Why I don't like ESPN

[Bellhorn04]

Check out Phil Mushnick's columns in the New York Post. He is constantly ripping ESPN to shreds with just cause.

[mvp 78]

ESPN released a statement that basically said "the softball game went long so we went with a truncated version of A prepackaged show to fill the timeslot."

[Slasher9]

They are absolutely hypocritical. That is the issue. By firing Schilling and doing nothing with Broussard, they basically set two different standards based on your racial status. It is racism at its finest

 

Curt was warned more than once to not post politically/controversial stuff on his social media accounts. he was even put on leave for a couple weeks after posting something last summer. by continuing to do just that he kicked dirt in his bosses faces. if you are going to not do what your boss says you should expect to be fired. it's pretty simple stuff.

[SoxnCycles]

Curt was warned more than once to not post politically/controversial stuff on his social media accounts. he was even put on leave for a couple weeks after posting something last summer. by continuing to do just that he kicked dirt in his bosses faces. if you are going to not do what your boss says you should expect to be fired. it's pretty simple stuff.

 

ESPN's problem wasn't that Curt's social media posts were political.

It's that they didn't match ESPN's politics.

[Slasher9]

ESPN's problem wasn't that Curt's social media posts were political.

It's that they didn't match ESPN's politics.

 

i dont necessarily agree with your statement but even if it was true. he was warned by his employer to cease and he ignored the repeated warnings. he got exactly what he deserved. it's not like they fired him out of the blue with zero warning. Curt has the freedom of speech to post whatever he wants. Curt's employer has the right to fire him for it.

Edited May 2, 2016 by Slasher9

[Jack Flap]

Aaron Boone's voice kind of reminds me of Ted Cruz, which doesn't do much for the viewing experience.

[User Name]

The f*** did Ted Cruz ever do to you?

[SoxnCycles]

i dont necessarily agree with your statement but even if it was true. he was warned by his employer to cease and he ignored the repeated warnings. he got exactly what he deserved. it's not like they fired him out of the blue with zero warning. Curt has the freedom of speech to post whatever he wants. Curt's employer has the right to fire him for it.

 

ESPN edited out Shilling's bloody sock game from their documentary about the 2004 series against the Yankees.

You know, because that game was really not that big of a deal.

If that's not a petty, douchebag move, I don't know what is.

 

Deserved or not, that move displays what kind of people are running that company.

[a700hitter]

ESPN edited out Shilling's bloody sock game from their documentary about the 2004 series against the Yankees.

You know, because that game was really not that big of a deal.

If that's not a petty, douchebag move, I don't know what is.

 

Deserved or not, that move displays what kind of people are running that company.

I agree with this. I despise all attempts to re-write sports and other history to conform to current political correctness.

[a700hitter]

I am glad that this politically motivated attempt to rewrite history is being picked up in the press. The Schilling "Bloody Sock" game was one of the most memorable personal performances on a big stage in my lifetime. It was a compelling story by itself and it was magnified by the context of the Red Sox comeback against their greatest nemesis. To edit it out of the show reflects the pettiness and spitefulness of management at ESPN. They should be ashamed.

Curt Schilling not happy ‘bloody sock’ game cut from Red Sox-Yankees ’30 for 30′

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Des Bieler May 1 at 10:34 PM

Curt Schilling tends to his right ankle during Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Curt Schilling was recently fired by ESPN in large part because of his frequent social-media activity, specifically controversial memes and comments shared by the former pitcher. So when reports circulated online that ESPN had cut Schilling’s memorable “bloody sock” performance in the 2004 ALCS from its Sunday airing of a “30 for 30″ documentary about that Red Sox-Yankees showdown, it was no surprise to see him weigh in quickly, and strongly.

 

Apparently Schilling also thinks that ESPN counts among the reasons why Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had his four-game suspension reinstated by a federal court. But what set him off Sunday was hearing that the evening’s telecast of “Four Days in October,” ESPN’s 2010 documentary about Boston’s stunning comeback from a 3-0 deficit against New York to reach, and eventually win, the World Series, was missing his crucial Game 6 performance.

 

“Four Days in October” zeroes in on the four games in which the Red Sox stormed back from 3-0 down, the first MLB team to ever do so. Schilling was slated to start Game 6, despite suffering a torn tendon sheath in his right ankle that required an unusual medical procedure to patch up enough to let him play.

 

As the game wore on, Schilling’s white sock became noticeably stained with blood just above his shoe, and he had some visible trouble moving fluidly, but he pitched seven strong innings, allowing just one run and helping Boston to a season-saving 4-2 win. Along with Dave Roberts’s stolen base in Game 4 and David Ortiz’s two walk-off hits, Schilling authored one of the most iconic moments of that, or any, postseason series.

 

The recounting of that performance, and Game 6 in general (including Alez Rodriguez knocking a ball out of reliever Bronson Arroyo’s glove), takes up about 17 minutes of the original version of the hour-and-five-minute-long documentary. ESPN apparently wanted to trim “Four Days in October,” which aired on ESPN2 after an Arizona-Oregon softball game and was likely timed to precede a live Red Sox-Yankees telecast on the main channel, down to fit into an hour-long time slot, with commercials.

“When a live event runs long, it’s standard procedure to shorten a taped program that follows,” an ESPN spokesman told The Post. “In this case, we needed to edit out one of the film’s four segments to account for the extra length of the softball game.”

Was it just a coincidence, though, that the segment taken out happened to feature a player-turned-analyst who just parted ways with ESPN under acrimonious circumstances? At the very least, the optics of that don’t look great for the network.

Schilling, meanwhile, was more than ready to let ESPN, and his 152,000 Twitter followers, know of his disdain for the editing choice.

 

Edited May 2, 2016 by a700hitter

[Bellhorn04]

ESPN edited out Shilling's bloody sock game from their documentary about the 2004 series against the Yankees.

You know, because that game was really not that big of a deal.

If that's not a petty, douchebag move, I don't know what is.

 

That's just flat-out pathetic.

[Slasher9]

ESPN edited out Shilling's bloody sock game from their documentary about the 2004 series against the Yankees.

You know, because that game was really not that big of a deal.

If that's not a petty, douchebag move, I don't know what is.

 

Deserved or not, that move displays what kind of people are running that company.

 

agree 100% that this move by ESPN was completely wrong.

[mvp 78]

The f*** did Ted Cruz ever do to you?

 

Well, he is the Zodiac Killer.

[illinoisredsox]

Winston Smith is still holding down his gig at ESPN, editing video and erasing unpersons.

 

In other news, Eurasia and Oceania have always skipped game 6 of a 7 game series.

[Spudboy]

f*** ESPN.

[SoxnCycles]

ESPN finally figured out that Ray lewis and Chris Carter suck.

 

http://thesource.com/2016/05/09/espn-will-reportedly-hire-randy-moss-and-remove-ray-lewis-cris-carter/

[S5Dewey]

I hate ESPN because (among other reasons) they control too much of the scheduling.

 

I used to drive to Boston (4+ hours from home) on Friday with the intention of seeing at least two games of a weekend series, including a Sunday afternoon game, but no more. I don't feel confident that a game scheduled for 1:00 on Sunday is going to be played at 1:00.

 

ESPN has the power to change a 1:00 game to an 8:00 game on Sunday night and they frequently do. Therefore any ticket a person buys for a 1:00 Sunday game with the plan of watching the game and then driving home may turn out to be a ticket for an 8:00 game and an 8:00 Sunday night game is ridiculous for people who don't live right in Boston, especially if they have to go to work on Monday morning.

 

But do you know what? ESPN doesn't care because they're going to sell the advertising and the Red Sox organization doesn't care because the tickets are already sold. Except mine. I don't buy them any more. Instead I watch the game on tv and listen to Aaron F. Boone.

[sk7326]

I hate ESPN because (among other reasons) they control too much of the scheduling.

 

I used to drive to Boston (4+ hours from home) on Friday with the intention of seeing at least two games of a weekend series, including a Sunday afternoon game, but no more. I don't feel confident that a game scheduled for 1:00 on Sunday is going to be played at 1:00.

 

ESPN has the power to change a 1:00 game to an 8:00 game on Sunday night and they frequently do. Therefore any ticket a person buys for a 1:00 Sunday game with the plan of watching the game and then driving home may turn out to be a ticket for an 8:00 game and an 8:00 Sunday night game is ridiculous for people who don't live right in Boston, especially if they have to go to work on Monday morning.

 

But do you know what? ESPN doesn't care because they're going to sell the advertising and the Red Sox organization doesn't care because the tickets are already sold. Except mine. I don't buy them any more. Instead I watch the game on tv and listen to Aaron F. Boone.

 

Sigh - life when the tickets are printed before the national TV schedule is settled ...

[Northern Star]

ESPN sucks because they have contributed to adult ADD, their coverage of sports is superficial, and their magazine is garbage designed and written by nine year olds.

[Northern Star]

Sigh - life when the tickets are printed before the national TV schedule is settled ...

 

I think with the English Premier League they move matches to different days during the season as dictated by the tv companies when the front-runners for the title emerge.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

One of the first things I would do if I were president of all things baseball is mandate that all regular-season Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday/Thursday (the latter if it's a four-game Mon-Thu series, the former in all other cases) games be afternoon games, with the exception of Wednesday and Saturday night baseball on ESPN. Thursday should be an off day whenever possible. There, everybody wins - the players get an easier travel schedule so they don't have to wrap up some series finale at 11pm at night, and then hurry on to the plane and get to the next city and be settled and ready to go for the next game less than 24 hours later. ESPN** gets a baseball game timeslot all to themselves twice a week. Fans that don't live in Canada or Florida get more opportunities to watch the games as they were intended - during the daytime, with (hopefully) nice and sunny weather.

 

** or Fox/Fox Sports 1/NBC/someone else when ESPN finally goes down the drain.

Edited May 11, 2016 by Jacoby_Ellsbury