Over the past week or so, I've been doing my fair share of ESPN bashing. It is, after all, pretty impossible not to bash ESPN after watching a segment of Who's Now (?).By way of Awful Annoucning I came across a radio clip from Scott Van Pelt's ESPN radio show. He interviews Will Leitch, the Michael Jordan/Babe Ruth/Tiger Woods/Joey Chestnut of sports blogging. They talk about why ESPN sucks as well as why so many sports fans are turning to blogs.
It's a pretty short clip worth listening to. Just hearing Leitch's voice on a ESPN broadcast made it worth it for me. Van Pelt's gets props for bringing Leitch onto the Network.
Also, in somewhat related news, guess who's going to be on the 2nd round panel for Who's Now? Jessica Biel!
Her vote will count for 10% of the total, while mine (if I bothered voting), would probably count for less than .01%.
They've got some really bright ones working at ESPN--such a subtle, clever move they made. Rather than cutting the terrible, meaningless, abysmal, laughable segment and admitting a mistake, they brought in the 2005 sexiest woman alive to boost ratings. Whoever thought of such an innovate idea ought to get a raise (chances are, some 15 year old kid recommended it to his bud as a joke and some ESPN exec. overheard it).
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