ESPN Sucks

[jiggafini19]

Sorry, I just couldn't resist this post. But this is the Leprechaun Lounge, so all is fair game:

White Sox 3, Red Sox 0...hence my hangover today.

Chris Berman is going to slit his wrists, ala Natalie Portman in the film "Heat." Manny's home runs and Ortiz's were REALLY EXCITING AND BERMAN WAS YELLING REALLY LOUD. Paul Konerko hits a two run homer in the sixth...Berman sounded like an ant fart. As a White Sox fan, I don't crave the media attention the Cubs or the two AL East powers get, but I especially loved sticking this series directly up the @sses of Jeff Brantley, Chris Berman and everyone else over there at the Eastern Seaboard Programming Network. 2004 ended with Foulke's G 1-3 to sweep St. Louis. So why did I have to hear all about the Red Sox World Series for another 11 months? No defending champion in the history of baseball thrived off of the previous year the way these guys did. Here's a big fat glass of closure...ENJOY.

Now if Anaheim eliminates the Yankees, look for the Eastern Seaboard Programming Network to shut down for the rest of baseball season...unless they join in on the Tony LaRussa-St. Louis Cardinals lovefest (BARF). The 2005 National League might be the worst I have ever seen. San Diego? Joke. No ALCS with the Red Sox OR Yankees? A Midwestern boy can only dream. Bud Selig will join Chris Berman on suicide watch if that happens. They might have to cancel the season entirely.

Did anyone catch Lou Holtz and Mark May at halftime of the Northwestern-Wisconsin game? These two don't like each other. It's great. May criticized NU for settling for a field goal against Wisconsin right before halftime. Holtz responded with, "Well, you're a linemen so you WOULD think that. It was a good move because they were down two scores and they needed to get it down to one score. Get the points on the board."

May: "But Coach, they could have taken a couple of shots at the end zone THEN kicked the field goal."

Holtz: (To Reece Davis) "That's not bad for a linemen. I surprised he figured that out!"

ESPN sucks. Holtz makes it worth watching.

The other guy making it worthwhile is Kirk Herbstreit, who knows more about college football than anyone else in the world. Kirk Herbstreit's upset of the day was Northwestern over Wisconsin. Corso took OU to beat Texas.

Kirk be thy name.

GO ANAHEIM!!

 

[TheRocket]

White Sox 3, Red Sox 0...hence my hangover today.

The Red Sox got soo much overexposure since their little stunt last fall, they have replaced the Yankees as the new Evil Empire.

Did anyone catch Lou Holtz and Mark May at halftime of the Northwestern-Wisconsin game? These two don't like each other. It's great. May criticized NU for settling for a field goal against Wisconsin right before halftime. Holtz responded with, "Well, you're a linemen so you WOULD think that. It was a good move because they were down two scores and they needed to get it down to one score. Get the points on the board."

May: "But Coach, they could have taken a couple of shots at the end zone THEN kicked the field goal."

Holtz: (To Reece Davis) "That's not bad for a linemen. I surprised he figured that out!"

Yes, I heard that too. May is a total and completed idiot. He loathes ND, especially after we whupped his Alma Mater at Heinz Field last month. Heck, even Rutgers rolled all over the pussycats last week.

The other guy making it worthwhile is Kirk Herbstreit, who knows more about college football than anyone else in the world. Kirk Herbstreit's upset of the day was Northwestern over Wisconsin. Corso took OU to beat Texas.

Herbstreit was late to hop on the Weis bandwagon, but he still doesn't think we stand a chance next Saturday.

 

[Domer95]

The Red Sox got soo much overexposure since their little stunt last fall, they have replaced the Yankees as the new Evil Empire.



Yes, I heard that too. May is a total and completed idiot. He loathes ND, especially after we whupped his Alma Mater at Heinz Field last month. Heck, even Rutgers rolled all over the pussycats last week.



Herbstreit was late to hop on the Weis bandwagon, but he still doesn't think we stand a chance next Saturday.

Herbstreit ALSO predicted that O$U was going to go undefeated and win the NC (yes, I know he's an alum....), so let's not anoit him too quickly.

 

[timm3117]

I know ESPN sucks, but lets remember, the guys working there are just people like me and you. They all have there favorites, so do we. So before you get mad at them (I know there Idiot's) just remember there just opinions, no need to get mad. If I worked for ESPN I'd be doing the same things they do. I just look at ESPN as a place to watch highlights with the sound down. I really don't need to hear them tell me how great the Irish are. I'd rather prove it on the field, and lets be honest as long as Notre Dame keeps winning and building on the future, who cares what the guys at ESPN think.

 

[jiggafini19]

Professional attitude. If Jay Bilas can do it, so can everyone else. If you are working as a NATIONAL ANALYST, the little boy inside of you dies when you're on camera. When you're off camera, p*ss your pants because the Red Sox won it all last year. Otherwise, act professionally. Peter Gammons is a Boston writer....he still manages to give national opinions.

As for Herbstreit, he's been with ND since day one. I'll annoint him as the most knowledgable person in college football because that's what he is.

He picked OSU to go unbeaten and win a national title. Thus, he's not a gambler. Week to week, he analyzes better than any of the other idiots on that network.

Mark May has to love that Penn State is unbeaten. You can almost feel his panties being in a bunch.

 

[timm3117]

Professional attitude.

Its good in theory.

People have been playing favorites since TV news started. So your telling me Lou Holtz doesn't come off as a ND fan. Of coarse he does. And its fine because it makes it fun. Guys like Mark May (who I think is a moron) get payed to voice there opinion. So all I was saying is if you don't like what he's saying turn him off, because if no one is watching he goes away.

 

[jiggafini19]

The only way I see them is at halftime of games. I don't care what any of them have to say anymore. I haven't seen Sportscenter in 4 months. (I have found that I miss the crooked lazy eye of Stuart Scott. Weird)

If a game is being broadcasted and I want to watch, I have no choice. The White Sox don't make the postseason very much, so when they do I have to listen to Chris Berman for three games? Thank God they swept Boston.

If Holtz wants to make positive ND comments, he'd have to make about 3 hours worth to make up for the bias on the Eastern Seaboard Programming Network. Someone should tell them the two best teams in each league of MLB this year were in Chicago and St. Louis. There are 50 states in this country. I think those morons visited all of them in as many days.

Terry Bradshaw was a Steeler. Fine. Herbstreit went to Ohio State, Bilas to Duke, May to Pitt. Chris Berman is a professional. Act like it. And it isn't just ESPN, believe me. I think Bob Costas is having an affair with Mickey Mantle's corpse. Costas opens his mouth to speak and I open mine to hurl.

There is nowhere to turn.

 

[timm3117]

Lets just face it alot of People HATE Notre Dame. So at ESPN its no different. People hate Notre Dame, because there not Notre Dame.

 

[jiggafini19]

Lets just face it alot of People HATE Notre Dame. So at ESPN its no different. People hate Notre Dame, because there not Notre Dame.

Notre Dame is the tip of the iceberg in regards to ESPN.

For about three weeks there was nothing but Andy Reid/Terrell Owens/Donovan McNabb soap opera coverage. Why was that situation spoon fed to the national public to the point that no one cared what the hell happened? They devoted HOURS of airtime to that whole little saga. Yeah, like Owens was really going to sit and not play. A couple of millionaires without a Super Bowl victory to their credit were in a playground spat. I was on the edge of my seat for that one....(YAWN).

Barry Bonds didn't play the entire season, yet there were stories about him every other day in his pursuit of Hank Aaron. Please, Eastern Seaboard Programming Network, can we get some stories about guys that didn't cheat and do juice who are HEALTHY and actually playing? Thanks. Not too much to ask.

I have changed the channel and gone elsewhere. Their sports coverage is stomach churning. Hopefully ND serves America a big $hitburger and beats SC this weekend. And hopefully Anaheim disposes of the Yankees tonight.

 

[Aerosmith777]

I hate to say it, but ESPN would love ND to beat USC. That would be nothing at all like the angels beating the Yanks tonight (please please please ). ND will be one of ESPN's media darlings again though if that happens, and then we'll hear how ND has a real shot at the national title for the rest of the season (unless they lose again). Fans of other teams think we get too much exposure as it is. They way we all think of USC and the Yanks, that's how a lot of OSU, Michigan, etc fans think about Notre Dame. So, its not quite the same.

 

[jiggafini19]

Win or lose, ND will be a story for everyone. Losing is good for the haters, winning and losing is good for the impartial professionals.

If there are any left anymore.

 

[AlbuquerqueIrishFan]

The only way I see them is at halftime of games. I don't care what any of them have to say anymore. I haven't seen Sportscenter in 4 months. (I have found that I miss the crooked lazy eye of Stuart Scott. Weird)

Ha ha!! I can't stop starring at that crooked lazy eye of Stuart Scott when he's on. It’s a weird little eyeball. I'd like to know if he's always had that because I don't seem to remember him with it when he first became an anchor for ESPN's SportscCenter, back when he was dropping Booyaaahh as his coined phrase.

 

[guff]

Sportscenter 'jumped the shark' just before Olberman left. The death knell was sounded with the release of the little read book "The Big Show" - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...bs_b_2_3/103-0061762-6983857?v=glance&s=books - (you can even read excerpts of the book if self abuse is your thing) and ABC's little watch TV show "SportsNite" - I think that was the name.

This was the beginning of the self serving cross promotion that turn Sportscenter from an information program to an entertainment program. I defy you to find some nugget of information in tonight's Sportscenter that isn't listed the boxscore. Useless stats such as, when playing on the west coast at night in October under a waxing half moon the Yanks are 13-0 all-time or similar nonsense, do not count.

 

[jiggafini19]

YES VIRGINIA, THEY REALLY DO PLAY BASEBALL WEST OF PHILADELPHIA!!!

Chicago-St. Louis-Houston and Anaheim are the four LCS teams?

ESPN now goes directly to football and pre Season NBA coverage. Glorious.

God Bless you, Earvin Santana. You made my fourth quarter that much more profitable.

Tool Rod goes 2-15. Go to the bank, cash your check and wait til next year.

The higher the payroll, the further 2000 against the Mets seems to be slipping away.

Now if Notre Dame beats SC, ESPN might close their doors for good.

Go Irish.

 

[jiggafini19]

This was the beginning of the self serving cross promotion that turn Sportscenter from an information program to an entertainment program. I defy you to find some nugget of information in tonight's Sportscenter that isn't listed the boxscore. Useless stats such as, when playing on the west coast at night in October under a waxing half moon the Yanks are 13-0 all-time or similar nonsense, do not count.

MVP ballot: 1. Guff 2. Ortiz 3. Tool Rod.

What's sad is that not many people want to believe this. I've been saying it for years.