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Herman Snerd
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8/2/07 12:17pm
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I also  Erin Andrews.
What I find the most insipid thing about sports reporting is that they devote time to fantasy leagues. Am I the only person who thinks fantasy baseball/football/basketweaving/etc. is pointless?
I can see people who are into stats getting enjoyment out of following along, but I'm sick and tired of visiting team forums and seeing the usual: "Well my favorite team lost today but I kicked ass in the fantasy league!!!"
If you enjoy fantasy leagues, that's fantastic. Follow along every week and enjoy watching the season unfold. Just a bit of advice, though: "Nobody else cares how your fantasy team did!"
Just because ESPN talks about it, doesn't make it newsworthy.
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Eeth-my-Koth
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8/2/07 12:20pm
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I personally enjoy fantasy football.
BUT, I do NOT wish to hear these reports.
I agree with you.
This is a hobby we created.
Stop stealing our thunder and trying to cash in or try an appeal to a growing trend/fad.
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JediCouncilMember
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DarthIntegral posted:
The WSOP is a great example of what is wrong with ESPN. They took a product that was popular (Poker) because of what it was (something we all can do, and enjoy watching others do for bigger money than we ever play for), and then kept showing more, and more, and more, and more, and more of it until the people who originally loved it stopped tuning it.
So true.
I used to love watching the main event of the WSOP. I remember watching the 2002 one and then the 2003 one, Then it started to go down hill. The 2004 coverage sucked with he way they set it up, 2005 was okay, but by 2006 there was already too much Texas Holdem everywhere (not really ESPN's fault) and I barely watched any of it and this year I just skipped the whole thing.
I could really care less if joe shmoe clebrity is playing, I really enjoyed seeing the "professional" players play with the occasional Moneymaker type guy, but that ended after 2003 and it is just ridiculous now.
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Eeth-my-Koth
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8/2/07 12:34pm
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She looks as bored as us with this now too.
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Dal--Intrepid
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So did anyone catch the World Championships of Roshambo on ESPN a couple of weeks ago? And no, not the charity tournament that happens during the WSOP - but an actual full telecast hosted by Mike Greenburg and some Roshambo "legend" that followed a tournament complete with profiles of Roshambo players down to the championship. I actually felt dirty after watching some of it.
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Armenian_Jedi
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uhmm, not to defend espn or anything... but you guys obviously didn't read the 50 players for the hall of fame thing very well.
They weren't saying that all 50 were a lock to get in.
here's a few paragraphs from the opening part of the article:
After extensive research, fact-checking, educated guessing and hunch playing, here are 50 active NFL players we predict will someday be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, listed in order of predicted Hall of Fame probability. Perhaps not everyone on this list will appear to be Hall of Fame material at first glance. Some might have to wait a few years to gain entry -- one of this year's inductees, Hickerson, last played in 1973.
We rated players on a 20-point scale in five categories. Details are found in the ratings key on the right side of the page.
Before you post a snarky comment at the bottom of this page … understand that these are predictions. Very few active players would be locks for the Hall of Fame if they retired today. That leaves the door open to interpretation on who else will fill the field of 50 -- even a couple players who have yet to take a regular-season snap.
The top few guys are locks, the whole bottom bunch, they talk about what they need to do to become locks. They're just predicting, they're not saying these guys are all making the hall of fame tomorrow.
learn how to read.
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Eeth-my-Koth
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anchorman?!
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Rogue...Jedi
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It really doesn't matter whether or not they're just predictions or locks - the mere idea of putting someone on a Hall of Fame list before they've even signed a contract is ludicrous. Besides which, if they haven't signed a contract, they aren't really active players yet, are they? Thats why they still need a minimum years experience/games played for a list like that.
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rechedelphar
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they should cover current sports. I grow tired of 365 NFL coverage
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DarthIntegral
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Rogue...Jedi posted:
It really doesn't matter whether or not they're just predictions or locks - the mere idea of putting someone on a Hall of Fame list before they've even signed a contract is ludicrous. Besides which, if they haven't signed a contract, they aren't really active players yet, are they? Thats why they still need a minimum years experience/games played for a list like that.
Exactly.
Whatever semantics anyone wants to throw onto it, lock or projected Hall of Famer, throwing that status onto someone entering their 1st or second year in the league is stupid. It's instant history at it's worst. It's ESPN trying to be relevant, and not realizing how relevant they were when they just gave us the sports news, snuck a little bit of humor into it, and put out a good, informative product, instead of trying to tell us who we should be perceiving as great.
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I have to hand it to you, Integral, this is an excellent idea for a thread.
The "Who's Now" thing is beyond dumb, and the decline of ESPNClassic is a very sad story. What was once a great channel to watch baseball games is now a place to watch 'classic' poker and American Gladiators.
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KnightWriter
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8/2/07 5:53pm
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Who remembers just plain Classic Sports? Pre-ESPN, that is.
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JMJacenSolo
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8/2/07 8:46pm
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Baron-Soontir-Fel posted:
I have to hand it to you, Integral, this is an excellent idea for a thread.
The "Who's Now" thing is beyond dumb, and the decline of ESPNClassic is a very sad story. What was once a great channel to watch baseball games is now a place to watch 'classic' poker and American Gladiators.
Who's Now is indeed incredibly lame, especially the celebrity panelists they bring in who don't even have a clue what they are talking about. But it's just ESPN trying to manufacture news during the dog days of summer. 90 minutes of baseball highlights and analysis is what Baseball Tonight's for.
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Dal--Intrepid
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Interesting article by the ESPN Ombudsman about the fan reaction to the Who's Now segments . . . Apparently we weren't the only ones ripping it up . . .
After Who's Now, What's Next?
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