End of the Boo-yah Era at ESPN

[sheos]

How is a trio of Patrick, Wilbon and Mark Jackson anything like the TNT hoops crew?
I actually thought the canned ESPN guys were more insightful than TNT, but with much less chemistry.

 

[dixiehack]

Quite possibly the most uncomfortable television in ESPN's storied history were the days of bookish John Clayton being trotted out into the wilderness to do battle with career backup quarterback Sean Salisbury on the atrocious “Four Downs” NFL segment. Under the guise of discussing news, Salisbury would berate Clayton so badly that you almost felt bad for the guy. It was as if Salisbury - a very, very poor NFL quarterback - was taking out years of frustration on Clayton for all the times that sportscasters bashed him. We're fairly certain the segment still exists in some fashion but it is no longer uncomfortable television where the jock picks on the journalist, and whomever screams loudest, wins. It's no longer a one-on-one fight; now, it's a tame fact or fiction segment.

Good Lord yes. It was like watching the security camera from a junior high bus route.

 

[DyePack]

TJ did ask Irvin if he was retarded.

Then he ripped Irvin up one side and down the other.

Then Berman started in, so Irvin started his perpetual blubbering. Berman stayed calm and replied, "Whenever you're done" or something like that. Classic.

Then Ditka started ripping Irvin. It was some good stuff.

 

[Songbird]

Slowly, but surely, an end to the shouting and screaming (except for ATH).

http://thebiglead.com/?p=986

We already miss Nu Skool vs. Old School.

I still don't understand the people who say there's screaming on ATH. They hardly ever scream. Now, have you ever watched PTI? Jeezum crow, all they do is yell and interrupt each other. I know that's the premise, but it's so annoying.

 

[Tom Petty]

aside from the screamers, berman is one of the biggest reasons the "normal guy" hates espn.

 

[MGoBlue]

Don't care. I haven't watched SportsCenter is God knows how long. Or any other non-game programming on ESPN.

Gimme ESPNNews 24/7, thank you. Reminds me of SportsCenter used to be (when it was good).

 

[Claws for Concern]

Will Saunders go over to NBC and host an NHL studio show?

 

[poindexter]

Did I just hear DJ Stuey say that whoever-it-was on the Marlins went "two for four with an RB"?

Not RBI.
Not "drove in a run".

"ARR-BEE".

Does this man not have producers, editors, someone in his ear to tell him these things? fork.

Stuey had it on the down low that the dude had an Arby Melt with extra horsey sauce.

 

[proudpittsburgher]

Don't care. I haven't watched SportsCenter is God knows how long. Or any other non-game programming on ESPN.

Gimme ESPNNews 24/7, thank you. Reminds me of SportsCenter used to be (when it was good).

Beat me to it. I don't think I've sat through five minutes of sports center in the past five years. ESPN Newsis just flat-out a better product. No personalities needed through gimmics. Michael Kim delivers the news very traditionaly, and just as many people in the sports world know him than they do stewey. It can be done without gimmics.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

(The results will probably be catastrophic. His core readers - his family and parolees - liked his ghetto shtick and will probably turn away from his watered down product. And he turned off so many readers with his initial racist offerings ...)

HIS racist offerings?
You don't need the Enigma machine to translate your swill, either, dude.

 

[poindexter]

Are you retarded?

 

[joe king]

Are you retarded?

Well, is he?

Never mind. I know the answer to that one.