The Thursday Show Prep

Philadelphia Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinals

By now, you've probably heard about or seen the video regarding the details of the passing of former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay.

Apparently, Halladay was a bit of a risk-taker. I don't have a right to tell Halladay how to live his life, but I can readily admit I don't have the fortitude to do any of these things.

But I'm also respectful enough to not obliterate the man and his life or his passing.

Which is why there is such a massive reaction to comments made this week by a pair of Boston sports radio show hosts, who essentially mocked Halladay's death and went as far as saying he got what he deserved. 

Michael Felger and Tony Massarotti, who host a show on Boston's 98.5 SportsHub, made plane crash noises, derided Halladay for being "cavalier" about life and said they had no sympathy for him. 

I'll allow you to listen in to the segment here, per Awful Announcing's Andrew Bucholtz

I know we're all "personalities" on the air, and we're all supposed to be different, or a bit more personal off the air. 

In this line of work, it can be easy to take things to the extreme.

But this.... this was out of line. 

In the interest of full disclosure, the video that these two radio hosts are referencing is included above.

Jones vs. Goodell is about to get ugly


Because this is what the NFL needs.

A greedy, self-righteous owner throwing a hissy fit threatening to use his apparently limitless bankroll to topple the power structure of the National Football League, for a multitude of reasons which may or may not include manipulating the mass media's inherent fascination with polarization, disvision and separation.

According to multiple reports, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is threatening to sue the NFL if Roger Goodell's contract is extended by the league's compensation committee.

What is driving this bus, you ask?

One of the the logical answers is the reaction from Jones -- and not an entirely incorrect one, I might add -- that the on-again, off-again suspension of running back Ezekiel Elliott is a violation of Goodell's power.

But that's not entirely it... not by a longshot.

Through this season, Jones has expressed growing dissatisfaction with Goodell's job performance and has said in recent weeks that the league needs to hire a new commissioner, sources said. The reasons include Goodell's handling of the player protests staged during the national anthem and the league's handling of the relocation of two teams to Los Angeles, which Jones helped engineer. 

Many owners are also angry with Goodell because they believe that he has given Jones too much power.

According to a report on ESPN, a person who spoke recently with Goodell said the commissioner is "furious" about Jones' and other owners' insistence that his next contract's compensation should be more performance-based, including incentives that would allow him to be paid at roughly the same level of his current deal. "He feels as if the owners have made a lot of money and he should be compensated accordingly," the source said. "The incentives thing really angers him."

Goodell has earned a total of more than $200 million since he was elected commissioner in August 2006, including $44 million in 2014 and $34 million in 2015. In May, at the league's spring meetings in Chicago, Jones joined his fellow owners in authorizing the compensation committee to work on extending Goodell's contract. But at the owners' meetings in New York last month, Jones told his fellow owners that Goodell's proposed next contract "is the most one-sided deal ever."

Jones has apparently hired a lawyer. A high-priced one at that.

Because that's good for the league, to go along with supposedly sagging TV ratings (they're not really sagging) and a purported decrease in fan support (that's not happening either).


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