John Price
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Adrian Wojnarowski retires
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Troy McClure
Should’ve drafted Makar
I get why he's quitting.
I make fun of these insiders for getting paid a lot to cut and paste text messages, but it is a miserable life. They are on the clock every moment of every day because them keeping their status requires looking at your phone every time it dings. Delay in copying and pasting isn't an option.
There are no vacations. There is no family time. Even when you sleep you have to wake up and look at your phone's every alert. You are always on the job.
I make fun of these insiders for getting paid a lot to cut and paste text messages, but it is a miserable life. They are on the clock every moment of every day because them keeping their status requires looking at your phone every time it dings. Delay in copying and pasting isn't an option.
There are no vacations. There is no family time. Even when you sleep you have to wake up and look at your phone's every alert. You are always on the job.
BobColesNasalCavity
Registered User
Thought it was fake when I saw it. Woj was the goat NBA insider. Now everyone is left with..? Shams? Lol
Breakers
Make Mirrored Visors Legal Again
KevFu
Registered User
The craziest thing to me (a fellow St. Bonaventure Bonnie) is that HOW does this happen?
There's zero chance St. Bona has the audacity to offer him the position. Dude was making $7 million a year on a 5-year contract with $21 million left.
St. Bona's entire athletics budget is $16.5 million. So they're not like "making a competitive offer" to Woj.
The only way this happens is if the AD/Coach at Bona called Woj and said "We're creating this position. You know anyone who'd be good?" and he said "yeah, me."
Which means they must have said "You want to take a 97% pay-cut to be our GM?" and he said "Yes. I do." And honestly, the proper response to that for the Bonnies really should be "if you're willing to part with $21 million over the next three years, why don't you stay at ESPN and just donate your salary to us?"
There's zero chance St. Bona has the audacity to offer him the position. Dude was making $7 million a year on a 5-year contract with $21 million left.
St. Bona's entire athletics budget is $16.5 million. So they're not like "making a competitive offer" to Woj.
The only way this happens is if the AD/Coach at Bona called Woj and said "We're creating this position. You know anyone who'd be good?" and he said "yeah, me."
Which means they must have said "You want to take a 97% pay-cut to be our GM?" and he said "Yes. I do." And honestly, the proper response to that for the Bonnies really should be "if you're willing to part with $21 million over the next three years, why don't you stay at ESPN and just donate your salary to us?"
Stylizer1
Teflon Don
Embiid's contract finally drove him over the ledge.
Or maybe ESPN has become a shell of itself and actually reporting news is not their priority anymore.
Voight
#winning
Maybe hes one of the few people who just doesn't wanna do everything for money. Hes made a fortunate in his career so maybe he just wanted to help out his alma mater.
He Can always go back to being an insider if he really needs money.
BKIslandersFan
F*** off
John Price
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Voight
#winning
ESPN is cutting costs so makes sense, pay one guy to do two jobs.
Tho you usually need to be involved in a sport for a long time to become an insider, or at least a reputable one. Schefter does not have the long time connections Woj had and likely never will.
BostonBob
4 Ever The Greatest
For the love of God - can ESPN start looking for somebody that can do Stephen A. Smith's job along with their own.
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Big Poppa Puck
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Stylizer1
Teflon Don
Big Poppa Puck
HF's Villain
It's funny when the insiders tweet almost word for word the same thing. Like clearly copy and pasted what the agent or league or whoever told them to say.
