Raise a glass to FS1, who finally pulled the plug on 3 garbage sports shows

Look, I’m not usually in the business of celebrating people losing jobs. But when it comes to the clowns running their mouths on FS1 every morning, I’ll make an exception. If it looks like a rat, walks like a rat, and talks like a rat… well, you get the idea.

FS1 just cleaned house and mercifully canceled three of their flailing shows ahead of the 2025 football season. “Speak,” “Breakfast Ball,” and “The Facility” are all donezo. Cue the smallest violin in the world…or don’t. Whatever.

Raise a Glass to FS1, who finally pulled the plug on 3 garbage sports shows

NEWS: Joy Taylor out at Fox Sports as FS1 cancels three shows, including her's, Craig Carton's & Emmanuel Acho's, The Athletic has learned.https://t.co/vhKvPJqPWj

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) July 14, 2025

According to The Athletic, these shows were axed because they couldn’t pull in any real audience which is hilarious when you remember how many forced viral clips they tried to manufacture weekly.

FS1 has been trying to copy ESPN’s success for years, and somehow kept managing to churn out worse, more unwatchable versions of already-bad TV.

Joy Taylor, host of Speak, was among the casualties. You might remember her name popping up earlier this year in a lawsuit involving a former Fox Sports hairstylist and some absolutely wild accusations about the network’s behind-the-scenes culture. Let’s just say the vibe over at FS1 hasn’t exactly been squeaky clean lately.

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As for Breakfast Ball, the morning show with Craig Carton, Mark Schlereth, and Danny Parkins—it never stood a chance. The show felt like the awkward result of a group project where no one read the assignment. Carton yelling, Schlereth talking about toughness, Parkins trying to mediate—it was sports talk for people who hate nuance.

Craig Carton sucked. Always.

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Then there’s The Facility, FS1’s latest attempt to repackage tired locker room talk as a studio show. Emmanuel Acho, Chase Daniel, James Jones, and LeSean McCoy all played football.

None of them made the show interesting. The only reason anyone in Philly would watch that show is for Shady, but in the grand scheme of things, no one cared about him ranting in the Birds’ favor outside of us.

It launched less than a year ago and somehow still felt like it overstayed its welcome.

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The network couldn’t keep pretending these shows were working. The timing makes sense too. NFL season is coming, and if you’re not bringing real energy or insight in the football world, you’re getting left behind.

So yeah, we raise a glass today—not in spite of the layoffs, but because FS1 finally admitted that its product was trash.

Good riddance.

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