Zimmer said it way better, but yeah Eddy you're an idiot. Your real issue is with ESPN not saying what you want them to say, despite all else.

I actually think covering and talking about all of these things is fine and exactly what ESPN should be doing. It's the million little pointless micro-political comments that are tilting.

reading isn't your strong suit I get that. I am saying why does every single show on ESPN have to be the same show. SportsCenter isn't sportscenter anymore. It's just an extension to PTI, and First Take. And the politics I am referring to is how they will jump through hoops for the NFL, and show maybe 30 seconds of hockey coverage because they chose not to have the rights. ESPN went from being a legitimate news channel to just being an entertainment show.

Agreed, but does every single show have to be the same exact subject matter?

lol

poor eddy. saddest thing of all is you really believe everything you just wrote

Seems more like shilling than politics. And while they do censor their people from going HAM on Goodell, they report the hell out of anything to do with concussions, CTE, domestic violence, etc.

Baseball and hockey are regional sports nowadays. ESPN seems mainly focused on national stuff like NFL, CFB and NBA. I think ESPN didnt buy the rights to NHL because they arent interested in it, rather than not being interested in it because they dont have the rights.


Eddy if that's what you mean by politics I think youre not on the same page as the other complainers ITT. I think what theyre mad about is athletes being given a voice on social issues and being looked at as people rather than just entertaining us and keeping quiet.

That Whitlock dude is a real stinker, who the **** goes on t.v spitting out hot takes in a fedora, fat guys in fedora's look even weirder.

That would be a one way humiliation. Might as well say you want to see her fight GGG

Republicans and Democrats are in a never ending, low level civil war with each other. Being reminded that someone is on the other side of the war provokes a negative reaction and makes you like them less, even if they revealed their side in a harmless way. That's a cost that some can gracefully mitigate, but it should not be hard to see the appeal of a no-politics policy for ESPN's stable of idiot entertainers trying to appeal to the largest amount of people possible with their non-political programming.

Why did ESPN ever hire Rush Limbaugh in the first place? That's one of the strangest additions to any telecast that I have seen. It's up there with sticking Dennis Miller in the MNF booth.

Haven't listened yet but new Simmons pod is about changing sports media landscape and ESPN's future.

babies dying of cancer are not a political issue. wtf?

It's better to let everyone know at once than a slow bleed with everyone looking over their shoulders.

With opinions and ****!

Right.

Good post


The cessation of coverage for non-contract sports really hurt them imo.

Is tho.


Sports and politics are and always will be linked. Sports is one of the few platforms for people of color to speak out and be broadly heard. The Kap backlash speaks volumes as to how far we need to go as a country.

Larry Wilmore is a nice get for the ringer

The whole "sports have always been very political!" angle is almost completely imaginary, invented by sports journalists who don't want to admit they dedicated their careers to grown men playing pointless games for the amusement of spectators. Journalists are some of the most self important people on the planet, they all think they're like super important and changing the world and ****.

Occasionally sports and politics do actually intersect in some sort of meaningful way, and for every one time that happens there's about 1,000 times it's fabricated out of thin air so that sports journalists can feel like their careers have some sort of substance and isn't just about a bunch of grown men throwing and kicking balls around.

Can you point me to a post where you were actually right about a subject, ever? You're a bad parody of your nickname.

Why would they be uncomfortable? The news and entertainment industry is extremely left wing compared to the general public. Anyone espousing left wing view points is put up on a pedestal and praised by mainstream media as heroic, brave, whatever. Anyone daring to say anything leftists don't like gets nothing but overwhelming hate, even if half the country agrees with them.

For all their love of diversity left wingers strictly enforce echo chambers when it comes to beliefs people are allowed have.

I'm sure right wingers would do the same if they were the ones with the grip on the media.

"extremely"
"half"

Yeah the last part is the important bit. People of color on TV primarily come through academia, the entertainment workplace, essentially a lot of white culture mentoring that doesn't necessarily divorce them from socioeconomically low roots, if they even come from there, but it does taint their perspective.

Athletes don't have that whitewashed persona in a lot of circumstances. You can't laugh repeatedly about Antonio Cromartie not being able to name all his kids and then get ****ty when someone of a similar ilk talks openly about something that's pressing to the black community. I think it's nice to have real opinions on TV no matter where they're coming from. Distilled opinions dominate every ****ing news channel manufacturing conflict for ratings. Real recognizes real. I probably wouldn't have ever understood had I not done 10+ years in the enlisted Army and actually, you know, worked with a bunch of people of color. I just had no perspective. I empathize with the side that doesn't like it, I don't care for politics in sports much myself, but to demand its divorce is pretty ignorant in the literal sense of the word.

Colin Kaepernick was a backup quarterback on an irrelevant team voicing ordinary political opinions. That's not really a momentous story that demands to be told. Do you remember what Randall Cobb had to say about Bernie Sanders' plan for reforming Wall Street?

Kaepernick just generated heat. The country was divided neatly in half on the issue and each side had a lot of emotion to bring to the table. ESPN gets their clicks, and everyone gets to yell about how stupid and evil the other side is on Facebook. It's hard to see the process as noble, even if you do value giving someone a platform to tell the world about their oppression.

have you been alive for the last 8 years? like wtf man.

how is it a political thing? doesnt everyone just agree thats something that is fundamentally awful?

you must be new or something

have you ever heard of republicans?

welcome to "political discourse" in USA#1