Arena ESPN Discussion Thread

Can we use this thread to point out the (occasional) stupidity of other sports-news organizations?

lol @ Y! Sports for having this on their "Headlines" section: Crosby return on hold for Pens. Tell me something that I don't know...

 

I don't know if this counts as stupidity but I tried to watch the Pitt game tonight on ESPNu and the damn channel wouldn't stay on for more than 10 seconds at a time.

 

Hey Corso, watch your language. (language warning should be obvious here)

 

I love Herbie's reaction to it.

 

That was beautiful.

 

I saw that clip on TMZ.com (yes, I like to visit that site ) earlier today. ******* fantastic. Of course, it should be a world in which Corso could say that on air without having to apologize for it later.


Laker games cancelled (so far) due to the current NBA lockout: 22

 

I discovered today that I apparently have a higher success rate in guessing winning teams in the NFL this year than any of the panel of experts at CNN. I'm at 70% so far on the year, they don't have anyone higher than 66%. One guy, Mortensen, is at 57.5%. And here's the thing: since I work all day on Sunday and Monday, not only am I picking better than them, I'm picking better even though I haven't watched a football game this season.

 

Herbie's reaction was great, but so was Fowler's.

 

In light of the Pats beat down of the lousy Chiefs, ESPN's brilliant question of the morning is 'Are the Patriots the best team in the AFC?'

As much as I can't stand the Steelers, I recall them beating the Pat's pretty soundly a couple of weeks ago and there isn't anything to indicate that they can't do it again.

So the answer would be 'No' to that stupid question.

 

ESPN loves being in the New England area are always on the Pat's jocks. Tom Brady can do no wrong at ESPN. The defense (even at how bad it is) is always a playoff caliber defense. /end rant

 

It's not a stupid question IMO. It's one where the answer is "no, probably not," but it's not a stupid question. They lost 25-17 to the Steelers. It's a loss, but it's not as if they were blown out. Another game could go the other way. Last season, the Patriots blew out the Jets and then got beat by those same Jets less than two months later.

The Patriots have the same record as the Steelers. Steelers lost to teams that are a combined 21-9. Steelers beat teams that are a combined 28-42. Patriots lost to teams that are a combined 18-12. Patriots beat teams that are a combined 31-37. The Steelers have lost to teams that are a bit better than the Patriots have lost to; the Patriots have beaten teams that are a bit better than the Steelers have beaten. Given past history, given the margin between the two teams, I don't think that it's unfair to say that the Steelers are definitively going to beat the Patriots if they meet again.

 

I really need to stop posting before I eat breakfast or from my phone. Half of what I posted there wasn't even in English.

 

How about this hot story from Sports Illustrated?

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Yes, that says 'Comparing Top 25 Teams to Thanksgiving Food and Traditions'.

 

Yeah - he's been theming his top 25 all year. We've had bands, movies, Muppets. Why not Thanksgiving food and traditions? And, besides that, most of them make sense.

 

I put on ESPN's First Take this morning, naively hoping I would see some fairly intelligent sports discussion and instead ended up with Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith trying to out-yell each other with their usually idiotic opinions.

 

I've noticed that recently First Take has stopped being a morning talk show and just become a all Skip Bayliss yelling at people.

 

It's like a train wreck. When I watch it, its to see how big of a fool Bayless be.

 

They put Screamin' A in with Bayless? Oh yikes...

 

Lol at vinegar and water, because that's how well the two of them mix.

 

...and ESPN's regional breakdown of the Heisman race has South Carolina (and North Carolina) classified as "Mid-Atlantic". Uh, what? Go back to school.

 

ESPN will be bound and determined to cover every square inch of the Sandusky case and then talk about it in a segment for way too long.

This story is no longer about sports, if it ever really was in the first place outside of Paterno's role in it.

It's better served on CNN, or whatever, that way ESPN can get back to talking about sports.

 

This is something that's be better for Outside the Lines than SportsCenter, if ESPN is determined to cover it so closely.

 

I don't even know why I bother to turn on First Take at all these days. All Tebow, all the time.