When watching the Phillies-Giants broadcast on ESPN, the national audience was treated to various poll results on the Barry Bonds situation. With Bonds approaching the all-time MLB HR record (though he didn't play Sunday night because he, obviously, fears Cole Hamels), I began to consider the question, "What is the Greatest Travesty in Sports?"
The correct answer is blatantly obvious. I'm sure you are thinking the same thing I am right now.
How can NESN have a commercial for The Boston Globe Pre-Game Show without a clip of Amalie Benjamin? That's like a commercial for 24 without that Jack Bauer guy. Charlie Manuel does things that make more sense than this. (Well, occasionally.) NESN needs to fix this, and then get rolling with NESN II:PapelTV.
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2 comments:
since you were watching the phillies/giants game, can we discuss something briefly? because i tried to tell the pm about it and she just looked at me like i was a crazy person.
so miller and morgan spent the ENTIRE broadcast (seriously, at one point i think they went three batters without even mentioning what was happening on the field) talking about barry bonds and the home run record, and BARRY WASN'T EVEN PLAYING YESTERDAY. and at one point, they start talking about the survey, and how while something like 70% of all african-american fans surveyed are rooting for him to break the record, only like 50% of all fans over all are rooting against him. and joe morgan (fuck, i think joe morgan said something intellegent, god DAMMIT) said something about how what the sports media didn't understand was that while 90% of the media didn't want him to break the record, probably only 50% of the fans felt strongly about it. and the whole time i was like, "joe morgan, you're contributing to the very thing you're complaining about because you're talking about barry bonds breaking the record in a GAME HE ISN'T EVEN PLAYING IN!"
ahem. sorry. i just had to get that off my chest.
There are numerous times when I get physically agitated over ESPN and their methods of covering sports. The Outside the line report on race and bonds made me violently ill. I would love for ESPN to poll the same group of people about McGwire and see how it all adds up.
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