Perhaps I have a soft spot for women in a male-dominated industry or I have sympathy for non-English speakers surrounded by white people but it’s odd to see folks celebrating this woman being fired like she was a poison to baseball when in actuality, male reporters have been mediocre at their jobs and dickheads to their coworkers for generations and no one seems to give a shit but the second it’s a woman behaving that way, she needs to be terminated immediately. And yes, she doesn’t get along with every reporter in the industry but I still don’t think she has done anything any more or less egregious than what some male reporters get away with. Now that she’s currently a free agent, I doubt sports media companies will be blowing up her phone.īut there’s something weird about this whole situation. She so highly overrates what she brings to the sport. If you survived the cringe then yea, you can understand why ESPN didn’t bat an eye firing her.ĮSPN is also in the midst of massive employee layoffs which Rivera should’ve been fully aware of and adjusted her behavior accordingly but that’s part of what makes her so funny. In honor of marly rivera being fired, let’s take a look back at this video that made every yankees fan mad /aHTkOnA7UO Watch her press Aaron Judge about where he would sign in the offseason and use some made-up little kid to make him feel bad. She asked dumb ass questions and loved the sound of her own voice. She actually always came off as pretty strange. I don’t want to make it seem as if I’m defending Marly Rivera. Like, that woman was probably being an annoying white bitch but, ya know, you can’t really speak that way at work. We all understand that.īut it’s also very funny that Rivera simply cannot help but murmur insults under her breath at people but very purposely so they hear them. In another instance, she called a Latino reporter a “fake Hispanic,” according to multiple people who witnessed it. Last year, she flipped off another reporter and called her a “white b-” after the reporter attempted to take a photo of a group of Hispanic players that Rivera was taking a picture of, according to two people who witnessed the incident. Multiple reporters described to The Post incidents involving Rivera that they said crossed the line from typical scrapping in America’s largest media market to creating a toxic work environment. Here’s what her (former) co-workers said about Rivera: This very funny exchange led to Major League Baseball doing their own investigation into Rivera and finding out this was not the first time she flipped out at a colleague.

Apparently, Rivera has a history of beef with John Blundell, a vice president of communications for Major League Baseball-who happens to be dating Ivon Gaete, aka the aforementioned fucking cunt. Marly Rivera has claimed that she was being set up and singled out. Marly began speaking at Gaete in Spanish until Gaete seemed to not understand what she was saying before Rivera would sarcastically respond with “Oh, I’m sorry I didn’t know you speak English now” before calling her a fucking cunt directly in front of a camera. Last week, ESPN baseball reporter, Marly Rivera, got into a verbal disagreement with freelance TV reporter, Ivon Gaete, as Rivera and Gaeta waited behind Aaron Judge for an interview while he was signing baseballs for children.Ĭouldn’t have happened to a worse person🔥🔥 /BgmZJbSmfy

Espn baseball commentator gets fired up