posted by kidpurple
September 7, 2007
My prediction was right on but for a while it looked like DC United was going to cruise to a big victory but a lucky goal turned things around and the game ended 2-2.
What I really was going to write about was how crap ESPN was. I thought I must have been imagining the half time score they showed as Chicago Fire 2 – 1 DC United. Wow, they got the score wrong AND showed the wrong team.
Well Alex from the Chivas USA The Offsides blog confirmed this. Read Alex’s the article that also addresses many of the other ESPN complaints that I had.
It was really bad.
posted by kidpurple
August 23, 2007
ESPN2 is supposed to be showing Galaxy vs. Chivas right now, for the past half hour actually this game is supposed to have been on ESPN2. I’m only writing because the game is not being shown. A WNBA game is just heading into the third overtime.
Normally I wouldn’t think too much of it, I’d switch it over to ESPN2Alternate which they have just for situations like this. But I switch over to ESPN2Alternate to see what? The same WNBA game that is on ESPN2. WTF is the point of that.
Again on a normal night I might not be so surprised but ESPN sure wants to make such a deal out of the englishman that will be starting for the Galaxy tonight. But they can’t take a freaking WNBA game off of the alternate channel even.
For those of you that don’t know, WNBA is womens basketball.
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posted by kidpurple
April 12, 2007
The American Chronicle had an article yesterday about the complete lack of soccer coverage by ESPN, how great Manchester Uniteds beating of Roma was, and how boring golf and baseball are.
I agree with the author about getting more coverage of Major League Soccer, and right now ESPN should be the one doing it. It is hard to completely blame them for that. They probably have to endure angry fans of other sports complaining about soccer coverage. One thing I think needs to be noted is that ESPN and SportsCenter are not the same thing. ESPN2 is going to be showing an MLS game each Thursday night throughout the entrie season. ESPN shows a lot of UEFA Champions League games on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. I imagine that is where the author saw that game, but I guess it could have been somewhere else.
I really wish that another channel (like VS) would pick up some MLS, and really become popular with it. ESPN does show some love to MLS but not a lot. If some channel really did push the MLS, it could really help out the league and the sport in the United States. One thing that I think would help a lot is if there was a regular game time. Some time slot every week that there was a game on the same day, at the same time, on the same channel. I sometimes watch an American football game just cause I know they start at noon on Sundays, or whatever the time is for Monday night football. Look at the times for the Thursday night games, they are all over the place.
Hopefully someone else will pick up on MLS, really push it, and stick with them on the ride up to becoming a popular sport in the US to rival any other, leaving ESPN with their golf and baseball, and a feeling of a missed opportunity. Even thought I think that, I still can’t blame ESPN too much, who else has attempted at all to show you an MLS game? Fox Soccer Channel or something in spanish. I watched Houston vs. LA on the spanish channel on Sunday. Those announcers sound more exciting than what we English speaking folks get, but I might as well have been listening to music during the game.
Oh, and that Manchester United/Roma game was not real exciting. I love to see Manchester United win and also love to see Roma lose, but one team scoring endless goals doesn’t make for an exciting game in my opinion. A close game where you don’t know what could happen at the end is exciting. Manchester United v Bayern Munich 1999 was an exciting game!
posted by kidpurple
February 27, 2007
Today I’m sitting on my living room floor enjoying a nice PB&J for lunch with Cold Pizza on the tube because thats what channel it was on when i hit power. So there were 3 guys talking about the NFL and its players always getting arrested and the new 3 strikes and your out policy. They never said anymore about the 3 strikes policy, or else they had before I tured it on. Anyway, one of the guys said:
“(American) football is the most popular sport in the world”
I almst dumped my salsa on the white carpet.
Now I’m not sure weather to think those NFL people really think the world is the same thing as the USA, or if they really think american football is the most popular sport in the real world. Another situation that I just thought of now, maybe they have a different definition of popular, but I’m not quite sure what would work there.
What do you think?
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