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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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buckeyebri said:
So, Greeny leaves the show with Golic and has a new show now. I read some articles where he stated he wanted to didn't want to do early mornings anymore and he wanted to do a show that was not sports centric. Yet, here we are with his new show on at 7 a.m., called Get Up, with a sports centric show and cast. To top it all of it is on against his former co-anchor. Greeny gets the main ESPN slot and Golic and Wingo get bumped to the NEWS.....
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My first thought to wanting to do a non-sports related show on ESPN was to laugh at the little dweeb. Then I realized I was confusing this with the ESPN from 20 years ago.
 
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Mike80 said:
This is relevant to what we've been discussing. I'll have to read it more thoroughly when I'm not at work or something.

http://awfulannouncing.com/espn/did...oor-promotional-decisions-woke-narrative.html

Basically - ESPN may be missing the point. People - especially their target demographic - want to see highlights. I don't know if the people who are at home during the day - primarily stay at home parents and retirees - are going to switch from their daytime talk shows to this show.

It's going to fail. And it'll be spectacular. The real question is how long does ESPN continue to sink money into it before they say they screwed up.

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This occurred to me while I was typing the above: ESPN is now what WCW was during the pro/fake wrestling Monday night wars.

Much like WCW spending Ted Turner's money, ESPN is spending Disney's money. So if they burn a couple million on something that sucks (or in WCW's case, a wrestler who is far beyond his prime and wrestles 3 times like the Ultimate Warrior did in 1998), you don't care. You say that you care, you try to come up with bad ideas to show that you care, but in the end, it's not their money, it's Disney's money. There's no incentive to really improve the product.
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That WCW analogy is so right on. If you put Eric Bischoff in charge at ESPN, this is the same thing that would happen. Then, they have doubled down on their stupid...just like hiring the unfiltered Vince Russo was. The parallels are actually kind of frightening.

Bischoffs book is “controversy create cash”...yeah, and you also put tho company out of business, dilweed.
 
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Mike80 said:
This is relevant to what we've been discussing. I'll have to read it more thoroughly when I'm not at work or something.

http://awfulannouncing.com/espn/did...oor-promotional-decisions-woke-narrative.html

Basically - ESPN may be missing the point. People - especially their target demographic - want to see highlights. I don't know if the people who are at home during the day - primarily stay at home parents and retirees - are going to switch from their daytime talk shows to this show.

It's going to fail. And it'll be spectacular. The real question is how long does ESPN continue to sink money into it before they say they screwed up.

========================================

This occurred to me while I was typing the above: ESPN is now what WCW was during the pro/fake wrestling Monday night wars.

Much like WCW spending Ted Turner's money, ESPN is spending Disney's money. So if they burn a couple million on something that sucks (or in WCW's case, a wrestler who is far beyond his prime and wrestles 3 times like the Ultimate Warrior did in 1998), you don't care. You say that you care, you try to come up with bad ideas to show that you care, but in the end, it's not their money, it's Disney's money. There's no incentive to really improve the product.
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"Wake Up Woke" :rofl:
 
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MaxBuck said:
Off-topic, but of all the annoying New Words that have been invented over the past 20 years, the ostensible adjective "woke" has to be the most egregious.
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Thump said:
Amen.

And "Shade."
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You guys are like, literally amazing.

(I do not condone violence toward women but when I hear them say that, I want to slap the shit out of them. Literally)
 
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Jaxbuck said:
You guys are like, literally amazing.

(I do not condone violence toward women but when I hear them say that, I want to slap the shit out of them. Literally)
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Um, OK, but to get picky about details, neither word has its origins with females specifically.

"Woke" originated with the African-American community, and "shade" is much more likely to be heard on Ru Paul's Drag Race than The View.

(Shit! I just used both words--now I'm on Jax's hit list.)
 
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LostLassie said:
Um, OK, but to get picky about details, neither word has its origins with females specifically.

"Woke" originated with the African-American community, and "shade" is much more likely to be heard on Ru Paul's Drag Race than The View.

(Shit! I just used both words--now I'm on Jax's hit list.)
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Actually... I believe Jax was talking about the "like literally".

Sorry for ... mansplaining.

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LostLassie said:
Um, OK, but to get picky about details, neither word has its origins with females specifically.

"Woke" originated with the African-American community, and "shade" is much more likely to be heard on Ru Paul's Drag Race than The View.

(Shit! I just used both words--now I'm on Jax's hit list.)
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I just always seem to hear a female voice when someone uses the string of "like literally" something something "amazing".

I'm sure there are male morons running about using the same speech patterns.

I'm an EO slapper when I hear it.
 
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