ESPN not immune

I know some peeps up there -- and hope they emerge untouched. A tough time all around ...

RB

 

Moddy, you wrote an incomplete sentence.

It should have read "ESPN not immune from exploiting economy in order to save money."

 

What do you figure, Rick Reilly's salary would save three dozen of those jobs? I know. He's under contract and I'm not even trying to say he should fall on the sword. Just underscores the dumb-ass corporate decisions they've been making lately; if "Kobe Doin' Work" is any indication, that new upgraded movie studio is going to prove a similarly worthless drag on the bottom line.

 

Just a question -- I have no idea. Isn't the "TV-side" the part that, well, brings in most of the money?

 

Probably, Frank, but that doesn't preclude their being bloated on that side....I'm not saying they are, I'm just saying it doesn't preclude it.

 

Anyone seen Tom Jackson lately?

Just sayin'

 

I'd bag the fake football and baseball fields and animation departments.

 

I hate to say it because, like a lot of us on these boards, I grew up an avid Reilly reader, but he's just not worth $2 mil a year. I think that's what he's getting paid. His stuff is just lackluster lately. His latest column about the boringness of baseball just did me in as far as being a Reilly fan. I like his old stuff, but he's just....I don't know, something's gone missing with him. I wonder what happened.

 

I wonder if they should just let him cover golf, every week until the season is over (it's not, right?), and see if that brings back some of his mojo.

 

I saw the headline for his last column, figured it would just piss me off and passed.

Horse racing isn't exactly the most exciting crap on Earth, either, Rick.

 

I think it was more than $3 million if I remember right ... something like five years, $17 million.