I, of course, expected no less.....
Not one mention of any specific show which demonstrates your contention... then to flip-flop (oh-oh) about ESPN commentators.... Hmmmm! The one reason he was invited on the Show was to allow someone who knew, a little bit, how to handle themselves before a camera - You, or myself, doing that would be the real laugh... a sad one at that. ESPN was... and still is... trying to be political... whether you care to acknowledge it... well, that's your business! Keeping it strictly for Sports commentary so we know what's going on, apparently isn't enuf for ESPN - they have to push it into other arenas....
And, BDS Show is just as comparable to "Around the Horn, btw - a real crapper as you put it!
Especially with that new Ring Leader for the Clowns.... the more it changes, the more it stays the same!
I notice you avoided the comparison about leading one by the nose with their Polling ploys.... No one said the "man-on-the-street" was a TOP NOTCH football commentator - but he did (with others totally agreeing with him) nail Donovan and the Philly Sports Writers Club.... nailed it perfectly.... only in Philly did they figure to find fault with the statement made.... the uproar about ESPN afterwards made itself known righteously at a Tampa Bay football game not too long afterwards - we all saw the ESPN SUCKS signs on TV - BY THE FANS.. partner, by the fans!
On top of that - when it came time for rebuttal, if you will, by the regular Show hosts... it took almost three days to comeback with something (meaning someone else had to figure out what to say - they weren't gonna be witty - - and when they did, it was suddenly APPLES & ORANGES - but worded in such a way to step right past ordinary souls who weren't really listening - like selling lemons on a car lot.... They twisted what had actually been said to suit their true hidden(?) agenda... Whether the Supervisors & Managers of the Show liked it or not - C & T were out to kybosh the setup and hoodwink the public in the process... the man-on-the-street wasn't one-of-them so he was gonna be out - one way or the other - and this was from the getgo!
The reason, my friend, that Rush was there in the first place was NOT because Chris and Tommy had had an epiphony on doing a Sports Show - puh-lease, really now - those two? It was because their Supervisors thought it to be a good idea... He was specifically chosen because he did have a small modicome of sports knowledg, and at least some tenure behind a microphone with the hootspa to stand up to Pied Piper mentalities.... and readily admitted outright at the start that he was NO expert - which you seem to need to allude he was pretending to have.. he was one-of-us.... instead of us being forced to listen solely to C & T....
You keep reducing the commentary to high school like retorts all the whole avoiding a critique of ESPN - slamming one Chris Berman ain't gonna sell... leaving all the others a free pass is like becoming David Stern and avoiding NBA players who act like thugs on the Court.... There are several Radio Commentators who should actually be on Sports TV - but while the current crop hold sway - they won't be allowed the chance which would liven up Sports Shows everywhere...
As much as you implement ridicule on FoxSports - they have more Channels and don't exactly need... to play dictator in the process.... Hey, even the NFL has decided to create their own Show - leaving ESPN behind in the process - it's only a matter of time before it will be the ESPN of the gone-by years.... a back-in-the-day type rhetorical saga.. of sorts.... I figure to see the MLB_TV & NBA_TV stations start crankin up.. and only FoxSports will have the materials to assist....
I bet you even have a few ESPN T-shirts Coffee Cups and hats yerself.... sorta came with the magazine subscription, eh? (almost free, ya know)
BTW - I do have some Bob&Tom gear - a few Indiana Blood Bank hats.. cause I give regularly... and all others are PACKERS! Go figure!
Clueless huh - snappy retort... if ya haven't graduated yet...!
Ya notice I try to stick to facts, not write them off to suit myself.....
Politically speaking - that's a dodge to not facing one's responsibilities...
The only real clown on BDS would be Tom Arnold - course, look he married...
The rest of those guys are sports athletes, for the most part who yak from experience!
ESPN Hosts apparently need to create Shows about themselves for promotion!
