I’ve been laid off. A lot of people who work or have worked in media have been laid off at some point. Our own John Stolnis told a particularly cruel story of his own, and his is just one of countless anecdotes from sports media that ended with a pink slip and a long walk home.
Granted, the personalities cut from ESPN yesterday in some recently announced and dreaded layoffs have, in most cases, several years of high profile experience on their resumes, and in other cases, an amount of celebrity to fall back on. But the act itself is a tough grenade to swallow.