Posted on 09/15/2017 11:55:38 AM PDT by DFG
Retired baseball player Johnny Damon helped the Yankees and Red Sox win world championships, and he was always a positive and quotable athlete. Today on Fox & Friends he advised ESPN to stick to sports -- a phrase the network loves to hate.
Fox & Friends hosts asked Damon about ESPN co-anchor Jemele Hill's Monday attack on President Trump and his supporters. She angrily called them "racists" and "white supremacists" on her Twitter account. Damon responded:
I want to watch sports for sports. ... If ESPN turns into a political arena, I know a lot of people just won't watch.
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Too late.
Me gone!
Exactly!
They’ve done themselves a lot of damage already, and still seem clueless to how it all happened.
Of course, that’s their pubic stance. Behind closed doors they’re probably saying to each other, “Oh ____, what have we done, and how do we undo it now?”
As we have seen with Hollywood and places like CNN and newspapers, it doesn’t matter. To ESPN and others, liberalism is a deeply held religion. They will financially go down with the ship rather than make any course corrections.
Sure, you can say that newspapers were dying in the age of the Internet, but the hard-core leftist slant clearly hastened their demise.
Similarly, people who are cutting the cord are, in part, running away from funding things like ESPN, MTV, and other obnoxious anti-American offerings that have heretofore been purchased via a package mandate. How many YEARS have customers been demanding and being denied ala cart programing? Not the means to cut the cord exist and people are running away.
The NFL once had the golden goose. Now they too have never heard before half-empty stadiums, and informal boycott, and declining viewership.
Good luck ESPN. The trend is definitely not your friend.
Hated you when you left for the Yankees and shaved because Steinbrenner said to. Johnny, all is forgiven. I’m a fan again now.
ps. Still won’t watch ESPN.
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Nice work NFL and ESPN. What a great tag team you turned out to be.
You did serious damage to two sports entities in one move. Just brilliant. /s
“Sure, you can say that newspapers were dying in the age of the Internet, but the hard-core leftist slant clearly hastened their demise.”
Absolutely. Newspapers were a part of life for a long time, and if they weren’t so vile, I’d much enjoy reading the paper while I have morning coffee. Sunday funnies. Classified ads. Letters to the editor. Yeah, I’d still buy it, if...
Some folks like the textile, newspaper and how it feels in their hands.
I’m kind of like that.
When I go somewhere and pick up a paper someone has discarded on a table, I like the feel.
For a moment I think about when I used to subscribe. I actually wish there were a way to do it again, without having to risk a heart attack each morning.
Nope, they killed it for me. Them too when you think about it...
Sad dittos.
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Nah. Behind closed doors they are throwing ash trays,cursing idiot white uneducated xenophobic homophobic transphobic sexist racist males and saying,"Why aren't our ratings up by 50 points."
Heh heh heh...
You may be on to something there.
That’s how stupid the Lefties are now.
ESPN is a Disney property.
The following 4 piss in our shoes daily: Disney, Comcast, Viacom, and now AT&T.
and there's only a few legit sports stars I care to listen to either....
We watch sports to get away from this political crap! I mute all the sports I watch, basketball, baseball, football. And turn on a nice Pandora station for soft music while I keep my Kindle handy for the commercial breaks. A nice way to enjoy an afternoon. For me, these “commentators” don’t exist, they have no voice.
I’ve started watching the MLB network. They keep politics out and respect their game. They do a good job showing highlights though I’d like to see more Rangers.
To late for ESPN and the NFL....they may not die but there on a long downhill slide...
Johnny the damage is already done. Disney CEO and Bebos are in love.
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