deadspin.com/adrian-wojnarowski-finally-won-his-war-against-espn-1794817931
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Wow thats pretty wild if even 50% true
― Spottie, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
It is important to note that the ESPN layoffs were not buyouts. ESPN did not give laid-off employees severance or any other type of lump-sum payment. Instead, ESPN will continue to pay them for the length of their contracts. They just won’t be able to report or otherwise do their jobs. If Marc Stein—or any other laid-off ESPNer—wants another, likely less well-paying, job, they will still have to go back to ESPN and negotiate an exit.
iiiiinteresting
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
drag em out as long as possible in hopes they swoop up another job and have to negotiate a buyout for less.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
if i understand that correctly, it puts ESPN in the win-win situation of either avoiding paying the full value of their contracts or gutting the competition for NBA coverage
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
man i just have a really hard time believing woj would can ethan over something he wrote 7 years ago on a blog.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link