Dan Le Batard

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I don't know what jumps out at you when you think back at all of the times you were asked, why are you guys harming us?

What jumps out as like the greatest hits of stuff you guys did that you knew would be interfering with the money?

What was on that list?

The one that I remember that was sort of the starting point on it, we hadn't been there very long.

It was a funny one in retrospect because of everything I'm about to tell you, which is during a quaint time when newspapers mattered, I was calling around during our show as content all over Cleveland asking how much it would cost to buy a newspaper ad that said to LeBron as he headed back to Cleveland, hey...

you're welcome from Miami.

And we got stopped at every turn and were asked to pay like $100,000.

And furthermore, they wouldn't take our money when we were asking about it.

So we decided to put up billboards at much less of a cost, which as the newspaper industry falls apart, it's funny to think about getting billboards a lot cheaper because newspapers wouldn't take our money.

But we were talking about all this on air,

And then ESPN suspended me because they said once we did it, we were going to fly a banner over his homecoming and everything else.

Once we did it, they said, you didn't give us any notice.

And I'm like, but I was talking about it for weeks on the show.

They weren't listening to the show, which is how that happened.

And we came to get a babysitter after that because they, what I'd requested when I got there from Skipper, just leave us alone.

They did.

They didn't listen to the show.

And so we were getting away with things right up until we didn't.

And in that case, we offended LeBron, his camp, and literally the money.