On Jul 23, 9:12 am, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> ESPN, put simply, does not care about the hardcore sports fan, and
> haven't for the at least the last 10 years. The wall between editorial
> and the rest of their business is long gone, replaced with a level of
> incest that would be prosecutorial if it were real life. Add to that
> keeping people who have little to know actual knowledge of the game
> (Joe Morgan is the biggest example) and people who have mailed it in
> for years (Chris Berman) and you have a recipe of disaster.
>
> But it's like Homer yelling to Moe "YOU JUST LOST YOURSELF A CUSTOMER"
> during the Flaming Moe craze: they don't care, because they still have
> the moderate-level fans and the soft-core fans who will always go
> back. I use SI.com for my sports news and info. The only thing I go to
> ESPN.com for is Bill Simmons (and using an RSS feed, I can surgically
> strike that page).
I still wonder why no one has at least made a try at getting the
hardcore sports fan (at least since FSN shut down "The National Sports
Report" and CNN/SI went bust). If Versus wants to really go big on
sports, how about doing a hard-nosed, cynical scores-and-highlights
show against "SportsCenter?" Is Comcast afraid that they'll get shut
out of rights or lose the NHL? (Which is why HBO has always said it
can do "RealSports": They don't have anyone to kowtow to except the
scumbags who run boxing, who seem not to mind as long as their names
are spelled right.)
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