Dan Le Batard on Why He Had to Leave ESPN, Ups and Downs With Company

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Dan Le Batard (LeBatardShow) talked to JimmyTraina about his tenure at ESPN, the controversial Ryan Fitzpatrick/Michelle Tafoya interviews and more

When it was announced in late 2020 that popular radio host Dan Le Batard and ESPN were parting ways, it was not a total shock, yet still shocking.

But Le Batard’s show was extremely popular and in a day and age where sports media is all about personalities, it was still surprising ESPN would just cut ties with a star. You know now that almost every decision you make any day can have its compromises or conflict of interests from the car you drive to whether you recycle to who it is your partners are. I’m sure there are many people out there who would say,

. There are all sorts of moralities that can apply or be applied, and anybody out there can look at what I’m doing and cast their own judgments. But the reason we did it was to get maximum freedom, because I didn’t want to be governed by anyone else’s sensibilities and renting my father’s accent was not buying my voice.”“A lot of people don’t understand the deal that we made. We got our intellectual property; we got our [podcast] feeds.

 

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