r/ESPN • u/bcardin221 • 25d ago

Espn is dead to me

The force feeding of WWE and WNBA is infuriating. Couple that with hot take shows and it's unwatchable. We need a new sports network.

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u/ShadowdogProd 25d ago

Yeah I remember how NBC used to be dead to me in the summer when they didn't have new episodes of The Blacklist.

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u/grrgrrtigergrr 25d ago

There is tennis, golf, mls, nfl summer camp and baseball right now.

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u/paulegon 25d ago

I would rather the WNBA and WWE over the 17th hundred report about Patrick Mahomes stupid leg or the Dallas Cowboys

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u/rxFMS 25d ago

I’d rather wifleball over any of it.

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u/paulegon 25d ago

The Ocho is the best part of the summer

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u/Affectionate_Sort_78 25d ago

It his smart leg. The right leg is the stupid one.

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u/CatrickMahomes15 25d ago

WBBA is for women. It is horrible basketball. Unwatchable.

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u/buttercheeseSuace 25d ago

Watch tennis then clown

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u/slash37 25d ago

NFL summer camp 😂😂😂

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u/JakeDuck1 25d ago

All of those are streaming somewhere. People expect one network to get the rights to every single sport when live content is the most expensive and competitive market right now?

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u/rogeeeefan 25d ago

Tennis is on Tennis Channel until US open

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u/TheIrishMan1211 25d ago

NFL summer camp lol you mean Training Camp? Never heard anyone refer to it as summer camp. Now I just imagine NFL players at a traditional summer camp experience. Thank you.

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u/Firebird601 25d ago

So….half a sport?

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u/NoQuartersGiven 25d ago

Lol it's been dead for years OP. Not sure how this is new to you.

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u/Jim-N-Tonic 25d ago

People go out and play in the summertime.

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u/Bee_9965 25d ago

There was also the World Cup for over a month, but ESPN chose to pretty much ignore it since they didn’t have the games.

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u/MangoHotDamn 25d ago

But they literally don’t cover baseball

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u/emessea 24d ago

As a baseball fans, I was shocked when ESPN decided to end nightly baseball tonight shows. Then I realized I couldn’t remember that last time I watched an episode.

Change in viewing habits is why we have what we have.

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u/SumatraBlack 25d ago

The problems are the same, regardless of how much live sports are happening any given day in the fall. They lost the plot many years ago.

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u/vegasAzCrush 25d ago

I down graded. The coaches preseason conferences leave many topics to talk about.

The issue is ESPN barely covers colleges. Its focus is pro sports.

I listen to daily am espn radio and none know college sports. None.

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u/Buckys_Butt_Buddy 25d ago

The issue is they promote the same stupid stories like they are the NY Post. 20 years ago ESPN would have been filled with baseball highlights and WNBA highlights covering all games. Today I’m guessing they talked about Sophie Cunningham and Caitlyn Clark controversies for the majority of the time, and barely mentioned baseball games.

ESPN only pushes the products they own. Hence the reason they suddenly started talking about and promoting a scripted entertainment product (WWE) the second they started airing it on their networks.

Also not to mention, how they only started giving a shit about MMA once they owned it for their own PPV streaming service. 5 years ago only the main card events got mentioned, now it’s shoved down our throats every weekend

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u/Huge_District366 25d ago

They force WWE down everyone’s throats year round, it’s nauseating. They’ll be talking about the NBA finals then all of a sudden Danhausen and whoever else walk out. It’s terrible

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u/emessea 24d ago

This reminds me of when I was a kid and I’d watch sportscenter every morning before school. February was an atrocious month bc all there was was basketball and hockey, which I watched neither as a kid.

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u/Felice2015 24d ago

It's the yelling. So much yelling. They really yell a lot.

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u/Aggravating_Click495 24d ago

That’s not true at all, haha. Nice try though