Wow. He sounds really upset! Someone get him a soothing saucer of milk! *meow*
Breitbart: In an interview with Sports Illustrated‘s Jimmy Traina, ESPN late-night “SportsCenter” anchor Scott Van Pelt addressed the narrative that the network is a “sinking ship.”
Van Pelt said on “Off the Board” that he is “tired” of the claims ESPN is dying.
“I push back against it,” Van Pelt told Traina. “I get it every day. Largely, people are kind, and largely you get compliments. But you do get the sinking-ship narrative. I would try to educate people, but it’s pointless to educate people who don’t care to be educated. I guess people believe that we’re hemorrhaging money when that’s not the case. There are other challenges for us, absolutely. Is the business challenged? Absolutely. Look at our peers. There’s no one in this space that is just hiring on gobs more people and aren’t trying to figure out what to do. What’s the old cliche? The wind blows hardest at the top of the mountain? That’s where we are. That’s what you’re going to get.”
The longtime ESPN employee later added that anybody who has canceled ESPN or boycotted the NFL over politics is “so dumb” that they are “beyond hope.”
“If you truly want to boycott the NFL and you want to boycott ESPN, the notion that some guy sitting out there, or gal, and they decide, ‘You know what, I’m going to cut my entire cable package because ESPN gave an award on a made-up show in July because there’s no sports, to a woman who used to be a man, so I’m now not going to have any cable TV at all, and I’m going to sit around at night and read books by candlelight like olden times because of that,’ that’s not happening.
And if you did that, then you’re so dumb that I can’t even pray for you because you’re beyond hope,” he stated.
Insulting your customers is not a wise business decision. ESPN recently announced layoffs (including on-air ‘talent”) of over 100 employees. Scott Van Pelt is one of those condescending sportscasters I can’t stand.
Who’s dumb? He didn’t learn a valuable lesson from HRC; don’t insult your audience. Soon he will have a book tour, ‘What Happened To Van Pelt?’
Ummmmmm…….wow……just…..wow.
Is HE painting with broad brush strokes.
I don’t watch either ESPN or NFL because they’re no longer sports, they’re Leftist Libtard politics. I want to be entertained, not lectured.
As for being “beyond hope”, just whose life, culture, and career are being threatened? Not mine.
And just because I don’t watch ESPN and NFL, doesn’t mean I read by candle light. I use an oil lamp.
Sounds like Van needs to have his Pelt nailed to the wall.
“Someone get him a soothing saucer of milk! *meow*” . Careful MJA, an unemployed sportscaster could be triggered by less.
Never stop digging that hole! LOL.
This is supposed to make us watch?
joe6pak – No worries. I have a spray bottle filled with water. lol
“This is supposed to make us watch?”
An unintended consequence of him running his mouth is that he’s making ESPN less palatable for people who have never watched in the first place.
The cable TV bundle is a dying business model. Does Van Pelt really believe viewers will willingly pay ESPN’s actual cost when it’s no longer subsidized? The products not that good.
Thank God, America has a majority of Patriots. The rest play for the NFL or NBA.
“…so I’m now not going to have any cable TV at all, and I’m going to sit around at night and read books by candlelight like olden times.”
You fool! We don’t sit around, we get up sometimes to stoke the wood burning stove.
Wonder if he’s related to Lucy van Pelt from “Peanuts”? You know, the one who always pulls the football away from Charlie Brown.
Reading a book any book
is better for you than boob-tube time.
O lord, it should be painful to be so stupid. This dipshit believes that if I don’t have cable, that I am going to be reading in the dark. Stupid twat thinks that “cutting the cord” is referring to our electricity. Someone needs to school ol’shit for brains, that my fiber-optic cable and my power cord are not one and the same.
He should spend a nickel on his sister’s advice.
So, what he’s saying is,
those who watch ESPN are F*CKIN’ ILLITERATES, right?
TV OVERVOICE PITCH:
“Watch ESPN sports! Because you’re too dumb to read!”
It sure would be funny if Van Pelt were one of the next ones in the unemployment line. ESPN is losing subscribers and money and that has been shown. You don’t have to cut off your entire cable package to drop ESPN as he hints at (and if you do you find another provider) and as already mentioned you don’t call an lost audience that you’d like to get back idiots. ESPN will continue in some form but it won’t be some gigantic “top of the mountain” entity any longer. Disney may reign it in hard or simply sell it. If it gets sold then the new owners will strip it back to squeeze every dime out they can. Van Pelt ought to recognize that it’s more dark then light at his home right now and work to try to solidify his place in the scheme of things.
@MJA;
That would be a saucer of soy milk, right?
It amazes me, the level of projection from these snitpusses, they are totally puerile, but try to pass themselves off as intellectual.
Not sure I’d want him to pray for me anyway. Some how, I doubt his prayers make it higher than the ceiling. And if his God is Satan, I don’t need anyone taking their concerns about me to him either. Although, mama used to say Heaven won’t take me and Hell is afraid I’ll take over, so make of that what you will.
Not sure what religion Van Pelt subscribes to, but I’ll pray for him because my faith says that we should also pray for dumb people.
He’s so dumb, I don’t want him praying for me,
We cut cable and don’t miss it. Found local channel over rabbit ears that does sports and its great. All sports, no bs.
Wow, he sounds like a whiney little bitch. Typical leftist “male”.
Sitzpinkler.
I guess this Lefty wackdoodle has never heard of Netflix and Hulu, a lot cheaper, much better than cable, watch what YOU want and no commercials.
And if you did that, then you’re so dumb that I can’t even pray for you because you’re beyond hope,” he stated.
“The prayers of a liberal asshole availeth jack shit.” Or something like that.
Good job there Scotty… That’ll bring all those wayward viewers back, call them stupid. Because clearly they’re not smaaaht like you… not like everybody says.
And the head-shaking hypocrisy of this is that in all probability, he doesn’t pray anyway.
Why do whiny, dunce, leftist male journalists sound like pubescent girls? Oh right, they’re SoyBoys. Van Pelt hormonal rant will cost ESPN viewers who should have stopped watching ages ago. Not a bad thing by any means.
Scotty seems to have put his Maxi-Pad on wrong-side-up
… ya think?
WHO? What’s Eeee Essss PEEEEIN?