I've got to hand it to you ESPN, you've done it again.
The first time you lost me was when the Mitchell Report came out. Then it was when anyone went on trial. Then it was when anyone did anything stupid. Then it was the ultimate highlight tournament. Now it's Mount Rushmore. But somehow, it's also Alex Rodriguez too! I don't understand how you can literally show next to nothing on ESPN when you have about 6 networks. I remember when Dodgeball came out and everyone giggled at the idea of ESPN 8: the Ocho. But here we are with ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN Classic, ESPNews, ESPNU, ESPN Plus, and ESPN on ABC (whatever the hell that means).
The most remarkable part is that if I were to turn on any of those channels today, I would hear about Alex Rodriguez taking steroids.
Wait a minute...there's a professional baseball player who took steroids in 2003 and won the MVP with outstanding numbers? What's that? 105 guys in the league tested positive that year? And there was no consequence to failing the test that year? So there's really nothing that can come of this other than blowing it out of proportion? He can't be reprimanded for this because IT WASN'T ILLEGAL AT THE TIME TO TEST POSITIVE FOR STEROIDS, SO WHO THE HELL CARES?
ESPN has managed to once again devote roughly 16 hours a day to a non-story. A guy who has gained 60 pounds of muscle in 10 years took steroids? He's a freaking body-builder at this point, and so is everyone else in the league. Furthermore, what ever happened to Sportscenter til 1, then obscure sports until about 4 or 5? Now Sportscenter goes until 3 P.M.! What the hell for? Especially because it gets followed up by a sport-specific highlight show!
So in conclusion, ESPN, I've fallen out of love with you. You used to make my day: every morning I'd get up and watch you for about three hours, making sure I knew the ins and outs of every highlight - because that's what made the show...highlights - and I loved it. Then you changed: now I have to sit through you talking to a correspondent from each major sport that's had a game played in the last 24 hours (Barry Melrose, Mel Kiper, Ed Werder, Buster Olney, and Tim Legler do not belong in the same hour of TV). You're not worth my time anymore, ESPN. You used to be cool...what happened?
It makes you wonder whose assholes ideas these were, doesn't it?
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