ESPN paid Ryan Clark a reported $2 million a year for 11 years, then told him he was done during a commercial break on live TV. He says he'd never have gone all in on his own company without that exit. Two months later, that company has a Netflix deal and Howard Schultz as a partner. Clark already had the side project most people only talk about. The Pivot had been running since 2022 with Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder, 500+ episodes and close to a billion views. People kept telling him to…