Anyone Need A Baseball Analyst?

In a completely unexpected move ESPN fired longtime analyst Harold Reynolds last night. Reynolds had been with ESPN for 11 years, working on Baseball Tonight, the College World Series and the Little League World Series.

No reason has been given or discovered at this point. The only thing anybody can think of is when HR and fellow analyst John "One Nut" Kruk got into a heated discussion about what the Yankees should do with A-Rod. It was nothing major, and certainly not the only time these two have gotten on each other's nerves.

If that was the case, ESPN made a big mistake. Fire Kruk. Harold Reynolds and Peter Gammons have always been the two main reasons I watch Baseball Tonight. Now neither are there. (Gammons is still recovering from a brain aneurysm. Once he hears about Reynolds, he may have another.) Instead I'm going to be subjected to Steve Phillips, Jeff Brantley, Orestes Destrade, Tino Martinez and Orel Hershiser.

Of that list the only one I don't want to punch in the face repeatedly is Hershiser.

I know Reynolds was a little bit too player friendly, but he was still the smartest guy on that show, along with Gammons.

So on a network that continues to pay annoying morons (Chris Berman, Steven A. Smith, Stuart Scott), a guy who failed miserably at his last job too (Steve Phillips), and a cokehead (Michael Irvin), the good guy-Harold Reynolds-gets fired unexpectedly and with no reason given.

Way to alienate your viewers, ESPN.

(Edit:Now according to Deadspin.com, sexual harrassment seems to be the leading theory as to why Reynolds was relieved of his duties at ESPN.)

SOURCE: Say Goodnite, Harold-Deadspin