Thread 150225813

Can we all agree ESPN is starting to turn into fucking shit?

Oh cool I just thought this world needed a podcast with two rich straight white dudes as hosts.

starting?
it’s been shit for about 15-16 years

>>150225813 (OP)
>starting
were you in a coma for the past 20 years?

This is the exact moment when ESPN started to turn into complete fucking shit

>>150225813 (OP)
>>150225821

I thought you guys wanted more normie friendly white people in pop culture?

It's offseason for everyone besides baseball and i guess women's basketball. You try cobbling together some sports content at this time of the year

I just hate the structure of podcasts in general.
It's the same as radio in the 90s. I'd much rather listen to all rock no talk as opposed to all talk no rock.

>>150226399
you’re a retard defending mediocrity

>>150226449
All podcasts are mediocre content for people to passively listen to while doing chores. Noise for those who are afraid of silence.

>>150226449
You regurgitate chud seethe from indians and chatbots

>>150225813 (OP)
>starting
it's been shit since they started pushing SAS, LeBron GOAT narratives, Cowboys, SJW narratives, and de-emphasizing MLB and journalism.

Started happening a lot around the time of the CTE stuff, NFL buck broke them after that,

>>150225813 (OP)
>starting

>>150225813 (OP)
ESPN's been shit since forever. It's shittiness just changes.
In the 90s it was shit because all they had was endless Sports Center with the same hour of highlights for basically 20 hours of the day and maybe a baseball or basketball game to break it up.
In the 00s ESPN was shit because they followed whatever narrative was being pushed by the leagues because they were too tied in with the organizations. They started getting too Big Man and then when the steroid scandals came out they ended up in a Destalinization style situation where the guys they called gods for a decade now had to be violently purged.
The last decade ESPN has been shit because it's just Sports Talk from Ex-Jocks and Gambling Dweebs doing Numbers games.
Their best 00s-10s non-game content was journalists talking sports.
But ESPN was always terrible and will always be terrible. They only cover sports they're invested in and they've always cared about narrative far too much to the point where it feels like they're taking sides and kissing feet.

Miss me yet, /sp/?

>starting to turn into fucking shit
>starting

its been dogshit for 20 years fella

>>150225813 (OP)
>starting

>>150226290
No this was

>>150226580
This is exactly right, and
>They only cover sports they're invested in and they've always cared about narrative far too much to the point where it feels like they're taking sides and kissing feet.
is the heart of it. They don't care about sports, they care about the IP they have broadcast rights to and only then they only care about the set of narratives they've thought of.

Sports media sucks in general because they're only ever speculating and never analyzing, and major outlets/shows never cover anything other than the NFL. The amazing thing is that for all the focus on a single league, none of these people ever have anything interesting to say.

Also all sports are just now distilled down to just the playoffs; the season only exists as filler content and a way to seed the playoffs - hockey doesn't get discussed until the Cup, no one talks about CBB until the tournament, etc. It's garbage.