Brian Mitchell let go from ESPN 980
 

It is official, Brian Mitchell has been fired from ESPN980 the home of the Redskins. I knew that all of his Skins bashing and Snyder hatred was eventually going to catch up to him. Dude's been talking sick out of the side of his mouth about our B&G ever since he retired...and on our local airways!That's why he got verbally assaulted and basically punked by Portis on the John Thompson Show. Although the guy was a good player...special teams...he has had almost nothing positive to say about the FO, or the team as a whole, ever since he was released after the '98 season. Thus, Snyder repaid his indignation with a second pink slip. Waived as a player, fired while retired. So long B...and I'm not referring to his name!

[COLOR="DarkRed"]*Let me be clear. I do not think that Snyder fired B-Bitch for personal reasons..although I'm sure it didn't cause him to loose any sleep. I just find it funny that he was finally fired...it has been long overdue. The guy is a Skins hater, and provided no real value to the show. His firing was for financial reasons, but...doesn't mean I can't celebrate it anyway! Sorry Matty if the title was too misleading. It was my attempt at ironic humor.*[/COLOR]

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Maybe he bit the hand that fed him a little too hard.

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Actually it was a cost saving move. Red Zebra is hemmoraging cash. Koken got cut too and I don't think Koken ever pissed Dan off.

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Now we have more money to sign more free agents

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What about the Sports Reporters? That is an hour of DS bashing and you don't see Czhzam out of a job.

It is a cost cutting move. I wonder who will take his place on the JT show.

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yea even though b mitchell sucked as a reporter, i don't think this move was out of spite by snyder, even though he was fully in his rights to do so.

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[quote=FRPLG;556367]Actually it was a cost saving move. Red Zebra is hemmoraging cash. Koken got cut too and I don't think Koken ever pissed Dan off.[/quote]

That and Six Flags,sooner or later the Danny will have to sell off some assets to stop some of the bleeding.

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Pretty odd that Snyder would order his firing the same week he extended an offer to induct Mitchell into the Ring of Fame (as he alluded to on the show earlier in the week). Are you sure you have your facts straight or just randomly bashing Snyder for a business decision one of his companies made?

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That sux, I like a guy who gives an honest opinion and alot his criticisms are just in regards to the FO. I really didnt like it when he went after Portis last year.

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I just always thought he was a guy who couldn't look at anything objectively. IE: when discussing Rock Cartwright's role as a running back, he would allude to his own experience and how kick returners "are much too valuable in the return game to risk injury playing tailback in the game."

I don't know who fed him that line of garbage when he was a player, but he should have known better than to regurgitate it over the airways.

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[quote=Paintrain;556386]Pretty odd that Snyder would order his firing the same week he extended an offer to induct Mitchell into the Ring of Fame (as he alluded to on the show earlier in the week). Are you sure you have your facts straight or just randomly bashing Snyder for a business decision one of his companies made?[/quote]

I agree 100% I'm not one to hold back from bashing Snyder but maybe maybe Dan doesn't actually have a direct hand into who stays and who goes over at Red Zebra. It seems very odd that he would personally call Bmitch and tell him the news about the Redskins HOF and then fire him. I work with Red Zebra on some small business deals and I know they're hurting. I'm sure he'll re surface during football season.

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I highly doubt Snyder had anything personally to do with this. I'm going to edit the thread title to be a little less dramatic and misleading.

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[quote=Mattyk72;556433]I highly doubt Snyder had anything personally to do with this. I'm going to edit the thread title to be a little less dramatic and misleading.[/quote]


Thank you

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[quote=Mattyk72;556433]I highly doubt Snyder had anything personally to do with this. I'm going to edit the thread title to be a little less dramatic and misleading.[/quote]

At least we're far and away from becoming ES. I'm reading a thread over there right now about zodiac signs and how they relate to Zorn :doh:

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[quote=Dirtbag359;556444]At least we're far and away from becoming ES. [B]I'm reading a thread over there right now about zodiac signs and how they relate to Zorn[/B] :doh:[/quote]

:laughing2 Are you kidding?

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[quote=Dirtbag359;556444]At least we're far and away from becoming ES. I'm reading a thread over there right now about zodiac signs and how they relate to Zorn :doh:[/quote]

I've often thought that the problem with the Skins offense was not enough Taurus energy. They should stop doing drills at Redskins Park and just burn some sage. :)

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[quote=Lotus;556449]I've often thought that the problem with the Skins offense was not enough Taurus energy. They should stop doing drills at Redskins Park and just burn some sage. :)[/quote]

If it will help the offense, I will be glad to take them some. :)

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Since John Thompson lost both of his "sidekicks" in this "restructuring", it will be interesting to hear what he has to say - if anything.

I have had sporadic contact with Thompson over the last 30 years. Trust me on this one; if he has something he wants to say about this matter he will - - and he will not be concerned about who likes or does not like what he says. It is also quite possible that he does not have anything to add to this matter in which case he will say nothing.

Monday's program should be very interesting...

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[quote=Giantone;556384]That and Six Flags,sooner or later the Danny will have to sell off some assets to stop some of the bleeding.[/quote]

wrong the dan is worth bucks and is not afraid to spend it god save you if the salary cap is ever trashed!

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[quote=53Fan;556451]If it will help the offense, I will be glad to take them some. :)[/quote]
nice :headbange

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[quote=redskinjim;556457]wrong the dan is worth bucks and is not afraid to spend it god save you if the salary cap is ever trashed![/quote]

As I am sure others here will tell you the funds that pay for the players come from another account /fund. What the other poster and I were referring to is that Dan's wealth is all on paper,the Skins and the stadium are all assets but only on paper,with the way the market and real estate in general have taken a hit the net worth has gone down.Now if the Danny has leveraged anything he owns to buy stock or secure any other investments ....aka Stock in Zebra radio or Six Flaggs and those investments start to lose money .......technically he might have to sell off some assets, to cover those loans if they are ever call in.

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Another egotistical move by Danny Boy. Look, I only know B-Mitch from Redskins Post Game Live. My take on B-Mitch is that he spoke the truth and just said things as they were. If the Redskins played well, he acknowledged it. If they played poorly, he reflected on all the mistakes they made. What's so bad about that?

Is he supposed to commend an owner (Dumb Snyder) and his sidekick (Dumber Cerrato) for mediocre achievement year after year? Maybe Danny can get his head out of his ass and realize that neither he (nor his sidekick) knows anything about football and should let football-minded people run the organization (i.e. GM). Stick to marketing which is more of your forte.

So, now, with B-Mitch gone, we get to listen to a season of sugar-coated post game analysis. "Well, the Redskins lost 35-14, turned the ball over four times, commited 1,350 yards in stupid penalties, but they showed a lot of guts, fans."

This organization is becoming such a joke! Excuse me, they're becoming a mediocre joke. 8-8 folks for the 2009 season. Mark my words!

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[quote=novaman;556477]Another egotistical move by Danny Boy. Look, I only know B-Mitch from Redskins Post Game Live. My take on B-Mitch is that he spoke the truth and just said things as they were. If the Redskins played well, he acknowledged it. If they played poorly, he reflected on all the mistakes they made. What's so bad about that?

Is he supposed to commend an owner (Dumb Snyder) and his sidekick (Dumber Cerrato) for mediocre achievement year after year? Maybe Danny can get his head out of his ass and realize that neither he (nor his sidekick) knows anything about football and should let football-minded people run the organization (i.e. GM). Stick to marketing which is more of your forte.

[B]So, now, with B-Mitch gone, we get to listen to a season of sugar-coated post game analysis. "Well, the Redskins lost 35-14, turned the ball over four times, commited 1,350 yards in stupid penalties, but they showed a lot of guts, fans."[/B]

This organization is becoming such a joke! Excuse me, they're becoming a mediocre joke. 8-8 folks for the 2009 season. Mark my words![/quote]

I don't think anyone is like that except Larry Michael. And no one says you have to listen to 980am. You can listen to The Junkies on 106.7fm or Comcast Sports Net. Plus Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin on the sports reports do not hold back on ripping the Redskins and neither does Doc Walker.

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b mitch is right on some thing he says. but i think he goes overboard at times, maybe he still thinks he can play.if i rember right he never had any explosiveness at least while he was in our uniform.maybe he thinks he got a bad deal getting cut,and theres is probably a little jealousy of portis he hates clinton, but he is more negative than any thing, thats just my thought on the matter.i thought he nickled and dimed his way into 2 the record books.hell i dont know 2 much on him because he was just a disappiontment 2 me on and off the field.

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I really dont think it has anything to do with snyder personally. Its been mentioned but Al Koken was let go too. He is the most knowledgable hockey guy on 980 and really is not a snyder basher so I think its just all around cuts. Good luck to him

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good luck 2 all of us in this financial crunch but u dont think our spendig will put us in jeapardy. we live with out a salary cap i just hope d.snyder wasnt trained by them boys from enron if u smell my drift.

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Pick him up, vet minumim

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[quote=skindeep;556482]good luck 2 all of us in this financial crunch but u dont think our spendig will put us in jeapardy. we live with out a salary cap i just hope d.snyder wasnt trained by them boys from enron if u smell my drift.[/quote]


what????

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[quote=skinsfan69;556479]I don't think anyone is like that except Larry Michael. And no one says you have to listen to 980am. You can listen to The Junkies on 106.7fm or Comcast Sports Net. Plus Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin on the sports reports do not hold back on ripping the Redskins and neither does Doc Walker.[/quote]

Thank you. I posted the same this on the first page but no one wants to read they just want to be emotional.


And b-mitch honestly deserved it. He doesn't add any value to the network. I really wish he took CP up on that fight; B-mitch would be nothing less than hospitalized in about 2 minutes.

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[quote=skindeep;556482]good luck 2 all of us in this financial crunch but u dont think our spendig will put us in jeapardy. we live with out a salary cap i just hope d.snyder wasnt trained by them boys from enron if u smell my drift.[/quote]

:doh:

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;556484]what????[/quote]

:laughing2

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[quote=Mattyk72;556433]I highly doubt Snyder had anything personally to do with this. I'm going to edit the thread title to be a little less dramatic and misleading.[/quote]

Thank you. That original post was so misleading. Cost cutting move, nothing more.

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[quote=sportscurmudgeon;556455]Since John Thompson lost both of his "sidekicks" in this "restructuring", it will be interesting to hear what he has to say - if anything.

I have had sporadic contact with Thompson over the last 30 years. Trust me on this one; if he has something he wants to say about this matter he will - - and he will not be concerned about who likes or does not like what he says. It is also quite possible that he does not have anything to add to this matter in which case he will say nothing.

Monday's program should be very interesting...[/quote]

John Thompson and Doc Walker together should be interesting

I wonder if this will open the door now for Joe Theismann's long rumored arrival to 980

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Yaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy.

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^Sorry. When I read the news, I started partying. I just sobered up enough to give my oppinion. lol. JK.

For the life of me I could not figure out why it has not been done sooner? All he ever did was bad mouth the owner, organization, and half the players. I understand people don't want to hear suck ups all day but we also don't want to hear negativity every radio session either, especially from the very radio station who is sponsored by the team. Let another radio station slam the team or have guest on with different views of the team from time to time but don't hire someone who constantly looks for negative things to say about the team.

Bye B-bitch. won't miss you. Go back to Philly where your loved and love to be.

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Have you guys ever thought that Coach Thompson sounds like Don Cornelius from "Soul Train?" When I do take the liberty to listen to the show which is very little cause I hate B-Mitch, the coach's voice almost puts me to sleep, but I can't help thinking about Don Cornelius when I hear him.

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I want Riggo back.

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No big loss, IMO. He's tha classic-ex-player ego. He sees everything through the prism of his own career. There's a lot of other fat they could cut if you ask me.

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[quote=FRPLG;556367]Actually it was a cost saving move. Red Zebra is hemmoraging cash. Koken got cut too and I don't think Koken ever pissed Dan off.[/quote]

Koken was a Skins nay-sayer. Rarely had anything good to say!

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[quote=SBXVII;556515]Have you guys ever thought that Coach Thompson sounds like Don Cornelius from "Soul Train?" When I do take the liberty to listen to the show which is very little cause I hate B-Mitch, the coach's voice almost puts me to sleep, but I can't help thinking about Don Cornelius when I hear him.[/quote]

Kudos for a Soul Train reference. When I was a kid, the beginning of Soul Train meant that the line-up of classic Saturday morning cartoons had come to an end (Soul Train came on at noon in our area), so I always sort of looked at Don as bringing gloom to my TV. But yes, I agree that JT sounds like him.

The one thing I won't miss about Brian Mitchell is his consistency in complimenting himself (even through his very last show). I actually was listening to the show on Friday, and there was a discussion about Rafer Alston's slap to the head of the Celtics' Eddie House, and B-Mitch said, "You've got to keep that in check. I always did. Even though I was always one of the most intense and aggressive guys on the field, I knew where to draw the line."

C'mon. You can discuss the need for avoiding line-crossing without making sure to, yet again, plug how superior your approach to the game was. This I will not miss.