BREAKING: Peter Gammons Leaving ESPN

[UNHWildCats]

“My decision to leave ESPN and move on at this point in my life has been conflicted. I owe a great deal of my professional life to ESPN, having spent more than half of my 40 years in journalism working for the network, and the choice to move on was made with nothing but the strongest feelings for the people with whom I worked. ESPN gave me a great deal more than I gave it, and will always be a huge part of who I am.

“I will forever be joined at the hip with John Walsh, who hired me as an ink-stained wretch, plunked me on TV and has always been a guiding spirit. Understand how the people who run ESPN treat people: when I was felled by a severe aneurysm in 2006, George Bodenheimer, John Skipper, Norby Williamson, my former Boston Globe boss Vince Doria and everyone made certain that my family and I had the best care and support, far, far beyond any reasonable expectation. My ESPN life has been lined with foxhole people whom I’ll never forget.

“I’ve been able to work with my closest and oldest friends, like Jayson Stark, Tim Kurkjian, Buster Olney, Peter Pascarelli, Jerry Crasnick and Charlie Moynihan. I spent three seasons doing games with a producer, Tom Archer, who is among the most revered leaders I’ve ever met. I told everyone last October that the team baseball coordinating producer Jay Levy put together with Mark Preisler and Marc Carman was the most creative in my 20 years on the show. I apologize to hundreds of people I owe for all these years for not mentioning their names.

“You would have had to be there for 20 years to know how hard so many good people sweated in anonymity to make all of us look as if we knew what we were doing.

“My friend Tom Rush – who taught James Taylor and me our first guitar chords – once wrote how strange it seems to walk away alone. With no regrets.”

http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2009/1 ... with-espn/

[DJH]

Weird. I saw him on ESPN today.

[JMU DJ]

Any idea what his "new endeavors" are? MLB Network?

[BlackFalkin]

Do journalists have to be sooooo dramatic?

Weird. I saw him on ESPN today.

This is his last week.

[UNHWildCats]

Any idea what his "new endeavors" are? MLB Network?

gotta imagine thats the likeliest scenario.

[UNHWildCats]

According to Dan Roche, he has a new job, but can't discuss it until he is finished at ESPN, Roche adds that he is "pumped up" about the new job.

[bandl]

His jowels fascinate me when he talks. All I see is 'Jowel jiggle, jowel jiggle, jowel jiggle, jowel jiggle, jowel jiggle"

[UNHWildCats]

Its now being reported he will indeed be going to the MLBNetwork but also maybe involved with some outfit in Boston. Globe? Comcast?

[UNHWildCats]

it's official. MLB and NESN to get services of Gammons, this will allow him to spend more time at home, a bulk of his work will be writing for MLB.com and NESN.com

[JMU DJ]

Figures, Gammons is Sawk homer... can't believe it took me this long to realize why you started this thread

[UNHWildCats]

Figures, Gammons is Sawk homer... can't believe it took me this long to realize why you started this thread

everyone is a sox homer lol... heck a couple months back a Yankees beat writer left his job to come home to Massachusetts and walk the Sox beat for the Globe... though the guy is a douche and I wish he stayed in NY

[Ivytalk]

Sawx homer or not, he's one of the best baseball writers ever. Every city should have at least one. Philly has Bill Conlin; Washington has Thomas Boswell; New York has Roger Angell, Ira Berkow and Murray Chass, etc.

[AZGrizFan]

Figures, Gammons is Sawk homer... can't believe it took me this long to realize why you started this thread

everyone is a sox homer lol... heck a couple months back a Yankees beat writer left his job to come home to Massachusetts and walk the Sox beat for the Globe... though the guy is a douche and I wish he stayed in NY

Isn't calling a sawx homer a douche a bit redundant?

[UNHWildCats]

everyone is a sox homer lol... heck a couple months back a Yankees beat writer left his job to come home to Massachusetts and walk the Sox beat for the Globe... though the guy is a douche and I wish he stayed in NY

Isn't calling a sawx homer a douche a bit redundant?

less redundant than calling a Griz fan a douche.

[AZGrizFan]

Isn't calling a sawx homer a douche a bit redundant?

less redundant than calling a Griz fan a douche.

weak. very weak.