What we need is an all sports network like MLB but for all sports.
MLB network gets it, does baseball correctly.
Sure MLBN jokes around a little with Intentional Talk (Millar and Rose) but at least Millar knows what he is talking about, and plays it straight when it needs to be played straight, unlike Berman for instance.
There's a reason why they call ESPN "that community clown college from Bristol"
They are a joke, not one, with the exception of Bob Ley and Hannah Storm, of their so called reporters have any journalistic integrity.
Think about it, Berman is as deep as a puddle, his act is nothing but cringe worthy schtick. Every time I hear "Boomer" I cringe, 'back, back, back,back....' was mildly amusing for maybe 15 minutes, 13 years ago, now it's just pathetic. Berman is a Howard Cosell wannabe, "stumbling,bumbling" is a ripoff, it's not even his own material.
When ESPN negotiated for the early rounds of the Masters, the powers the be at the Masters told ESPN "we prefer it if you don't use Berman, if you must use Berman he has to call it straight, no silly crap"....
Smith is a racist joke, Bayless has diarrhea of the mouth, you know Jeter wants 3 minutes in a boxing ring with him, Erin Andrews was nothing but a pair of
, she's FOX's problem now, the guys who do the LA overnight Sports Center just recycle their same old tired schtick (Verett and Evert)
Corso is a clown, Mel Kiper thinks his word is the only word, Jaws is a babbling tub of jello, Gruden is insufferable, Schilling needs to be shot, Even Breen, who at one time I thought was as good as it got in NBA is getting full of himself, it's the ESPN syndrome.
Name one person that watches that over hyped ESPY annual farce.
Lon Mceachern is actually pretty good, when he's not being forced to be straight man to Norman Chad, he's good outside of poker.
But that's ESPN,what little talent they do have, they don't use it right.
In a nutshell, ESPN runs 17 out of 24 hours of Sports Center,they lack original programming, the 'personalities' are more concerned with being 'cool' and relevant, as opposed to what they should be, journalists and reporters.
They focus on big dunks, they focus on end zone dances, they focus on crowd reactions, live action be damned, "camera one, zoom in on the drunk in row 6 doing a high five dance, screw the first and ten play"
One third of the picture is obliterated with crawl space scores and graphics, at 1:05 pm, I don't need to know Maine is 0-0 with Stony Brook with 13:32 left in the first quarter, they just kicked off five minutes ago for the love of God.....
Problem is, ESPN has unlimited use of funds from Disney and Hearts, and is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Rasmussen (yes, that Rasmussen) when he founded ESPN in the 80's had a good idea, revolutionary one might say, but like Howard Stern,it's time to move on.