ESPN's Around The Horn goes out with a whimper, dies on the woke mountain

As you may or may not know, ESPN's Around The Horn is set to be cancelled in two weeks after an impressive 23 year run.

I have to say when the show first came out I actually enjoyed it more than PTI. I really enjoyed the intensity of the discussions and the ball breaking banter. I even continued watching after Kellerman was replaced with Reali.

I wanna say it was around the time when Bomani Jones became a regular where the show just took a total nosedive. Everything became racial and political and the show started having on more "diverse" members and everyone would go off on these woke tangents. Then they started adding more female cast members into to the mix and before long what used to be a hard hitting show where old school guys duked it out over sports became this very soft, very safe kid glove type show. Trump being elected is what really did them in though. The TDS was just off the charts and the show became unwatchable.

So in the lead-up to the grand finale, as the show is about to be cancelled because everyone jumped ship and no one is watching anymore, here is woke lesbian Kate Fagan talking about the importance of standing up for trans kids and trans athletes.

[url]https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1920607080601231601[/url]

Bravo Kate. :oldlol:


[B]R.I.P. Around The Horn[/B]

Was fun while it lasted.

I used to watch it sometimes along time ago and it was decent. I have only watched it a few times in the last years. I still sometimes will put on PTI if I’m doing some stuff around the house and have it in the background.

Everything comes to pass. Every generation sees things it once loved come and go.

Dont let it dishearten you, altho I understand thats easier said than done. Just keep trying to find new enjoyments when the old ones disappear.

It's part of the life experience. Nothing is supposed to stay the same. Once you adjust your expectations accordingly I think it becomes a bit easier to accept.

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I know you just wanted to say 'BAD WOKE!" in here but you know what is actually going to get you? When ESPN in it's entirety gets shut down.

Sport Center gone

ESPN 2 gone
ESPNews gone

all of it gone


As well as every other cable channel.

Cable is dying. 5% less viewers every single year.

I stopped watching ATH probably six or seven years ago. I just wasn't ever home to watch it nor did I care about that much to record it or anything.

Yea I don't know about the "Woke Mountain", guy. I stopped watching after college really. It was great for its time but there's just more interesting and accessible ways to consume sports content now. Even in its prime it wouldn't work as well now.

[QUOTE=ShawkFactory;15003158]Yea I don't know about the "Woke Mountain", guy. I stopped watching after college really. It was great for its time but there's just more interesting and accessible ways to consume sports content now. Even in its prime it wouldn't work as well now.[/QUOTE]

So then why isn't PTI being cancelled? In fact when it was first announced ATH was being cancelled, there were rumors circulating that PTI would be expanded to the full hour time slot.

[url]https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/pardon-the-interruption-expand-around-horn-cancellation.html[/url]

I guess PTI still brings in adequate viewership for them. Not as many woke lesbians browbeating the viewers at home into accepting men in women's sports or putting children on puberty blockers.

[QUOTE=Baller234;15003176]So then why isn't PTI being cancelled? In fact when it was first announced ATH was being cancelled, there were rumors circulating that PTI would be expanded to the full hour time slot.

[url]https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/pardon-the-interruption-expand-around-horn-cancellation.html[/url]

I guess PTI still brings in adequate viewership for them. Not as many woke lesbians browbeating the viewers at home into accepting men in women's sports or putting children on puberty blockers.[/QUOTE]
^typed in his klan robes

[QUOTE]Lets go round the horn
Max is in rare form
(insert other lyrics i forgot)
That's Around The Horn!
Weekdaysssss at 5![/QUOTE]

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that commercial was goated. cant find it on youtube when i just searched. Stopped watching ATH in 04-06 when max left.

[QUOTE=Im so nba'd out;15003185] that commercial was goated. cant find it on youtube when i just searched. Stopped watching ATH in 04-06 when max left.[/QUOTE]

After he left the real niccas were watching I,Max

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Fueled by hatred, even for a TV show. :oldlol:

[QUOTE=Baller234;15003176][B]So then why isn't PTI being cancelled?[/B] In fact when it was first announced ATH was being cancelled, there were rumors circulating that PTI would be expanded to the full hour time slot.

[url]https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/pardon-the-interruption-expand-around-horn-cancellation.html[/url]

I guess PTI still brings in adequate viewership for them. Not as many woke lesbians browbeating the viewers at home into accepting men in women's sports or putting children on puberty blockers.[/QUOTE]

Several reasons. Mainly I'd imagine they still have the same likeable dudes as always.

[QUOTE=ShawkFactory;15003258]Several reasons. Mainly I'd imagine they still have the same likeable dudes as always.[/QUOTE]

What to hate about Kornheiser and Wilbon?

Haven't had cable in years so I just assumed ATH was canceled years ago. I watched that show every day after middle school way back in the mid 2000's. I didn't know shows like that still existed in today's age. Woody Paige was the GOAT on that show. He was the likeable Skip Bayless.

[QUOTE=ShawkFactory;15003258]Several reasons. Mainly I'd imagine they still have the same likeable dudes as always.[/QUOTE]

But doesn't that undermine your argument? You said that ATH was being cancelled due to a change in how people consume content, but PTI being kept on the schedule because they have likable personalities would totally contradict that claim.

You're only proving my point. People tuned out from ATH because the rotating cast members weren't likable.