Who said anything about the ESPN "personalities" anywhere? ESPN "personalities" are interchangeable dorks who went to Syracuse to become the "next Brent Musberger" and former athletes, some of whom appear on the network based purely on looks.
It's about the production and content, not the knobs who deliver it, and the content is driven by folks who were hired out of cable news to re-invent the "mothership." So instead of having varied programming that included different formats and ...no shit, LIVE SPORTS once in a while, ESPN has become just like FoxNews and MSNBC in its formula ...
Take a handful of topics and bludgeon the shit out of them all day long. No more programming dedicated to "golf" for 30-60 minutes and no more "baseball" shows that cover MLB for an hour ...no, now it's NFLAnything, LeBron James, Sawks/Yanks, LeBron James and even Tim Tebow still once in a while, all fucking day long.
The journalists who left the network all began in print or at least had a background before ESPN and are being replaced with "personalities" who look good on TV and who can be told to weave LeBron James into a College Football Live broadcast as was the case last week during College Football Live. What the fuck does LeBron James have to do with Alabama football? Absolutely nothing. But ESPN thinks you should care about LeBron James so that when they talk about him ad nauseum, you feel it's important news to hear.
... And hear all day long. All day long. I mean, who can't wait until the late afternoon to hear what Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon have to say about the five chosen topics of the day? Shit, if you made a drinking game based solely on mentions of LeBron James, you'd be hammered by lunch time and passed out by four o'clock.
The pro-SEC crap is borne of resentment because of the BTN and the narrative once again follows the model set forth by cable news. Create the Echo Chamber on the network to sell the "SEC dominance" and reinforce those predisposed to believe the SEC is so dominant by telling them that and you get loyalty. Buy a guy like Paul Finebaum away from the competition - if there ever was a guy made for radio and not TV - and then launch the SEC Network ...
It's all pandering and bullshit and I think it's great to see so many alternatives to ESPN popping up. Anyone can sit and watch SportsCenter for the "big plays" or to see scores of games if you haven't already just checked your phone, and the game broadcasts from a technological standpoint are great.
If you're on Twitter, I would suggest you follow @ESPNHatersUnite to see just how many mistakes and utterly asinine things appear on the network. And before boogerboy gets his panties in a wad as he did last time this topic came up on the Michigan board, it's fun to mock ESPN for what it has become. This is not a serious issue and nobody that is critical of ESPNsucks needs to "seek anger management."
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