Jared Carrabis is leaving Barstool Sports activities for DraftKings, The Publish has discovered.
Carrabis, a distinguished nationwide baseball opinion character in sports activities media, had been at Barstool since 2014.
Earlier this week, web sleuths observed that Carrabis eliminated Barstool from his Twitter bio, and that his baseball podcast, “Part 10,” was now not on Barstool’s web site.
With Barstool as one thing of an ongoing, surreal actuality program, Carrabis’ contract negotiations performed out in public final yr. Barstool CEO Erika Nardini fielded lobbying pitches from podcaster Kirk Minihane on Carrabis’ behalf, with nothing in the end getting resolved on the time.
Reached for remark by The Publish, Barstool founder Dave Portnoy mentioned he was “pleased for him.”
“Earning money issues right here no longer 10 years down the street,” Portnoy mentioned. “I advised him that he ought to take that supply. I’ll miss him although. However that's our mannequin. Construct stars from the bottom up after which exchange them in the event that they get mega offers.”
DraftKings is constant to make an enormous push into OTT content material in hopes of changing sports activities media viewers into gamblers on their platform. They just lately have added content material from ESPN veteran Mike Golic Sr.
A DraftKings rep didn't reply to a request to remark for this story.
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