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The Polack MSgt

(13,425 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 09:26 AM Aug 2015

Anyone else sick of Disney Sports?

Full disclosure up front. I'm a Cardinals fan, I know that that invalidates my opinions about baseball to a lot of people.
But this isn't about the horribly inaccurate and condescending BFIB crap.
No this is about how awful ESPN is. Broadcast or online makes no difference. Week in and week out their MLB coverage consists of ignoring 24 teams and giving wall to wall coverage of New York Boston LA DC and Chicago.
The 2 best teams in baseball play on MO, but you'd be hard pressed to find any coverage of them (unless they are playing the Mets or Yankees)
So let's get bitching people -
what is it about the Disney Sports Channel that gravels your ass?

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Anyone else sick of Disney Sports? (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Aug 2015 OP
TV is paid for by advertisers who want the largest audience vinny9698 Aug 2015 #1
I understand The Polack MSgt Aug 2015 #2

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)
1. TV is paid for by advertisers who want the largest audience
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 10:02 AM
Aug 2015

There are a lot more people in those areas. Ratings and population concentration drive the coverage.

The Polack MSgt

(13,425 posts)
2. I understand
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:39 AM
Aug 2015

I get that the big cities drive ratings and I'm not mad about the heavy rotation of Boston, NY, LA teams on the ESPN nationally broadcast games.
To give the devil his due - ESPN seems to match up the big city teams with mid-market teams on the games they broadcast. Unless it's Boston - Yankees. We will never escape those games.
No, what gets me is the dearth of stories, highlights, interviews or even articles on the website covering Midwestern teams.
MLB TV is national, but they have even handed coverage and focus on teams in the race. Hell they had stories about Houston St Louis Detroit and KC Yesterday, on the prime time analysis show.
Sportcenter on the other hand - well not so much

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