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ESPN adds another dimension

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ESPN has that problem where they feel like they have to tell you what to be interested in. Which is a perfectly good reason to not like the "world wide leader". I don't want to be told I have to like something.
 
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Patman said:
ESPN has that problem where they feel like they have to tell you what to be interested in. Which is a perfectly good reason to not like the "world wide leader". I don't want to be told I have to like something.
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Generally that tends to have the opposite effect on me.
 
Re: ESPN adds another dimension

Patman said:
ESPN has that problem where they feel like they have to tell you what to be interested in. Which is a perfectly good reason to not like the "world wide leader". I don't want to be told I have to like something.
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So, you didn't join me in creating a Steinbrenner shrine today?

On another note, I didn't watch ESPN the day Gilbert got fined. Did they say it was due to Jesse Jackson's comments? Because that's exactly what it was for.
 
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French Rage said:
Is there an online sports site that just has plain normal God-fearing text and not thousands or videos and popups and stuff. I just want to look at ****ing scores!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I use flashblock and adblock and it absolutely cripples the ****ty features of espn,com. It's almost readable.

Then again, I usually don't go to espn.com. I subscribe to the RSS feeds of the writers I care to read and basic news stories for the sports I watch. Skip the front page crap.
 
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SteveF said:
thats pretty silly. they were approached and they said yes (As every network would have done). lebron's people controlled everything from the get-go; it wasnt their idea. this free agency has been 2 or 3 years in the making and the lebron decision was the pinnacle of it.. the frenzy overtook the front pages of all types of media outlets, dwarfing the gulf spill, the obama wheelings and dealings, and often times, the world cup. it would have been stupid for espn to miss the boat because 'this sounds like a cheesy idea'

i mean it was terrible; and i was fortunate enough to DVR it and so i could fast forward until he announced his decision. I then stopped watching immediately after he said 'south beach'. but hey, what were the ratings?
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Fair points but I dare say they weren't held hostage by Lebron's people and forced to hype that thing like it was the cure for cancer...yes they already take many things to the level of ridiculousness but if they had said "we're not going to do that" in response to certain details, I suspect Lebron's enablers wouldn't have got much reception for a primetime gig on network TV.

I have gone to ESPN out of habit for some time; like I said, it won't kill them but they'll get fewer hits from at least one source.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
It's perfectly reasonable to make ESPN complicit in every other way, though..
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very fair points. boston sports radio was talking nonstop about him too and it didnt even affect this area (they didnt even mention the impact miami's superteam would have on the east coast power rankings or anything. it was just 'zomg lebron is such a diva!'). so yeah it was annoying, and I dont even like the nba - so you can imagine my disgust.

but i guess you have to ask which came first. is lebron-mania a function of espn's overcoverage or is espn's overcoverage a function of the general public being obsessed with lebron's decision? at the end of the day, ESPN is still desperate for readers, so while they do a lot of things that are pushy/in your face, they also are constantly reacting and adapting to content that is going to get people to click on their site.

so i would venture to say that the readers are to blame for making the drama/TMZ-like stories the most popular on a sports website.
 
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