Saturday, August 15, 2009

New Low In Television

From The Daly Planet, "This Saturday, ESPN2 is going to offer something TDP discussed earlier in the week. ... Instead of Marty Reid calling the race, ESPN will have four NASCAR analysts who will talk among themselves while the race is in progress."

One of the reasons I don't watch Monday Night Football is ESPN's practice of repeatedly ignoring the football game, merely using it as a visual background for some interview or discussion between the "sportscasters" while play after play happens on the field without them paying the slightest attention to it. CBS also does that during preseason football, but at least they drop it once the regular season begins. ESPN keeps it up all season.

Do they really think that I am going to tune into an auto race and see them treat the entire race that way?

ESPN really does believe that we do not tune in to see the event; we tune in to see ESPN and the heroic and oracle-like announcers who use the event as background for a display of their greatness and brilliance.

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