He should be fired, the damn cubs hater. I hate when he announces Cubs games on ESPN, his bias is blatantly obvious.
Because it would be so hard to believe that Irvin upsized his coke habit? Seriously though, I would like to know why Reynolds was fired too. He was the only one on a show full of clowns with personality and relevant things to say.
That's probably why they fired him. No room for that on ESPN, they're too busy clowning around and selling their phones and shit. I have no tolerance for them anymore. Last week I was on the road and stuck with ESPN for my sports coverage, it was awful. Trip was good, sports coverage sucked.
I have to agree with you there. The sports coverage on ESPN has eroded to early Fox NFL coverage levels. I think it probably has a lot to do with expansion. Just as expansion dillutes the talent in sports, it seems to be doing the same thing with ESPN. They should consolidate all of their people to one channel, and go with. I have gotten to the point where I only watch ESPN News now. I can turn it on for a half hour, get all of the news for the day, then channel surf elsewhere. And if I am that desperate for news, I just go directly to the ESPN web site.
It can't be substance abuse, because one-strike-and-you're-out isn't how places like ESPN operate. I wonder why Reynolds isn't giving his side of the story. It must be something bad for him to leave it like this.
I agree - For me it's as if the hosts egos are getting bigger than the sports they cover. Look at Phillips - now he is in a battle with Scott Boras over his opinion that A-rod should be traded. The real problem is that instead of giving unique insight into the issue Phillips is only giving his opinion. I think that AL leiter should get the spot - I loved his insight in the playoffs about what pitchers are thinking and what pitch they should throw. He was right and called 8 of 10 pitches while I was watching
He kind of works for the YES network now, so he'd need to leave YES first. Who knows, he might or someone else might at the end of the year.
We can't say for sure why Harold Reynolds was fired from ESPN yesterday, because ESPN hasn't put out a statement or anything (and they don't have to), but we can tell you what the chatter in Bristol is: Everyone is hearing sexual harassment. Every single email we've received from the inside about this today has used those very two words. Again, nothing concrete on this. But that is definitely what they're whispering in Bristol. Some highlights: • Thirdhand info, but I'm told it's sexual harassment. There were allegations of inappropriate actions between him and female PAs on a couple different occasions, so I'm not entirely shocked. • It's apparently sexual harassment, but no one knows who the victim was. It went down over the course of the weekend. • I have on good authority that HR was fired for all things, hitting on girls. Allegedly, this has been going on for a while. The last straw was when a new PA was having none of what Harold had to offer and turned him in. • Harold Reynolds was fired more or less for copious amounts of sexual harassment. Apparently, he brazenly hits on female employees constantly, despite the fact that his wife just had a kid six months ago. He was warned by the big-wigs on numerous occasions to cool it with the ladies, but someone finally lodged a complaint, and he was canned immediately. • It's very difficult to get fired from ESPN. It takes multiple offenses ... they're usually so worried about getting sued for unlawful termination that people are suspended multiple times for the same repeated behavior before it finally comes to getting fired. Within the walls of the campus, there are only a few on-air talent guys that had an honest reputation as being overly friendly with the ladies, and HR was one of them. So anyway, that's what they're saying on the Bristol campus. But since ESPN doesn't have to say anything -- in-house or otherwise -- and neither does Reynolds, we might never know for sure. (No announcement, we're told, has been made to the staff.) That's what they're saying, though; we didn't receive a single email suggesting anything but that. But that's not what we're saying, because we don't know. To be clear. http://www.deadspin.com/sports/top/was-this-why-harold-got-the-axe-189733.php Who knows what to believe with this site though.
