ESPN.com, I love you but now I must hate you

Especially if you continue to use that idiotic and irritating shrinking ad at the top of your main page. Pop up ads aren’t intrusive enough, so you went to ads that appeared within/on top of the page. Apparently, we didn’t respond enough to those so you now build in an ad that takes up half of the screen and then at some point shrinks away.

I appreciate clicking on a link other than my intended one because the page is moving independently of my choosing. I appreciate having to hunt down and click on a little plus sign to close the ad on my own. I appreciate that ad still appearing and clogging up my screen even after I have supposedly closed it.

I hope you appreciate fewer visits to your page and a conscious choice to not purchase items from the company mentioned in the ad.

espn.com doesn’t work with Netscape. They demand that you download a new version of Netscape. Well they can kiss my used underwear. I am at work and youse get what youse get. They will let you go the espn lite which has nothing. No good articles, it is just like you get the 1st page and that is all.

So I have to use the PC (which is a PC emulator which means it is not as fast as the regular variety since it uses a digital switch) They have that ESPN Motion[sup]tm[/sup] that is the work of evil. There is no stopping it. It locks up the computer cause it is so memory hoggy. I did delete the program but not until the blood pressure was raised cursing the site.

My visits to ESPN.com lately is down 80%. I just go there to read some Peter Gammons stuff since he cracks me up with his lack of baseball knowledge.

psst, deb… I have the same problem (we only have netscape 4.something at work, ya see), but… if you go to ESPNlite, which does indeed blow rancid sheep, you can backdoor your way into the main site, without having to use a PC emulator. Some of it comes out looking messed up, but…