Their ratings are dropping like a rock.
People can't watch ESPN anymore. After five minutes of droning on about Washington D.C., or racism, or Trump, or some election somewhere, it's time to get the remote. That's not why I'm here.
I don't see ESPN playing in bars anymore. Because the channel is no longer about sports. It is about politics. I don't want to listen to that crap while I'm drinking a brew and shooting pool.
The very last thing the owner wants in his bar is for a bunch of drunk guys to start talking about racism and Trump.