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ESPN.com's Greatest Highlight B.S.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Pete Incaviglia, Feb 17, 2008.

  1. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    Anyone clicked on this ESPN.com poll yet? Anyone voted?

    It kills me. There is one "bracket" that features Babe Ruth's "called shot" versus Willie Mays' over-the-shoulder catch.

    My question: How can the Babe one even be considered? THERE IS NO VIDEO EVIDENCE OF THIS MYTHICAL SHOT! So how in the hell can ESPN use it in a "greatest highlight contest" when the highlight doesn't even exist?!
     
  2. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    and never actually happened.
     
  3. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    EXACTLY! It's a myth!
     
  4. Second Thoughts

    Second Thoughts Active Member

    There is a grainy home video. And it looks like he's pointing to left field, not center, though it's hard to tell.
     
  5. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    I've heard that. But the clip ESPN uses is some other homer. And a fake point spliced into the middle of the clip.
     
  6. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    This entire Greatest Highlight thing is total BS... beyond stupid, even for ESPN.
     
  7. Bullrog

    Bullrog Member

    Nothing will ever top the stupidity of Who's Now.
     
  8. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    Hell is an endless loop of Who's Now, Dream Job and Stewart Scott's Greatest Hits.
     
  9. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    DON'T WATCH THE FUCKING SHOW! I haven't watched for years, and somehow, life moves forward. Let ESPN do all of the stupid shit they want, don't validate it by watching it.
     
  10. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    That makes far too much sense.
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Of course, it's ripped off from FOX's "Best Fucking ______" series.

    If I employed people who felt they had to rip off ideas (intellectual concepts) from Fox, I'd have then suffocated as an act of mercy.
     
  12. joe_schmoe

    joe_schmoe Active Member

    I dunno. AP's NewsNow is pretty useless. But that's neither here nor there.
     
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