According to Le Batard, the feedback that kept coming back was that viewers didn’t want to hear one side of anything. “I just don’t want to hear one side of this,” Le Batard said, paraphrasing the feedback. ESPN acted on it, according to Le Batard. ESPN has already been unwinding pieces of the debate-era identity that grew out of the dynamic Le Batard described. There’s some irony in the fact that the very format ESPN built to satisfy its audience is now the one its audience appears to be rejecting.