Awful Announcing
"He put on such a great debate saying everything we were thinking. 'Wait a minute, how are we telling people the score before they see the highlights? That doesn’t make any sense.'"
"LeBron doesn’t have personal relationships like that with reporters, he hasn’t for a long time."
"I had convinced myself we were getting Peyton Manning."
"You, me, everyone consuming this, we all love Inside the NBA. So I get when that show ends, that it’s a bummer for everybody."
"The only thing a broadcaster can do is chase people away."
"I guess what’s perplexing to me is that I had no conversation with my boss."
"I was like, you are a beauty. I can't believe you just said that on television and I laughed."
"It was the right move for everybody. They saved some money, I replaced it with Caesars and the other things I'm doing. Everybody did okay."
When Dan Patrick left ESPN in 2007, it was a bold move, and one that spurred a lot of discussion. This week, Patrick revealed some new and interesting details to Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated on how he felt approaching that move.
A producer told Berman "No nicknames" in 1985, and Brett got upset, revealing that to the world and leading to a deluge of angry mail for ESPN.
