(12-16-2020 09:35 PM)RUScarlets Wrote: Resignation cites “discriminated for being a white male.” ESPN would have laid him off soon enough.
Another well-established ESPN figure is heading to Fox. There have been plenty of moves in that direction over the years, from Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd through Marcellus Wiley through Adam Amin, Emmanuel Acho and Jonathan Vilma (with those latter three coming this year).
I didn't see the bold in the article.
Don't worry though.
Kalergi & Friends have been planning this for a long time.
Tom Rinaldi seems like a quality talent, more in line with what ESPN used to have.
In all honesty, they could probably fire at least half of their on-screen people and gain viewership simply because people wouldn't be as annoyed.
There are entirely too many bombastic, condescending, and shallow people on that network. I don't need someone to lecture me or tell me what's important. I don't need people commenting on a sport that really have no idea how the game is played. I don't need people who think riling up the viewers is the way to get people engaged, even if that works sometimes...it's a losing game in the end.
I don't ask for much really. I just want someone I can take seriously. If they have no interest in doing that then I'll just watch the games and someone else can worry about the studio shows.
(12-17-2020 12:50 AM)AllTideUp Wrote: Tom Rinaldi seems like a quality talent, more in line with what ESPN used to have.
In all honesty, they could probably fire at least half of their on-screen people and gain viewership simply because people wouldn't be as annoyed.
There are entirely too many bombastic, condescending, and shallow people on that network. I don't need someone to lecture me or tell me what's important. I don't need people commenting on a sport that really have no idea how the game is played. I don't need people who think riling up the viewers is the way to get people engaged, even if that works sometimes...it's a losing game in the end.
I don't ask for much really. I just want someone I can take seriously. If they have no interest in doing that then I'll just watch the games and someone else can worry about the studio shows.
Tom Rinaldi is excellent at his job, but I am not going to change the channel to watch a piece he does on an NCAA player/coach, an NFL player/coach or NASCAR driver/owner now. That's all which FOX/FS1 has now unless he will have a bowling story or something on the people who created Gravedigger or him doing WWE pieces. Plus, while it was his interview and voice, there were dozens of talented others who shot, edited, and created the video behind it.
Tom did a lot of golf, which FOX got rid of. So that time goes into the USMNT and USWNT for World Cup stories, if the Men's team gets into 2022. Heck, Tom worked Wimbledon and FOX doesn't have tennis weather.
FOX likely overpaid for them, as they overpaid for folks seven years ago when they started FS1. He took the offer he could not refuse.
