How do I hate thee ESPN?, let us count the ways

[Brock Landers]

Yo Ice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjirSPGjJw

I think Barnaby got fired for a second DUI after driving down the freeway with a fucking tire missing. He also beat up his wife or gf earlier this year

[irul&ublo]

HA HA Jalen calls out Skip Bayless for being a lying sack of shit

[mmmm...pow!]

Who's dick did Skip Bayless suck to get a job on ESPN to begin with.

[irul&ublo]

Who's dick did Skip Bayless suck to get a job on ESPN to begin with.

Pretty sure it was Jer

[Bobcat Sig]

Skip Bayless is a douche canoe to which Stephen A Smith rows with reckless abandon. Speaking of, when the fuck does that child rapist John Clayton get busted for child porn? I swear that guy has 14 dead bodies in his basement. What a fucking weird douche.

Chris Berman? Take a fucking breath, less cheese curds ... or more, so you can die faster and all of the football viewers don't have to listen to your garbage and 20 year-old catch phrases.

[Hugh Conway]

Pretty sure it was Jer

Jeter = Jer?

[BmillsSkier]

Month long coverage of the fucking draft. You know there's sports on right now ESPN, don't you?

[belgian]

Month long coverage of the fucking draft. You know there's sports on right now ESPN, don't you?

My enjoyment of sports has increased exponentially since I ditched ESPN and ESPN.com for this very reason.

ESPN is the ruination of sports.

[BmillsSkier]

My enjoyment of sports has increased exponentially since I ditched ESPN and ESPN.com for this very reason.

ESPN is the ruination of sports.

I think I stopped looking at ESPN.com years ago when they hid half of the content behind subscriber BS. The tv network seems to have done the same. If you want sports, go pay for the respective packages otherwise we'll subject you to 24 hours straight of wanna-be NFL network crap and women's softball despite the fact that there's the NHL playoffs going on, the MLB season heating up, and NBA playoffs in the very near future - never mind golf.

I just don't understand how they can dominate so much of their 'coverage' to a sport that wont play a meaningful game for another 6 months.

[monkeypunch]

I can't understand why they dedicate so much time to a meaningless sport like baseball.

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[GiBo]

Totally dude. More awesome 'sports' like car driving would make it better.

[montanaskier]

I think I stopped looking at ESPN.com years ago when they hid half of the content behind subscriber BS. The tv network seems to have done the same. If you want sports, go pay for the respective packages otherwise we'll subject you to 24 hours straight of wanna-be NFL network crap and women's softball despite the fact that there's the NHL playoffs going on, the MLB season heating up, and NBA playoffs in the very near future - never mind golf.

I just don't understand how they can dominate so much of their 'coverage' to a sport that wont play a meaningful game for another 6 months.

because the NFL is the most popular sport in the country BY FAR....and talking NFL drives ratings...no matter the time of year.

[BmillsSkier]

because the NFL is the most popular sport in the country BY FAR....and talking NFL drives ratings...no matter the time of year.

Oh I know, and I love the NFL. I know the coverage drives ratings, that's why they have their own network. This ESPN bullshit is just mass overkill. Give it a rest fellas - there's sports on. Actual games!

[Hugh Conway]

I just don't understand how they can dominate so much of their 'coverage' to a sport that wont play a meaningful game for another 6 months.

Because they are fucking idiots, that's why. Despite there being some great soccer games on in the middle of the day that they have to the rights to they'll put some dickbag babbling on about the draft or sportscenter or something else stupid.

Oh, fuck Comcast too. Because of some little snit between them and ESPN my cable local subscribers can't watch watchespn.com. But it's "coming soon to XFinity subscribers". Seriously - no legal way to watch the live content you want? No fucking wonder people pirate dumbasses.

[BmillsSkier]

Buddy forwarded this ESPN story to me today.

It has all the hallmarks of what ESPN stands for these days: LeBron, a twitter argument, a shoe designer, and non-apology apologies. It's fucking TMZ.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/story...bulls-torn-acl

[pappag]

ESPN is only good for the comments people post.



ESPN Intern: Junior Seau is dead sir. Should we do breaking news right now?

ESPN programmer: Did he have anything to do with Tim Tebow, like give him advice or shake his hand?

ESPN Intern: I'm not sure sir.

ESPN programmer: Well find that out and get back to me. In the meantime run the story about how Jeremy Lin flexed his knee 4 times today.

[pappag]

Side note, way to be classy with this blurb at the very end of the Seau article:

"Seau is the eighth member of the 1994 Chargers, who reached the Super Bowl and lost to to the San Francisco 49ers, to die at a young age. He was predeceased by Chris Mims, David Griggs, Rodney Culver, Lewis Bush, Curtis Whitley, Shawn Lee and Doug Miller."

[drboudreaux]

Rick Reilly has ruined every PGA Tour Major for me. RUINED. That guy sucks. I do not care how LeBron and Tiger are similar in their careers. Give me a break. Go back to writing crappy magazine articles.

[BmillsSkier]

Rick Reilly has ruined every PGA Tour Major for me. RUINED. That guy sucks. I do not care how LeBron and Tiger are similar in their careers. Give me a break. Go back to writing crappy magazine articles.

+1

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[spook]

Rick Reilly has ruined every PGA Tour Major for me. RUINED. That guy sucks. I do not care how LeBron and Tiger are similar in their careers. Give me a break. Go back to writing crappy magazine articles.

his $3mil/year contract is up this summer i read. i'm not a prayin man and i'm not a god fearin man, but we should all get down on our knees and bow our heads and ask the dear lord to stop espn from reupping. i mean, doesn't grantland have enough bullshit articles in it to make reilly redundant and way too expensive?

[Benny Profane]

Reilly is a lucky man. He was able to position himself in between the dick swinging of the preppie assholes at Sports Illustrated and the new, crass money at ESPN, and let the auctioning begin. (disclosure: I worked for the former, and saw it up close when ESPN started their magazine. Amazing how Ivy leaguers turn into frothing frat boys when the firm is faced with new competition). I'm pretty sure that the icing on the cake from ESPN was the promise of screenplays and TV presence for the fellow, but that isn't working out too well. Hope he saved his money, because he may be out of work soon, and certainly can't go back to SI.

[concretejungle]

He's from Boulder what the fuck do you expect.

[ICEHOCEY77]

Cuban tees off on Bayless

[HansJob]

Mel Kiper Jr. He has the same hairstylist as Kim Jong il.

[spook]

Cuban tees off on Bayless

how does bayless have that job? or any job? the bit about him lying about leading his team to the state championship or whatever barely caused a ruffle. he's pure torture to listen to.