ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun

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  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,448
    I can't wait read to see the pages that describe how they fucked over my first job out of college.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    After seeing these excerpts I just submitted my resume to ESPN :D

    I will have to pick up this gem. Love reading on the beach in the summer
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,448
    Flipped through in it in Barnes and Noble. It's a sequel to the Uncensored History book about ESPN that I read many years ago when I worked for an ignored division of the company.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • dCowboyPJ
    dCowboyPJ Posts: 479
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    Flipped through in it in Barnes and Noble. It's a sequel to the Uncensored History book about ESPN that I read many years ago when I worked for an ignored division of the company.
    care to explain more about that?
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    dCowboyPJ wrote:
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    Flipped through in it in Barnes and Noble. It's a sequel to the Uncensored History book about ESPN that I read many years ago when I worked for an ignored division of the company.
    care to explain more about that?

    my interest is peaked as well...
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  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    bought this book at the airport for my flight back to philly on tuesday. 3 chapters into this beast (easy read though, so it's going quick). just starting to get good. was cool reading about how the station started...there was a ton of luck involved for those guys
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    I finished it last night. Parts of it are great, but it was a lot of talk about negotiating big deals with a bunch of people I didn't know. They should have had some kind of index or put who the people were by their name every time they talked because I could not keep them straight and ended up not caring enough to look back to see who was who.

    That said, there were some fascinating parts. Overall I'd give it a B-/C+.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    rrivers wrote:
    I finished it last night. Parts of it are great, but it was a lot of talk about negotiating big deals with a bunch of people I didn't know. They should have had some kind of index or put who the people were by their name every time they talked because I could not keep them straight and ended up not caring enough to look back to see who was who.

    That said, there were some fascinating parts. Overall I'd give it a B-/C+.

    Haha, I have been doing the same thing. There are too many Rasmussens
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,915
    The Fixer wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    I finished it last night. Parts of it are great, but it was a lot of talk about negotiating big deals with a bunch of people I didn't know. They should have had some kind of index or put who the people were by their name every time they talked because I could not keep them straight and ended up not caring enough to look back to see who was who.

    That said, there were some fascinating parts. Overall I'd give it a B-/C+.

    Haha, I have been doing the same thing. There are too many Rasmussens


    Yeah, it is hard to keep track of all these execs from when ESPN first started. I'm only up to about the late 1980s....only 500 pages more to go!
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    340 pages in and I'm not quite halfway through this thing. I'm enjoying it though. The story about Dan Patrick and the minor league manager was good stuff
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    finished this recently. good read. makes me miss the old days of espn.

    i guess we have that mark shapiro clown to blame for the direction they took over the last decade to decade and a half?


    the back story on the snf/mnf tv deals were pretty fucking entertaining.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    The Juggler wrote:
    finished this recently. good read. makes me miss the old days of espn.

    i guess we have that mark shapiro clown to blame for the direction they took over the last decade to decade and a half?


    the back story on the snf/mnf tv deals were pretty fucking entertaining.

    Is Olberman not on Sunday Night Football anymore either? Is that because he was fired from MSNBC?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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