Comments on: Moving Away from ESPN

By: A real expat

A real expat — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:37:10 +0000

Sorry, living in Canada is not “emigration”. You can easily get ESPN from satellite providers. Heck, we can get it here in Asia, and if you’re really pressed, you can get a Slingbox.

But as you say yourself, this is a bullshit column only written to take up space. Written because something needs to be said, by someone, somewhere, about something. Sort of like the vapid ESPN “fill up the time” programming that he’s criticizing, eh?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:07:14 +0000

I’ve already rid myself of ESPN except for when they’re broadcasting a game I absolutely have to see. Why listen to the clowns on SportsCenter when I can get everything I need online without the bad comedy?

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:10:17 +0000

Amen brother. ESPN is just awful. It’s coverage is so limited despite having the werewithal to do so much more it is embarrassing. Great piece.

By: Cards81fan

Cards81fan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:34:48 +0000

@the truth hurts

Wow, I heard you say the same thing two times, 12 minutes apart, but change the wording a bit to make it sound like enlightening news each time you spouted it.

You sound JUST like ESPN…

By: Stu Scott's Super Colon Blow

Stu Scott's Super Colon Blow — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:19:12 +0000

Well that’s a reasonable explanation. Thank you.

The pass down low… now THAT’S a clean colon!!

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:20:47 +0000

If you say so Blake…

To Mr. Scott’s Colon: Sorry, I just stole the first anti-ESPN image I could find. If I had the time I would have drawn a sharp and witty cartoon that summed up my whole piece, but I didn’t. Well, I probably did, but I didn’t anyway.

To The Other Guy: When you have about twenty outlets to work with, shouldn’t you be able to cover everything and at least please everyone a little bit? Rational people think ESPN is intentionally trying to kill hockey, that shouldn’t happen for a network with such a large reach. Why not throw in some hockey talk, or some MMA talk, or some soccer talk, or some underwater basket-weaving talk, onto one of the afternoon talk shows instead of having the talking heads rattle on and on about the same stuff?

By: Blake Murphy

Blake Murphy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:45:18 +0000

Haha Stu, you’re getting chirped a bit here. Defend yourself!

Personally, I’ve never had ESPN…so The Score will have to do (Micallef!)

By: Stu Scott's Super Colon Blow

Stu Scott's Super Colon Blow — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:40:52 +0000

Calvin peeing on something? THAT’S SO FUCKING ORIGINAL!!! HIGH FIVE!!!!!111!!!

By: Alpha Wolf

Alpha Wolf — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:14:39 +0000

The World Wide Leader is like most members of the Disney family: thin on substance and with a thick layer of self-serving hype on top. This is, after all, a company made rich by the imaginary exploits of a six-foot-tall rat and the ticket sales at theme parks designed to make films seem like reality. As such, it reaches its young target-audience well. This is a generation raised on MTV-style editing, with flashing, quick-cut imagery, sound effects for every movement shown, all shown at a volume level too loud to ignore. ESPN only feeds them what they want.

For those of us from more thoughtful eras or corners of the world, ESPN is like a bad song on Top-40 radio. It’s jangly, repetitive and unfortunately, something that sticks to the mind like gum to the bottom of a shoe. We may hate it, but it cannot be escaped.

By: the truth hurts

the truth hurts — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:40:04 +0000

wow espn bashing…i forgot that network that is supposed to please all the fans all the time for 24 hours a day..what is that again? oh yeah NO NETWORK!
just becuase you can post blog does not mean you should