More Cuts at ESPN

Serious question. Why didn't you just pull the highlights off the internet?

 

I have a 65 inch high definition television. I have a DVR which eliminates the need to watch a single commercial. I am not going to watch highlights on my phone. My son does that and good for him. You also have to put up with anywhere between a 15 and 30 second commercial when you watch the highlights on your phone. F*** that.

 

Earlier in this thread, PC load letter made good points about justifying Greenberg and beadle's salary. Based on my viewer preferences, the friends I talk to, and what I read on the internet, there is one person in sports television who people genuinely like. Kay Adams of good morning football.

 

Perhaps I'm lazy, but I don't like having to click on 20 different videos to see everything I want to see. It's convenient to have MLB Quick Pitch in the background playing all the replays one after the other.

I've lamented before that while the Internet has made following a sport very deeply much easier, if that's what you want to do, it's also made it much more difficult to casually follow a sport if you're strapped for time. Sure, I can click out 15 different box scores to get the most detailed stats for every game. But, for me, at least, it doesn't replace the simplicity and ease of the baseball agate page.

 

Serious question. What United States newspaper still has late enough deadlines and enough space to print the preceding night's box scores on an agate page?

 

The Star-Advertiser....in Honolulu. Or the Anchorage paper. Don't know if they have the space.

 

Washington Post, except for the late-night, west coast scores.

 

Our paper did until they shitcanned AP and the agate service we got to replace it folded.

One paper I know that won’t kill agate till the apocalypse strikes is the one in Little Rock. They used to loves them some agate, but I understand they’ve had a change in leadership since last fall.

 

538 and Nate Silver leaving ESPN and moving to ABC News.

 

Why didn't Disney put them in ABC News from the start?