Awful Announcing
"We came quite close to securing a deal with The Athletic, close enough that the founders came to New York for an entire week of meetings to sort through every detail."
"...the basic issue is that Disney was never particularly interested in running FiveThirtyEight as a business."
"My favorite team is the Boston Irish Guys."
Silver, of "Sudbury/Thunder Bay" infamy, mixed up how "college" is used in Canada.
Nate Silver finished an impressive run in the World Series of Poker Main Event on Wednesday.
"My contract is up soon and I expect that I'll be leaving at the end of it."
This isn't the Election Day debate we expected, but here we are.
This fits in as part of ESPN's larger shifts since they launched FiveThirtyEight back in 2014.
At a time when ESPN wants to get less "political," moving on from FiveThirtyEight might make sense.
Silver was trying to make a joke about the Red Sox using Apple Watches to steal signs but had to delete it and apologize for it.
When ESPN hired Nate Silver in 2013, they surely imagined November 8, 2016, when the presidential election would be swirling...
