Tony Bruno was discussing this late last night on his usually lame sports radio show. He read the memo on the onerous policy by ESPN and essentially in so many words, for any employee of ESPN, employees on air can forget about the use of ANY social networking sites on SPORTS content whilst in the employment of ESPN UNLESS it it is approved first by ESPN. This includes even whilst not at work due to the public persona of its employees on air. More than likely the memo extends it to the various employees off-air as well, but they have less of an argument and ability to enforce those restrictions.

And oh the ways to get around this policy by using screen names and shills and so on …

New legal ground to be broken here regarding employee rights and the like, but this is real early in this game.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say they’re GT associated?

Nah, it’s just that everything that has to do with the Mets is pond scum.

However, although I doubt anyone will fight ESPN on this, except Simmons, it seems to me as though ESPN is estopped (waived the right by its previous passivity) from preventing Simmons from twittering what he wants.

I don’t know if this is really the way to look at it just because they are only trying to limit their employees from giving up info that could first be shown on an ESPN entity. I don’t know what their policies are on their people going on other radio/tv or non ESPN entities in general, though.

Cards. Hands down.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say they’re GT associated?

Do I want to watch the Mets broadcasters or the Cardinals broadcasters for this Cards game?

Cards. Hands down.

All of us are going to visit tWWL once a day.

Speak for yourself there cha cha.

they want people to go to them for their sports news not a social networking site that they dont make any money off of. that is just good business sense.

I tend to disagree with some of what you say. As someone on here said a few days ago, Facebook is a social networking site, but twitter is a marketing engine. How many of us follow Reali or PTI? I bet it’s a healthy number. They use that medium to connect with their viewers, and drive viewership. I also think that ESPN isn’t sa dumb as we’d all like to imagine. They’re simply limiting what their employees say in an official capacity. Happens at pretty much every company everywhere. The company I work for uses twitter, but the official PR and marketing people are certainly limited as to what they say there. ESPN will let their people use it, but they’re going to regulate how they use it.

Just figured out my picture in picture on the TV after… 2 years. Can I get opinions on broadcast teams? Do I want to watch the Mets broadcasters or the Cardinals broadcasters for this Cards game?

Not sure which team is better.