Apparently, Olbermann wasn’t out of place in this particular corporate culture.If someone’s got a history of all the kinds of remarks chid by ESPN broadcasters, I’d love to see it. I’m not for executing her for shit she said when she was drunk, but I do want to see her publicly humiliated and I’d love to hear her explain herself. And I’d like to hear a little bit of consideration of what forms of insult are unforgivable, and why.
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I think you will find in the sports world, completely unscientific, that the players and coaches tend to be more conservative, while the remoras in the media that only exist due to the spectacular actions of others, tend to be quite opposite.
There are a few exceptions, with exceptions being the operative word.
If you stay listening to the end, you will that ESPN management is “punishing” her by forbidding her to host anymore charity functions.
I am off to work on my home. Thanks to global warming, and Kyoto, we have had about a week straight of single digit temperatures, and I had 2 interior water lines burst, causing destruction the likes of which you could only imagine. We have 4 contractors at the house right now, and the place is in varying stages of demolition. Today, I believe they are tearing out the exterior flagstone walls.
With a 3rd trimester prego better half, who was only marginally rational to begin with, this has been a bit more than she would want to deal with. I think tomorrow we have to move from our home into either a hotel, or a small apartment, which has her just about at wits end.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, I understand the process. Looks like we will be living out of a suitcase for a couple months though. Ugh.
I got home from work last night, and my better half was chewing out this huge enormous worker for breaking some of the tile she had put in recently. She had it made, and it was hand cut, specialty stuff that cannot be replaced. She made datadave and phoebe look positively sane.
Geez, JD. I’m sorry to hear that. Let us know if we can do anything.
Maybe if you’ve got a little cash around, you could buy a used RV and sell it again when the weather starts to turn?
Thanks, Dan. We, I mean me, are fine ;-) Moving into a hotel room is going to be quite an adjustment, at least for the girls. Just bad timing.
JD – Winter camping at Jellystone Park. An adventure for the entire family!
Naw, I mean they could park the thing in the driveway, run the powercord, use the house for storage space.
Funny you mention that, as I was thinking about that. Turns out that it is against our covenant to park an RV on the front or side of the house, or to inhabit an RV.
Going from 7000+ sf to 400sf is going to suck. I was hoping the insurance company would provide comparable accommodations, or at least a nice hote., but it looks like Extended Stay America, here we come.
There’s a pool, right?
2 pools, but this time of the year, they are referred to as ice skating rinks. I would have preferred a hotel with a good restaurant under the same roof, but I guess we will just have to eat at restaurants 3x a day.
This is certainly not how my considerably better and shorter half wanted to spend the last couple months of her pregnancy.
Geez.
Sorry for bitchin’. The reality is that this is really small shit. Granted our dream home is wrecked. But we are healthy and happy. This too shall pass.
Your home will heal, and about 15 years from now your lady will…maybe…laugh about it. Maybe.
Your covenant says not in front or on the side. How big is your backyard?
You’ve got Extended Stay with a pool? That’s living, bro.
I’ve done ESA for months at a time on business. Bring a toaster oven, and I can hook you up with a sloo of mini kitchen recipes.
Think about it — sports “journalists” are j-school grads who couldn’t hack it in straight news.
Thanks, guys. No more whining from me.
My guess is if a certain religious-sports figure was mentioned ESPN would turn her over to the mob already trussed up like a Thanksgiving Turkey – ready to be roasted.
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Overheard: “There is no such thing as America’s liquor supply–only individual bottles of booze that Dana Jacobson allows to remain full.”
I cannot wait until the full video from that night shows up. The comedian the did the into was pretty funny. Now, I don’t really mind some salty language, and could not believe he said a couple of the things he did. I was surprised that she would do something like that.
Can you imagine if she had said fuck the Muslims? Fuck Iran? Fuck the Dems? Fuck Hillary? She would have been fired in an instant. This will blow over for her, because in the end, her targets were white Catholic guys.
The other thing is, this was a roast ferchrissakes. Outrageously ridiculous is the order of the day.
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