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Bill Plashke isn't a bastion of good sources either. This is a guy who constantly rips the Dodgers for not iwnning anything and being a terrible team ( despite being in first almost all year and on the verge of clinching their first division title in ten years ). He constantly is saying how Jim Trayc is going to get fired ( despite said record this year and contract extension a few weeks back ).
Face it, none of the guys on this show are really "credible" They are/were beat writers who contribute to a show for ENTERTAINMENT purposes. One reason I really hate ESPN is because their programming director has stated that he wants to get away from the hardcore news angles and focus more on entertainment on the netwrok. Henceforth all the crappy movies, terrible game shows, lousy countdown shows and god awful reality shows. They are copying MTV, VH1 and every other cable networks formula for ratings. The onyl really newsworthy show they have anymore is Sportscenter and even that has celebrity gameshows, battle of the bands competetions and comedy bits written into them.
Around the Horn, PTI and all hose other showtypes are only here for us to watch fat wannabeathleteswhosettledforwriting types piss and moan. Hell, Woody Paige even left the newspaper he was writing for do to his "fame" and moved to New York to work for ESPN's awful morning show Cold Pizza along with Skip "Maury Povich" Bayless.
Take anything any of them say with a grain of salt or two.
Soapbox off...
Face it, none of the guys on this show are really "credible" They are/were beat writers who contribute to a show for ENTERTAINMENT purposes. One reason I really hate ESPN is because their programming director has stated that he wants to get away from the hardcore news angles and focus more on entertainment on the netwrok. Henceforth all the crappy movies, terrible game shows, lousy countdown shows and god awful reality shows. They are copying MTV, VH1 and every other cable networks formula for ratings. The onyl really newsworthy show they have anymore is Sportscenter and even that has celebrity gameshows, battle of the bands competetions and comedy bits written into them.
Around the Horn, PTI and all hose other showtypes are only here for us to watch fat wannabeathleteswhosettledforwriting types piss and moan. Hell, Woody Paige even left the newspaper he was writing for do to his "fame" and moved to New York to work for ESPN's awful morning show Cold Pizza along with Skip "Maury Povich" Bayless.
Take anything any of them say with a grain of salt or two.
Soapbox off...