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Has this been/will this be discussed an any AM1000 shows today or is it off limits?

If anyone on W&S brings it up Waddle will probably run out the studio screaming "I'm not part of this discussion!"


:lol: I think Jurko did that recently.

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Maybe Finji can become a regular on Matty's podcast.

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Maybe Finji can become a regular on Matty's podcast.


Does he have his own IceGirl as well?

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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Maybe Finji can become a regular on Matty's podcast.


Does he have his own IceGirl as well?

a podcast for each out of wedlock kid


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Too Kermit the Frog like.

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Too Kermit the Frog like.

This x 1,000,000

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doug - evergreen park wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/bfinfer/posts/10155891191009857

So I’m not sure how many people, if any, will care about this, but I'm posting anyway… I’m officially done at ESPN.

From what I understand this is the result of two things:

A) Apparently the company had decided not to renew my contract for 2018.
B) Last week on Twitter I used not-so-subtle terms to criticize President Trump for being racist, which is a violation of ESPN’s social media guidelines.

It’s possible A would have been true even without B, but B obviously didn’t help my cause. And at the very least it made my dismissal effective immediately. Some troll running a Twitter account for a pro-Trump AM station in town reported me to ESPN bosses. But my tweet was a violation of the guidelines and I posted it, so I can’t really blame someone else. I have deleted it because my (now former) boss, who I respect significantly more than the president, asked me to.

Regardless, I’m out.

Have a great weekend and happy holidays.


Damn, right :clown: on white violence.

Sad!

Glad to see Bruce Wolf staying busy


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I just love that people are actually losing their jobs because they get so mad at the goofball in the White House.

Trump wins again!

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tommy wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
badrogue17 wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
doug - evergreen park wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/bfinfer/posts/10155891191009857

So I’m not sure how many people, if any, will care about this, but I'm posting anyway… I’m officially done at ESPN.

From what I understand this is the result of two things:

A) Apparently the company had decided not to renew my contract for 2018.
B) Last week on Twitter I used not-so-subtle terms to criticize President Trump for being racist, which is a violation of ESPN’s social media guidelines.

It’s possible A would have been true even without B, but B obviously didn’t help my cause. And at the very least it made my dismissal effective immediately. Some troll running a Twitter account for a pro-Trump AM station in town reported me to ESPN bosses. But my tweet was a violation of the guidelines and I posted it, so I can’t really blame someone else. I have deleted it because my (now former) boss, who I respect significantly more than the president, asked me to.

Regardless, I’m out.

Have a great weekend and happy holidays.


Damn, right :clown: on white violence.

Sad!

Glad to see Bruce Wolf staying busy


Now I'm a member of the tribe as well? My day's looking up :D

and part Lugan, too

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FavreFan wrote:
badrogue17 wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
doug - evergreen park wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/bfinfer/posts/10155891191009857

So I’m not sure how many people, if any, will care about this, but I'm posting anyway… I’m officially done at ESPN.

From what I understand this is the result of two things:

A) Apparently the company had decided not to renew my contract for 2018.
B) Last week on Twitter I used not-so-subtle terms to criticize President Trump for being racist, which is a violation of ESPN’s social media guidelines.

It’s possible A would have been true even without B, but B obviously didn’t help my cause. And at the very least it made my dismissal effective immediately. Some troll running a Twitter account for a pro-Trump AM station in town reported me to ESPN bosses. But my tweet was a violation of the guidelines and I posted it, so I can’t really blame someone else. I have deleted it because my (now former) boss, who I respect significantly more than the president, asked me to.

Regardless, I’m out.

Have a great weekend and happy holidays.


Damn, right :clown: on white violence.

Sad!

Glad to see Bruce Wolf staying busy

:lol:
It couldn't be Bruce Wolf though as the post implies that the reporting party works at an AM station and Bruce has not worked since at least 2015.

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I just love that people are actually losing their jobs because they get so mad at the goofball in the White House.

Trump wins again!



This x 1,000,001!

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Ben better not read the Trib article or the comments to the article LOL

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Was Finfer really on the air that much anyway?

Sounds like he's been tweeting about politics for months.

When you're Finfer, and the company asks you not to do it, then don't do it. Or you get fired.

We have enough people doing the Trump jokes and insults. Finfer isn't more clever or funny then the thousands doing it. So why risk your job?

Then again, he might have wanted to get fired. Like he said, he had no future at ESPN 1000.


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Ben better not read the Trib article or the comments to the article LOL

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/br ... story.html


Why in hell is an article aboot a bench player radio talker (FREAKING TALKER) the BREAKING SPORTS news story, and at the top of the main Trib landing page? It was the second story. Bury deep in the sports section, or not don't include it. May be good for Red-eye


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He wasn't a day time guy. Every time I flipped ESPN 1000 on at night it was either Hood, Huebner or a game. When did Finfer have shifts anyway?

Plus, they don't do half hour updates at their station anymore. So Huebner doesn't do much at the station either.


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Was Finfer really on the air that much anyway?

Sounds like he's been tweeting about politics for months.

When you're Finfer, and the company asks you not to do it, then don't do it. Or you get fired.

We have enough people doing the Trump jokes and insults. Finfer isn't more clever or funny then the thousands doing it. So why risk your job?

Then again, he might have wanted to get fired. Like he said, he had no future at ESPN 1000.



Even after Jemele Hill has gotten in trouble (reprimands, suspension) for tweets about the President being racist and calling for boycotts, this moron decides to do the same thing.

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Even after Jemele Hill has gotten in trouble (reprimands, suspension) for tweets about the President being racist and calling for boycotts, this moron decides to do the same thing.


And, as Finfer stated, he knew ESPN had its own social media guidelines. Just looking at his tweets, he seems like he could be a little less d-baggy.

Still, I have an issue with employers telling people what they can and can't say outside of work. I understand that employers have their interests, but the ability for a person to share his or her beliefs is an interest of everyone. Employers are the last group of people who should be telling us how to think--that's a disaster.


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FrankDrebin wrote:
Beardown wrote:
Was Finfer really on the air that much anyway?

Sounds like he's been tweeting about politics for months.

When you're Finfer, and the company asks you not to do it, then don't do it. Or you get fired.

We have enough people doing the Trump jokes and insults. Finfer isn't more clever or funny then the thousands doing it. So why risk your job?

Then again, he might have wanted to get fired. Like he said, he had no future at ESPN 1000.



Even after Jemele Hill has gotten in trouble (reprimands, suspension) for tweets about the President being racist and calling for boycotts, this moron decides to do the same thing.


Right. And it's Ben Finfer. A back up that's bounced around as a back up for years.

Doesn't matter if Trump is an ass hole. Doesn't matter if Finfer was right. Everybody with a brain knows Trump is a racist scumbag. We don't need to backup sportscaster at ESPN 1000 stating the obvious. And Finfer was told it would cost him his job. What did he gain from the tweet? Nothing. Did Ben not think he wasn't replaceable? They'll just hire some other snot nose kid to do weekend and night shifts for $150 a shift. Maybe even one of their current producers. Those shifts mean nothing to radio bosses. They just need people to kill the time. The ad rates are the same for whomever does it. Everybody is watching TV.


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tommy wrote:
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Even after Jemele Hill has gotten in trouble (reprimands, suspension) for tweets about the President being racist and calling for boycotts, this moron decides to do the same thing.


And, as Finfer stated, he knew ESPN had its own social media guidelines. Just looking at his tweets, he seems like he could be a little less d-baggy.

Still, I have an issue with employers telling people what they can and can't say outside of work. I understand that employers have their interests, but the ability for a person to share his or her beliefs is an interest of everyone. Employers are the last group of people who should be telling us how to think--that's a disaster.


Well, now Finfer gets to tweet whatever the hell he wants. Hope it was worth it.

They weren't telling him how to think. They were just saying keep it to yourself and stick to sports.


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Beardown wrote:
tommy wrote:
FrankDrebin wrote:


Even after Jemele Hill has gotten in trouble (reprimands, suspension) for tweets about the President being racist and calling for boycotts, this moron decides to do the same thing.


And, as Finfer stated, he knew ESPN had its own social media guidelines. Just looking at his tweets, he seems like he could be a little less d-baggy.

Still, I have an issue with employers telling people what they can and can't say outside of work. I understand that employers have their interests, but the ability for a person to share his or her beliefs is an interest of everyone. Employers are the last group of people who should be telling us how to think--that's a disaster.


Well, now Finfer gets to tweet whatever the hell he wants. Hope it was worth it.

They weren't telling him how to think. They were just saying keep it to yourself and stick to sports.


Yay corporations!

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ESPN has put themselves in a tricky bag with their new policy. "No political comments on twitter". So that's the policy. And they fire people for ripping Trump. Fine.

What if there is another mass shooting at an elementary school and a bunch of kids die? And an ESPN employee tweets "Our Government needs to have stronger gun control to save kids lives."

Does that person get fired?

It's gotta be all or nothing if you have such a policy so I would assume that type of tweet would get you fired.


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Ben better not read the Trib article or the comments to the article LOL

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/br ... story.html

:lol: Comments are a microcosm of this place

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So fuck Ben Finfur and the rest of the crybabies. Losing a job blows but working on ESPN isn't a real job anyway.

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Beardown wrote:
ESPN has put themselves in a tricky bag with their new policy. "No political comments on twitter". So that's the policy. And they fire people for ripping Trump. Fine.

What if there is another mass shooting at an elementary school and a bunch of kids die? And an ESPN employee tweets "Our Government needs to have stronger gun control to save kids lives."

Does that person get fired?

It's gotta be all or nothing if you have such a policy so I would assume that type of tweet would get you fired.

Beardown do you think ESPN would’ve tolerated any of their hosts calling Obama a Muslim terrorist during his presidency ?

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badrogue17 wrote:
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ESPN has put themselves in a tricky bag with their new policy. "No political comments on twitter". So that's the policy. And they fire people for ripping Trump. Fine.

What if there is another mass shooting at an elementary school and a bunch of kids die? And an ESPN employee tweets "Our Government needs to have stronger gun control to save kids lives."

Does that person get fired?

It's gotta be all or nothing if you have such a policy so I would assume that type of tweet would get you fired.

Beardown do you think ESPN would’ve tolerated any of their hosts calling Obama a Muslim terrorist during his presidency ?


No. But they might not have been fired. Just suspended. Because they didn't have a "social media" policy when Obama was in office. But if somebody tweeted that, they would have implicated it at that time.


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badrogue17 wrote:
Beardown wrote:
ESPN has put themselves in a tricky bag with their new policy. "No political comments on twitter". So that's the policy. And they fire people for ripping Trump. Fine.

What if there is another mass shooting at an elementary school and a bunch of kids die? And an ESPN employee tweets "Our Government needs to have stronger gun control to save kids lives."

Does that person get fired?

It's gotta be all or nothing if you have such a policy so I would assume that type of tweet would get you fired.

Beardown do you think ESPN would’ve tolerated any of their hosts calling Obama a Muslim terrorist during his presidency ?


For what it's worth, they fired Schilling for his anti-Muslim Facebook meme, and let's face it, every other offensive political thing he had said during his time there. I think all this was before a clear-cut social media policy from the network regarding politics.


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FrankDrebin wrote:
Beardown wrote:
Was Finfer really on the air that much anyway?

Sounds like he's been tweeting about politics for months.

When you're Finfer, and the company asks you not to do it, then don't do it. Or you get fired.

We have enough people doing the Trump jokes and insults. Finfer isn't more clever or funny then the thousands doing it. So why risk your job?

Then again, he might have wanted to get fired. Like he said, he had no future at ESPN 1000.



Even after Jemele Hill has gotten in trouble (reprimands, suspension) for tweets about the President being racist and calling for boycotts, this moron decides to do the same thing.



Seems like the system is the exact opposite of what these idiots are fighting for. Totally white privilege here....


As for personal time, these people use their twitter for work. There is no separation of church and state.


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badrogue17 wrote:
Beardown wrote:
ESPN has put themselves in a tricky bag with their new policy. "No political comments on twitter". So that's the policy. And they fire people for ripping Trump. Fine.

What if there is another mass shooting at an elementary school and a bunch of kids die? And an ESPN employee tweets "Our Government needs to have stronger gun control to save kids lives."

Does that person get fired?

It's gotta be all or nothing if you have such a policy so I would assume that type of tweet would get you fired.

Beardown do you think ESPN would’ve tolerated any of their hosts calling Obama a Muslim terrorist during his presidency ?


For what it's worth, they fired Schilling for his anti-Muslim Facebook meme, and let's face it, every other offensive political thing he had said during his time there. I think all this was before a clear-cut social media policy from the network regarding politics.


Yeah. And they gave Shilling a few chances before they fired him. But he wouldn't stop.

Now they've made it known that they have a "Zero tolerance" Policy. As an employee, that's all you need to know. You can tweet what you want if you don't want to work for them. Everybody can make that choice. I think all of the ESPNers making millions will comply. Finfer didn't think his 40k was worth resisting a shot at the President.

Silvy, Waddle, Jurko, Carm and Kap are gonna keep their mouths shut to keep their 6 figure salaries. I guarantee you that.


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