I agree with you. I just had a pow-wow with one of the baseball editors, and we came up with this short list of possible flunkee teams: Arizona Toronto Florida Tampa Bay Houston (say it ain't so!) Cleveland NY Mets As for ESPN, boomboom hit the nail on the head when he noted the similarities between ESPN and MTV. Pretty soon, ESPN will just be all highlight shows without the actual sports. Entertainment first, sports second. (Lord help us all if they give Dick Vitale his own show.) Also, we'll have to watch individual ESPN sport-specific channels (like, say, ESPN:FB) to get our sports fix.
could it be texas? look at a-rods salary...i dunno im guessing. i think i heard yesterday on tv that one of the teams was supposed to be detriot...i dunno.
I'm thinking Texas and/or Cleveland. Both of these teams are trying to trade their high-priced players -- Cleveland more aggressively, I guess. Both have stated earlier this year that the high payrolls are no longer acceptable. It could all fit. It would be nice if Arizona would take Ensberg for Randy Johnson, though... you know, to help them resolve their salary problems.
I posted this is the other baseball thread but the breach of contract lawsuit was filed today (not new news but it happened to get officially filed today)by one of the Mets owners against the other could mean the Mets are the team
When I first heard the breaking story, I immediately assumed that the Arizona Diamondbacks were the team in question. I mean Colangelo has borrowed tons of cash from MLB just to keep his payroll afloat. Now that Selig has come out and stated that MLB will no longer bail teams out with loans, I think Colangelo is done for. Maybe time for a firesale like the 1997 Marlins? As for ESPN, they are a bunch of hyprocrites. About 2 months ago, the producer on the Kornheiser show (Denis Horgan Jr.) was fired due to "breaking corporate e-mail policy"... It was later discovered that in a e-mail he sent to a friend he used some crude language. However, this is the SAME company that aired the moronic Bobby Knight story with the "f word" on television. In addition, they air the crude hi-jinks of Jay Mohr, a comedian of the Jim Rome genre. This obvious hypocrisy just angered me to the point that I'm really sick of ESPN. Unfortunately CNNSI is gone, so I have to use Sportscenter as my sports news source. Fox Sports just doesn't cut it, quality wise, in comparison.
ESPN especially sucks with no basketball to report. Bo-ring. I don't have cable right now; does CNNSI still have their show? That's the one that sucks/sucked the worst, when it changed its format to add "SI." Fewer highlights, more BS commentaries to glorify the lard-assed sportswriters on SI's staff.
I stick to espn NEWS, and if it gets prett cheesy, i'll wait for a commerical and check out the ticker than. Sports scores without any interference.
Actually hearing one of the other Reports use it is even worse Use to be . .you watch 3 sportscenters back to back to back and they were reported totally differently. Different reporters had different styles. . . now you got these guys using each other's phrases [STU NEEDs SOME NEW ONES] It use to be a bit more. . . informal than it seems to be now I use to goto bed to ESPN and wake up to it eMpTyV sucks *ss too. Do they even play videos anymore? Rocket River REAL WORLD MY *SS
Those of you ragging on Stuart Scott - give him a break. He was gone for 6 months with an eye injury that almost cost him his sight. So, if he hasn't had time for coming up with new jokes, that should be understandable. Rocket River - no, MTV hardly ever plays videos. They do show commercials for videos all the time on MTV 2, though. Baseball Tonight is a very good show, but to have the same highlight package on SportsCenter is repetative. Too bad baseball's the only thing out there right now. At least it should get better when football starts in earnest, though last night showed the top WR-QB combos from last year and info on the summer leagues & Grant Hill's ankle, among other things.
