I guess Harold couldn't keep his hands off the interns so ESPN eighty-sixes him. Geeez, they let Irvin stay there after being arrested for drugs, and all Harold does is try to be a man and they let him go. Sad day for baseball tonight, I wish they would have fired Brantly instead.
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Harold Reynolds out at ESPN
- Thread starter nad00
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Was This Why Harold Got The Axe?
We can't say for sure why Harold Reynolds was fired from ESPN yesterday, because ESPN hasn't put out a statement or anything (and they don't have to), but we can tell you what the chatter in Bristol is: Everyone is hearing sexual harassment. Every single email we've received from the inside about this today has used those very two words.
Again, nothing concrete on this. But that is definitely what they're whispering in Bristol. Some highlights:
• Thirdhand info, but I'm told it's sexual harassment. There were allegations of inappropriate actions between him and female PAs on a couple different occasions, so I'm not entirely shocked.
• It's apparently sexual harassment, but no one knows who the victim was. It went down over the course of the weekend.
• I have on good authority that HR was fired for all things, hitting on girls. Allegedly, this has been going on for a while. The last straw was when a new PA was having none of what Harold had to offer and turned him in.
• Harold Reynolds was fired more or less for copious amounts of sexual harassment. Apparently, he brazenly hits on female employees constantly, despite the fact that his wife just had a kid six months ago. He was warned by the big-wigs on numerous occasions to cool it with the ladies, but someone finally lodged a complaint, and he was canned immediately.
• It's very difficult to get fired from ESPN. It takes multiple offenses ... they're usually so worried about getting sued for unlawful termination that people are suspended multiple times for the same repeated behavior before it finally comes to getting fired. Within the walls of the campus, there are only a few on-air talent guys that had an honest reputation as being overly friendly with the ladies, and HR was one of them.
So anyway, that's what they're saying on the Bristol campus. But since ESPN doesn't have to say anything -- in-house or otherwise -- and neither does Reynolds, we might never know for sure. (No announcement, we're told, has been made to the staff.) That's what they're saying, though; we didn't receive a single email suggesting anything but that.
But that's not what we're saying, because we don't know. To be clear.
We can't say for sure why Harold Reynolds was fired from ESPN yesterday, because ESPN hasn't put out a statement or anything (and they don't have to), but we can tell you what the chatter in Bristol is: Everyone is hearing sexual harassment. Every single email we've received from the inside about this today has used those very two words.
Again, nothing concrete on this. But that is definitely what they're whispering in Bristol. Some highlights:
• Thirdhand info, but I'm told it's sexual harassment. There were allegations of inappropriate actions between him and female PAs on a couple different occasions, so I'm not entirely shocked.
• It's apparently sexual harassment, but no one knows who the victim was. It went down over the course of the weekend.
• I have on good authority that HR was fired for all things, hitting on girls. Allegedly, this has been going on for a while. The last straw was when a new PA was having none of what Harold had to offer and turned him in.
• Harold Reynolds was fired more or less for copious amounts of sexual harassment. Apparently, he brazenly hits on female employees constantly, despite the fact that his wife just had a kid six months ago. He was warned by the big-wigs on numerous occasions to cool it with the ladies, but someone finally lodged a complaint, and he was canned immediately.
• It's very difficult to get fired from ESPN. It takes multiple offenses ... they're usually so worried about getting sued for unlawful termination that people are suspended multiple times for the same repeated behavior before it finally comes to getting fired. Within the walls of the campus, there are only a few on-air talent guys that had an honest reputation as being overly friendly with the ladies, and HR was one of them.
So anyway, that's what they're saying on the Bristol campus. But since ESPN doesn't have to say anything -- in-house or otherwise -- and neither does Reynolds, we might never know for sure. (No announcement, we're told, has been made to the staff.) That's what they're saying, though; we didn't receive a single email suggesting anything but that.
But that's not what we're saying, because we don't know. To be clear.
Hmm, I was just hoping maybe he had knock Kruk the f**k out or something like that. HR was a 'decent' analyst which, by ESPN standards, means that he was 'good'. Doesn't really matter as Baseball Tonight has a seemingly endless supply of potential analysts to choose from. Gammons has always been the one that matters most.
nad00 said:
:drinking:
I am waiting for the other Harold Reynolds DVD's, not on instructional baseball, but on harrassment techniques.
Grizbacker1
Well-known member
There are many stories about this behaviour being rampant for years. There is even a book written about it. Mike Tirico is said to make Harold Reynolds pale in comparison as far as sexual harassment goes, yet he is still there. HR must have pissed the wrong person off.
reclaverjr
Well-known member
See you at Fox, H. R.!
