Gammons leaving ESPN…

Peter Gammons

I know that the baseball season is quite a ways away, but I am going to jump on the breaking story about Tar Heel Peter Gammons leaving ESPN, and then go back to our scheduled football and basketball until April. Gammons, who has been with the World Leader in Sports for twenty years, is not retiring, but moving on to something else. When I think of Dick Vitale I think of college basketball before thinking of him working for ESPN. Same goes for Gammons, as I typecast him with baseball before thinking about him working for the sports network. Here is the small statement that the Hall of Famer gave about this:

“My decision to leave ESPN and move on at this point in my life has been conflicted,” Gammons said in the statement. “I owe a great deal of my professional life to ESPN, having spent more than half of my 40 years in journalism working for the network, and the choice to move on was made with nothing but the strongest feelings for the people with whom I worked.”

I am not sure what is going on, but for ESPN to let go of someone like Gammons is a big blow and will without a doubt put a dent in the baseball coverage for the network. We shall see where one of the best at his work ends up, but I hope he stays working because he is one of the best baseball analysts of our time, and maybe, just maybe, the best in the sport’s history.

At first I thought Gammons would be retiring due to the stroke he suffered in 2006, but the fact he is going to head somewhere else blows up that theory. In the end, anywhere he lands let me be the first one to wish him all the best, and also say that I will keep following him, as I have always liked the way he talks about the game.

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