All the details you need to know about on why did ESPN decide to fire Marly Rivera who covers the MLB.
Marly Rivera, a reporter for ESPN who covers Major League Baseball, was fired after using the ‘”cu*t” in a conversation with a coworker a week ago. Rivera reportedly attempted to secure an interview with Aaron Judge, a key player for the New York Yankees, before a game that took place a week ago.
It was claimed that Rivera was waiting to talk to Judge before the Yankees game against the Angels. Ivón Gaete, another journalist who was also interested in doing an interview with him, arrived while she was still waiting for him to arrive. Gaete is a freelance reporter who was working for Tokyo Broadcasting when she covered the story of Shohei Ohtani. In addition to that, she is the wife of John Blundell, who is the vice president of communications for Major League Baseball.
When Rivera informed Gaete that she had an appointment to interview Judge, and Gaete disregarded her, the argument between the two of them started. After that, the doors of the bomb bay swung open, and a massive C-bomb was dropped on Gaete, with an F-bomb serving as a lead-in to the explosion.
A disagreement arose between Rivera and Ivón Gaete regarding the Judge interview just before the Yankees’ game against the Angels. Rivera became agitated when Gaete refused to respect the exclusivity of the time that she had scheduled to speak with the reigning AL MVP. Rivera claimed that she had scheduled time to speak exclusively with the AL MVP.
This conversation was unfortunately captured on tape, which is bad news for Rivera. She made an effort to apologize to her coworker, but it appears that her efforts were useless because Gaete refused to accept her apology. The freelance journalist Gaete was working on an assignment for Tokyo Broadcasting at the time. Her husband, John Blundell, is the Vice President of Communications for Major League Baseball. She is married to John Blundell.
Marly Rivera releases statement after getting fired by ESPN
Following her dismissal from her position at ESPN, Rivera issued a statement in which she accepted all responsibility for what she had done. However, she maintains the belief that the reason she was fired was not primarily due to the thing that she said, but rather was the accumulated result of a number of other things that were occurring at the same time.
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The statement read: “I fully accept responsibility for what I said, which I should not have, There were extenuating circumstances but that in no way is an excuse for my actions. I am a professional with a sterling reputation across baseball and I do believe that I am being singled out by a group of individuals with whom I have a long history of professional disagreements.”
The incident took place at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, prior to the game between the Yankees and the Angels. While in the Bronx, Gaete was working on a project for Tokyo Broadcasting alongside Shohei Ohtani, a star two-way player for the Angels. Rivera is bilingual and has made contributions to both the website and on-air broadcasts of ESPN.com in addition to ESPN Deportes. She worked for ESPN for a total of thirteen years.
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