Whatever the underlying motivation, the message to every other host and producer on the payroll is the same: sharing confidential editorial strategy with outside political figures will get you fired. No matter how close you are to the audience or the administration.
"The Football Tax feels like an investment. Every year, football asks fans for a little more, and every year, fans grumble. Every year, we pay it anyway."
"There were moments in the negotiation that I thought it was going to happen. I honestly did," he said. "Me and my wife were just about to go to Los Angeles and start looking at homes and schools."
“The Mike and the Mad Dog brand and the idea of anything on a regular basis, there are so many people that will have their hands in it that it is just not gonna happen.”
The team announced that the 24/7 network Ducks Stream will carry play-by-play of all Ducks games and will offer exclusive podcasts and offer up-to-date news on the team and NHL.
"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.
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.”
"The Football Tax feels like an investment. Every year, football asks fans for a little more, and every year, fans grumble. Every year, we pay it anyway."
The story isn't simply a mother murdering her three children. That's not really compelling talk radio. The story has evolved into a national debate over mental health, criminal responsibility, pharmaceuticals, parenting, and the justice system.