Reason 5796 why ESPN stinks

Like let me watch some billionaire bid on the original Batman Car. I don't care.

 

You can turn it on at any hour and find out exactly what you need to know without the idiocy. They had a nightly college football show that wasn't half bad. The America's Game programs are great TV. The pregame and postgame shows are high quality. And the network is only five years old.

When I went home for Christmas I realized just how much I missed NFLN, and how shitty ESPN's coverage is in substitute.

 

Fuck the NFL Network. I get it. But not the games. Instead I get some guy on the sidelines talking about the game and the in-studio announcers analyzing the drive summary and cutting to highlights.

 

When they show crap, I watch something else, how hard is that?
Before ESPN, I got to see about 1/1,000th the college hoops I do now.
I saw almost none of the U.S. national soccer team's qualifying games.
They've made all our lives better as sports fans. Are they perfect? Of course not. But man, we sure do like to gripe around here about imperfections that are easily solved ... by changing the channel on occasion.

 

I see no problem here.

 

I appreciate ESPN giving us tons of live events.

But ESPN Classic has been a colossal disappointment since ESPN acquired it, and it's 100 percent ESPN's fault.

I think 1990 Royals-O's was the first game ESPN ever televised, hence the re-airing.

 

Yeah, I remember getting scores of "World Series of Poker" reruns from 2004 in 2006 and craving a good MLB game from the '70s every now and then.

ESPN Classic leaves a lot to be desired. They bought a Mercedes and turned it into a VW.

 

ESPN Classic is just that...great idea, wasted potential. Once SportsCentury took over, it really started to go downhill.

I'll be there for Orioles-Royals from 1990. I remember watching the end when I got home from school that day..

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199004090KCA

And, as a Royals fan...that was when KC signed Mark Davis for way too much money. They lost the game after leading by three runs. Not the kind of game they had usually lost the previous 15 years. In an odd way, this loss did mark the start of the undertow for the Royals that they have never recovered from.

 

If it were "Reason No. 5796 why ESPN Classic sucks," you'd never have heard from me.
The concept mostly leaves me cold, anyway.
If you've got the time to watch a 19-year-old baseball game that didn't mean anything, you've got too much time on your hands.

 

why would anybody want to watch an old game?

i never understood that

 

It's like other old stuff. I don't want to watch a game that is two days old or two weeks old or two months old or even two years old.

But I like watching some games that are 20 years old or more, to see in action the players I'd forgotten about or to appreciate how and why certain guys were good.

I don't want to read an Esquire from four months ago, but I'll dive into a Life magazine from 1967. That's what I want from a classic sports network.