ESPN's coverage of most sports sucks.
Their baseball commentators are the worst.
How true.
You can tell what their main problem is by just watching their stupid promo-commercials.
It's all about them, the coverage, the announcers. The actual event means nothing. Which, makes them ideally suited to cover MLB, the NFL, the IRL, etc.
That being said, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the ONLY reason to watch the Cup on ESPN/ABC--HDTV. If you ain't seeing it on the Big Screen in HD, you're missing alot. It's tough to turn down the 5.1 sound, so you just have to suffer.
Let's see a show of hands of those folks with some throw-away sign-in accounts that are going to hi-jack the NFL threads.