ESPN Statement on Bill Simmons “Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN’s journalistic standards. We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria. Bill Simmons did not meet those obligations in a recent podcast, and as a result we have suspended him for three weeks.”
i'm not a fan of bill's but he is right and espn really just sucks ass
ESPN Statement on Bill Simmons “Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN’s journalistic standards. We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria. Bill Simmons did not meet those obligations in a recent podcast, and as a result we have suspended him for three weeks.”
i'm not a fan of bill's but he is right and espn really just sucks ass
Suspended for speaking his mind. He just needs to leave ESPN already and start his own site. He has Grantland, but it's still ESPN. He should go out on his own....millions of readers will follow.
He was Boston Sports Guy for years and was so much funnier. ESPN made him a rich man and very well known I think he could have his own page again and do well. Not shocked they benched him he asked them to do it when he stated the obvious in such a manner on his podcast.
Simmons got a longer suspension than the original Ray Rice suspension and longer than Stephen A. Smith got for basically saying Rice's gf deserved it. Other than MTV has something that started so good ended up so bad as ESPN has?
^^ good call on MTV. What a pile of stinking shit. With the advent of NFL Network, MLB Network and NHL Network I watch less and less of ESPN. Why not specialize based on what I want to see? I dont care about golf, I dont care about NBA, I dont care about a lot of the shit they have on there. For highlights I want more depth and it pays to go to the specialized stations. (Exception would be Sunday AM, I watch ESPN)
^^ good call on MTV. What a pile of stinking shit. With the advent of NFL Network, MLB Network and NHL Network I watch less and less of ESPN. Why not specialize based on what I want to see? I dont care about golf, I dont care about NBA, I dont care about a lot of the shit they have on there. For highlights I want more depth and it pays to go to the specialized stations. (Exception would be Sunday AM, I watch ESPN)
i've been watching more of the fox sports channel lately
I got about 2/3 through that and my head started hurting. I never liked Whitlock, so it was not hard to click off this story. One thing I learned is that Whitlock sure loves him some Whitlock.
Whitlock also loves to stir the pot just for stirring it. I have agreed many times with him in the past but also thought he was nothing more than a shock jock journalist. ESPN should not have brought him back.
Tom Brady & Donald Trump, BFF's Fuckus rules all Rob Seattle
I got about 2/3 through that and my head started hurting. I never liked Whitlock, so it was not hard to click off this story. One thing I learned is that Whitlock sure loves him some Whitlock.
Whitlock is the absolute worst. I got about 4 paragraphs into that article and couldn't take it anymore.
I think they pretty much kicked him out of the clubhouse. He was on Dan Patrick's show yesterday and dared once again to question Goodell. Probably the final straw.
Who needs this when I have MLB.TV? $19.99 a month on Roku and Apple TV with no annoying hacks like Joe Buck ruining the game. Sucks that I can't get local Angels games on TV, though. Stuck with radio.
I got about 2/3 through that and my head started hurting. I never liked Whitlock, so it was not hard to click off this story. One thing I learned is that Whitlock sure loves him some Whitlock.
Whitlock is the absolute worst. I got about 4 paragraphs into that article and couldn't take it anymore.
Yeah, I for some reason read the whole thing and came away angry that such a jerkoff can make so much money
I got about 2/3 through that and my head started hurting. I never liked Whitlock, so it was not hard to click off this story. One thing I learned is that Whitlock sure loves him some Whitlock.
Whitlock is the absolute worst. I got about 4 paragraphs into that article and couldn't take it anymore.
Yeah, I for some reason read the whole thing and came away angry that such a jerkoff can make so much money
The guy makes me sick. Tries to make EVERYTHING a race issue. Anytime I hear his name or see his face, I get so angry immediately.
Just watching the beginning of First Take....Shannon Sharpe is on and part of his smack talk platform he says "the only thing I do better than catching footballs is talk". I guess I remember him being a better TE than he actually was.
Just watching the beginning of First Take....Shannon Sharpe is on and part of his smack talk platform he says "the only thing I do better than catching footballs is talk". I guess I remember him being a better TE than he actually was.
Just watching the beginning of First Take....Shannon Sharpe is on and part of his smack talk platform he says "the only thing I do better than catching footballs is talk". I guess I remember him being a better TE than he actually was.
why on earth would you watch that show?
The ratings that this show gets are mind-boggling. How anyone could watch that for more than 30 seconds is a mystery to me.
Just watching the beginning of First Take....Shannon Sharpe is on and part of his smack talk platform he says "the only thing I do better than catching footballs is talk". I guess I remember him being a better TE than he actually was.
why on earth would you watch that show?
It was changed before I posted., but I caught the opening before I had the chance to change it to Parks and Rec reruns when Mike and Mike ended.
Probably could've handled it yesterday without Steven A, but Shannon Sharpe's garbling is about as annoying.
Watched Sportscenter this morning. They spent less than 2 minutes covering MLB (and about 30 seconds of that time was during the Not Top 10). Jim Harbaugh's pants and the Tom Brady courtroom sketch received more coverage than baseball.
I get it that college football and the NFL seasons are starting but MLB playoff races are in full swing.
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and ESPN did this i'm not a fan of bill's but he is right and espn really just sucks ass
Suspended for speaking his mind. He just needs to leave ESPN already and start his own site. He has Grantland, but it's still ESPN. He should go out on his own....millions of readers will follow.
Not shocked they benched him he asked them to do it when he stated the obvious in such a manner on his podcast.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/09/24/bill_simmons_suspended_listen_to_the_goodell_bashing_comments_that_got_the.html?wpsrc=fol_tw
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
With the advent of NFL Network, MLB Network and NHL Network I watch less and less of ESPN. Why not specialize based on what I want to see? I dont care about golf, I dont care about NBA, I dont care about a lot of the shit they have on there. For highlights I want more depth and it pays to go to the specialized stations.
(Exception would be Sunday AM, I watch ESPN)
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/sports/bill-simmons-and-espn-are-parting-ways.html?_r=0
Fuckus rules all
Rob
Seattle
Who needs this when I have MLB.TV? $19.99 a month on Roku and Apple TV with no annoying hacks like Joe Buck ruining the game. Sucks that I can't get local Angels games on TV, though. Stuck with radio.
First they can Simmons and now they can Olberman, who they both asked to tone down their criticism.
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/13479768/wright-thompson-life-loss-renewal-new-orleans-10-years-hurricane-katrina
Probably could've handled it yesterday without Steven A, but Shannon Sharpe's garbling is about as annoying.
I get it that college football and the NFL seasons are starting but MLB playoff races are in full swing.