Michael Wilbon: As long as Greeny or Stephen A. didn’t get the Emmy, I’m fine’
"What do we need to do differently?"
"What do we need to do differently?"
WaPo reports that ESPN approached Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser about doubling their airtime but didn’t offer much of a raise.
"You know who else is eligible for the Hall of Fame right now? Barry Bonds is eligible, Mark McGwire is eligible, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, they're eligible. Are they getting in any time soon?"
Kornheiser was one of the many voices in national sports media who thought Kiper and the NFL Draft were a joke when ESPN gave him a platform more than 40 years ago.
"Do you want me to say it or do you want to say it, as to what we're doing here?"
"He could be the most charming guy in the room and the guy you wanted to throw out the room."
"I think we'll see him again, because ... he has taken on a role that nobody ever thought he would take on, which is ambassador of golf."
"The NBA needs to follow suit very quickly after the tone that the NHL has set."
"You're the problem."
"The first game is where you are going to feel how much those fans feel betrayed and how much pain they have."
"PTI is one of the brilliantly engineered formats."
"I don't know why I said Pardon the Interruption."
"It's a money play for everybody involved, including this network."
"They want to wave the No. 1 foam finger, drink some beer, and watch football. That's what America does."
"This is college football attempting to spit in the eye of the NFL."
ESPN is bouncing around ideas to replace the departing Around the Horn including an hour-long edition of Pardon the Interruption.
"The Big 12 stinks. It's a terrible conference."
"My Bristol sources insist PTI will continue to anchor ESPN’s afternoon block for the foreseeable future."
"I'm overjoyed that they're on."
"Wilbon was criticizing me for moving 3½ miles — from Phoenix, where he moved 20 years ago."
"The Jets aren't as good as they, or all of their slurpers, think they are."
"It was like he was a human computer. A baseball computer."
"I want to fool around with the score."
"I guess if I wore a black tank top and I could get away with those words on this show, I would use them."