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Shaw in response to Rafael making a blog story that asks Showtime to start showcasing Golden Boy Promotions prospects.
Dan,
Maybe you are right, some of the writers,promoters or managers are afraid to tell you how they really feel.
Well like I told you today, "you are way off base". Since when does an ESPN employee, a boxing scribe at that, tell another network what promoter they should be using and what fighters of the promoter they should be using. Maybe you should have sent the blog to your own company first.
ESPN hasn't done any shows with many of us, or used our talent, but I know that doesn't bother you, only things you care about, are what you believe. I am starting to believe that you think you know more than anyone else in the sport, and many believe the same thing, but for you to start shilling an entire company, and their fighters, "you have lost your mind". The tenor of your blog is all wrong, it should read Golden Boy's Prospects should be on ESPN. Then Gordon Hall can see them in action, and make a case for who or who should not be on the air, but remember....Gordon wants them in tough fights. When is the last time you called Doug Loughrey and told him how to program and who to use, maybe you should walk Richard and Oscar into Dougs office, maybe they can do an autograph signing.
You need to understand that you maybe the "Heart and Soul of Boxing" to a network, but you are only one of many boxing writers in the world, and you are not the best, or the brightest, but you are entitled to your opinion. What you should not be doing is exactly what you do all the time, blogs or articles like this. If you want to promote, stop hiding, quit ESPN and join us other ass holes who are still trying to find, build, and sell our talent to the networks. But maybe you are getting commission from Golden Boy, or someone that does business with them, that I would understand.
Anyway, like you I am entitled to my opinion, except ESPN hasn't given me the platform to show what an idiot or someone who crosses the line can write. You sent your blog to a select few, but I thought that on the chance you might get a Pulitzer Prize for the blog, I thought your peers should also have the opportunity to push their favorite promoters as well, as all competitions should be fair. Anyway, on the chance that you will read this and understand that the competition for dates and fights is fierce, on the networks, you will do what you were hired to do,,,,,,,,report and write the news, don't try to make it. Remember it's one thing to talk about matches you would like to see on the air, and it''s another for you to try and play promoter and programmer, leave something for the rest of us to do.
Gary Shaw
Dan,
Maybe you are right, some of the writers,promoters or managers are afraid to tell you how they really feel.
Well like I told you today, "you are way off base". Since when does an ESPN employee, a boxing scribe at that, tell another network what promoter they should be using and what fighters of the promoter they should be using. Maybe you should have sent the blog to your own company first.
ESPN hasn't done any shows with many of us, or used our talent, but I know that doesn't bother you, only things you care about, are what you believe. I am starting to believe that you think you know more than anyone else in the sport, and many believe the same thing, but for you to start shilling an entire company, and their fighters, "you have lost your mind". The tenor of your blog is all wrong, it should read Golden Boy's Prospects should be on ESPN. Then Gordon Hall can see them in action, and make a case for who or who should not be on the air, but remember....Gordon wants them in tough fights. When is the last time you called Doug Loughrey and told him how to program and who to use, maybe you should walk Richard and Oscar into Dougs office, maybe they can do an autograph signing.
You need to understand that you maybe the "Heart and Soul of Boxing" to a network, but you are only one of many boxing writers in the world, and you are not the best, or the brightest, but you are entitled to your opinion. What you should not be doing is exactly what you do all the time, blogs or articles like this. If you want to promote, stop hiding, quit ESPN and join us other ass holes who are still trying to find, build, and sell our talent to the networks. But maybe you are getting commission from Golden Boy, or someone that does business with them, that I would understand.
Anyway, like you I am entitled to my opinion, except ESPN hasn't given me the platform to show what an idiot or someone who crosses the line can write. You sent your blog to a select few, but I thought that on the chance you might get a Pulitzer Prize for the blog, I thought your peers should also have the opportunity to push their favorite promoters as well, as all competitions should be fair. Anyway, on the chance that you will read this and understand that the competition for dates and fights is fierce, on the networks, you will do what you were hired to do,,,,,,,,report and write the news, don't try to make it. Remember it's one thing to talk about matches you would like to see on the air, and it''s another for you to try and play promoter and programmer, leave something for the rest of us to do.
Gary Shaw
I read this the other day
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