The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

[The Rube]

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Do not speak ill of the Fox Sports Girls...

Especially one "Jenny" who actually KNOWS her sh*. Since she played hockey and all. And her brother is in the college ranks...

[dxmnkd316]

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New ESPN Program To Feature Attractive Blonde Reading Tweets For 30 Minutes

It's embarrassing when The Onion gets ESPN better than ESPN gets itself. And sadly, I almost expected it to be a link to espn.com instead.

Sweet Jeebus. I didn't even consider that it was an Onion article. I had this great rant typed up and read your post before I hit send. It's terribly sad I didn't, even for a moment, think that this could be satire.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Hey its the Fox Sports Girls!!!!

Do not speak ill of the Fox Sports Girls...

[joecct]

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Berman to call 2nd game of MNF opening doubleheader.

Thank Heaven's it is past my bedtime. My sympathies to the Left Coast.

[Dude Love]

Same thing!

How is a commercial bumper the same as a half an hour of someone reading Twitter?

[aparch]

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It's embarrassing when The Onion gets ESPN better than ESPN gets itself. And sadly, I almost expected it to be a link to espn.com instead.

[St. Clown]

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New ESPN Program To Feature Attractive Blonde Reading Tweets For 30 Minutes

“We are confident that a beautiful, flaxen-haired young woman flirtatiously reading short, easy-to-digest messages aloud is exactly the kind of innovative programming that the discerning modern sports fan demands.” This Horowitz guy has a great talent for redefining the English language. Until now, I didn't know that "discerning" now means "pathetic guys who can't get a date".

[Biddco]

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Except they're only on TV in 15-second snippets.

Same thing!

[Dude Love]

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Hey its the Fox Sports Girls!!!!

Except they're only on TV in 15-second snippets.

[Biddco]

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New ESPN Program To Feature Attractive Blonde Reading Tweets For 30 Minutes

Hey its the Fox Sports Girls!!!!

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New ESPN Program To Feature Attractive Blonde Reading Tweets For 30 Minutes

LOS ANGELES—ESPN programming executives announced Wednesday the debut of a new show called The Pulse that will air afternoons on ESPN and evenings on ESPN2 and which will consist of an attractive blonde host reading tweets and Facebook comments to the camera for a half hour. “This new show will tap into the real conversations taking place across social channels and then literally repeat those conversations back to people,” said Jamie Horowitz, vice president of original programming. “We are confident that a beautiful, flaxen-haired young woman flirtatiously reading short, easy-to-digest messages aloud is exactly the kind of innovative programming that the discerning modern sports fan demands.” After several rounds of test marketing, the collected data suggested that The Pulse has the potential to become the most popular program on the entire ESPN family of networks despite frequently veering completely off the topic of sports.

[SteveP]

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I settled on NHL Network which was showing a replay of Toronto's epic game 7 collapse.

I watched the ending. It was like watching a train wreck - just couldn't look away even knowing the outcome!

[UML]

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ESPN sucks.

[unofan]

My friends and I were talking about this the other day. I actually think they've followed the MTV model. MTV made it's mark showing music videos. They then morphed into this "original programming" network that just peddles a lot of schlock 24/7. ESPN is doing the same thing. About all you get on ESPN anymore is non-stop video versions of talk radio, with a bunch of people screaming at each other over minutiae even the most devout fan cares very little about.

ESPN will always be there, like Microsoft. But FOX is going to cut into their share, and you'll see a larger migration to the more specialized networks like the MLB and NFL networks, etc...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NetworkDecay

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Wall to wall coverage of Riley Cooper.

"Let's go live to Sal Pal!"





Next channel please...

You mean no coverage of Drew Brees leaving a $3 tip for takeout at the Chinese restaurant?