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You know, Stu Gotts, that I am fascinated by the industry.

I am fascinated by what it is that happens at ESPN as the industry sports leader and what

happens throughout our literal business, Stu Gotts, because jobs in this field are shrinking.

As sports explodes, content explodes, the entities that employ people, bar stool, cutting

costs, ESPN doing it differently than it's ever done it before, giving a lot of money

to a few people and making them stars, undisputed, trying to keep up, skip Bayless when those

shows debuted at the start of football, skip Bayless took two months off, his show popped

on the internet with millions of viewers, but nobody was watching that on television.

Richard Sherman, the debut of that show debuted at 120,000 people.

That's like three or four times smaller than highly questionable it was.

And then shrunk to 70,000 people on the third day, which is less than what we were getting

on ESPN news for our show.

But the digital numbers were blowing up, right?

Well, not digital numbers, just internet talk that wasn't people going to their televisions,

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