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For anyone who listens to sports radio in the morning...there's quite the soap opera going on between Jason Reid, ESPN 980, and the Redskins.

If you're not sure who Jason Reid is, he's a journalist for WaPo. He's known as one of the biggest Redskins critics in the area, and it was so bad I believe his press credentials to Redskins games had been revoked. He also wrote a hack piece on Wall a couple of years back:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/wi ... story.html

Oddly enough, ESPN 980, who's owned by Dan Snyder, hired Reid to be one of the hosts of a new morning show called the "Man Cave" which was supposed to air starting yesterday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle ... story.html

Long story short--the show got pulled on Friday, and the show's producer (Chuck Sapienza) got fired. Word on the streets is that Bruce Allen stepped in 86'd the show. Who knows if that's true or not, but the whole situation is just plain to me. On one side, you have a agenda-driven self-inflated assclown like Reid, who left a job where he could say nothing wrong, to go to a station where he would essentially be paid to bash the guy writing his checks. On the other side, you have a team with arguably the worst PR in professional sports firing guys who bash the team. Makes you wonder just WTF the Redskins FO is doing...especially Mr. Winning of the Field..

Minor correction: Sapienza resigned when management made this **** decision. Basically, the change was Sapienza's idea, he made the deals, and then they double-crossed him and Reid and Chris Paul.

Total ****.

I don't care one way or the other about Reid. Not a big fan of his work, though he seems like a good guy when he's a guest on the radio. But this is amazingly classless by whoever is running the station. And bizarre. First, why would the Slurs permit the show to go forward in the first place? Second, why would they try this **** with someone as media connected as Reid is? Do they really imagine the story won't get out?

They love him at the Post, so I don't think there'll be a big problem with him going back.

Another piece of collateral damage is Andy Pollin, whose morning show got cancelled to make room for Reid's show.

Now do you realize the great management of Ted Leonsis and Ernie Grunfeld?

TheSecretWeapon wrote:Minor correction: Sapienza resigned when management made this **** decision. Basically, the change was Sapienza's idea, he made the deals, and then they double-crossed him and Reid and Chris Paul.

Total ****.

I don't care one way or the other about Reid. Not a big fan of his work, though he seems like a good guy when he's a guest on the radio.

You should hear the stories about him threatening to beat up fellow reporters at Redskins Park.

TheSecretWeapon wrote:Minor correction: Sapienza resigned when management made this **** decision. Basically, the change was Sapienza's idea, he made the deals, and then they double-crossed him and Reid and Chris Paul.

Total ****.

I don't care one way or the other about Reid. Not a big fan of his work, though he seems like a good guy when he's a guest on the radio. But this is amazingly classless by whoever is running the station. And bizarre. First, why would the Slurs permit the show to go forward in the first place? Second, why would they try this **** with someone as media connected as Reid is? Do they really imagine the story won't get out?

They love him at the Post, so I don't think there'll be a big problem with him going back.

Another piece of collateral damage is Andy Pollin, whose morning show got cancelled to make room for Reid's show.

Yea, that's another weird situation in itself. Pollin sounded so defeated last week, and it made for really awkward radio. On Thursday, he was basically saying he had no idea what he would be doing the next week--it was almost like he was expecting his pink slip in the coming hours.

As for Reid--not sure why he would take a job at a station owned by Snyder when he knows the team's front office can't stand him. and I don't know just what the hell Sapienza was thinking when they had Reid in mind. He's a polarizing figure and not in the team's good graces. He's also very unlikeable from what I've read. But you're right--it was a **** move by the team to pull that stunt. I guess the thought of Reid getting paid with Dan's money was too much for Allen to bear.

On a side note, I find it funny that Snyder is being blamed for this, when in reality he probably knew absolutely nothing about it until the national media started pickling the story up.

milellie111 wrote:Now do you realize the great management of Ted Leonsis and Ernie Grunfeld?

If the standard is that a team's management is "great" if it's better than the Washington Slurs under Dan Snyder, then every team in every sport has "great" management.

milellie111 wrote:Now do you realize the great management of Ted Leonsis and Ernie Grunfeld?

Keep polishing that turd, eventually it will shine or it will completely fall apart in your hands.

TGW wrote:

TheSecretWeapon wrote:Minor correction: Sapienza resigned when management made this **** decision. Basically, the change was Sapienza's idea, he made the deals, and then they double-crossed him and Reid and Chris Paul.

Total ****.

I don't care one way or the other about Reid. Not a big fan of his work, though he seems like a good guy when he's a guest on the radio. But this is amazingly classless by whoever is running the station. And bizarre. First, why would the Slurs permit the show to go forward in the first place? Second, why would they try this **** with someone as media connected as Reid is? Do they really imagine the story won't get out?

They love him at the Post, so I don't think there'll be a big problem with him going back.

Another piece of collateral damage is Andy Pollin, whose morning show got cancelled to make room for Reid's show.

Yea, that's another weird situation in itself. Pollin sounded so defeated last week, and it made for really awkward radio. On Thursday, he was basically saying he had no idea what he would be doing the next week--it was almost like he was expecting his pink slip in the coming hours.

As for Reid--not sure why he would take a job at a station owned by Snyder when he knows the team's front office can't stand him. and I don't know just what the hell Sapienza was thinking when they had Reid in mind. He's a polarizing figure and not in the team's good graces. He's also very unlikeable from what I've read. But you're right--it was a **** move by the team to pull that stunt. I guess the thought of Reid getting paid with Dan's money was too much for Allen to bear.

On a side note, I find it funny that Snyder is being blamed for this, when in reality he probably knew absolutely nothing about it until the national media started pickling the story up.

I suspect Reid believed what Sapienza and the on-air hosts at 980 told him, which is that the team doesn't tell them what they can and cannot say on the air. Every one of those guys say they have freedom to say whatever they want about the team.

milellie111 wrote:Now do you realize the great management of Ted Leonsis and Ernie Grunfeld?

TheSecretWeapon wrote:
I suspect Reid believed what Sapienza and the on-air hosts at 980 told him, which is that the team doesn't tell them what they can and cannot say on the air. Every one of those guys say they have freedom to say whatever they want about the team.

I honestly believe that is the case. Anyone who listens to 980 knows they bash Snyder/Allen/Redskins allday, everyday. The freedom is there.

However, Reid's borderline hack style of writing and agenda driven bias was probably just too much to bear. Same guy who mentioned Scot McCloughan's past drinking problem in an article as a means of degrading the move. Same guy who called Allen unqualified and an empty suit basically to his face. Same guy who was yelling "This won't work either" at Scot McCloughan's press conference.

It's just really hard for me to not at least understand where the skins front office was coming from. However, they could have handled it differently. This is just messy as hell.

When I saw the article on ProFootballTalk about it, I knew this was going to get really bad

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... ball-team/

Bruce Allen is getting enough bad press for running the team and it makes him look like Football Hitler right now for this. What makes this 10x more hilarious is that 106.7 is having a field day with this through promo and bits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc- ... 16-151.mp3

It just makes the reign of Dan Snyder even more hilarious

I don't care for Jason Reid but I do feel bad for Chris Paul, whom I've always been a big fan of since his days on the Huggy Lowdown show(and who didn't love his weekly Redskins songs).

Bruce Allen is the ultimate dirtbag politician. Thankfully he hired Scott McLoughan to take over Redskins personnel duties, or he could somehow end up being worse than Vinny Cerrato.

TGW wrote:

TheSecretWeapon wrote:
I suspect Reid believed what Sapienza and the on-air hosts at 980 told him, which is that the team doesn't tell them what they can and cannot say on the air. Every one of those guys say they have freedom to say whatever they want about the team.

I honestly believe that is the case. Anyone who listens to 980 knows they bash Snyder/Allen/Redskins allday, everyday. The freedom is there.

However, Reid's borderline hack style of writing and agenda driven bias was probably just too much to bear. Same guy who mentioned Scot McCloughan's past drinking problem in an article as a means of degrading the move. Same guy who called Allen unqualified and an empty suit basically to his face. Same guy who was yelling "This won't work either" at Scot McCloughan's press conference.

It's just really hard for me to not at least understand where the skins front office was coming from. However, they could have handled it differently. This is just messy as hell.

Reid's a columnist, though. His job is to have an opinion and to push it. His job is to provoke people -- to instigate debate, conversation, criticism. He's supposed to rip management when they're doing a crappy job and to ask questions that make a guy like Bruce Allen publicly squirm. I'm not a fan of Reid, but he does the job.

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Reid is unprofessional. I don't think its just about his opinions, because there are a lot of guys on 980 that do nothing but bash the Skins. Difference is that Reid tends to take things to another level. I mean Doc Walker and Brian Mitchell have made a living dumping over this franchise. The difference is Reid hasn't shown himself to be objective. Brian and Doc at least look for silver linings.

This is going to be fabulous for Reid's career.

fishercob wrote:This is going to be fabulous for Reid's career.

He already has an article on ESPN bashing RG3. It's nice to have friends (Wilbon) in high places.

fishercob wrote:This is going to be fabulous for Reid's career.

Yeah, and he's probably already a hero on 106.7. I do feel bad for Pollin. I was never a big fan of his, but he's been solid for decades, and his morning show was really good - it stuck to substance and didn't have the nonsense that Czaban's brought to a lot of his shows.

This does appear to have the aroma of Bruce Allen on it. I said when last season ended, I will not watch a Skins game until Bruce Allen is gone - not just kicked upstairs - GONE, and he appears to be showing I made the right choice.

Reid bashed management, then accepts a position at a place that is owned by the very management he bashes. I don't really follow, I would have never done it.

Rafael122 wrote:Reid bashed management, then accepts a position at a place that is owned by the very management he bashes. I don't really follow, I would have never done it.

It's odd for sure. It's like Rush Limbaugh getting hired to host a dinner at the Whitehouse