ESPN's Sports Talk shows, Mike & Mike

[Redboard]

Any former Mike&Mike fans out there(like me)? This was the most successful radio show in ESPN history, but was broken up at the end of 2017 and split up into two new shows: Golic & Wingo, which continued to air on both radio and TV; and, “GetUp” (AKA “WokeCenter AM”). GetUp didn’t start until April due to delays in studio construction, and stars Michelle Beadle and Jalen Rose , as well as Mike Greenberg. All three are making a ridiculous $5 million per year. Well, looks like it has been a ratings disaster. The brainchild of the move was ESPN president, John Skipper, who has since resigned due to a cocaine scandal.

These two articles describe the disaster.

April 5, 2018
https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espns-wokecenter-collapsing-ratings-set-off-panic-bristol/

June 16, 2018
https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/wokecenter-2-0-aka-get-wokecenter-3-0-aka-low-noon-hit-ratings-lows/

[cj]

From what I understand Golic and Green just got sick of each other.

I tried watching both the new ones. Golic and Wingo is boring, and Get Up is just plain terrible.

[thaskalos]

From what I understand Golic and Green just got sick of each other.


That's understandable...because I got sick of them both.

[Inner Dirt]

The more failures by liberal spewing crap ESPN the better, if they went bankrupt and disappeared it would be a great day.

[PaceAdvantage]

Politics is for off-topic, not off-topic sports...

[PhantomOnTour]

The more failures by liberal spewing crap ESPN the better, if they went bankrupt and disappeared it would be a great day.

Haaaaaaahaaaaaa!
Dude, you've got it BAD, really BAD.
Good luck with that

[Inner Dirt]

Politics is for off-topic, not off-topic sports...


Hard not to mention when ESPN is brought up, that article linked by the OP brought up politics. If you watched the ESPY's last night I think Danica's opening monologue got political in the first minute. I don't want politics with my sports even if I agree with it.

[PhantomOnTour]

Hard not to mention when ESPN is brought up, that article linked by the OP brought up politics. If you watched the ESPY's last night I think Danica's opening monologue got political in the first minute. I don't want politics with my sports even if I agree with it.

Your previous post stated that if ESPN went bankrupt and disappeared it would be a great thing...yet you watched the ESPY's ???
Lol you are a daily dose of delight
😂

[Inner Dirt]

Your previous post stated that if ESPN went bankrupt and disappeared it would be a great thing...yet you watched the ESPY's ???
Lol you are a daily dose of delight
��


I did not watch for long, believe it or not I will watch things out of curiosity to see how long certain things happen. I was curious to see how quick they got political. I switched the channel after the opening monologue. I had heard that ESPN was going to stop being so political from listening to their local AM radio shows when driving around. Obviously that was a big fat lie. Unfortunately ESPN radio is the best place for local Redskin news. If they stopped with the politics I would be fine with them. Like I said I do not want politics mixed with my sports even if I agree with it.

[PhantomOnTour]

Yeah, sure you did.
No one believes this

[Redboard]

I agree with you inner, once sports talk gets political, I turn it off. Their poor ratings are due partly to the political spin they did the first several weeks, without a doubt. Another article talks about Beadle making a stupid statement about a woman's issue and pounding her fist insisting that the show will have these kinds of issues. Rose made a anti-Trump statement ("I wish I had a president that represented me.") Then some mandate must have come down from the top. A few weeks ago, Greeny made an innocuous statement about helping kids achieve their dreams and Rose said "This show does not deal with social issues." Greeny looked stunned and tried to cover up for him with " this show will always try to bring light to brave stories." Or something like that.

So they've been pretty squeaky clean ever since. I stopped watching Skip & Shannon on FS1 for their stupid political bull, especially with the Colin Kapernick nonsense.

[rastajenk]

My only contribution to this is to add that I, too, am one who used to watch not just Mike and Mike, but most of the other time-fillers as well; and if I didn't watch, I had it on as background noise. Now I don't. It wasn't a conscious, hard-stop; it was gradual. But these days I prefer the Weather Channel. :coffee:

[BELMONT 6-6-09]

The more failures by liberal spewing crap ESPN the better, if they went bankrupt and disappeared it would be a great day.

Couldn't have said it better!!!!

[metro]

ESPYS lost me when they gave the "courage" award to Kaitlyn Jenner a few years back over Lauren Hill, the Cincinnati area college basketball player who died from an inoperable brain tumor but dedicated her remaining time to raising money towards the disease. I wanted to vomit.

[thaskalos]

I have lost interest is ESPN altogether. Even SportsCenter has become unwatchable...IMO. Whatever happened to the shows that featured only the highlights of the games...without all the added nonsense? It's a sad testament to the way we have allowed the sports world to infiltrate our day...and mind. A total waste of time...as far as I am concerned.

[Valuist]

ESPN is just hot garbage. It was not always that way. It wasn't until they became political.

Unfortunately, if one is a sports fan, they will have to put up with a certain amount of ESPN.

[thaskalos]

Speaking for myself...I've learned to tune out the politics. But their shows run like endless comedy routines by humourless guys. Give me the highlights...and spare me the nonsense.

[metro]

ESPN is just hot garbage. It was not always that way. It wasn't until they became political.

Unfortunately, if one is a sports fan, they will have to put up with a certain amount of ESPN.

Yes it is unfortunate, especially when college football rolls around in a month or so. That and for college basketball is the only use I have for their channels.

[Redboard]

I think we can all agree that the Mike & Mike show, on for 18 years, had run its course. I haven't watched a second of Golic & Wingo, because of junior.
Sports Center is obsolete because you can get scores and sports news whenever you want(just type in google, "Phillies scores").

I like Greenberg though and I wish they would have figured out a better situation for him.

[burnsy]

It only took a few posts until the liberal/conservative mouth breathers mucked up the thread...….:D. Mike and Mike was a pretty good show, they had the chemistry and the comedy, along with the leading sports stories.

Get up, is awful. Golic and Wingo is a little better but not much.

What's the old adage? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. They should of tried that. Both current shows put together, don't equal Mike and Mike.

Yeah, that's what's wrong with the country....those damned liberals...…...or is it the conservatives? Of course, its both, but that's something people cant figure out.....

[elysiantraveller]

I liked Mike and Mike and was bummed it ended but it had run its course.

Get Up is just unwatchable. Golic and Wingo not much better and Gus is right in that junior is insufferable.

I liked Russillos show a lot and Dan and Stu Gotz are entertaining.

[Inner Dirt]

I liked Mike and Mike and was bummed it ended but it had run its course.

Get Up is just unwatchable. Golic and Wingo not much better and Gus is right in that junior is insufferable.

I liked Russillos show a lot and Dan and Stu Gotz are entertaining.


Supposedly LeBatard's political spewing was over the top even for ESPN

and he was told to tone it down. I won't listen to him at all anymore.

[barahona44]

Apparently,it's cheaper to talk about sports than to pay the rights fees to actually, y'know, SHOW the sports.ESPN is just a non-stop yak fest now.

[PhantomOnTour]

Today on ESPN2:
Kabbadi...looks like professional tag
Saber fighting
Sumo wrestling
Roller Derby
Chess Boxing...???....wtf!?!?
The Moxie Games...whatever that is
and finally....Dodgeball!!

What a network

[Inner Dirt]

Today on ESPN2:
Kabbadi...looks like professional tag
Saber fighting
Sumo wrestling
Roller Derby
Chess Boxing...???....wtf!?!?
The Moxie Games...whatever that is
and finally....Dodgeball!!

What a network




I guess it is the cycle of life, you are born needing help feeding yourself, bathing and using the bathroom and if you live a very long life you could need that help toward the end of it. I remember when I was first married and I was having trouble sleeping, I got up at 2am, 3 hours early and turned on ESPN circa 1987. They were slowing grown men sitting in the dirt playing marbles. So hopefully this means ESPN is nearing the end of it's life.

[tucker6]

Today on ESPN2:
Kabbadi...looks like professional tag
Saber fighting
Sumo wrestling
Roller Derby
Chess Boxing...???....wtf!?!?
The Moxie Games...whatever that is
and finally....Dodgeball!!

What a network
Reminds me of the early days of ESPN. Alternating between kick boxing and Australian Rules Football and lots of billiards.

[tucker6]

I guess it is the cycle of life, you are born needing help feeding yourself, bathing and using the bathroom and if you live a very long life you could need that help toward the end of it. I remember when I was first married and I was having trouble sleeping, I got up at 2am, 3 hours early and turned on ESPN circa 1987. They were slowing grown men sitting in the dirt playing marbles. So hopefully this means ESPN is nearing the end of it's life.
:ThmbUp: I couldn't say it any better myself.

[PhantomOnTour]

Oh what could have been if horse racing and ESPN had made a deal way back in the day...weekday afternoons are hard to fill. Racing could have been it

[Inner Dirt]

Reminds me of the early days of ESPN. Alternating between kick boxing and Australian Rules Football and lots of billiards.


I used to watch just to see the referees in the white hats and coats signal scores. I would laugh my ass off every time.

[tucker6]

Oh what could have been if horse racing and ESPN had made a deal way back in the day...weekday afternoons are hard to fill. Racing could have been it
Why would racing try to gain more fans when casinos were the answer? :lol:

[tucker6]

I used to watch just to see the referees in the white hats and coats signal scores. I would laugh my ass off every time.

I loved how they ran like they had sticks up their butts and then came to a sudden stop to announce a score.

[PhantomOnTour]

Aussie Football is awesome.
FoxSports2 shows a game late night on Fri or Sat.
That's a real sport

[tucker6]

Aussie Football is awesome.
FoxSports2 shows a game late night on Fri or Sat.
That's a real sport

... but do they kneel when the USA anthem is played? :pound: