<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: ESPN Claims That There&#8217;s No &#8216;Ban&#8217;</title> <atom:link href="http://thebiglead.com/?feed=rss2&#038;p=16136" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/</link> <description>Not just another sports blog.</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:41:02 -0500</lastBuildDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4</generator> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>By: GodsoftheGridiron</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459143</link> <dc:creator>GodsoftheGridiron</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:10:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459143</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;it’s like DP never existed at ESPN. Not to surprising.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Anyone know what he is making now?  I thought I heard he got a big payday when he signed his radio deal after he left ESPN.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>it’s like DP never existed at ESPN. Not to surprising.</p></blockquote><p>Anyone know what he is making now?  I thought I heard he got a big payday when he signed his radio deal after he left ESPN.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: jpq1999</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459134</link> <dc:creator>jpq1999</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:05:13 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459134</guid> <description>&lt;em&gt;The competition makes sense from a business perspective. If an ESPN outlet needs a national MLB reporter, they are probably going to book Olney, Gammons or Stark before their competitors Rosenthal and Heyman. That’s not evil, it’s running a brand and a business.&lt;/em&gt;exactly. Reilly was on Patrick&#039;s radio show and nothing else when he was at SI. Since the &quot;switch&quot;, Reilly is on more and more on all the platforms, and it&#039;s like DP never existed at ESPN. Not to surprising.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The competition makes sense from a business perspective. If an ESPN outlet needs a national MLB reporter, they are probably going to book Olney, Gammons or Stark before their competitors Rosenthal and Heyman. That’s not evil, it’s running a brand and a business.</em></p><p>exactly. Reilly was on Patrick&#8217;s radio show and nothing else when he was at SI. Since the &#8220;switch&#8221;, Reilly is on more and more on all the platforms, and it&#8217;s like DP never existed at ESPN. Not to surprising.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: tyduffy</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459129</link> <dc:creator>tyduffy</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:01:15 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459129</guid> <description>Yeah, I think the list stuff is a little overblown.1. The competition makes sense from a business perspective.  If an ESPN outlet needs a national MLB reporter, they are probably going to book Olney, Gammons or Stark before their competitors Rosenthal and Heyman.  That&#039;s not evil, it&#039;s running a brand and a business.2. Most of the individuals who were &quot;banned&quot; are probably not invited back because of specific incidents.  Olbermann is not invited back because he pissed off a lot of people on his way out.  That&#039;s life.3. If there was a &quot;banned list&quot; and TBL was on it, he would probably not be allowed to interview ESPN personalities.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I think the list stuff is a little overblown.</p><p>1. The competition makes sense from a business perspective.  If an ESPN outlet needs a national MLB reporter, they are probably going to book Olney, Gammons or Stark before their competitors Rosenthal and Heyman.  That&#8217;s not evil, it&#8217;s running a brand and a business.</p><p>2. Most of the individuals who were &#8220;banned&#8221; are probably not invited back because of specific incidents.  Olbermann is not invited back because he pissed off a lot of people on his way out.  That&#8217;s life.</p><p>3. If there was a &#8220;banned list&#8221; and TBL was on it, he would probably not be allowed to interview ESPN personalities.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: ThatsSoTaguchi</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459127</link> <dc:creator>ThatsSoTaguchi</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459127</guid> <description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;join the crowd with MSNBC, although O’Reilly is WAAYYY up (from Olbermann actually beating him once or twice, now OReilly regularly triples Olbermann in ALL demoshttp://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/01/msnbcs-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-adults-25-54-audience-down-over-50-since-q4-2008/21842 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/em&gt;I would assume this is how it would/should work.  Remember Fox got big under Clinton because it fed the vitriol towards him.  MSNBC did the same building off the vitriol towards Bush.  Once the liberals &quot;won&quot; there is less need for them to watch MSNBC and MORE need for conservatives to watch Fox, and when the next conservative President comes it should reverse again.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><br /><blockquote>join the crowd with MSNBC, although O’Reilly is WAAYYY up (from Olbermann actually beating him once or twice, now OReilly regularly triples Olbermann in ALL demos</p><p><a href="http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/01/msnbcs-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-adults-25-54-audience-down-over-50-since-q4-2008/21842" rel="nofollow">http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/01/msnbcs-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-adults-25-54-audience-down-over-50-since-q4-2008/21842</a></p></blockquote><p></em></p><p>I would assume this is how it would/should work.  Remember Fox got big under Clinton because it fed the vitriol towards him.  MSNBC did the same building off the vitriol towards Bush.  Once the liberals &#8220;won&#8221; there is less need for them to watch MSNBC and MORE need for conservatives to watch Fox, and when the next conservative President comes it should reverse again.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: wilhelmreems</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459125</link> <dc:creator>wilhelmreems</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:57:26 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459125</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;did you catch the guy on Countdown AND the Maddow shows last night, chasing all the Republicans down the hall and the street asking them about the Obama birth certificate question, doing the same thing they’ve eviscerated O’Reilly for doing for 3 years?&lt;/blockquote&gt;i just think it&#039;s hilarious that all these people who make veiled accusations our president was not a citizen run like hell when people present facts to them. g.gordon liddy was almost painful to watch on hardball.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>did you catch the guy on Countdown AND the Maddow shows last night, chasing all the Republicans down the hall and the street asking them about the Obama birth certificate question, doing the same thing they’ve eviscerated O’Reilly for doing for 3 years?</p></blockquote><p>i just think it&#8217;s hilarious that all these people who make veiled accusations our president was not a citizen run like hell when people present facts to them. g.gordon liddy was almost painful to watch on hardball.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: GodsoftheGridiron</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459120</link> <dc:creator>GodsoftheGridiron</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:54:47 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459120</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;join the crowd with MSNBC, although O’Reilly is WAAYYY up (from Olbermann actually beating him once or twice, now OReilly regularly triples Olbermann in ALL demos&lt;/blockquote&gt;Are you Bill&#039;s producer or something?  Who cares who watches cable news shows?  If Bill gets 10 million viewers, 94% of them would believe him if he said the sun is a light bulb and the same goes for Olbermann&#039;s viewers.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>join the crowd with MSNBC, although O’Reilly is WAAYYY up (from Olbermann actually beating him once or twice, now OReilly regularly triples Olbermann in ALL demos</p></blockquote><p>Are you Bill&#8217;s producer or something?  Who cares who watches cable news shows?  If Bill gets 10 million viewers, 94% of them would believe him if he said the sun is a light bulb and the same goes for Olbermann&#8217;s viewers.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: irishmafia</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459118</link> <dc:creator>irishmafia</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:54:29 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459118</guid> <description>no clue TBL</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>no clue TBL</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: jpq1999</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459110</link> <dc:creator>jpq1999</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459110</guid> <description>&lt;em&gt;Haven’t watched MSNBC or Fox since the election&lt;/em&gt;join the crowd with MSNBC, although O&#039;Reilly is WAAYYY up (from Olbermann actually beating him once or twice, now OReilly regularly triples Olbermann in ALL demoshttp://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/01/msnbcs-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-adults-25-54-audience-down-over-50-since-q4-2008/21842</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Haven’t watched MSNBC or Fox since the election</em></p><p>join the crowd with MSNBC, although O&#8217;Reilly is WAAYYY up (from Olbermann actually beating him once or twice, now OReilly regularly triples Olbermann in ALL demos</p><p><a href="http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/01/msnbcs-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-adults-25-54-audience-down-over-50-since-q4-2008/21842" rel="nofollow">http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/01/msnbcs-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-adults-25-54-audience-down-over-50-since-q4-2008/21842</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: irishmafia</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459109</link> <dc:creator>irishmafia</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:48:30 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459109</guid> <description>Michelle can get it</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michelle can get it</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Paolo4007</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/07/28/espn-claims-that-theres-no-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-459107</link> <dc:creator>Paolo4007</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:45:24 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=16136#comment-459107</guid> <description>Sorry TST, you were referring to Jay V&#039;s #3, blog moving too fast damnit.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry TST, you were referring to Jay V&#8217;s #3, blog moving too fast damnit.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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