ESPN sucks, so do thread closers

[Guest Smues]

You stay classy, Page 2

 

Check the third option in the poll. Nice guys.

 

Darren McFadden, RB, Arkansas

 

What's the problem?

 

[alfdogg 0]

He's black.

[KingPK 0]

Aha, they changed it. The original question was "Which would you like to see most this weekend?"

 

- The Steelers beat the Patriots

- Johan Santana is traded to any team other than the Red Sox

- Kevin Garnett blows out his knee (hence the photo of Garnett to the right)

- All of the above

 

I see that they realized the poll went over like a fart in church and took it down.

[Brett Favre 0]

Best poll they've had in a while.

[Guest Smues]

I wish you had screen capped that.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I hope you did that on purpose.

 

Que?

[Steve J. Rogers 0]

Another example of laziness on the part of general sports show hosts. This week there was a controversy over the Baseball Writers Association of America saying that they would no longer vote for any player with a clause in their contract when it comes to their awards starting with 2013 (IIRC) later in the week they backed down from their stance and rescinded it entirely.

 

Well, ESPN Radio's Game Day hosts were just talking about the Heisman voting and mentioned the story, only using the major headline, and not the fact that it was rescinded. They also brought up Curt Schilling, but only in terms of what his clause states, and not in that it was his blog entry that started the whole controversy.

 

Also I think Mel Kiper Jr. talked about how in the HOF voting someone like Vin Scully doesn't get a vote. Uh Mel, Vin did have a vote as part of the newly designed Veterans Committee (though I don't know if he and his fellow Frick and Spink winners still vote in the player elections now that they've split the categories) and he wasn't challenged. And IIRC Scully was a member of the previous Veterans Committee for a few years as well. I'd have to double check but I'm pretty sure he was on there.

 

Not saying you have to be up on everything little that happens, but if you are going to bring up something in terms of a topic, you better know the rest of the story rather than an outdated version of it.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Also I think Mel Kiper Jr. talked about how in the HOF voting someone like Vin Scully doesn't get a vote. Uh Mel, Vin did have a vote as part of the newly designed Veterans Committee (though I don't know if he and his fellow Frick and Spink winners still vote in the player elections now that they've split the categories) and he wasn't challenged. And IIRC Scully was a member of the previous Veterans Committee for a few years as well. I'd have to double check but I'm pretty sure he was on there.

 

That's a fair criticism. There are hundreds of qualified sportscasters and such who are excluded from the voting process. While some sportscasters get to vote for the veterans' committee, that's a small honor reserved for a small number of observers. There are far more good baseball viewers than just the BBWAA.

[Steve J. Rogers 0]

Also I think Mel Kiper Jr. talked about how in the HOF voting someone like Vin Scully doesn't get a vote. Uh Mel, Vin did have a vote as part of the newly designed Veterans Committee (though I don't know if he and his fellow Frick and Spink winners still vote in the player elections now that they've split the categories) and he wasn't challenged. And IIRC Scully was a member of the previous Veterans Committee for a few years as well. I'd have to double check but I'm pretty sure he was on there.

 

That's a fair criticism. There are hundreds of qualified sportscasters and such who are excluded from the voting process. While some sportscasters get to vote for the veterans' committee, that's a small honor reserved for a small number of observers. There are far more good baseball viewers than just the BBWAA.

 

Oh I agree it is a fair criticism, but the way Kiper said it, it made it seem Vin Scully had never in his life ever been asked to vote for the HOF, and while that is true for the front door (BBWAA), is not true for the side and back entrances.

[J.B. Buzzkill 0]

Fuck that 5th grader. I want to curbstomp him.

[treble 0]

Damien Cox, oh how much I hate him.

http://coxbloc.com/

[Vern Gagne 0]

I don't understand the point of these mock NCAA playoffs ESPN does every year?

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

So I notice that the booyahs have been playing "let's show as many black people in Vick jerseys as possible." I had the TV on mute, so I couldn't hear them surely enabling racially polarizing support of Michael Vick, but I did put the volume on in time to hear Arthur Blank say "maybe he can come back after 2009, if he doesn't eat too much fried chicken in prison."

[JaMarcus Russell's #1 Caucasian Fan 0]

I don't understand the point of these mock NCAA playoffs ESPN does every year?

 

So we can find the TRUE NATIONAL CHAMPION !!!!~ DAH DAH DAH DAH.

 

For all the anti-BCS that is all well and good for me, their continually pushing for a playoff and doing these stupid mock playoff things are getting real tiresome. I think the point is to show how much Kirk Herbstreit knows and how much we don't

[Vampiro69 0]

ESPN has been running a show featuring the "This is Sportscenter" commercials. I had forgotten about alot of these. I wish ESPN would bring back Charley Stiener. He was the man.

[Mik 0]

A reason ESPN doesn't suck: E-60.

 

I really enjoy it.

[King Kamala 0]

A reason ESPN doesn't suck: E-60.

 

I really enjoy it.

Agreed. I watched it tonight out of boredom and maybe it was my low expectations but I really enjoyed it.

[KingPK 0]

ESPN has been running a show featuring the "This is Sportscenter" commercials. I had forgotten about alot of these. I wish ESPN would bring back Charley Stiener. He was the man.

 

Edited December 12, 2007 by KingPK

[Vern Gagne 0]

Holyfield going after Steiner was my favorite.

 

What happened to Stuart Scott?

[hyperchord24 0]

A reason ESPN doesn't suck: E-60.

 

I really enjoy it.

Agreed. I watched it tonight out of boredom and maybe it was my low expectations but I really enjoyed it.

They are good stories, but they don't need that whole "boardroom discussion" that's supposed to be "real," but comes off incredibly pretentious.

[Guest A.BUTCHER'S HOUSE OF RIBS]

ESPN has been running a show featuring the "This is Sportscenter" commercials. I had forgotten about alot of these. I wish ESPN would bring back Charley Stiener. He was the man.

 

 

I'd never seen the one with the wrestlers on it. It was pretty funny.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

I'm going to miss Rick Reilly in Sports Illustrated. I don't want to switch over to ESPN magazine though.

[Timmy8271 0]

One thing that doesn't suck about ESPN: Marcellous Wiley. Him and Greenberg going postal on that ex Falcions coach was great.

[JaMarcus Russell's #1 Caucasian Fan 0]

Sean Salisbury and Bob Grise venom towards Bobby Petrino is what sucks about ESPN. Salisbury playing a fucking tough guy, and questioning Petrino's "manhood" was absurd at best. Hey Sean, football is just a game last time I checked.

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

I'm going to miss Rick Reilly in Sports Illustrated. I don't want to switch over to ESPN magazine though.

 

Amen. I always enjoyed Reilly's columns and am saddened that he's headed over to ESPN magazine.

 

The Y2K commercial is probably my favorite when it comes to ESPN commercials. The line of "Follow me to freedom" that closes it never ceases to make me laugh.

[MFer 0]

Anyone doubt that USC's gonna win that little mock playoff that ESPN's got going on?

[CanadianChris 0]

I played the one on their website three times, and the three winners were LSU, Kansas, and Illinois (?!?).

[Timmy8271 0]

Holyfield going after Steiner was my favorite.

 

What happened to Stuart Scott?

 

Emergency Appendectomy.

[fazzle 0]

Reason number...whatever: Devoting SIX STRAIGHT HOURS to the Mitchell Report.

 

Yeah, that's nice. Let's talk about something else. Anything!

[Mik 0]

This is BIG NEWS. That's a bit trifling.