MLB Talk

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:52 am

I've said it before but..

Other than watching a few minutes of ESPNNews for hockey highlights earlier in the season, I don't watch ESPN anymore. Between the NFL Network and Versus (now that they have stepped up the hockey programming), I have no need for ESPN. It sucks, so I quit watching.

Speaking of sports television, the NHL Network should be coming to the US in the near future. I read somewhere that there was a chance it was going to start airing for the playoffs, but obviously that didn't happen. Probably should start next season.

Antropov · Post by **Antropov** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:01 pm

Rogue II wrote: Other than watching a few minutes of ESPNNews for hockey highlights earlier in the season, I don't watch ESPN anymore. Between the NFL Network and Versus (now that they have stepped up the hockey programming), I have no need for ESPN. It sucks, so I quit watching.

Truth be told, I only watch it in the morning when the local news goes to commercial (there's not much else on at 5:00am when I get up for work). The new PTI-esque queue along the side of the screen is ultra annoying, but at least I know when Barry Melrose is coming up without having to sit through 54 minutes of basketball highlights/analysis/cock nuzzling first.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:57 pm

It was a race issue for Hank Aaron back in the 70s as well - he was receiving death threats every day for being a nigger trying to break Babe Ruth's sacred fucking record. Unreal..... but I guess it was almost expected back in those days.

Personally, with the pressure and everything else, I think Hank Aaron beating that record is a testimony to the fortitude that man had as much as it was his baseball skills; he wanted to shove those threats and comments up those rednecks' asses - and for good reason. You should all read "I Had a Hammer" by Hank Aaron, it's excellent.