Dan Le Batard needs he had a “do over” on the contentious interview Michele Tafoya had on his present.
Le Batard, who left ESPN to discovered Meadowlark Media with former ESPN president John Skipper, appeared on the “Home of Strauss” podcast. Host Ethan Strauss requested Le Batard if the interview with Tafoya was successful primarily based on the excitement it generated — it up to now has garnered 79,000 viewers on YouTube, a big quantity for his or her community, and was mentioned by quite a few retailers on-line, together with The Submit — or a failure as a result of, as Strauss phrased it, there was not a “assembly of the minds.”
“I don’t acquire something from how that performed out,” Le Batard mentioned. “I don’t need clicks gratuitously. I’m not within the cheapened click on enterprise. I actually went into that dialog with Michele Tafoya hoping that the dialog can be, ‘Hey, that is anyone I had a pleasant, cordial relationship with. Let’s see if we make some artwork right here reconnecting after 15 years.’
“Not combative artwork. Simply catching up as a result of this bridge might be traversed by individuals who know one another a bit bit, after which it went off the rails from the beginning. It actually was surprising to me. She thought she was ambushed. I’m not an ambusher. I didn’t intend to ambush her. It simply went off the rails instantly as a result of my introduction was awkward. And, she felt like she had been lied to.”
Tafoya left NBC Sports activities earlier this 12 months, the place she had lengthy been the sideline reporter on the marquee “Sunday Night time Soccer” package deal, and has entered the realm of conservative politics. Along with being a pundit, she is co-chairing the gubernatorial marketing campaign for Republican candidate Kendall Qualls in Minnesota.
As Le Batard referenced, Tafoya later mentioned that she felt “ambushed” within the spot. Le Batard was adamant this was not his intention, and he needs he might have a mulligan.
“However I actually went into that interview hoping to speak to her about her profession,” he mentioned. “I went into that interview hoping to have the dialog we’re having proper now [civil disagreement about political matters]. However I simply by no means received it off the bottom. And so if I had some do-overs there, I want to do it over.
“And I’m unsure I might have even run it given what the fallout was, simply because, we went in circles. I didn’t suppose it was a superb search for anyone.”
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