ESPN needs to close

[The`Dream]

The lack of showing the NBA and NHL is really sad on ESPN right now. Granted its the off-season for both, but during the playoffs it was horrific. Now with baseball season, all we see is Michael VIck and other Benoit bullsh**. You have to wait like 45 minutes on Sportscenter to actually see highlights other then the Yankees who always lead off the show. I'm sick of them, I really am. ExclusivelyStienbrienersPublicityNetworkPlus, they have the stupidest analysts in the world. Chris Berman, Stephen A. Smith, all of them are terrible. They only have maybe one decent analyst per sport.MLB - KrukNBA - LeglerNFL - Jackonand they only have one NHL analyst

 

[primetime]

You can always change the channel. ESPN is good come september, until then I rarely watch. btw stephon a smith is the man.

 

[SunnyD]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The`Dream @ Jul 18 2007, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>MLB - KrukNBA - LeglerNFL - Jackon</div>I believe Peter Gammons is a pretty good analysist. I enjoy him at least.But all this Vick stuff is really pissing me off.

 

[kingjamez]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SunnyD @ Jul 18 2007, 01:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>But all this Vick stuff is really pissing me off.</div>You have no idea..

I like a few guys with ESPN but most of them are just annoying, like Chris Berman; he makes me want to kill myself.. :brickwall:

 

[KCX]

yo I love stephen a smith and I think chris berman brings so mucn energy! how can you not feel it! and I love watching baseball on sc

 

[The`Dream]

[quote name='PrimeTime' post='418131' date='Jul 18 2007, 01:06 PM']You can always change the channel. ESPN is good come september, until then I rarely watch. btw stephon a smith is the man.[/quote]Come September all they cover is NFL. I like the NFL and I enjoy their coverage, but I want to see other sports too...

I believe Peter Gammons is a pretty good analysist. I enjoy him at least.

I've always seen him more of an insider as an analyst

I like a few guys with ESPN but most of them are just annoying, like Chris Berman; he makes me want to kill myself..

I know exactly what you mean

yo I love stephen a smith and I think chris berman brings so mucn energy! how can you not feel it! and I love watching baseball on sc

Did you watch the HR derby? He said the phrase "Back, back, back...." like forty times in the first round

I hate how they are trying to become the Ghetto Nigga network with Stuart Scott and Stephen A. Smith. They are trying so hard to be contemporary. They don't need to become gangster to be now. Speaking of now, who wants to kill everyone with 'Who's Now?'. Why do they feel the need to introduce wtf it is everytime they start.

 

[The Captain]

They have some good baseball analysts.Kruk, Gammons, Hershiser, and Kurkjian I like. Only one I can't stand is Steve Phillips.

 

[kingjamez]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The`Dream @ Jul 18 2007, 01:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Speaking of now, who wants to kill everyone with 'Who's Now?'. Why do they feel the need to introduce wtf it is everytime they start.</div>I know exactly what you mean.. I watched SC this morning and in one episode they were talking about the 2nd round of 'Who's Now'.. and like all 3 times they introduced it..

 

[The`Dream]

I actually think Steve Phillips is decent. Most of their baseball guys except the guys you mentioned suck however. I love Baseball tonight, but they need Harold Reynolds back!! I'm talking about the Sportscenter they show about 12 times from 11PM to Noon every single day and the six PM show. Its stupid. Their coverage of the individual sports is good, but I don't want to see SAS talking about baseball out of his ass.

 

[primetime]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The`Dream @ Jul 18 2007, 01:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I hate how they are trying to become the Ghetto Nigga network with Stuart Scott and Stephen A. Smith. They are trying so hard to be contemporary. They don't need to become gangster to be now. Speaking of now, who wants to kill everyone with 'Who's Now?'. Why do they feel the need to introduce wtf it is everytime they start.</div>Your stupid. ESPN is hardly the ''ghetto nigga'' network. They have 3 black people on staff I can recall out of at least 150 analysts. God forbid they have a black analyst when 75% of major sports involves black people.

 

[The`Dream]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Jul 18 2007, 01:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Your stupid. ESPN is hardly the ''ghetto nigga'' network. They have 3 black people on staff I can recall out of at least 150 analysts. God forbid they have a black analyst when 75% of major sports involves black people.</div>Stuart Scott is on almost every edition of sportscenter. Why do you think that is? Are you saying ESPN is racist? Maybe if your black boys would become half decent analysts they would have more on there...

 

[primetime]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The`Dream @ Jul 18 2007, 01:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Stuart Scott is on almost every edition of sportscenter. Why do you think that is? Are you saying ESPN is racist? Maybe if your black boys would become half decent analysts they would have more on there...</div>Im not saying espn is racist, in fact im saying the opposite. Your calling it a ''ghetto nigga'' network because they have several black people as analysts. Being a good analyst is a matter of opinion but by no means is espn ''ghetto''.

 

[noballer08]

Without Steven A. and Stuart Scott, ESPN would be boring. They bring energy and 'color' (for lack of a better word, not the race) to the network, and if ya'll think they're too ignorant to be on there then don't watch.

 

[The`Dream]

I can't say that Stephen A. Smith is there because of his thoughtful insights... its because black people will listen to a preacher.

 

[Mobruler]

OP lost all credibility when they said Tim Legler was a good analyst.

 

[gentile]

Stephen Smith is a dickhead blowhard that seldom knows what he's talking about, but at least he always acts sure. He's too obnoxious and can't admit when he's wrong.Stuart Scott has a very distinctive style. He's unapologetically hip-hop, not gangster or ghetto. He's cool with me because he seems very objective and intelligent.Chris Berman kills me during football season. He's kind of hip hop too when he's breaking down the football games with music in the background. And he's got the best signature phrase in pro sports talk on touchdowns. "He...could...go...all..the..way!"

 

[The Lefty]

I lost respect for em when they got rid of Harold Reynolds.But its not ESPN, its BSPN

 

[Roaming]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The`Dream @ Jul 18 2007, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The lack of showing the NBA and NHL is really sad on ESPN right now. Granted its the off-season for both, but during the playoffs it was horrific. Now with baseball season, all we see is Michael VIck and other Benoit bullsh**. You have to wait like 45 minutes on Sportscenter to actually see highlights other then the Yankees who always lead off the show. I'm sick of them, I really am. ExclusivelyStienbrienersPublicityNetworkPlus, they have the stupidest analysts in the world. Chris Berman, Stephen A. Smith, all of them are terrible. They only have maybe one decent analyst per sport.MLB - KrukNBA - LeglerNFL - Jackonand they only have one NHL analyst

</div>Now you guys know how come I hate hockey. You complain about that you dont see NHL or NBA, all I see is NHL and MLB year round. Basketball is the least covered sport in Toronto media. If the Raptors werent in the playoffs, next season Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (who own the Raptors) would air at least 40 games on their TV channel, which is not local by the way and costs money.

 

[GArenas]

I don't watch alot of ESPN until the basketball season starts. I watch some NFL but when the NBA begins, I find myself on channel 140 alot. As for the analyst's, I don't see the big difference between Ernie, Kenny, and Charles or Stephen A. Smith, Tim Legler, and (insert guest analyst here).

Ernie, Kenny, and Charles are alot more entertaining but sometimes they get so caught up in calling Barkley fat that they completely forget about analyzing the game.

 

[CB4allstar]

You guys complain about the bad analysts and sh*t...atleast you actually get to see NBA highlights and listen to people talking about the NBA and NFL...I woulnd't care if it was the Cookie Monster, as long as someone would finally start talking about the NBA here in Canada. It's all hockey...makes me sick to my stomach..

 

[GArenas]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Jul 18 2007, 04:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You guys complain about the bad analysts and sh*t...atleast you actually get to see NBA highlights and listen to people talking about the NBA and NFL...I woulnd't care if it was the Cookie Monster, as long as someone would finally start talking about the NBA here in Canada. It's all hockey...makes me sick to my stomach..</div>
Canada doesn't have any national television station that broadcasts NBA games?

How do you watch other teams then?

 

[l?ckdown]

I hate it sometimes, they over do football alot. Even in the offseason they have an NFL show in the afternoon everyday. I'm okay with the NFL, but they overdo so dam much.

 

[SirLaker]

 

[CB4allstar]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GArenas @ Jul 18 2007, 05:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Canada doesn't have any national television station that broadcasts NBA games?How do you watch other teams then?</div>No, I'm talking about sportscenter. We do actually get a good amount of games, just not all of the Raptors games on Cable...We have 3 sports channels, and you can find a non-raptors game almost every day.

 

[SirLaker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Jul 18 2007, 02:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>No, I'm talking about sportscenter. We do actually get a good amount of games, just not all of the Raptors games on Cable...We have 3 sports channels, and you can find a non-raptors game almost every day.</div>Get a satellite. Then you can just order US sports channels. I'm guessing you can get NBAtv over there though, right?

 

[808Hornetsfan]

ESPN needs to balance out what they show throughout the year. Meaning, they need to fill certain time slots with NFL Films or NBA flashbacks even in the offseason. They need to get rid of Jim Rome is Burning, along with Cold Pizza because they ruined that show by moving them to another boring ESPN set. They need to stop with the evening Sportscenters because frankly there's no news to report because all the games have not been played yet so they're just killing time. As for Chris Berman, you guys all need to be quiet about him because he's one of 10 Bills fans in the world including me.

He comes out to Maui every year to commentate our pee wee basketball All-Star games and I've had the pleasure to talk football with him many times. In fact, he just bought a house on Maui so I was thinking I can be his house-sitter during football season. He's a fun host who can think up of catchy nicknames right on the spot. Same with Stuart Scott and Stephen A. Smith, both of them over do it with they're ghetto slang but without them it would be boring old white dudes talking for hours. Also, what idiot decided NASCAR should be on ESPN?! That is the dumbest idea ever and it's not a sport I don't care how many people disagree. When I grow up my goal is to get super rich and make my own sports network that's going to rape ESPN and have great games everyday with awsome experts. :dribble:

 

[The`Dream]

You should talk about getting him some new calls, 808. Yeah his stuff was original two years ago, but now its zzzzzzzzz

 

[808Hornetsfan]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The`Dream @ Jul 18 2007, 01:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You should talk about getting him some new calls, 808. Yeah his stuff was original two years ago, but now its zzzzzzzzz</div>He shouldn't be a baseball guy, he should stick to football because back back back back does get annoying, but you can't beat some of these famous catch phrases:"Curtis "My Favorite" Martin!" -Curtis Martin"He could... go.... all... the.... way!!!""He fought the Law, and the Law won!" -Ty Law"whoop!!""No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!"

 

[SportsTicker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (808Hornetsfan @ Jul 18 2007, 02:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He shouldn't be a baseball guy, he should stick to football because back back back back does get annoying, but you can't beat some of these famous catch phrases:"Curtis "My Favorite" Martin!" -Curtis Martin"He could... go.... all... the.... way!!!""He fought the Law, and the Law won!" -Ty Law"whoop!!""No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!"

</div> The best one is when he's commentating for a RB and the RB is breaking a bunch of tackles and he makes that one sound effect over and over: "Pfff, Pfff, Whoop! Pfff, Pff! He could... go... all... the... way!"

 

[808Hornetsfan]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SBoyd415 @ Jul 18 2007, 01:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The best one is when he's commentating for a RB and the RB is breaking a bunch of tackles and he makes that one sound effect over and over: "Pfff, Pfff, Whoop! Pfff, Pff! He could... go... all... the... way!"</div>I like it when they do the sound effects for Pacman Jones when he's running a INT back.