I think Jurko did that recently.

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Elections have consequences.

Maybe Finji can become a regular on Matty's podcast.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Does he have his own IceGirl as well?

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

a podcast for each out of wedlock kid

was never good....barely a bench player.

Too Kermit the Frog like.

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Elections have consequences.

This x 1,000,000

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and part Lugan, too

I just love that people are actually losing their jobs because they get so mad at the goofball in the White House.

Trump wins again!

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

It couldn't be Bruce Wolf though as the post implies that the reporting party works at an AM station and Bruce has not worked since at least 2015.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

This x 1,000,001!

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Blackhawk goal, scored by number 20, Al Secord.

Ben better not read the Trib article or the comments to the article LOL

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/br ... story.html

Was Finfer really on the air that much anyway?

Sounds like he's been tweeting about politics for months.

When you're Finfer, and the company asks you not to do it, then don't do it. Or you get fired.

We have enough people doing the Trump jokes and insults. Finfer isn't more clever or funny then the thousands doing it. So why risk your job?

Then again, he might have wanted to get fired. Like he said, he had no future at ESPN 1000.

Why in hell is an article aboot a bench player radio talker (FREAKING TALKER) the BREAKING SPORTS news story, and at the top of the main Trib landing page? It was the second story. Bury deep in the sports section, or not don't include it. May be good for Red-eye

He wasn't a day time guy. Every time I flipped ESPN 1000 on at night it was either Hood, Huebner or a game. When did Finfer have shifts anyway?

Plus, they don't do half hour updates at their station anymore. So Huebner doesn't do much at the station either.

Even after Jemele Hill has gotten in trouble (reprimands, suspension) for tweets about the President being racist and calling for boycotts, this moron decides to do the same thing.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

And, as Finfer stated, he knew ESPN had its own social media guidelines. Just looking at his tweets, he seems like he could be a little less d-baggy.

Still, I have an issue with employers telling people what they can and can't say outside of work. I understand that employers have their interests, but the ability for a person to share his or her beliefs is an interest of everyone. Employers are the last group of people who should be telling us how to think--that's a disaster.

Right. And it's Ben Finfer. A back up that's bounced around as a back up for years.

Doesn't matter if Trump is an ass hole. Doesn't matter if Finfer was right. Everybody with a brain knows Trump is a racist scumbag. We don't need to backup sportscaster at ESPN 1000 stating the obvious. And Finfer was told it would cost him his job. What did he gain from the tweet? Nothing. Did Ben not think he wasn't replaceable? They'll just hire some other snot nose kid to do weekend and night shifts for $150 a shift. Maybe even one of their current producers. Those shifts mean nothing to radio bosses. They just need people to kill the time. The ad rates are the same for whomever does it. Everybody is watching TV.

Well, now Finfer gets to tweet whatever the hell he wants. Hope it was worth it.

They weren't telling him how to think. They were just saying keep it to yourself and stick to sports.

Yay corporations!

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ESPN has put themselves in a tricky bag with their new policy. "No political comments on twitter". So that's the policy. And they fire people for ripping Trump. Fine.

What if there is another mass shooting at an elementary school and a bunch of kids die? And an ESPN employee tweets "Our Government needs to have stronger gun control to save kids lives."

Does that person get fired?

It's gotta be all or nothing if you have such a policy so I would assume that type of tweet would get you fired.

Comments are a microcosm of this place

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

After 23 years,I got a phone call telling me I was done.

One week later,I was dead.


So fuck Ben Finfur and the rest of the crybabies. Losing a job blows but working on ESPN isn't a real job anyway.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Beardown do you think ESPN would’ve tolerated any of their hosts calling Obama a Muslim terrorist during his presidency ?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

No. But they might not have been fired. Just suspended. Because they didn't have a "social media" policy when Obama was in office. But if somebody tweeted that, they would have implicated it at that time.

For what it's worth, they fired Schilling for his anti-Muslim Facebook meme, and let's face it, every other offensive political thing he had said during his time there. I think all this was before a clear-cut social media policy from the network regarding politics.

Must have been a REALLY slow news day for Phil...

Seems like the system is the exact opposite of what these idiots are fighting for. Totally white privilege here....


As for personal time, these people use their twitter for work. There is no separation of church and state.

Yeah. And they gave Shilling a few chances before they fired him. But he wouldn't stop.

Now they've made it known that they have a "Zero tolerance" Policy. As an employee, that's all you need to know. You can tweet what you want if you don't want to work for them. Everybody can make that choice. I think all of the ESPNers making millions will comply. Finfer didn't think his 40k was worth resisting a shot at the President.

Silvy, Waddle, Jurko, Carm and Kap are gonna keep their mouths shut to keep their 6 figure salaries. I guarantee you that.