An Egotistical Sports Performance Yearly on Tape Delay
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by user LastRow
The nominees were announced this morning. Fans will vote for the winners in 38 categories on ESPN.com, and the awards show airs, (noticed I didn’t say live on) July 15 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN from Hollywood Boulevard in the Kodak Theatre. What, is this ESPN’s way of Tivoing it for us? So in the next coming weeks in leading up to one of sports most unforgettable nights we’ll be asked to vote for 36 winners out of 38 categories…As two special awards are not voted on by fans. The Arthur Ashe Courage Award & Jimmy V Award for Perseverance.
Aw, good ole Jimmy V…Nobody will ever forget his lasting impression he gave to this night back at the first ESPY’s When he used Coach K & Dick Vitale as human crutches to make that short, but seemingly endless walk from the front row up the few stairs to that podium where he delivered the most memorable moment in ESPY’s lore. Fact is, no one remembers a lot from that first awards show…The winners & the nominees, but nobody will ever forget listening and watching Jimmy V for the last time that evening.
Ever since that night many moons ago an enormous amount of things have changed. Thanks to the network that founded these awards…ESPN has since pushed the envelope way past any mail carrier might have foreseen to transform sports what it is today. Unfortunately, these four letters that have grown through the years and taken the sporting world to higher and higher levels have lost all sense of reality as it pertains to its sporting environment! For instead of just providing its consumer with sports, as their call letters presume what they should be doing…It’s more like watching a bad episode of The Man Show, crossed between Saturday Night Live and The Jimmy Kimmel Show. When did sports have to have on air personalities? Um, did we ask for this? Because I don’t remember voting on it?
Speaking of which…Voting! They want us, the fans, to stuff their ballot boxes to decide 36 winners, (Yeah, I want fans to stuff my Pick’em Box too) but yet we aren’t even worthy of being able to see this show happen and play out live. What’s up with this? For our viewership over the years has taken this network to thinking one didn’t know his or her alphabet, to that on being one of the most recognized companies globally. And for thanks, us, the people who went to ESPN.com and voted over and over again, we get to see a tape delay/edited version a week later. Gee, that’s so thoughtful…And perhaps the NFL would like to do this same thing the first week, (or is it second) of February next season in Glendale for Super Bowl XLII?
So while LeBron James, who’s co-host the event with ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, exchange slap-stick funny one liners on stage written by those oh so funny comical ESPN stooges, the rest of us might as well be dusting off our Bozo the Clown collection. Is there a better time to watch the "Grand Prize Game" than now? Purely comical, that’s what ESPN has become…A collection of clowns if you will! Tagged by not only us the fans, but fellow colleagues in the sports-media realm:
"Hell yes, I'm glad I'm not some ESPN stooge, who might make more money than me, but spends his/her entire day preening around the athletic arena, microphone in hand, makeup case in hand, hair spray in hand, ready to ask an inane, suckup, kiss-butt question to a player that, at the end of the day, has absolutely no reasoning impact on the memories of its viewing audience, and absolutely no lasting impact on anything remotely associated with the art called "journalism" which you falsely attach yourself to." - Adrian Dater, Denver Post Colorado Avalanche Beat writer.
Hell, everybody dislikes ESPN, I think my dog even does, and he’s been dead for 16 years…Jerry Maguire even did, and that was 10 years ago! Not surprising by any stretch of the imagination! Suppose if the ESPY’s got a Nielsen Rating of below this years NBA Finals, NHL Finals, or even Ray Boyd’s G.P.A….Would this network get the drift that we want our EPSY’s live? Most likely not! Look you may have created this night, but it isn’t about you…It’s about the fans! In all actuality this corporation is no different than any single professional sports franchise. You guys want, want, want…Our votes, our viewership. Just as any owner wants our fannies in the arena and our bucks in their pockets! That’s all you scumbags at Bristol are…You get paid to watch sports, get paid to reports sport, but there's no need to do it like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS1VcIlg7Xk
If this is indeed "Sports Greatest Night" as it’s dubbed, why is it then the ESPY’s should be airing on the Classic network then? You know the ones where you guys take all the great "TAPED", (being the key word here) sporting events and re-televise them. How can that be, then? Actually, there’s no difference in the ESPY’s and your 6 a.m. through 1 p.m. SportsCenters…Again, do you see a "TAPED" pattern here? For such as a night that this award show has become, one would like to have thought it would get more respect than this? Well, at least the fans would have thought so! Wow, who would’ve thought that the Century 21 Home Run Derby at the All-Star Game Yearly would be put on a live stage, but the EPSY’s are on the same level as Stump the Schwab reruns. Well, ESPN’s brass has just stumped me…Makes you wonder what the clowns in Bristol are actually thinking if this is supposedly "The Greatest Night in Sports" as they sugges it to be, doesn't it?
