Let's see if anyone at the WWL listens...

Once again, the honorary conscience of SportsJournalists.comland gets the love she deserves.

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/index.cfm?storyid=SBD2007052509&requesttimeout=500&fuseaction=sbd.main

 

Dammit. Can't read it. Not registered.

 

Well then, how about the McCarthy column it's based off then?

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2007-05-25-mccarthy-espn-ombudsman_N.htm

 

Try this link to Schreiber's actual article: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2007-05-25-mccarthy-espn-ombudsman_N.htm

 

Guess I need to type faster GB.

 

Nothing Le Anne or another ceremonial ombud writes, says or does will make the slightest dent the the way ESPN does things.
It's unwatchable and only going to get worse... unless of course you're like my 12-year-old nephew and his friends who think SC is the greatest thing on TV.

 

Sorry 'bout that. Here's the Reader's Digest version, which summarizes McCarthy's column...

ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber, whose two-year appointment began April 1, is “already making waves,” according to Michael McCarthy of USA TODAY. Schreiber received “overwhelming” support in e-mails from viewers after she “called out Sean Salisbury, Skip Bayless, Jay Mariotti and Woody Paige for yelling too much on the air.” Schreiber points to Bayless as one of the most “vehement and absolutist” personalities on the air, and said pitting him in debates against Stephen A. Smith on was “asking for disaster.” McCarthy notes Schreiber also “came down hard” on ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd for “urging listeners to shut down TheBigLead.com.” She also “doesn’t like the showboating she sees” on “SportsCenter.” She said too many anchors try to “make themselves more important than the news” (USA TODAY, 5/25).

 

ESPN listening to its critics (even one of its own employees)? Please. Maybe they'll say something nice about her, but then talk behind her back.

 

She'll be gone the day after she finally has the courage to do something that's long overdue: whack Chris Berman in the kneecaps, or 18 inches higher, for his !#%$!* sound effects while doing narration on highlights packages.

 

She called out Skip Bayless, damn, I could kiss her!