andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 24, 2015 23:28:43 GMT -5
Deadspin reports that Whitlock is negotiating a buyout from ESPN.
Great news. Can't believe they actually brought him back. he is terrible on PTI
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Post by Cyno on Aug 24, 2015 23:42:49 GMT -5
Jason Whitlock is someone I have a lot of conflicted opinions on. On the one hand, I respect him a lot for being a real trailblazer as a black sportswriter. But man is he full of himself. And not in the fun Keith Olbermann way.
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Post by Ganon83 on Aug 24, 2015 23:53:14 GMT -5
Reading about his actions while in charge of black Grantland... yeah, this is pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2015 23:53:33 GMT -5
I've literally never heard a single positive thing about him from his colleagues, and what I've seen of him myself isn't exactly positive either.
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Post by AwamoriRock on Aug 25, 2015 1:14:50 GMT -5
I have mixed feelings on him--at times I used to find him entertaining, and I love it that he pimps The Wire so hard, but his radical insecurities about things he likes and that deadspin piece (boy are they obsessed with him and Simmons) about how he sabotaged himself out of the black Grantland job really soured me on him.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2015 11:45:43 GMT -5
He used to guest host for Jim Rome, when Rome would be one one of his 36 weeks of vacation. Always dreaded it, he seemed incredibly smug.
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Post by Andy Martin on Aug 25, 2015 15:05:22 GMT -5
Never like to hear about someone losing their job, but I'm not mad at this.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2015 15:12:46 GMT -5
He used to guest host for Jim Rome, when Rome would be one one of his 36 weeks of vacation. Always dreaded it, he seemed incredibly smug. How much does this guy suck that someone wishes that Jim Rome had come to work that day!? Goddamn.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2015 15:43:55 GMT -5
He used to guest host for Jim Rome, when Rome would be one one of his 36 weeks of vacation. Always dreaded it, he seemed incredibly smug. How much does this guy suck that someone wishes that Jim Rome had come to work that day!? Goddamn. Hey man, when your company all day is yourself, a truck, a bunch of oxygen tanks, and the old people you're delivering them to, shit like Jim Rome can be your best friend.
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Post by brody on Aug 26, 2015 9:48:45 GMT -5
ESPN has kept a ton of the same faces for 25 years+ now, a little shuffling is in order.
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