Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 02, 2003
An ESPN Complaint

Joe Duellman writes:


I just finished watching the Boston/Oakland game and I was stunned to see ESPN lead off Sportscenter with a pretty long piece on the Limbaugh story. Three playoff games today, one that is nothing short of amazing, and they lead with that!?!? That is so incredibly arrogant. Is it that big of a story that one of their "analysts" on NFL Countdown is resigning? I know several friends that were waiting to see the highlights of the other games they missed while they were at class this afternoon. I understand they need time to gather highlights from the last game, but couldn't they have taken care of that while they showed highlights from the other two games? I know I'm not alone in thinking that ESPN has declined in quality over the last year or so. Anyways, just thought I'd share that with you.

Joe, football is king at ESPN. It takes something like a 7th game of the world series to push a football highlight off the lead. That purely has to do with the popularity of the sports and the ratings ESPN gets for each. And this was a story with national attention. I agree with you, I don't care about Limbaugh and I was unaware of the story until I saw the link above. When I turn on SportsCenter, I expect to see game highlights unless there's a momentous event like the death of Joe DiMaggio. Show us the games!

As for the quality declining, I really don't watch ESPN much because I'm usually watching live games. The Sunday Night Baseball games and Baseball Tonight seem to me to be the same quality I've always known. But if you and others think that's true, ESPN has a problem that needs to be addressed.


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