Jesus tapdancing Christ

[sigma7]

ESPN The Magazine devotes entire issue to how good Boston is.

This is a real thing. I swear to you. DJ Gallo didn’t make this as a Photoshop just as some kind of sick joke. ESPN actually did this. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKS AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN GODDAMN HELL. ALL OF THEM. Chad Millman, who is the editor of ESPN The Shitheap, needs to be tied to a post and lashed with a dead stingray for this. This is fucking horrible. This is White Vick with a fucking House of Pain tattoo grafted on for good measure. Did you people NOT get the fucking memo? Were you not aware that the entire goddamn world hates you already for overcovering Boston sports? Did you not know that there are entire sites like this one that were founded specifically to act as a counterbalance to your ongoing and utterly baffling provincialism? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

I love the Bruins, I adore the Celts, but this seriously is a bridge too fah. The only thing worse than incessant tone-deaf homerism is commercializing it -- also see ESPN Boston, ESPN New York, ESPN Los Angeles, ESPN Chicago, ESPN Dallas....

Comments

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

I think it's kind of awesome. I want to go out and buy it.

[blemt.livejournal.com]

ESPN lost the bulk of it's journalistic cred with me during the Bruce Feldman fiasco. The final ESPN draw occurred while watching Baseball Night in America. It was the Yanks vs Boston. They had Curt Schilling and Nomar Garciaparra as the color commentary.

...:/ Come on, seriously? That's like having Paul O'Neil and Tino Martinez doing color if the game is in NYC. There was no pretense to keep the comments unbiased. None. And while I'd have no issue with that crew if it was the Boston broadcast, this was ESPNs NATIONAL crew. It was just the last straw.

(Note I agree with Jacob, cool cover) Boston STILL sucks. ;)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Any aspirations it may have had as an objective network were lost with The Decision. Anything after that resembling sports journalism is just accidental. And yet this magazine couldn't possibly be done as a parody because it's too far beyond the pale to be taken seriously. Leave it to ESPN to take an aspect of journalistic fallibility and market it to death.

Thing of it is, while I remain a Bruins and Celtics fan, I can't really blame anyone for despising them simply because of insipid media stunts like this one. There are too many organizations, universities, and arbitrary geographic areas with insufferable, intolerable, obnoxious, downright odious fanbases and that phenomenon does not need to be magnified.

[blemt.livejournal.com]

I've stopped watching ESPN for news, and I no longer go to the website. I've got a half dozen of the good reporters on my twitter feed. That's it.

I'm still waiting on the ombudsman report on Bruce Feldman. Did you ever read their initial report on the situation?

As a Yankees/Texas Longhorns fan, I'm in no position to critique obnoxious fanbases. :) I will maintain, having 2 former Bosox calling Yanks/Sox is beyond asinine. I'd have felt the same way if it was 2 former Yanks. Then again, this is the network that still has Craig James commenting on games.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

The ombudsman position at ESPN is treated as a sick joke. They at least gave Schreiber and Solomon the time of day, but they blew off Ohlmeyer's dissection of The Decision pretty effortlessly, and nobody in Bristol gives a damn about the Poynter Institute until they start buying blocks of advertising and representing high school basketball stars. Long as the wheels are greased with money and young blood, and as long as the thin-skinned divas have their fifteen minutes of airtime or fifteen column inches, they don't care. Which is sad, because there are quite a few decent investigative sports journalists who just happen to be working for them.