All I can add to your great post is:
If I were an employee, I would look elsewhere to escape the madness.
They have Fox Sports1 to apply to, but are we really now going to have a ‘conservative’ sports channel and a ‘liberal’ sports channel? That just sounds stupid.
The beauty of Sports is that it brings people of all backgrounds, economic statuses, color, and cultures together in a common cause. Game time is when we’ve always been able to put our differences aside and just be happy. ESPN has decided they would rather lecture half the country than embrace something that actually worked to everyone’s benefit in our society. The entire situation is sad.