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"I don't know. Maybe because the teams feel like they just want to control the message themselves and they don't need the media to do all that?", The Bulldog pondered.

"I mean, I bought him mackerel when he was in prison. I tried to continue to do that but they wouldn't take my credit card anymore," Esiason revealed.

He continued by saying Le Batard "forgets free speech exists" when someone criticizes him and defends himself "like a 13-year-old who just learned about curse words".

“There’s no real great magic to anything that we’ve built here,” Portnoy said. “....We look for talented people and we give them absolutely no direction…. We literally tell them – ‘Do whatever you want’ – and you can see how passionate they are about it.”

"Of course we want the biggest audience possible, but this is a big change for fans and we know it'll take some time."

With the WNBA Finals upon us, Stephen Strom talks to the man calling the action for ESPN. Ryan Ruocco is the guest on this...

They picked up right where they left off. It almost seemed like the two were more relaxed under the scrutiny of their big money deals.

The network-wide average of 18.5 million viewers was up 7% from the same Thursday-Monday period last season, according to the NFL.

“We’ve been clear to anyone who is interested that we are very willing to be flexible here and be creative in terms of this expansion,” ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in an interview.

“My goal is to be the best booth in television and I feel like I’m working with Al and Freddy, I don’t know why we can’t be.”