# ESPN **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 29, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694 "2009-07-29T19:22:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694/21 "2009-07-30T18:59:51Z")
> [@Hung\_Mung](#): > > One of our local Nashville honks ruffled some feathers at SEC Media Days by asking Tebow, flat out, if he was saving himself for marriage to which Tebow, obviously, answered in the affirmative. Tempest in a tiny, tiny teapot it is. Ya know, one could re-write the OP about _The Tennessean_ rather than ESPN thusly: Vols Football, Vols Football, Steve McNair, Vols Football, Titans, Vols Football, Vols Football, Steve McNair, Vols Football, Preds, Vols Football, Titans, Titans, Vanderbilt AnySport, Vols Football, Vols Football, All other Vols sports, Vols Football, All Other Area College Sports, Preds, Titans, Vols Football, Sounds, Vols Football, Vols Football, Titans And not just the sports page, either, the danged front page. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694/22 "2009-07-30T19:26:17Z")
ESPN has been drinking too much and this month ran a story talking about how much improved the Lions look. It seems safe, since they won zero but they are talking about being faster ,deeper and stronger. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694/23 "2009-07-30T19:53:08Z")
I fucking hate Steve Berthiaume. Whenever he’s the host of Baseball Tonight, i have to restrain myself from throwing things at the TV. He’s just such a fucking jackass, and he has all these little trademark sayings that annoy the shit out of me. “It’s time to play America’s favorite game, Name That Molina. Which Molina is it, Tim Kurkjian? Yadier? Correct. Thanks for playing America’s favorite game, Name That Molina” Whenever a Philly player hits a homer: “Fill thine horn with oil, and go!” That’s all i can think of right now, but i know there are others that i have mercifully failed to recall. He needs to be clubbed mercilessly. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694/24 "2009-07-30T22:29:27Z")
> [@Hung\_Mung](#): > > I’m freaking sick of all of it. That’s why I do listen to Colin Cowherd. > > What? We don’t have a dedicated ESPN radio outlet in Nashville anymore? That’s fricking great. Now I’ve got nothing but Dan Patrick and Jim Rome, neither of whom is funny for more than 18 seconds at a time. > > Fuck. I used to listen to ESPN radio on my drive to work and drive home. I liked **Mike and Mike** (well, really I just liked Greeny and tolerated Golick) **in the Morning** , but absolutely LOATHED Dan Patrick’s show, and couldn’t understand why he was so revered. Every interview sounded like he was reading questions off his note cards and smugly contemplating his self-perceived brilliance. Then he quit and I had high hopes for my drive home until . . . Stephen A. Fucking Smith! WTF is up with his stringing together sentences composed of thesaurus barf combined with utter lack of meaning? Thankfully he didn’t last long. Then the local affiliate switched to a Golden Oldies format and I was left with a choice between the **WEEI** feed from Boston (aka: Celtics, Sox, Pats, Bruins, Pats, Sox, Pats, Sox, Celts, Yankees Suck network) or contemplative silence. I chose silence. I still like Colin and listen to his podcast regularly. He doesn’t suck and I wish the podcast was more than a 40-minute snippet of his show. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694/25 "2009-07-30T22:55:56Z")
Our former ESPN station is now a fucking hip-hop, techno-dance, shitfest. I guess that’s only one or two notches down the totem pole (or up, if one wishes to be nitpicky about one’s vernacular). ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694/26 "2009-07-31T15:53:19Z")
ESPN is on 24/7, and most of those hours are repetitions of Sports Center and Baseball Tonight. If you’re only halfway watching in the daytime or late at night, you might not notice you’re seeing exactly the same SC and BT for the third time. Then prime time comes, and you’re up for actual sports, but instead they give you 4 hours of **Poker!** “Holy cow, Jim! Did you see the way he pushed his chips into the middle? That’s bound to be on _Poker Plays Of The Week_.” Who but ESPN would give you two days of live coverage and commentary of _The NFL Draft_? “Six years ago, many MLB baseball players were secretly tested for steroids, with the promise that the results would never be revealed. Well, they lied, and tonight we’re going to tell you that Manny Being Manny tested positive _six years ago !_” ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_Clock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694/27 "2009-07-31T21:29:51Z")
Just wondering: does anybody else hate that goddamned Baseball Tonight music as much as I do? And your spot on about the poker. Enough already!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn/504694.md?page=1)