Tag: Dan Le Batard

"“Does it matter to you in any way that Brian Windhorst is doing that meme thing of pointing for 2.5 minutes because it would appear that there is a culture of fear at ESPN where it’s got to be the reporting is Woj's. Woj is our lead guy. Everyone fears Woj."

“You do want this for a decade. You don’t want this for a year, but I will take a minute of poisonous, unhinged, unreasonable anger.”

"Ken Carman mentioned that at multiple points in his career, he was told to rip callers occasionally."

"On Friday morning, Brian Windhorst delivered his "what's going on in Utah" analysis of the Jazz trading Royce O'Neale to the Brooklyn Nets on ESPN's First Take."

"When you’re tuning into a sports network, it is not beyond the pale for the consumer to say ‘I expect to hear about sports,’ okay?”

"Schefter has 9-10 million followers. That’s valuable."

"The tongue-in-cheek back-and-forth continued with Wright roping in other members of Le Batard's crew."

“I never saw a scintilla of evidence that the people in the booth change the ratings even by a smidgen. The race to hire people is mostly about internal pride."

"A total of 72 podcasts were presented for voting consideration in the Original Sports Podcasts category. Executives also had the opportunity (if they wished) to add other titles to the list. By the end of the process, 87 shows appeared on at least one ballot."

"These categories were different from the BSM Top 20 and represent twenty one (21) total votes by our current staff and a few select former members."