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Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

So I guess the entire internet had a meltdown about a feeeeemale broadcasting the Wild Card game because she's not a former player and therefore has no idea what baseball is even about. Did anyone famous poo poo their pants on Twitter over it? I saw some screenshots of Atlanta radio hosts throwing fits and a whole bunch of morons ranting about feminism taking over ESPN.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2015 05:36

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 06:42

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Well, that's... something. Fox Sports sent freshly-hired sideline reporter Colleen Dominguez to Erin Andrews' hairdresser to get Erin Andrews hair extensions, tried to make her get a facelift, and wouldn't put her on TV because she's too old and ugly. She's suing them for age and gender discrimination. Now her producer, Jacqueline Bower, who knew about everything in the dispute, was fired after an HR interview because... they cancelled a show she didn't work on.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2016 20:12

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

hahahahaha jesus christ

# ¿ Sep 15, 2017 00:51

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:

makes me think of Bally's Las Vegas

They�re all the same company, or at least started as the same company and were spun off over the decades. The only one still left standing is the casino chain but a lot of companies have the rights to the Bally name.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 03:24

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Does anyone have Aussie Rules rights this year?

# ¿ Apr 6, 2021 20:58

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

harperdc posted:

it�s broken out quarter by quarter but there you are.

(More people should watch the AFL, it�s actually a really cool sport)

Oh hell yes, perfect work background TV

I can�t stay up until 3am watching these games live anymore

# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 08:50

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Crazy Ted posted:

That part of the 30 for 30 - I think it was the 30 for 30 - where he just casually shoots his bow repeatedly with his legs because it helps his hips is

There will never be another Bo

# ¿ May 8, 2021 19:53

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

ESPN managed to get tricked by an online charter school somehow and put them on TV playing football against IMG. Two days after they played a game in PA.

https://twitter.com/kirk_barton/status/1432081893973954562?s=20

https://twitter.com/Andrew_Ivins/status/1432363373157568521?s=20

Great job guys.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2021 20:28

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

ChickenMedium posted:

How did this get past anyone? The website for this "high school" is is literally just a blog about the football program.

Have you seen most high schools?

# ¿ Aug 30, 2021 21:39

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

sportsgenius86 posted:

I�d imagine we�ll find out in a few days that an exec has a stake in whatever fund started the for profit charter school.

https://www.complex.com/sports/bishop-sycamore-lies-espn-play-on-national-tv?utm_campaign=sportstw&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

ESPN says they don�t schedule the HS football games, the company that does said they just took their poo poo at face value.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2021 23:50

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1445857143739981827?s=20

:ughh:

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 20:41

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Vertical Lime posted:

https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1461472257629462528

Happy for him but god drat, the second he steps out of the booth for good he�s gonna drop dead.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2021 22:10

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

The Baseball Network strikes again? It really is 1994 in here.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 21:00

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Someone sent me this article about Thom Brennaman since his heated gaming moment and... huh. He really does seem committed to getting better? I had no idea.

https://www.outsports.com/2022/3/22/22989588/thom-brennaman-gay-slur-lgbtq-mlb-baseball-tv-hire

quote:

The people gathered on Messer�s porch talked openly for about two hours about their lives as LGBTQ people in and around the Cincinnati area.

�I could tell he was very taken by the conversation,� Messer said. �And it wasn�t like he was just nodding his head. There was zero disingenuousness in his interactions.�

One of the people there was Lynn Hailey, a retired communications professional in the Cincinnati area and, yes, a Reds fan.

�I could tell Thom was nervous,� said Hailey. �I think he probably hadn�t sat with a group of eight LGBTQ people in the community like that before. That day he was really in pain. It was an honest and painful conversation.�

Brennaman�s blind spots at the time crept up that afternoon. When he stood behind his �love everyone� Christian faith in the conversation, it hit the wrong tone for one attendee.

�He kept talking about his faith, how [his language] was a betrayal of his faith, and a betrayal of himself as a Christian man,� said Reggie Harris, elected to the Cincinnati City Council last year. �To a gay person, for someone to invoke their Christian faith doesn�t exactly bring me comfort.�

Brennaman hadn�t thought much of it at the time. There was a minister at the meeting, and other attendees talked about being Christian themselves.

One of the lessons Brennaman has learned over the last 18 months is some history about the at-times problematic relationship the church has had with the LGBTQ community.

�I understand there have been a lot of outspoken Christian pastors, priests and reverends, who have been highly critical of people being gay,� Brennaman said. �I understand that.�

Still, Brennaman mostly listened for that two hours on Messer�s porch. He heard about parents rejecting their children when they came out. He heard about bullying and Cincinnati�s history of homophobia � a history some of the very people on that porch, like Messer, had helped change.

�He certainly did more listening than talking, and he got an earful,� said Evan Millward, a reporter at WCPO-9, the ABC affiliate in the area. �Everyone went around and shared their stories, and some were more painful than others.�

# ¿ May 24, 2022 17:44

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Crazy Ted posted:

What's awesome about Jeanette Lee recently is that she managed to beat Stage IV Ovarian Cancer into remission.

Hell yes!

DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1591884721977720833?s=46&t=kDY8NRB43QoYS-eq2Vnmkg

Uhh

Hell no!

# ¿ Nov 14, 2022 16:22

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

FlamingLiberal posted:

If Bally goes under (which is only a matter of time), I expect the leagues to try and start their own service

Oh, like some sort of Baseball Network

I remember when the Bucs sucked before they won the Super Bowl the games were on UPN for god�s sake.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2023 07:50

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

or their shoes

or their gyms

# ¿ Feb 16, 2023 00:47

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

marioinblack posted:

Spent several seasons working catering at the Trop and hearing Wills and Freed over the radio in the halls. Met him a few times in passing. This sucks.

Yeah, I�ve been listening to him from the start. I remember the absolute joy he had on the radio on the drive home from the game where they clinched the postseason for the first time in 2008.

He was effortlessly charming, always found something to laugh about even in the worst blowouts, and had one hell of a partnership with Andy Freed. He�s going to be a hard one to live without. I�m so sad he didn�t get a World Series ring, but at least he got to be there for two tries at it.

Here�s an Athletic article talking about how everyone loved him.

quote:

Wills� gregarious presence helped Cash � and so many others � make it through the challenging, COVID-19-impacted 2020 season with their equilibrium intact. Because no one could leave the team hotel on the road, the club would reserve a large suite for pregame and postgame meals and gatherings. Not surprisingly, Wills quickly emerged as the natural postgame toastmaster.

�We�d order pizzas after a ball game, and that�s kind of where everybody bellies up and talks about the game,� Cash reminisced. �So some nights, it was a roast of Dave. And some nights, it was Dave roasting us � like, �Hey, nice decision,� and this and that. I mean, it was special.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2023 01:51

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Squinky v2.0 posted:

The average WEEI listener has to be pushing ivermectin

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 20:44

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

The Twins and Guardians didn't get their TV rights payments and MLB is telling the shambling corpse of Diamond Sports to pay up or get hosed.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2023 22:07

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Mike_V posted:

Does the CW really not have an affiliate in every market?

Yeah they do, they cover 98% of households OTA and have affiliates in every top 100 market. That�s more than the Big Three cover.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2023 13:07

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

ABC forgot.

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1652766419358982147?s=46&t=2UNxxseGnoAvjP1q95D8nw

# ¿ Apr 30, 2023 22:13

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Don Imus famously had opinions on basketball w/r/t race as well,

# ¿ May 5, 2023 08:01

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Huh, I've always heard it produced knee-gro and never how Yates said it

I can see why

I�ve heard it both ways, but typically from older Black southerners or in archive footage, not a white sportscaster.

# ¿ May 9, 2023 02:15

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

STAC Goat posted:

Amoral narcissists and conmen all kind of look similar when you break them down. Use people, build a cult of personality around yourself, call any criticism a lie and pay off people to be quiet. Sounds like another guy from the 80s.

At least Herb Abrams went out like a true �80s guy when the UWF imploded: naked, covered in baby oil, smashing up his office with a baseball bat, and with more cocaine in his system than Studio 54.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2023 02:13

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

FlamingLiberal posted:

I really don't know how so many people listen to that kind of stuff all the time

It's always some inane debate, every day, until the end of time

Some of us have desk jobs and just need background noise.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2023 03:12

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Peanut President posted:

its weird, everytime mlb adds more teams to the playoffs the world series' rating goes down

Yeah but a billionaire can reach the World Series by paying less money than before so it�s impossible to know if it is good or bad.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2023 06:52

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

AsInHowe posted:

Does Pat McAfee know who Henry Kissinger was?

Other way around, Adam Silver somehow turned a softball question that could be answered with well basketball unites people around the world etc etc and turned it into �I�m just like Henry Kissinger and I believe in invading everyone�

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 00:12

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Nodoze posted:

You can't pin gambling on Silver, that's a ridiculous take.

Especially given the NBA had a gambling scandal in recent memory.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 18:45

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 06:42

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Here it comes! Television�s most fantastic hour of prizes!

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 02:06

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