Has ESPN gone too far???

[lilbit]

First there was "Who's Now"

Then there was "Titletown USA"

Both sports related......ugh......


This morning I saw about two minutes of "The Greatest Sports Mustache" tournament and changed the channel.

Anyone else think ESPN executives are laughing at their viewers?

I can see why you would say this. When they intially started doing this kind of stuff, I thought whatever. Now I kind of like it.

Especially when they do it during the downtime between basketball and football season.
Baseball isn't enough to carry the sports season.

[HoustonGM]

Baseball isn't enough to carry the sports season.

Yes, it is, if they actually covered it like they cover the other sports, instead of showing 15 seconds of highlights and a little caption of the score for each game.

I used to think "whatever" when they first started this type of stuff, as well. Now, I'm just annoyed by it.

[metsguy234]

I can see why you would say this. When they intially started doing this kind of stuff, I thought whatever. Now I kind of like it.

Especially when they do it during the downtime between basketball and football season.
Baseball isn't enough to carry the sports season.

Well, if they do too much of this stuff they won't have enough time to talk about Brett Favre! So be careful what you wish for

[dickay]

Well, if they do too much of this stuff they won't have enough time to talk about Brett Favre! So be careful what you wish for

OMG so true lol!!!

So many things they could do....the outside the lines introspective stories, access to athletes, etc.etc.etc. and ESPN continually throws this garbage at us.

Why not some more behind the scenes stuff? Because all that stuff costs money and time. ESPN chooses the cheap and easy way out everytime.

[lilbit]

Yes, it is, if they actually covered it like they cover the other sports, instead of showing 15 seconds of highlights and a little caption of the score for each game.

I used to think "whatever" when they first started this type of stuff, as well. Now, I'm just annoyed by it.

Not so overall. Just about anyone you talk to in everyday life and ask them if they like baseball, the response is I like to go to the game but I hate to watch it on tv. Baseball playoffs are awesome but the regular season isn't that great. I can only stand to watch maybe three teams.

The Brett Favre has gotten old, even before it started.

There are a lot of people who don't like the outside the lines stuff either.

It doesn't matter. The different pace and change that epsn does is a good idea. If no one was interested they wouldn't get no where near the participation that they receive.

[chuckwillard]

Why is football training camp more important than the baseball season? Why is the Brett Favre story bigger than the Manny trade?

Because baseball isn't violent enough, too cerebral, and not cartoonish enough for the decadent and degraded average American.

Same reason MMA is taking off.

Anyone ever study Rome? Bread and circuses, that's what this country is coming to.

[ohms_law]

Yea... although, I've never really subscribed to the "fall of Rome" comparisons. People, as a group, are just plain... stupid? Ignorant? (I'm not really sure what the correct adjective would be)

[HoustonGM]

Yea... although, I've never really subscribed to the "fall of Rome" comparisons. People, as a group, are just plain... stupid? Ignorant? (I'm not really sure what the correct adjective would be)

Both.

[dickay]

Why is football training camp more important than the baseball season? Why is the Brett Favre story bigger than the Manny trade?

Baseball spring training is viewed as more important then the NBA finals and for many is viewed as a bigger deal than March Madness. I thinks its just change and the breath of a new season.

[HoustonGM]

Baseball spring training is viewed as more important then the NBA finals and for many is viewed as a bigger deal than March Madness. I thinks its just change and the breath of a new season.

It is? I never got that impression, not from watching ESPN at least.

[ohms_law]

Among baseball fans, I'm sure it is. Amongst the wider audiencs... I'm not so sure.

[dickay]

Among baseball fans, I'm sure it is. Amongst the wider audiencs... I'm not so sure.

I admit when i'm wrong, and I probably am wrong here. Its bigger for me and most I hang around with. March is the best time of the year....March madness and pitchers and catchers reporting at the same time as warmer weather hitting the Northeast! LOVE IT!

[metsguy234]

The thing that sucks is- the younger generation (i.e.- people my age) is playing all these video games, then gets drawn to violence, and therefore prefers football.

I hate when people call baseball slow or boring. I think it's more fun to know that any hit could win it, a team could comeback from any deficit, the pressure building is more fun then the inevitable buzzer that ends the game/comeback.

[ohms_law]

Case in point, LA vs. Bal last night. Real sleeper game, right up until what should have been the last out...



(I just knew I'd be able to get that graph posted somewhere today... lol!)

[dickay]

The thing that sucks is- the younger generation (i.e.- people my age) is playing all these video games, then gets drawn to violence, and therefore prefers football.

I hate when people call baseball slow or boring. I think it's more fun to know that any hit could win it, a team could comeback from any deficit, the pressure building is more fun then the inevitable buzzer that ends the game/comeback.

I'm not sold that video games are doing this to our youth. I think society in general has been much faster paced and aggressive in nature. Its on our streets, at the work place, on the tube, during vacations, at our restaurants...everywhere.