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Liam Hendriks Drops Multiple F Bombs On All-Star Telecast

The White Sox closer got the save in colorful fashion.
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The 2021 All-Star festivities in Denver, Colorado have come and gone but Liam Hendriks might still be putting money in the swear jar at Coors Field.

The White Sox Pitcher was mic’d up on Tuesday night, along with other major league stars appearing in the game. Unfortunately for Hendriks, he assumed the microphone wasn’t working because he couldn’t hear anything in his earpiece.

That made for some raw and unfiltered content as the hurler closed out a 5-2 victory for the American League in the bottom of the 9th inning.

After Atlanta braves slugger Ozzie Albies doubled off Hendriks in the ninth inning, catcher Mike Zunino walked to the mound and was caught saying, “this is what the people want, you’re mic’d up.”

“No it’s not working, haven’t heard a thing all night,” Hendriks replied, explaining why he so willingly dropped F-bombs on the national broadcast.

“Well the mic’s working, but the earpiece isn’t,” Joe Buck said as Zunino walked back to his position behind home plate.

Cursing aside, Hendriks gave a real-time view into what it’s like when a pitcher doesn’t quite have their best stuff. It also made for great content, which is a theme whenever Major League Baseball lifts the curtain a bit and lets their player’s personalities shine through.

The laid-back All-Star format allowed for multiple players to be mic’d up throughout the game. The non-cursing highlight came early on in the night when Vladimir Guererro Jr. hit a bomb to boost the AL lead. His buddy Fernando Tatis Jr. gave a live reaction to the homer; something fans would never get on a normal MLB telecast.

Don’t expect to see players mic’d up throughout the 30 major league ballparks anytime soon, but powerbrokers at Major League Baseball are doing their best to work more interaction into the sport.

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3.72 Million Tune In To See LeBron James Break Scoring Record

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Lakers star LeBron James surpassed the NBA’s all-time scoring record on Tuesday night, and TNT benefitted from the milestone ratings wise.

According to Sports Media Watch, Tuesday night’s game averaged 2.98 million viewers. That figure made it TNT’s biggest regular season audience in over two years.

The broadcast peaked at 3.72 million around 11:45 p.m. when James passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the record.

Reporting also indicated that the game was the number one single-network program on TV in key demographics.

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Disney Makes ESPN Independent Division In Corporate Restructuring

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Disney is in the process of reorganizing and restructuring the company, and details have emerged about the company’s plans for ESPN.

Deadline reported on Wednesday that ESPN will be one of three standalone segments comprising Disney. Entertainment and Parks, Experiences & Products are the other two segments.

The reorganization comes amid the exit of former CEO Bob Chapek and the re-entry of CEO Bob Iger. As one of Iger’s first moves back running Disney, he announced a restructuring of Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution.

It was also reported that Jimmy Pitaro will continue as the president of ESPN.

In total, more than 7,000 jobs will be eliminated after the restructuring.

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Roger Goodell: ‘Wouldn’t Surprise Me’ To See Thursday Night Football Move to Flex Scheduling

“Not today, but it’ll certainly be something that’s on our horizon.”
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In 2023, Monday Night Football will join Sunday Night Football in having the ability to flex NFL games into its window. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday Night Football could someday join that elite club.

During his “State of the League” speech Wednesday, Goodell said Thursday Night Football having the ability to flex matchups “wouldn’t at all surprise me”.

“Not today, but it’ll certainly be something that’s on our horizon,” the NFL Commissioner said.

ESPN bargained for the ability to move higher profile games into Monday Night Football during its negotiations with the league for the next television contract that begins this upcoming season.

NBC has long held the ability to shift a select number of games from earlier windows into the Sunday Night Football primetime slot.

Amazon Prime Video just completed the first of an 11-year contract that sees the streaming platform spend nearly $1 billion per year on the Thursday Night Football package.

One of the largest storylines of Amazon’s debut season with the NFL was the near-constant ridicule from play-by-play announcer Al Michaels over the lackluster TNF schedule. Michaels made headlines over several weeks for his candor on the lack of interesting matchups, going as far as to joke that if the schedule didn’t improve he would retire.

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