{"id":915,"date":"2004-02-04T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:45:53","slug":"season-ends-for-playmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Season Ends for Playmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/020404playmakers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/020404playmakers.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">If you were in charge of programing and had a new<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\"> show<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> that not only received <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">critical praise,<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> but also drew in <\/span><u style=\"font-family: arial;\">five times<\/u><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> the number of<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\"> viewers<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> than the <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">network<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> had during the previous year, what would you do? <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Let me make it easy. I&#8217;ll give you three choices&#8230;<br \/>\nWould you <b>A] Celebrate<\/b> <b>B] Give everyone a raise<\/b> <b>C] Cancel the show<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">If you answered <b>C<\/b>, you&#8217;d be right.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><b>ESPN<\/b> <del>just cancelled <b>Playmakers<\/b><\/del> which was <b>critically praised<\/b> and did indeed bring in <b>five times<\/b> the number of <b>viewers<\/b>. <b>Playmakers<\/b> wasn&#8217;t just one of the <b>best shows<\/b> on <b>ESPN<\/b>, it was one of the <b>best shows<\/b> on <b>TV<\/b>. Period.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m hoping that another <b>cable channel<\/b> will pick it up. If not, I wish everyone who worked on it the best&#8230; because their work on the <b>show<\/b> was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in charge of programing and had a new show that not only received critical praise, but also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17399,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/17399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}