Remember When Sportcenter Showed Sports?

When did espn’s Sportcenter become about shoving the Pats/Yankees/Redsox down our throats instead of being an objective highlight tool? Every segment is stylized with something like Rick James, (clearing my throat) I mean Mercury Morris reciting “Spoken Word” or Chris Berman/Stuart Scott attempting to gain more viewer participation by hosting the much contrived “Who’s More Now” or “Best Highlight Ever.”
Are they really serious? I remember, back in middle school, when I first started watching Sportcenter. I remember when someone would ask what your favorite show was, most if not all the boys would say Sportcenter.
ESPN is already a monopoly so, you would think that they wouldn’t have to make up segments. Just show the highlights. No need for the Budweiser HotSeat, the Ultimate Highlight, or even the segments where Kenny Mayne makes an ass out of himself, though they are sorta humorous. How about less of Chris Berman / Sean Salisbury and more of Scott Van Pelt. War Keith Olberman, Dan Patrick, Kevin Fraser, and Chris Mortensen.
MTV catches so much heat for not playing enough music; well, ESPN’s sportcenter is catching heat from us for totally neglecting the meat of sports…highlights.
Just some Food for thought…u can do the dishes
spot on…but i gotta show my love for the Kenny Mayne segments. those are pretty hilarious.
also, video highlights on espn.com are definitely the way to go now. i hope espn doesn’t realize their gaining popularity and decide to pull them because with the simultaneous trends of more thorough video e-highlights and more lame-ass soap opera style SC; the latter may go the way of the grand ole party…down the shitter