ESPNsucks

[TheVictors]

But this jackass Olbermann guy is cut from a different cloth.


MSNBC time aside, the dude doesn't pull punches or toe the Disney line. It's certainly a bit contrived, but refreshing to hear a voice from Bristol not saying "Boo-Yah" or talking about LeBronTebowJetsSox 24/7

 

[zyxt9]

As long as he isn't ranting about politics, he is pretty good. I'm somewhat surprised he didn't join up with Dan Patrick on his show though, always felt that tandem to be the strongest co-anchor team in sports rrporting.

As for toe-ing the Disney line, Disney is actually relatively hands-off with ESPN.

 

[TheVictors]

I'm just making fun of how corporate and contrived ESPN programming is ....like all those hidden mickeys at the theme parks, ESPN is very .....planned now. A handful of topics and run it all day long.

 

[Michchamp]

But this jackass Olbermann guy is cut from a different cloth.


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well, he actually graduated from a good university (Cornell). that's gotta be pretty rare in Bristol.

not that it means anything by itself, but it doesn't appear that he was one of those George W. Bush-type admittances, and anyways I don't think Cornell has the same reputation for nepotism and cronyism in their admissions department as Yale or Harvard do. so if you go to Cornell, Princeton, or MIT, you are probably actually intelligent, not just some coke head trust fund frat boy.

it shows in his commentary. he brings a lot more to the table than Cowturd or Chris Berman, etc.

 

[biggunsbob]

I liked him on MSNBC, and I like him on ESPN.. He was funny when he was calling out blowhards like Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh.. Or blasting idiots like Sara Palin..
It was great having a voice for the left in America that is not being drowned out by Fox Noise... MSNBC has been pretty boring since he left.. He makes me laugh and seems to tell it like it is no matter what the consequences are..

 

[Michchamp]

I liked him on MSNBC, and I like him on ESPN.. He was funny when he was calling out blowhards like Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh.. Or blasting idiots like Sara Palin..
It was great having a voice for the left in America that is not being drowned out by Fox Noise... MSNBC has been pretty boring since he left.. He makes me laugh and seems to tell it like it is no matter what the consequences are..

yeah. Both he and Cenk Uygur had to leave MSNBC because they didn't toe the line. they both ended up on CurrentTV. Cenk seemed okay there, but I'd really like to know why Olbermann left. Pretty much everyone in the media condemned Keith as being impossible to work with by that point, but I'm not so sure.

just give them man his space, and he'll be fine. maybe find advertisers for his show that aren't easily spooked.

 

[TheVictors]

A buddy of mine now with Fox Sports was back in NY when Patrick/Olbermann were the deal and apparently Keith is a raging a-hole in person. He is legally blind, apparently, and wanted ESPN to provide a driver for him so he could commute from Manhattan to Bristol and other "high maintenance" stuff.

I've always liked him - the MSNBC stint was at times too much and he got a bit caught up with Bill O, but his style on ESPN is refreshing.

While every other piehole on the network was scrambling to tear apart the non-ESPN story from SI/Yahoo on the cheating SEC, he was ripping the NFL and CFB and expressing an actual opinion. !

 

[tinselwolverine]

A buddy of mine now with Fox Sports was back in NY when Patrick/Olbermann were the deal and apparently Keith is a raging a-hole in person. He is legally blind, apparently, and wanted ESPN to provide a driver for him so he could commute from Manhattan to Bristol and other "high maintenance" stuff.

I wonder why they couldn't just do the Olbermann Show from the ESPN Zone in Times Square (The ESPN Zone - yet another good reason to visit/stay at/eat at Times Square)?

 

[redandguilty]

I wonder why they couldn't just do the Olbermann Show from the ESPN Zone in Times Square (The ESPN Zone - yet another good reason to visit/stay at/eat at Times Square)?

I like their Red Wings, you used to be able to order them in a bucket.

 

[wlvrnstlr4life]

How political this thread has become

 

[zyxt9]

The ESPN Zone in Times Square closed long ago.

 

[zyxt9]

And do not, under any circumstances, try to go into the new Disney Store in Times Square...what a DISASTER.

AND...Bloomberg really fucked up the entire Times Square area when he made it a pedestrian area you can no longer drive through parts...what a complete Charlie Foxtrot now, both if trying to drive near the area and walking around there is a nightmare trying to avoid all of the assholes, the starving artists (especially the "cartoon characters" who pop off their heads and smoke and eat and talk...all while wearing non-official costumes to which Disney has had to initiate a restraining order where they have to keep a certain distance away from the Disney Store there), and other miscreants.

It's like Bloomberg has intentionally tried to return Times Square to the pre-Guiliani days when you didn't feel safe in the area. It isn't to that point yet, but one cannot help feel like it has taken major strides backwards. The entire thing is something to avoid these days. I miss the way the area used to be, and that ESPN Zone was nice.

 

[tinselwolverine]

The ESPN Zone in Times Square closed long ago.

Seriously?

What's there now?

I thought freakin' those Sports Reporters with John Saunders did their Sunday morning program from there.

 

[zyxt9]

They might, hard to say. Nothing iopen to public s in there now to my knowledge, so that is possible. Would be a terrible place for a studio considering it is all a tourist trap now and they wouldn't be generating revenue from it.

More likely they are broadcasting from one of the theaters, like where Lion King performs. I'd have to watch the show to have better idea.

Would be a fortune in rent for a studio at the old ESPN Zone, and no, to my knowledge Disney never bought that space nor the current Disney Store space, preferring to rent it. But even rent is over a million per month for those, maybe closer to 5 mil per month is my guess, but could be even higher. Total suck fest of a company's money.

 

[TheVictors]

CNBC's Fast Money is shot at the Nasdaq office in Times Square and I think ESPN still has some sort of studio there with a Times Sq background.

 

[tinselwolverine]

But this jackass Olbermann guy is cut from a different cloth.


MSNBC time aside, the dude doesn't pull punches or toe the Disney line. It's certainly a bit contrived, but refreshing to hear a voice from Bristol not saying "Boo-Yah" or talking about LeBronTebowJetsSox 24/7

Speaking of MSNBC, I see that John Huntsman's good looking daughter Abby just got a gig on a new show there called the Cycle, with that black guy Toure. Maybe it replaced Martin Bashir, I don't know.

I just rewound this thread because it had something about MSNBC in the OP, and I didn't think this post really deserved its own thread.

EDIT; I moved this from the Michigan board to here; I had assumed that this is where this thread had been I did a google search for a thread with MSNBC prominently displayed in it on the boards...

 

[jswain]

Olbermann..bathtub boy