Thanks to a tip from vigilant reader Jason, we have new information into the budget cuts inside of ESPN’s NHL department. Almost a month ago, it was reported that Scott Burnside was being forced to record his videos from either his grandmother’s house or a Ramada Inn with what we can only assume was a disheveld homeless person holding the camera.
Today, we have new evidence of just how bad things have gotten for the hockey folks over at ESPN. As you can see in the video below, the network cannot afford tripods nor dishelved homeless people to hold thier cameras anymore. EJ Hradek is forced to record this video while holding his own camera in an awkwardly MySpace kind of way at home in his room. Pictures are expected to surface sometime later this week of Hradek using his own bathroom mirror to take full body shots of himself for use on his MySpace profile.
In the video, Hradek appears well groomed, excited and happy but that is only a veil to convince his online friends that he is cool and worthy of their internet friendships. He will later post a depressing entry on his LiveJournal which is a last ditch cry for help before ESPN cuts out his employee discounts on ESPN the Magazine.
The economy is hitting everyone hard and it is driving our NHL reporters underground. They’re almost… Dare I say it… Bloggers!
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