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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Harold Reynolds and ESPN have settled Reynolds’ “wrongful termination” lawsuit, which he filed after being fired by ESPN in 2006 after 11 years as an on-air analyst.
ESPN, which fired Reynolds in July 2006 as their baseball analyst on Baseball Tonight, was scheduled to go to trial with Reynolds in February 2009.
Reynolds claimed he was wrongly fired after a female intern complained about what he called a “brief and innocuous” hug.
Details will remain private. But Reynolds, in a statement, says that “my wife and I are very happy to have achieved an amicable settlement with ESPN. I feel my goals were satisfied, and I look forward now to concentrating on the game I love.”
Klismaphilia Twister Nights are a gas!
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Posted: April 15, 2008 at 08:23 PM | 24 comment(s)
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Brad Pitt hugs her: "Wow, you're so cute!"
Harold Reynolds hugs her: "Ick. Sexual harrassment."
Chris Berman hugs her: "Rape!"
John Kruk hugs her: "You do have one nut."
Eric Young hugs her: "I'm sorry. I can't understand anything you say."
Harold Reynolds hugs her: "Ick. Sexual harrassment."
Reminds me of a Chris Rock joke, "what's sexual harrassment, when an ugly guy wants some?"
That's a very nice ha-ha-only-serious. Way too much truth there for general comfort.
SNL: Tom Brady vs Fred Armisen
It can be done. You can have sex with women at work without losing your job, by following a few simple rules: [ the rules are displayed on-screen with accompanying check marks ]
Be Handsome..
Be Attractive..
and Don't Be Unattractive.
Really? I know a little about H.R. From what I understand, this charge of sexual harassment allegedly fits a pattern that is not limited to ESPN.
I've heard some things, too, but it doesn't matter if he's a womanizer, and it doesn't if he's sexually harassed people outside ESPN, and it doesn't matter if (as I think was likely) he really did give this intern a hug with the intent of it developing into hot, hot, sloppy office sex. The way ESPN treats this a) has to follow certain procedures, and b) has to be congruent with how it treats other employees, neither of which occurred here, to my understanding. If HR hugs an intern and it makes her feel uncomfortable, then that has to be relayed to Reynolds (either directly or through the proper office channels) and he gets a warning and/or reprimand. If he continues this behavior despite numerous warnings and reprimands (or does something especially egrerious, like Option J), then ESPN can and should fire him. But if you've been suggestively hugging interns for your whole career at a place, and no one's said anything to you, or given any kind of disciplinary action, your employer doesn't get to fire you and claim "pattern of behavior".
Salisbury chose option J and got suspended for a week.
How does anyone not named Harold or Mrs. Reynolds know this?
This could be how the Soviets viewed their relationship with Poland for a lot of years.
Well maybe, but there's hardly any public evidence that this is any more true than the rumors that he was catting it up at work and bothering the help outside of ESPN. He could have a Personnel file three inches thick, chock full of annoyed interns and offended associate producers, but until he or ESPN chooses to make this info public it's supposed to stay closed. And we don't know what's in ESPN's back pocket any more than we know if HR is divorcing or heading home to Rob and Laura Petry bliss. We don't know, and that makes this even less newsworthy than it would be on its face.
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