rumor is that he has been shit-canned by ESPN, no reasons given yet....just speculation!

sucks if true, i always liked HR

7/25/2006 9:24:09 AM

wow, that would be a surprise

7/25/2006 9:27:04 AM

ESPN is so shitty that this wouldn't surprise me.

7/25/2006 9:28:21 AM

just read that 620AM, espn radio was reporting this

speculation at this point, can't find anything else on the web about this...but a mod on statefans posted it

7/25/2006 9:28:32 AM

wwhhaatt I'm gonna be real sad if this is true. he's the most gratuitous and complimentary guy out there in the broadcasting world

7/25/2006 9:28:58 AM

Quite frankly, this was the wrong person to fire.

7/25/2006 9:30:37 AM

i see what you did there. and i agree. But Stephen A. has all the "proud to be" black people on his side.

7/25/2006 9:31:31 AM

fuck that shit. HR is awesome. He'll get picked up by the YES network, I hope.

7/25/2006 9:35:50 AM

Quote :

"Quite frankly, this was the wrong person to fire."

have to admit....took me way to long to get that

7/25/2006 9:38:43 AM

http://mb17.scout.com/fnorthcarolinastatefrm1.showMessage?topicID=59573.topic

here is the statefans topic discussing this, has slowed down a bit in the last 1/2 hour

7/25/2006 9:39:40 AM

He was the only person I cared to hear talk about baseball

7/25/2006 9:52:14 AM

maybe espn2 will hire him

7/25/2006 9:55:51 AM

He and joe morgan are the only ones that halfway make sense when they talk about baseball. It sounds like there'll be a backlash on this one.

Its funny how ESPN won't comment on this, and they just erased him from their websites overnight.

7/25/2006 9:56:03 AM

yeah he's off of baseball tonight. that show is barely watchable anyway and I found him to at least be easy to watch.

Fire Kruk.


Had to be off the air behavior. Probably drugs or prostitutes or something.

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 9:59 AM. Reason : .]

7/25/2006 9:57:08 AM

when Irving got popped for his "friends" piece, they announced that almost immediately.....maybe Reynolds pulled a Nate Newton, pushing pounds of reefer.

7/25/2006 10:05:38 AM

Harold was definitely one of their better baseball commentators. He'll be picked up by somebody if this is true.

7/25/2006 10:17:29 AM

I don't think he was the best analyst by any stretch of the imagination. But his watchability made up for it.

7/25/2006 10:19:34 AM

this makes john kruk very sad

7/25/2006 10:20:43 AM

you could tell he had a very down to earth personality, even on air.

if it was an arrest someone probably would have dug up the police report, right?

7/25/2006 10:23:36 AM

So Rick Sutcliffe embarasses himself and ESPN and keeps his job, HR must have done something bad.

7/25/2006 10:25:20 AM

They should give the job to Rush Limbaugh.

7/25/2006 10:26:39 AM

Stu Scott probably got mad cause he wasn't the most affluent black guy in Bristol anymore

7/25/2006 10:27:25 AM

time to dig through my boxes upon boxes of '80s baseball cards and find some HR cards


$eattle

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 10:31 AM. Reason : .]

7/25/2006 10:31:18 AM

That sucks - I really liked HR. If they fired him before firing Jeff Brantley, then he must have done something pretty shitty off air. Brantley is horrible.

7/25/2006 10:43:14 AM

Damn, I really liked him on BBTN


I guess now he'll have to work at the same Burger King as Trev Alberts

7/25/2006 10:46:01 AM

i wanna see a link of this somewhere other than a message board.

7/25/2006 10:50:49 AM

so do the rest of us.

7/25/2006 10:51:28 AM

http://www.deadspin.com/sports/top/say-goodnight-harold-189610.php

Doesn't say much, really. There are only 2 articles about it so far.

7/25/2006 10:56:23 AM

^does that work for you

7/25/2006 10:59:48 AM

best reason so far:

He must have eaten kruk's danish

7/25/2006 11:01:46 AM

benmaller.com is reporting it

7/25/2006 11:07:32 AM

so is the new york post website

7/25/2006 11:07:52 AM

I have a few of his cards

ebay

7/25/2006 11:27:49 AM

This better not be true.

HR is the best announcer on BBTN.

He is actually fun to listen to when he does games.

7/25/2006 11:52:51 AM

^its probably true considering espn took down his profile and all of his writings.

7/25/2006 11:54:05 AM

this is true, seen multiple sources, was reported on the radio, and all his shit is off of ESPN.com

7/25/2006 12:05:35 PM

I sincerely hope some new sports network starts up and becomes successful, putting ESPN in the shitter. I doubt it'll ever happen, though.

7/25/2006 12:09:04 PM

^he might get on with fox sports, then we'd get to hear him do playoff games, HR and Joe Buck seem like an OK combo.

7/25/2006 12:10:32 PM

god damn yall...post a fucking pic

7/25/2006 12:11:16 PM

^wants to beat to the pics...

7/25/2006 12:17:05 PM

7/25/2006 12:24:25 PM

^there's a pic you can beat your meat too

7/25/2006 12:25:01 PM

did he sign a bible verse?

7/25/2006 12:26:12 PM

no thats his walk to strikeout ratio

7/25/2006 12:28:10 PM

^lol

7/25/2006 12:30:14 PM

anybody heard any rumors on this?

i just want to hear the reasoning behing this, figured he must have pulled a Pat O'Brien

7/25/2006 12:54:08 PM

^ I saw somewhere that he had a myspace page (not sure if its true or not). Something might pop up there.

7/25/2006 12:55:42 PM

I hope this dude sets up a blog a la Mark Cuban and rips into everyone at ESPN, including Kruk, Ravech, and that motherfucker Steve Phillips

7/25/2006 1:06:52 PM

yeah because those are the guys who fired him

7/25/2006 1:18:35 PM

man they should NOT fire that dude, he is one of the better black analysts they have...like people like scotty pippen, you know those guys are reading something, but he makes it sound more real...puts some infliction(sp?) in his voice and demeanor

7/25/2006 1:19:05 PM