"This is when I get to bring new people and new eyeballs to my streaming service. And I'm sure they'll have more signups than they've had almost any other day of the week."
ESPN is obviously testing something, and it’s worth poking around at why the network wouldn’t follow the schedule it has used for the last 16 years, scheduling kickoffs at 7 and then 10 on their primary channel.
Marks-Peltz wrote that while he was leaving the air, he would still be working with ESPN West Palm and Good Karma Brands in the same capacity he is now, just without the show.
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."