Not New News: Reynolds Out at ESPN

What?!? Deadspin has some theories and The Boston Globe was on it two days ago. The New York Post announced he was simply fired, with no specific reason why, while the Seattle Post Intelligencer asserted it was for sexual harassment, citing aforementioned NY Post article, and leaving me completely confused. Some people believe it was (insert CLUE voice here) HR, at the Outback, with the Bloomin' Onion. If you have no idea who the force out we are talking about, you can read a bio at HaroldReynolds.com.

The Baseball Tonight crew was already rendered useless when Peter Gammons fell ill earlier in the year, so this really doesn't change the already futile nature of their baseball coverage. That being said, I don't know what kind of human being HR is, but I could at least handle his commentary. I said handle, not enjoy. The rest of those lackeys in the ESPN booths (Gary Thorne, Joe Morgan, John Kruk, etc.) really stink.

Last night's Yankees-Rangers game was brutal to watch because the morons in the booth were beyond annoying (and the Spankees won). I think Thorne was calling it, but I could be wrong. They were talking all night current pitchers in the majors that throw over 100 mph. Enter Ron Villone from the Yankees bullpen. The guy in the booth with Thorne said Villone did, in fact, throw in excess of 100 mph earlier in his career. Thorne then asks: "are you just throwing that out there arbitrarily?" This, of course, is a great question for one ESPN announcer to ask another ESPN announcer, because more often then not they are all full of shit and talking out of their ass. Leave it to Thorne to finally question the status quo. ESPN is just a huge joke to me these days.