Others share my frustration with ESPN
In 2006, I wrote ESPN’s Obsessions: Cross-Promotion and Terrell Owens. Today, I read this:
If I could sum up my last three weeks with ESPN in a single, grammatically disastrous sentence, it would look like this: Pacman Jones Pacman Jones Yankees NBA NFL NBA NFL Dancing With The Stars Pacman Jones NBA NBA Yankees. What’s that Stuart Scott? A certain Cowboy might not be happy with having Pacman on the team? Tell me more! I really care about the Dallas Cowboys in the middle of May, especially when the story revolves around their backup cornerback. Give me more Pacman, and then sprinkle in a little slurping of the NBA just for fun. Then come back from one of those commercial breaks that have made you the most profitable cable channel of all time and tell me more about Dancing With The Stars! Nuts to showing actual sports highlights, let’s manufacture controversies and tie in sports with other Disney properties! [source: deadspin.com]
some commenters were in agreement:
For those of us from more thoughtful eras or corners of the world, ESPN is like a bad song on Top-40 radio. It’s jangly, repetitive and unfortunately, something that sticks to the mind like gum to the bottom of a shoe. We may hate it, but it cannot be escaped.
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ESPN is just awful. It’s coverage is so limited despite having the wherewithal to do so much more it is embarrassing.
I would have, in the distant past, offered a witty rejoinder commenting on the popularity of hockey (or lack thereof)… But, I couldn’t agree more with this post.
When you compare the fire hose of redundant news on ESPN, and SportsCenter in particular, with the plethora of sports out there (see: http://sports.yahoo.com), it is embarrassing. I know, I know, ESPN covers a lot of this stuff on their web site…but would it be a crime to not convert SportsCenter into a re-run of Baseball Tonight?
i cannot say anything bad about the network that shows every game of EURO 2008…even if they mention TO’s minicamp miss at halftime.