My bad. I see it on TV alot, and just assumed ESPN.
Replace Hockey w/ Soccer.
You have your opinion, I have mine. Can't say either one of us is right. I just personally dislike the sport. Not a fan - thus annoying me when I see it on TV.
I do love that ESPN exists, but I hate the fact that they're not near as good as they used to be. It used to be much more "news" and much less "tabloid." I loved that ESPN and was a regular consumer of their product. Now I watch probably about 25% of what I used to watch. They've become something that doesn't appeal to me beyond getting scores and watching the games they show. I'm clearly not the target they're going after any more.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
The thing that bugs me most is tuning into a sports channel and seeing things that aren't a sport, mainly people sitting around playing cards. If poker is a sport, why don't they televise people playing Monopoly and Scrabble as well?
Oh man, this is like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Too much "entertainment", not enough "sports".
- Completely contrived dramatic crap, as if the sports themselves were not compelling.
- Annoucners/Analysts: I simply don't understand the love affair with having ex-jocks tell me about sports. Their expertise is in doing the sports. I want to see people's whose expertise is either journalism or analysis. I simply cannot emphasize this enough. This is the single #1 problem with ESPN, clueless talking heads who delivery crappy content poorly.
- Highlights: I want a 30 second version of the game, highlighting both the dramatic moments and notable "fun" achievements. There is more to a baseball game than strikeouts and homers and there is more to a basketball game than breakaway dunks and half court shots at halftime. Yuck.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
If Monopoly is a pro sport then I'm set for life.
Go Gators!
I would love it if ESPN actually put on more soccer. More actual sports, less pseudo-sports and infotainment crap. You may not like soccer, but you can't deny that it is an actual sport, as opposed to say, poker and billiards. I hate the fact that ESPN has the contract to broadcast Champions League Soccer, yet it has relegated that coverage to ESPN Deportes. I don't get ESPN Deportes because it's part of the Spanish Language package, so therefore I do not get to see Champions League Soccer. The only soccer ESPN shows on the English language channels belongs to the MLS.
Seriously, ESPN has to fill up the schedule for 5 or 6 networks somehow. Would you rather they filled it up with BS like poker and billiards, along with their infotainment junk like Cold Pizza, Around the Horn, and "Who's Now?" Or would you rather they filled it up with actual sports. I miss the days when you could see actual sports on ESPN. Show me some international soccer, some World Cup skiing, tennis, hockey, no-name college football (which is often more fun to watch than some lame big college matchup), swimming, diving, track and field, speed skating, water polo, anything. As much as I don't like figure skating and gymnastics, I'd much rather have that than have a bunch of hack sports writers yell at me through my TV.
I think it's a shame that ESPN and ABC, which both had a reputation for bringing a large variety of sports into our homes, have both become populated with catch-phrase spewing hacks who thrive on the idea that the personalities presenting the sports are more important than the sports themselves. Bring me back the days of Jim McKay on Wide World of Sports sending me to Austria for the Hannenkahm Downhill or to Acapulco for cliff diving.
Wear gaudy colors, or avoid display. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. The fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live. Be like your ancestors or be different. We must repeat!
This pretty much sums it up for me. It's from a couple years ago:
Originally Posted by Crash Davis
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
Wow, that post by Crash really does just about say it all. Right on the money.
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Does anybody else miss Karate and Sumo Wrestling?
I was just thinking that I miss seeing Australian Rules Football, Minnesota Fats and Willie Moscone billiards duels and "From the 55-Yard Line," the weekly CFL highlight show. All of that would infinitely preferable to the infotainment that ESPN fills its airwaves with now.
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