ESPN sucks, so do thread closers

[Vampiro69 0]

Wow, Mark Madden for 4 hours? What did Pittsburgh do to deserve that?

[Guest Smues]

ESPN cut the 2nd half of PTI to show Schilling going for the no hitter. I know some people like when they do that, but seeing the last out or two live doesn't mean anything. It's no better than seeing it on sportscenter later, without killing PTI.

 

(And yes, I DO plan to bitch when they cut PTI for Barry Bonds as he gets closer to 755)

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Not Mark Madden the old WCW announcer....?

[JustJoe2k5 0]

Not Mark Madden the old WCW announcer....?

 

One in the same.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Wowzers

[Timmy8271 0]

Orlando:

 

6-10 Mike and Mike

10-1 Cowturd

1-4 Dan Patrick

4-7 Local show with Terry Bowden and Brady Acherman

After 7 at least at my house the feed goes dead for the station.

 

Hey Smues, I don't know if you know this but not only was the schilling stuff on ESPN but it was also on ESPN2. ESPN2 had the stupid stupid baseball draft. I'm sure it was on ESPN News so why did they have to have it on 3 stations?

 

Oh yeah, When Sportscenter opens up with Paris Hilton, you know it's a slow news day.

[Vern Gagne 0]

Does The Sports Guy write about anything other than the NBA?

[Vampiro69 0]

Does The Sports Guy write about anything other than the NBA?

 

The New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox, and by reading his older work Hooisers and the Karate Kid.

[Mike wanna be 0]

Breaking news, Roger Clemens has a 64% strike percentage. Perhaps more importantly, he topped out at 91 mph, and threw 9 non-fastball, non-splitters in a 108-pitch effort.

 

If he keeps throwing like that, I'm going to laugh when he starts getting his shit clobbered.

[Craig Th 0]

Why is ESPN talking about the Sopranos finale so much? Their sister station has the NBA Finals on, I think they would like the ratings to go there and not to HBO.

 

Unless they are thinking "can't beat them, join them".

[2GOLD 0]

Why is ESPN talking about the Sopranos finale so much? Their sister station has the NBA Finals on, I think they would like the ratings to go there and not to HBO.

 

Unless they are thinking "can't beat them, join them".

 

I think even they realize it's a losing battle.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Tony: Not as clutch as his reputation?

 

John Kruk and Steve Philips will debate, tonight at 6.

 

Edit: In addition, the final scene whatever happens will be the #1 in the top 10 plays of the day.

[J.B. Buzzkill 0]

Even though ESPN couldn't give 2 shits about Formula 1, I expect to see SOME coverage only because, being ESPN, a black man won, and Robert Kubica was damn near killed today.

[swan 0]

Wowzers

 

he was a mainstream sportswriter long before his wcw days.

[Mike wanna be 0]

Why is ESPN talking about the Sopranos finale so much? Their sister station has the NBA Finals on, I think they would like the ratings to go there and not to HBO.

 

Unless they are thinking "can't beat them, join them".

They did get backed into a corner when somebody asked Lebron about the Sopranos finale at the press conference they aired. Lebron loved the question, so naturally ESPN jumped all over the subject and started acting like it was their brilliant plan all along.

 

Side note, Stuart Scott does a remarkably good Stephen A Smith impression, and thanks to the joy of Youtube I learned that Mick Foley does a killer Vince McMahon.

[Hawk 34 0]

What did Lebron say?

[Mike wanna be 0]

James' face lit up when asked about the Sopranos finale, and he handled the offbeat question as seriously as he would have if he had been asked to dissect the defensive schemes San Antonio has devised to stop him.

 

So, LeBron, what's going to happen to America's favorite gangster?

 

"Me and my guys have definitely sat down and thought about it," he said. "My friends think that either the feds are going to come and get him or he's going to make friends with the feds and maybe snitch on a lot of people, or he's going to be whacked, which I don't think is going to happen.

 

"I hope that he's just able to get away and not worry about nothing."

 

As reporters in the interview room deep inside AT&T center erupted in laughter at his rambling response, James smiled - and continued.

 

"I'm serious," he said. "I'm a big Sopranos fan, and this is the first time I finally got a question which is not the same question I've been hearing all year. I appreciate that. I'm pretty tired of answering the same questions."

[Bored 0]

Just in case you actually needed another reason to never watch SportsCenter again, ESPN is giving you one:

 

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/sport...2mike11.art.htm

July is usually a slow month for sports news. So ESPN's SportsCenter, in an off-beat plan that will be announced today, figures it can just invent its own news.

 

The idea, ESPN senior coordinating producer Glenn Jacobs says, is to add a new Who's Now segment on every SportsCenter in July. The concept, he suggests, might seem familiar: "We're stealing our model directly from ABC's Dancing with the Stars."

 

Except nobody will dance. The point, Jacobs says, is to select 32 famous active athletes, seed them and put them in tournament-like brackets. Each day, one will be eliminated — based on verdicts from ESPN judges and viewer voting online and via text messages — in head-to-head matchups. The last one left will be deemed the "Ultimate Sports Star."

 

It's hard to imagine viewers getting too worked up about, say, first-round upsets. But ESPN seems serious.

 

Jacobs says a June 29 Selection Special, hosted by Stuart Scott, will be modeled on the CBS and ESPN NCAA basketball tournament selection shows, complete with talk of "who's on the bubble" and an as-yet unnamed "commissioner" defending the seedings.

 

Jacobs hope judges and voters take into account much more than athletic ability in deciding which athletes to eliminate. They should also consider athletes' marketability, he says, as well as "who they've been seen with, what parties they go to."

[sfaJack 0]

The saddest thing is that the rubes in this country will vote by the thousands for this thing.

[2GOLD 0]

ESPN senior coordinating producer Glenn Jacobs

 

I didn't know Kane had a part time job at ESPN.

[Guest Smues]

Oh goodie.

[bob_barron 0]

Your coordinating producer is....

 

KANE!

[Vern Gagne 0]

I'm surprised ESPN hasn't had celebrity anchor week.

[Guest Smues]

If Kane walked out on the set and choke slammed Stuart Scott I'd mark out.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

ESPN Player Ratings

 

What a piece of garbage this thing is.

[Guest George's Box]

Your coordinating producer is....

 

KANE!

It took me a second to get the joke, but I'm glad I did. Well played.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Just in case you actually needed another reason to never watch SportsCenter again, ESPN is giving you one:

 

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/sport...2mike11.art.htm

July is usually a slow month for sports news. So ESPN's SportsCenter, in an off-beat plan that will be announced today, figures it can just invent its own news.

 

The idea, ESPN senior coordinating producer Glenn Jacobs says, is to add a new Who's Now segment on every SportsCenter in July. The concept, he suggests, might seem familiar: "We're stealing our model directly from ABC's Dancing with the Stars."

 

Except nobody will dance. The point, Jacobs says, is to select 32 famous active athletes, seed them and put them in tournament-like brackets. Each day, one will be eliminated — based on verdicts from ESPN judges and viewer voting online and via text messages — in head-to-head matchups. The last one left will be deemed the "Ultimate Sports Star."

 

It's hard to imagine viewers getting too worked up about, say, first-round upsets. But ESPN seems serious.

 

Jacobs says a June 29 Selection Special, hosted by Stuart Scott, will be modeled on the CBS and ESPN NCAA basketball tournament selection shows, complete with talk of "who's on the bubble" and an as-yet unnamed "commissioner" defending the seedings.

 

Jacobs hope judges and voters take into account much more than athletic ability in deciding which athletes to eliminate. They should also consider athletes' marketability, he says, as well as "who they've been seen with, what parties they go to."

 

Now, this whole thing is pretty ridiculous to begin with, but doesn't that final line strike anyone else as exceptionally retarded?

 

"You shouldn't be voting for that Roger Federer guy, because he's a boring European and doesn't roll with Jay-Z and Diddy on weekends."

[Hawk 34 0]

As stupid as the whole thing is, it is a popularity contest. Literally.

[Guest Smues]

Vote for the most popular athlete, and by most popular we mean the athlete we constantly tell you is the most popular.

[Bored 0]

So I flip by ESPN and Steve Phillips is debating Steve Phillips on Baseball Tonight. Um ya.

 

Going back to this contest or whetever they are doing on SportsCenter it's just a classic example of ESPN simply becoming a network full of starfuckers now. They'll do anything to make sure these athletes keep coming to Bristol to do ESPN commercials. I'll just go waaaaaay out on a limb and say the final four will be Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Derek Jeter, and Tom Brady.