Bob Costas agrees: ESPN blows

bobcostas.jpgWell, he didn’t say it like that, but he makes a great point on ESPN’s black-or-white sports commentary. When asked by the Orlando Sentinel if it bothers him that ESPN has every journalist in the country on the payroll and asks them to take hard-line stances for the purposes of debate, Costas had this to say:

“Well, it’s not like I’m losing sleep over it, but I think any reasonable person rolls their eyes to a certain extent about that. It’s just not possible for a reasonable person to be that stoked up about 15 different sports topics every day — to have a passionate black-and white, thumbs up-thumbs-down opinion on every single sports topic. That just defies common sense. And yet if that’s the fuel on which this engine runs, then if you want to be on the air you have to come with a “take” on these topics that doesn’t allow for much subtlety or shades of gray. So everything is buy-sell, true-false, fact or fiction. But very, very few people I know view many topics that way.”

We agree. When was the last time you heard Jay Marriotti say, “Gee, I don’t want to buy or sell that. It’s just kind of whatever.”? Why does every sports topic have to be a dramatically polarizing one when it comes to ESPN? Just another line item in a list of reasons to hate ESPN and what they are doing to sports in America.

Micah Warren is the sports editor for Blast Magazine

In ESPN, Media April 30, 2008

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