into the show before even a mention of the Cubs game. I’m not saying the Cubs deserve to be a feature every night, but the team with the best record in baseball came back from 8 runs down today. I’d think that’s an interesting story.

I guess they were saving it for the DeRo discussion…but still. I’m sure someone out there in television has a better explanation.

like the Cubs get supremely disrespected on ESPN and across the country.

It’s Red Sox this…Yankees that.

Just go look @ the ESPN.com website tonight. Dice-K’s on the DL (OK, maybe that’s worth a headline), Red Sox win in 13…big deal.

Yankees win (wow! MAYBE YOU’RE @ .500 NOW!!) on 2 Abreu Triples…

where’s the headline that says…Cubs win after being down 8??

WTF ESPN?!! This is why I joined this blog. Educated (well, most of us…Mike…ummm..), down-to-earth, Cub-loving people who understand the game of baseball and the intricacies of the Cubs. I mean come on…we all

BLEED CUBBIE BLUE!

speaking of espn. just now watching sportscenter highlights of the spelling bee. anyone hear that numnah word that kid got and he thought it was numb nuts

F*ck the national media.

Till we win something in the playoffs, but that’s ok. Even though it was an amazing game, I watched on my computer at work, then got on the intercom to let everybody know.You should have seen the looks I got, living in Texas and all.

I maintain if the Cubs won the world series on the same day Arod stubbed his toe there’s be 59 minutes on Arod’s toe and the only mention “Oh and the Cubs won the world series, and how do you think that affects Arod’s toe?”

When it comes to teams that aren’t on either coast. I saw someone else mentioned this but, when Manny Ramirez high fived that fan a few weeks ago, they dedicated about 5-7 minutes of sportscenter to “Manny Being Manny” and they showed about 1 minute of Cubs highlights which included showing about 2 of their 8 runs that they had scored. That is just one example of the kind of favoritism and reporting that they do on a consistent basis

this is what ive been wandering for quite sometime: why doesnt fox put a foxsportsnews 24 7 channel on? somebody ,sometime has to challenge them. baseball tonight analyst are idiots—gammons should have retired after brain surgery,kruk is an idiot, steve phillips wouldnt even be good in fantasy baseball. only one of them half way descent is tim kurjdzen and he isnt that great.

i don’t even watch ESPN anymore. If I want football news, I’ll watch the NFL network, and when the MLB channel comes out, I’ll be doing the same to get my baseball news. Each major sport has it’s own channel now and I think that will compete with ESPN.

one gets no further ahead no matter what logical angle you take.

and I just don’t understand ESPN’s priorities. They are in business to make a buck and their programming is designed to generate maximum viewership to achieve that end. It seems to me though, that there are more Cubs fans (as well as casual followers) than just about any other single team in the U.S.A. thanks in large part to WGN’s superstation broadcasts. Perhaps their demographics lump New York and Boston together and thereby outdo Cubs Nation. One would think, however, that coverage of Chicago sports, particularly the Cubs, would at least run a close second to the northeast team coverage but last night Sportcenter actually reported on women’s NCAA softball before the Cubs were even mentioned. It is really a puzzlement.

All I can say is I’m old enough to remember when there was no ESPN or any other national sports coverage on television and radio featured only 5 and 10 minutes programs with Red Barber and Howard Cosell. I guess a biased ESPN is better than no ESPN at all.

there was actually a Cubs/White Sox world series, ESPN would figure a way to find a New York angle for it?

said during the Cub highlights, (it’s not word for word, but close) “Edmonds didn’t have a spring training, and not much time with the Padres, but watch out, he’s going to get hot and really help the Cubs”). Did anyone else hear this?

That ESPNnews has really stolen a lot of ESPN’s thunder. People used to watch sportscenter for equal parts highlights and entertainment. Now that anyone can get the highlights (or whatever else they want) on ESPN news, Sportscenter and their other non-sporting-events programs have skewed towards the entertainment side of things…which is much tougher to do, and why they have the biases they have (east coast/large market/Yanks-Sawx etc).

with ESPN than the “East Coast Bias” (which I admit is real but I think is a little exaggerated around here) is the “NFL/NBA” bias.

I mean, good lord, the baseball season is starting and what’s the #1 story on ESPN? Who are the top guards in the NFL draft? The Cubs are in first place and what’s the important Chicago story? Brian Urlaucher will report to mini-camp.

THIS STORY JUST IN TO ESPN: PACMAN JONES IS STILL SUSPENDED!

And then their endless prattle about the NBA and whether so-and-so is “Clutch” or what the damn salary cap should be. And don’t get me started on the freaking Knicks. They talk more about the Knicks than the Pistons. (and that’s East Coast bias.)

and on nowhere else. Anytime ESPN ends up on my TV, I bathe it in bleach….

http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2007/10/2/201159/091#2039907

ESPN is a wasteland .. of feckless partisan sports “coverage” and a self aggrandizing belief that it’s the greatest source of sports news since TV was invented. And they don’t give a hoot ..

During the last Boston / Yankees series, during one of the ESPN News 30 minute recaps, I did an unscientific measurement. I noted how long the announcers blathered on and on and on and on about the Boston/NY game that day. It was eight solid minutes.

EIGHT MINUTES of blab and gabble about these two teams. That is an eternity that ESPN routinely grants for worship of their Eastern baseball gods.

The same day the Cubs were destroying St Louis – the WORLD CHAMPION ST LOUIS CARDINALS – in their own park and effectively burying the Redturds in their own soulless concrete tub of a park.

The announcers dutifully noted this story after the 8 minute worship service. Do you know how much time they gave the game?

All of maybe two minutes. MAYBE TWO.

And then they have the crass gall to bring on Dusty Baker to pontificate about the Cubs’ mistakes during the disastrous Florida series. I don’t even want to go there.

I simply HATE ESPN. They are the 800 pound gorilla with diarrhea in sports media.

When I’ve had sleeping problems I will turn him on. But I believe he is in LA area. He even has a segment called something like west coast biased.