Thursday, March 22, 2007

ESPN finally feeling the effects

I have been saying this for a long long time and I even have friends that have boycotted the network altogether, but ESPN sucks. They broadcast a sensationalized and commercialized version of sports and it has really turned a lot of people off. According to this blog: http://sportsbybrooks.com/espn-website-traffic-goes-to-the-dogs-now-behind-fox-sports-website-for-first-time-12441.php. they experienced a 3 MILLION hit drop last month from January, but not only that, but Fox Sports received more hits for the month. It would appear that the people are beginning to voice their opinions of how THE NETWORK does their business. Page 2 for one thing has absolutely turned to pure crap, then the web page itself takes 8 minutes to load anymore.. add in the annoying commercials that you constantly have to wade through and you have an overall disaster of a web page. Would we expect more from them??? This is the same network that made a made mention of shady dealings in Columbus over Maurice Clarett every chance they had, but you barely get a 3 paragraph article out of them over the USC/Reggie Bush dealings. And don't even get me started on the constant attempts to stir the pot with the whole "Duke Referee Bias" crap they try to bring up every time there is a 50-50 call that goes the devils way. They have totally gone to the crapper.. the ENTIRE network, the web page.. everything. Do they even show sports on that network anymore?? I thought it was all a bunch of sports writers trying to "make it big" yelling at each other and coming up witty retorts. and Sportscenter has completely lost it in my opinion. The anchors are horrible, the graphics are horrible, the stories they choose to endlessly harp about are horrible. Don't even get me started on Stu Scott... does that guy even speak english anymore?? seriously.. I caught a basketball highlight last night where Lebron goes in hard and gets a layup through contact.. not a particularly exciting play, but it was highlight worthy, and Stu starts quoting some rap song.. no idea what the hell he was talking about.. he might as well have been talking over highlights for a bull fight. Just completely non-sensical. I realize he has been pulling this shtick for years, but it used to at least somewhat make sense. Anymore he just comes off like a senile old man sitting on a porch somewhere yelling out random phrases.

Whatever, I am glad to see that the masses are beginning to voice their feelings to the people up in Bristol. I would like to see this trend continue.

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