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What has Pat Mcafee got to do with anything, is he somehow a controversial figure now?

I think its just that people either love him or hate him and it seems like OP is part of the latter group

I don’t have an opinion on him, despite the suggestiveness of my comment. He’s more illustrative of a spirit that Disney at a time did not have an appetite for.

But this was also just a short-lived political environment as well, where companies pretended to care about the current thing because it was politically expedient. How long did it take for them to do a 180? I mean they didn't believe in any of that stuff even a little.

Pat Mcafee catching strays (He has had his show for ~6 years) but Screamin' A Smith gets a pass?

Your bias is showing.

Stephen A Smith has done as much to harm ESPN's brand than any other figure. Please don't assume my biases from whom I failed to mention – I could have used SAS instead of Pat and my point would have been the same.

Perhaps I should have expected that the conversation would get pulled this way but it's not where I wanted it to go.

Sorry, my point was SAS has been on the network for at least what, 15 years? And he isn’t knowledgeable about anything but the NBA.

PM is probably the nicest guy on the network. I get why people hate him, but rarely does he talk shit about people.

If anything, SAS paved the way for PM.

That was why I said you’re biased. Or you just don’t know the network very well.

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