ESPN "analysts": room temp IQs all around?

Read that URL as saying he did an impression of Divine

a sidebar on jon lester tonight caused kruk to ramble at great length about baseball and cancer, including the fact that getting those (cancer-afflicted) kids on the field to meet some players would be better than any possible treatment

i know that's not what he meant, but he is about as incoherent an analyst as i've ever heard

The return of Nate?!?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/brian-stelter-reports-nate-silver-leaving-new-york-times-to-join-keith-olbermann-at-espn/

he is about as incoherent an analyst as i've ever heard

look for his new book I Ain't an Analyst, Lady

only saw the bottom of the ninth, but espn's use of nine (or whatever) commentators apparently only meant that each had only a moment to force his chosen cliches into the mix no matter what was going on in the game

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every time i think he can't get any goddamn worse

o man

"It's said"

"true #'s"

@jazayerli
Hey @gehrig38, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about Muslims, given that you appear grossly ignorant.

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in a bold move by espn, schilling has been suspended . . . from little league ws coverage

I do agree with him that we should've murdered every German regardless of their beliefs.

this guy

http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/curt-schilling-is-now-sending-e-mails-to-writers-to-question-our-integrity.html

kruk/schilling out, jessica mendoza/aaron 'fucking' boone in on sunday nights

Aaron Boone is appearing at the SABR Analytics conference, for some reason

schilling fired

@JonHeyman
schilling is unique. i used to get letters from a relative of his about how he'd routinely ruin thanksgiving #notkidding

im so pumped right now

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NYTimes with some great shade:

“This latest brew ha ha is beyond hilarious,” he wrote of the brouhaha.

This got me a chuckle.

"Curt Schilling Quietly Relieved He No Longer Needs To Censor Self For 3 Hours Once A Week"

http://www.theonion.com/article/curt-schilling-quietly-relieved-he-no-longer-needs-52790

https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/725063488977166337

good canadian kid dan shulman will not do sunday night baseball next year

unfortunate, imo

alex rodriguez . . . welcome

now with matt vasgergian

Why?

As noted by @WayTooCrisp, this is A-Rod saying one of the dumbest things ever stated by a baseball analyst—and it's on the marquee national baseball broadcast pic.twitter.com/b7dKQU9NZX

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 2, 2019

LOL

i'm not sure even Harold Reynolds could've come up with that

Hate to lead by 13

Drew Magary's profile of Stephen A Smith is really good

https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-a-smith-espn-profile

I reached out to Lamar Odom’s people for this story but did not get a response. I also ask Bomani Jones if the joke—which was definitely funny—was fair to Odom. “I could make the argument that if I were Lamar Odom, it is not something that I would want to hear,” says Jones. “But it is not unfair to Lamar Odom as it appears that he was, in fact, on crack.”

mendoza (likely) out on sunday night

https://nypost.com/2020/01/27/espn-moving-jessica-mendoza-out-of-sunday-night-booth-with-more-changes-possible

they should dump a-rod too, but it doesn't sound like that will happen. cone would be good

Sciambi and Mendoza were great on radio last October, that'd be ideal

but i don't watch SNB

Jessica Mendoza has resigned as a Met advisor and will no longer be on Sunday Night Baseball. She will remain on ESPN, doing weekday games, among other things.

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 7, 2020

Five-time World Series champion and Cy Young Award winner David Cone is joining the announcing booth for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, which will also feature a secondary broadcast led by Alex Rodriguez, the network announced Friday.

Cone will serve as an analyst alongside Karl Ravech, who will become the fourth-ever play-by-play announcer for Sunday Night Baseball. Eduardo Perez will also serve as an analyst for the ESPN broadcasts.

For eight games on ESPN2, Rodriguez will join veteran commentator Michael Kay for Sunday Night Baseball with Kay-Rod -- a broadcast similar to the ManningCasts that featured former quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning during Monday Night Football this season. The show will feature special guests as well as fantasy baseball and predictive elements.

Rodriguez and Kay will also serve as the primary broadcast team for two games during the 2022 season.

one of the classic Morbs thread titles

hah otm.

that's an incredible press release btw, we are recreating the manningcast with two of the most disliked people in baseball and just wanted to let everyone know

which manning is kay supposed to be, the former sports star or the other former sports star

that's not a "manningcast" it's just a pbp/color commentary booth

i have no idea how this is supposed to work but cone is Good

I think we can all agree that Ravech and Cone (or any other combination of verbal lifeforms) is an improvement over Vasgersian and A-Rod.

i still don't know how kay is allowed to speak in public he has a horrible voice

Thoughts on ESPN's top 100 players of all time list? No real surprises in the top ten, but it's cool to see so many recent players (80's, 90's 00's) in the top 25.

Didn't know about it till your post. The full list:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33145121/top-100-mlb-players-all

Not sure how much overlap with Posnanski's list...I like Mays at #1 better, though.

NTBT you cut ESPN a lot more slack than everyone else on the internet - i've seen nothing but complaints about recency bias and typical papi/jeets/mo worship

i sort of mentally threw out the list when ripken was ranked below ortiz and reduced to 2131 and "consistency" - i'm not a hardcore ripken fan (don't even really like the guy!) but it told me what i needed to know about the list

The one active player that seems like a stretch to me is Harper. Three or four more solid years, maybe, probably. But you still don't know what you'll get next year.

I haven't read the whole list yet. But I don't have a problem with recency bias. Baseball tends to exaggerate its history, and a newcomer gets the impression that the best games and players were around 50 or 100 years ago. I have no problem with people claiming that Mays or Aaron were the best ever -- but their primes were over 60 years ago. Compare that with the NBA or NFL, where there's more of a sense that today's players are the best there's ever been.

What I'm saying is that baseball's anti-recency bias is one reason for its image problem compared with other major sports and helps explain why its fanbase skews older.

https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/major-league-baseball-saved-face-what-cost.html

turns out espn had the upper hand all along

this is crazy. The beginning of the end for MLB.tv probably