1. Fresh York Submit sports activities columnist (and up to date SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast visitor) Andrew Marchand reported Thursday that Pat McAfee can pay Aaron Rodgers, “more than seven figures per year to come on the show each week.”
I used to be surely surprised by means of one of the most reactions I noticed upcoming the tale unpriviledged. I had assumed McAfee was once paying Rodgers. Each and every athlete or educator who does weekly spots on radio or TV will get paid.
I grew up being attentive to WFAN, the place managers and coaches and gamers did weekly spots and all the time were given paid. I bring it to mind being a obese do business in when it was once unmistakable that WFAN was once paying Giants quarterback Eli Manning greater than six figures to get interviewed by means of Mike Francesa each and every while.
I will word you Invoice Belichick will get paid by means of WEEI for his weekly interview.
So I’d’ve been extra surprised to determine McAfee wasn’t paying Rodgers. Alternatively, the revelation that Rodgers was once making obese greenbacks for doing McAfee’s display additionally led to a few society clutching their pearls over “journalism.”
That is in truth embarrassing. Paid interviews are absurd. They occur. They’re absurd. https://t.co/D3MTxBY53M
— Gregg Doyel (@GreggDoyelStar) October 12, 2023
The proliferation of paying for interviews throughout media firms is truly wicked for journalism. You’d be stunned to be told how regularly even quite nameless gamers ask or be expecting to be paid https://t.co/pPwvVGvwLF
— David Gardner (@byDavidGardner) October 12, 2023
There are like one thousand issues flawed with this.
Aaron Rodgers and Nick Saban, each energetic sports activities figures which can be often lined by means of ESPN, are lately getting paid thousands and thousands to seem on an ESPN program.https://t.co/V7DnZpmYHl
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 12, 2023
Who on Earth considers Pat McAfee a journalist? Pat McAfee is an entertainer. Pat McAfee isn’t Jeremy Schaap. The Pat McAfee Display isn’t 60 Mins. Who cares whether or not Pat McAfee can pay Aaron Rodgers to inform tales about doing ayahuasca or that he needs to get traded to the Jets?
This ties into the alternative narrative available in the market that some society pluck factor with McAfee for no longer pushing again on Rodgers all through his interviews. Why would somebody be expecting McAfee do this? That’s no longer what his display is set. By no means has been. He’s doing leisure, no longer journalism. It blows me away that society need to observe the stern laws of journalism to The Pat McAfee Display.
And don’t say that Rodgers is being given a immense platform to magnify his statements. Rodgers already has his personal immense platform. He has 4.5 million Twitter fans and a couple of.3 million Instagram fans. He can get out any message he needs with out McAfee’s assistance.
I’d love to listen to one explicit explanation why Pat McAfee paying Aaron Rodgers to seem on his display each and every while is wicked. “That’s not journalism” or “That’s not what a journalist does” don’t seem to be explicit causes. I need to know precisely what the disadvantage is of McAfee paying Rodgers.
And don’t inform me ESPN, as a community, may proceed comfortable on Rodgers or Nick Saban, since McAfee is paying them. why ESPN would proceed comfortable on them? As a result of ESPN is in mattress with the NFL and school soccer. Being rights companions does far more harm to the ethics of “journalism” than a former NFL punter paying a wave NFL quarterback to have a laugh, lighthearted conversations as soon as a while.
My takeaway from this whole saga is that Rodgers merits credit score. He’s given McAfee reasonably a bang for his dollar as a result of each and every commitment he says at the display will get picked up and written about. The exposure Rodgers has given McAfee is usefulness neatly greater than one million greenbacks.
2. This while’s SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast includes a dialog with Monday Evening Soccer’s Joe Dollar and Troy Aikman.
A few of the subjects lined: Passing John Madden and Pat Summerall because the longest-tenured community broadcast staff ever of their twenty second time in combination, Aikman’s courting with Madden, why Dollar won’t ever name baseball for ESPN, Aikman’s opinion on whether or not the Tush Push must be prohibited, Tom Brady’s moving to Aikman for recommendation on turning into a tv analyst, Aikman’s philosophy for being crucial of gamers, how Aikman would importance Twitter to bust Dollar’s chops and a lot more.
Following Dollar and Aikman, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in Fresh York joins me for our weekly “Traina Thoughts” section. This while, we talk about Jerry Seinfeld teasing some kind of Seinfeld reunion in regards to the line finale. Jimmy additionally solutions reader-submitted questions in a fresh mailbag section.
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3. Al Michaels wasn’t mendacity when he informed me Thursday that Amazon’s plan was once to turn Taylor Speedy carefully all through the Broncos-Chiefs recreation. Amazon was once downright tame in comparison to what NBC did a few weeks in the past.
However what Michaels merits credit score for greater than anything else was once a really exceptional to-the-point unfold because the Chiefs, as 10.5-point favorites, escaped with a 19–8 win upcoming a past due farmland purpose.
"An 11-point difference which is a very significant number to a few of our friends since games don't end with a 10-and-a-half point difference."
Al Michaels all the time is aware of 😂pic.twitter.com/5LVvR2IzUR
— Motion Community (@ActionNetworkHQ) October 13, 2023
4. When doing postgame interviews, it’s all the time useful to in truth ask a query. TBS’s Matt Winer discovered this lesson Thursday pace interviewing the Phillies’ Nick Castellanos.
"Nick, nobody in Major League history has hit 2 home runs on back-to-back postseason games, but you just did. And you guys are headed to the NLCS."- Matt Winer
"Where's the question in that?"- Nick Castellanos
"There's no question." MW
"Thank you for telling me."- NC pic.twitter.com/0e2XjGt5ta
— Miserable Pronouncing (@awfulannouncing) October 13, 2023
In the meantime, when it was once past for Castellanos’s postgame interview on MLB Community, he was once greater than able to reply to a query, retirement studio host Greg Amsinger a tad flustered.
Greg Amsinger on @MLBNetwork asks Nick Castellanos about his being a really perfect have compatibility with the #Phillies :
“I mean, yeah, I f*ck with Philly” pic.twitter.com/gFpEc2tM2t— PHILLIES BELL (@PhilliesBell) October 13, 2023
5. West Virginia was once a three.5-point favourite in opposition to Houston on Thursday. The Mountaineers led 39–35 with 3 seconds left, and next this came about.
As referred to as on Houston Cougars radio & heard at the @varsity app: pic.twitter.com/x22bAlCmbQ
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 13, 2023
6. How can somebody no longer love Gronk? Simply the way in which he tells a tale is stunning. Right here he’s on Ryen Russillo’s podcast speaking a few memorable voicemail he gained upcoming passing on Clemson to proceed to Arizona.
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7. RANDOM VIDEO OF THE DAY: In this moment, Oct, 13, 2002, the “Pie-O-My” episode of The Sopranos aired on HBO, that includes one of the crucial very best Uncle Youthful scenes within the display’s historical past.
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