Sticks up to FOX 13 Seattle Sports Director Aaron Levine who sent the Seattle Kraken to the penalty box for promoting GM Ron Francis up in its corporate food chain, even though his leadership has led to the firing of two coaches in four years and only one playoff appearance. During the opening of the Washington Sports Wrap Show Wednesday, Levine said: "To me, there is something wrong about being moved up! The team has clearly underperformed for two straight years."
Good for Aaron. He has taken on the Mariners GM and its team mediocrity as well. Seattle is a soft TV market in general when it comes to criticizing its sports teams. Nice to see some one speak out instead of cheerleading.
Good for Aaron! Its great to see one of our market's sports reporters having the courage to call out one of our teams for not performing well. More of this please!
ReplyDeleteToo many partnerships, with KING and the Hawks and now KING/KONG and the Kraken. It's the softball world series of comments and questions.
DeleteThat is the downside of these partnerships that TV stations are forming with sports teams. The TV station doesn't want to upset their all important sports team partner, so they may avoid calling them out when they deserve it. Every market should have at least one TV station that doesn't have a partnership with a sports team so that there can be a sports reporter or two who can call out sports teams when needed without running the risk of damaging and/or ending a lucerative parternship.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.....it's about access and money and not getting beat by the competition
DeleteBad pub for the Kraken, especially upper management, is really something new.
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