MrSaigon wrote:No one's going to be shocked or think (any) less of LeBron, but it's interesting, a little depressing (and not at all surprising) that ESPN ripped it down so quickly.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I assumed people like LeBron were like. Printing that he likes to drink champagne could invite a libel suit?
I think espn's concern was less libel, and more pissing off its sponsors who have heavily invested in the LeBron franchise, as well as harming their cozy relationship with LeBron that allows them such "gets" as the earthshaking prime time special THE DECISION.
Basically, if you have a cash cow, you don't want to be seen [expletive] it in public.
jim wrote:Twice now this has happened, why am I getting ESPN News talking about baseball when the tv guide and the info button on that channel says "Cards at Mets"?
Anyone up near Chicago having this same thing? Why would we be blacked out? I mean I can't be blacked out because I'm watching on the king of all blackout sites, mlb.com.
wtf?
Do you subscribe to ComCast?
I live in StL, but am working out of town in Little Rock, AR and the same thing happened to me. My Little Rock hotel gets FS Texas (Rangers) on ComCast which obviously would not broadcast the Cardinals. Therefore, I was looking forward to watching the Wednesday game on ESPN in my hotel room but was subject to the same "ESPN News blackout".
I have DirecTV at home and ordinarily get ESPN blacked out during FSMW broadcasts, but have never witnessed a ESPN blackout while out of town, it must be a ComCast thing.
jim wrote:Twice now this has happened, why am I getting ESPN News talking about baseball when the tv guide and the info button on that channel says "Cards at Mets"?
Anyone up near Chicago having this same thing? Why would we be blacked out? I mean I can't be blacked out because I'm watching on the king of all blackout sites, mlb.com.
wtf?
Do you subscribe to ComCast?
I live in StL, but am working out of town in Little Rock, AR and the same thing happened to me. My Little Rock hotel gets FS Texas (Rangers) on ComCast which obviously would not broadcast the Cardinals. Therefore, I was looking forward to watching the Wednesday game on ESPN in my hotel room but was subject to the same "ESPN News blackout".
I have DirecTV at home and ordinarily get ESPN blacked out during FSMW broadcasts, but have never witnessed a ESPN blackout while out of town, it must be a ComCast thing.
DirecTV does the same thing. The difference is in central AR we don't have FSMW to fall back on.
jim wrote:Twice now this has happened, why am I getting ESPN News talking about baseball when the tv guide and the info button on that channel says "Cards at Mets"?
Anyone up near Chicago having this same thing? Why would we be blacked out? I mean I can't be blacked out because I'm watching on the king of all blackout sites, mlb.com.
wtf?
Do you subscribe to ComCast?
I live in StL, but am working out of town in Little Rock, AR and the same thing happened to me. My Little Rock hotel gets FS Texas (Rangers) on ComCast which obviously would not broadcast the Cardinals. Therefore, I was looking forward to watching the Wednesday game on ESPN in my hotel room but was subject to the same "ESPN News blackout".
I have DirecTV at home and ordinarily get ESPN blacked out during FSMW broadcasts, but have never witnessed a ESPN blackout while out of town, it must be a ComCast thing.
It happened to me, too, but I'm on Time Warner Cable. Luckily for me, this was one of the nights for FS-South's broadcasts of FS-Cardinals or I would've been ticked as well.
Best imitation of the New York Mets: The St. Louis Cardinals and their late-season collapse.
When you've been in second since the second week in August, how is that a 'late-season' collapse? How is this team anything like the Mets? I agree maybe with calling it a collapse since they plummeted out of first in August, but they were second on Sept 1. Not [expletive] late season.
ESPN.com talked to a dozen executives, scouts and players and asked them to assess the lineups of teams in serious playoff contention. Since 11 clubs still have a shot (if you leave out the St. Louis Cardinals), we had to get a little creative to squeeze them all into the discussion.
Leave out the Cardinals but include the Rockies who are only a game up and equal in the loss column?
vinsanity wrote:
Leave out the Cardinals but include the Rockies who are only a game up and equal in the loss column?
the rockies are playing well......the cardinals are not.....not only is that perception but it is also fact....if i had to pick between the 2 the most likely to make the playoffs the rockies get my vote...
vinsanity wrote:Leave out the Cardinals but include the Rockies who are only a game up and equal in the loss column?
the rockies are playing well......the cardinals are not.....not only is that perception but it is also fact....if i had to pick between the 2 the most likely to make the playoffs the rockies get my vote...
As of right now, on ESPN's own playoff odd's
Cardinals: 11.0
Rockies: 10.8
It has more to do with Crasnick being able to include 10/11 with 9 spots by making the 9th spot the NL West 'triplets'.
If I wasn't a fan of the NFL and I tuned in to watch the game tonight, I would think these are the two best teams in the league. The ESPN coverage is just brutal. They go out of their way to praise everything the teams playing on their crappy network do because they are so paranoid about losing access. I guess that's what happens when a sport "news" organization becomes a spots marketing machine.
