Won’t be long that ESPN will be going the way of other channels. It will no longer being doing sports, but segments and helpful hints on how to knit vagina hats or pedophile gardening tips. But no surprise here...their parent company is run by subversives.
Much like the History Channel is now the UFO and Junkyard channel. History is history on the History Channel. And sports will be history on ESPN.
What won’t change is they will still extort $7 a month if you want to keep cable TV. That is what is keeping me, along with their leftist slant, from having any sympathy for those who lost their jobs yesterday.
The TV at work that is in my direct line of sight is normally always on ESPN (unless there are tornadoes in the area or some interesting breaking news) due to the fact that none of us can stand to watch the financial networks or the cable news networks. The entire day seems to be filled with chicks wearing Fox News dresses on talk shows where they are discussing SJ issues or discussing with some unidentified African American dudes who dissed who on Twitter. It is like the View with NBA highlights. I almost crapped myself when I looked up a couple of weeks ago in the afternoon and there was an actual baseball game on. Outside of the Masters, that was the only actual competitive sports event that I have seen on there in months. My theory is that they are trying to appeal to all of the stay at home moms and unemployed lefties during the day.
I will state unequivocally as an upper middle class white guy in his early 50’s that I cannot stand female hosts and or reporterettes on any kind of sports talk or highlight show or game broadcast (other than Dotty Pepper on golf who I don’t mind). If I tune into the 11am Big Ten game on ESPN and hear Beth Mowery, the volume is automatically muted. If that makes me a big mean chauvinist/mysoginist or whatever, so be it. I like what I like. I simply have no interest in hearing some chickie who has never been the subject of a blind side hit or clothesline block discuss football. That is my preference and obviously it is not in style based on almost all of the sports shows on all of the sports networks which feature at least one woman in the standard short leg showing dress trying to inform me about the merits of the 3-4 defense. There are lots of dudes in my demographic group with plenty of disposable cash that feel the same as I do. (a little truth for the advertisers there)
That is my rant. YMMV.