[quote name='lionheart4life']Does ESPN even cover the NHL DURING their season? I thought all they talked about now was Yankees/Red Sox, Barry Bonds, Brett Favre and/or Roger Clemens possible retirements, and plugging the poker tournaments and other crap they show all the time instead of real sports.
ESPN barely shows highlights of any games that don't include the Yankees or Red Sox, and you almost wouldn't even know the National League existed any more if it weren't for Bonds. Baseball Tonight is a complete cluster
without Peter Gammons now too, it's just a bunch of guys speculating and throwing random picks out for who will turn the season around and make the playoffs with few facts or stats.
The MTV shows have always been obviously fake especially Room Raiders, Next, and Date my Mom. How many people make sex and penis jokes for an entire date on national TV, and how many moms talk about their daughters being sluts and how they are too outside of Jerry Springer? Only MTV can manage to make shows where absolutely nothing happens (Laguna Beach) and completely sucker girls into buying into it all.[/QUOTE]
Well the stories ESPN covers are what all local and national news papers covers...they will always cover the biggest stories as in what you said...bonds(which is an after thought), Sox/Yanks, Floyd Landis..etc...i dont mind hearing about sox/yanks news because its two teams that have the hugest rivarly in any sport...i say thats the most enjoyable news...you would know the NL existed because of Albert Pujols and not because of bonds...bonds is known for roids and not for the league. even clemens is in the NL so his name could be the poster for the NL......as for the NHL, ESPN didnt agree to the terms of the contract which was revenue for the NHL so the OLN bought out all the TV rights to broadcast national games...NBC has them on the weekend.its a pity you cant watch hockey on ESPN because wednesday night hockey was something i always put time for because they would always broadcast Red Wing Games...i can agree with most of the shows are crap on ESPN..im a poker player and i think the WSOP coverage is bland because all the hands are suck outs and none are played by skill. The contender though is a very good show IMO. Vinroy Wright is the man.
baseball tonight took a hit with firing reynolds and losing Gammons to a problem...Tim Kurkjin and Jason Stark should be the only guys doing any predicting and reporting on that show...STve Phillips is an idiot beyond belief...i mean seriously how many highlights can show in a game...the ones that matter are lead changing runs or a great robbery....run by run analysis can be seen on the teams local sports network anywayso its not like thats really important...thanks to SNY i can do that...i really dont care how the Devil Rays tacked on 19 runs against the yankees and how they did it. anyway its just a analysts show anyway...its the same as those guys who do stocks and stuff..its just for the hardcore baseball fan.
as for MTV...all the shows suck except for viva la bam...i dunno i just think the kid is funny.