After 11 years, ESPN has fired Harold Reynolds. Nobody knows why and our ESPN moles don’t have any dirt for us. What could Reynolds possibly have done to merit getting fired from ESPN? The network that continues to employ Stephen A Smith, hell, even giving him his own show fires Reynolds? It seems to us that Reynolds knows more about baseball than, say, Merrill Hoge knows about football, yet he’s still gainfully employed. Our theory here is that Reynolds didn’t make enough outlandish and retarded predictions for the ESPN brass.
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3 replies on “Odds and Ends: ESPN fires Harold Reynolds”
Reynolds — In my opinion there has to be something deeper to this story because Harold Reynolds was one of the best announcers they had. I considered him baseball’s version of Jay Bilas. Just a well-spoken guy who knew exactly what he was talking about.
In the footsteps of Rick — HR’s firing comes as a suprise to all who have enjoyed his sanitary, vanilla approach over the years. Everyone knows the realities of sports media and their affinity for ex-jocks on the mic…Eric Dickerson….collective shudder. Reynolds played the game and did a adequate job for the four letter network. We can only wait and see why they made this move. If you have forgotten, it was a mere two months ago when another of their baseball jocks turned analyst slurred his way through a Padre broadcast after drinking on the links with Bill Murry and he continues to pull a paycheck from the sports leader.
there was a movie — where one of the characters said that there are only two things you couldn’t do in washington dc: live boy or dead girl.
Wonder what HR did…
It makes absolutely no sense that ESPN would fire him. They aren’t exactly flush with baseball analyst talent. he must have done something really bad… either that or they are very thin skinned about their shitty A-Rod coverage.