Re: Rise and Fall of ESPN
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:01 pm
MullinMayhem wrote:billyjack wrote:i don't see ESPN's toilet bowl circling as political. i see it as two things:
- ESPN making up sports news rather than just reporting it.... them force feeding us Tim Tebow (several years ago) and Lebron (still ongoing), promoting the shit out of their properties, while absolutely ignoring the NHL and any other sport they didn't own. People finally understand their manipulation, except ACC hoops fans still love ESPN, and Bilas and McDonough are ACC homers.
- But i think its mainly ESPN's ridiculous cost, for content that is available elsewhere. Basically their final stand is SEC football and ACC basketball (and loudmouth talking head shows), and those arent enough to justify ridiculous costs. So with similar content with several other networks, it's only logical i think for water to seek its own level, bringing ESPN in this case way down towards CBS and Fox, etc. So ESPN is totally screwed.
If it was truly political, then they would'vd gotten hit by hiring Rush Limbaugh 10-12 years ago. Think of how radical and alienating that decision was, and he even started things off with racist comments about McNabb. Even with that, ESPN sailed along for another decade as the sports king.
Anyway, that's my take, for what it's worth.
If it wasn't political they would not have fired Curt Schilling for suggesting that men should use the men's room and women should use the women's room. Yes, that happened. Jemele Hill is privileged and you know why. She is the golden girl (sorry if that offends people with gold skin, I'm not goldist). Imagine a white male host on ESPN calling Obama a black supremacist (and by the way if that happened, I'd say he should be fired 100%). Would ESPN slap him on the wrist? Come on. She never learns her lesson because she understands the dynamic. She is actually the one with the power and the privilege this day in age, yet still gets portrayed as a victim. You can't have two separate standards based on the color of your skin. That used to be wrong according to MLK.
Oh Jesus H Christ! Schilling did more than just suggest men use the mens room. Can the mods actually acknowledge that this is just F-ing Hooper already?