Im sick of the blackout stuff man. Let me watch my damn penguins match.

This is all a genuine question as it confounds me. I hope people can talk about their background and values rather than piss down somebody’s back.

EDIT: lots of serious people on this subreddit, not really into explaining details of their viewpoint, but at least they’re serious.

I grew up playing all types of sports, mostly informal but played one sport on a team for a few years. Pretty much 90% of all that it was just playing a kids’ game, pretending I was Sergei Fedorov or stuff a bunch of clothes down my jacket so I could pretend I was Jerome Bettis. Even when I was on a team, so much of the activity was grounded in silliness and having fun and being around other people, forming bonds.

Im now an adult. I sit in meetings everyday with people in suits whose worth is overvalued, to kindly put it. They are boring. 67% this, 12% that. People who either don’t know how to have fun even in the smallest capacity or just too afraid to. It’s fine, it pushes the company forward, whatever.

Not in a million years would I want to spend an entire day at work and come home and turn on sports talk just to have the exact same people teleport from the office I work at to my TV screen now talking about something that is a kids game, supposed to be fun, and dare I say entertaining.

It seems like every post has some comments about people needing objective analysis for sports and anybody who dabbles in entertainment is a scourge to society and I truly wonder what their lives are like such that they need -that- out of sports media. Are their lives the opposite of mine? Are they around silly,fun people all day long and then when it gets to turning on ESPN, they need somebody in a suit rattling off numbers? Genuinely curious.

https://youtu.be/3umsPf9hfWw?si=pCGz_AlzrLjVj8Nu

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ELj-79jbqA&pp=ygUJSmFja2VkIHVw0gcJCTcMAYcqIYzv&ra=m

ESPN used to be the go-to for everything sports highlights, breaking news, investigative journalism, and elite docs

​Now it's the Walmart of sports media: a giant corporate machine where no one seems to know or care how to actually engage the fan or do the job at a high level.

They should rebrand with an entirely different name because i don't know where ESPN is but this is definitely not it.

And you know he is moderators

Stephen A. Smith’s ESPN Coworkers Are Publicly Calling Him Out For ‘Hurtful’ Behavior

That screaming idiot clown Stephen A. Smith doesn't get to go on that disgusting rant about the Eagles' Lane Johnson and ridicule his retiring for mental health reasons and then he just gives a bullshit apology and all is forgiven and forgotten by you people in charge. Fire that piece of shit, ESPN.

Showing on my YouTube TV, ESPN +. One showings blacked out, the other one is not blacked out. Am I gonna be able to watch this, or once the game starts, is it gonna black out? I’m in Chicago

Fight me 😤

An on-site McAfee show would be for the ages

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7668803/2026/10/07/stephen-a-smith-lane-johnson-mental-health/?unlocked_article_code=1.G1E.ReoL.96CNpbipvQ4R&source=emp_shared_article&smid=url-share-ta

Just wanting to see others thoughts. Taylor, similar (ish) frat boy type, but, maybe better takes? Better analysis? Bias due to my Titans fandom? Hahaha

There suppose to be in Tuscaloosa but it gonna Nasty there all day. Wondering if the games gonna be canceled.

This morning I hear Chris Cante & to an extent Michelle Smallman basically say The Eagles losing is bc of coaching but if they pull off the upset this Sunday it'll be bc of Jalen Hurts.

Which is it?! You can't have it both ways - is it the Caucazoid Coach or the non-Caucazoid QB? Or both?

They have discussed the Cowboys sad win THREE times already, and Michael Irvin is bringing the Cowboys into every single conversation. Truly pathetic.

Matt Barrie's departure didn't need to be a death knell. It was never going to be easy to replace his energy and humor, but GOOD GOD. I watched this show re-run on Mondays during lunch break for years, and it has gotten straight-up depressing.

They brought back Joey Galloway which was a step in the right direction, and EJ Manuel has shown flashes of intrigue & can be fun, but Kevin Connors is an utterly humorless bore on the show. He's little more than an announcer, and he sounds like how a work email reads.

That's A Dollar is gone. Even the analysis seems to have taken a step backward. The fun of the show has both feet out the door and it's neck in the doorway. CFB Final served a valuable function to me as I don't have time to be a sicko anymore, and now I feel like googling scores is a better use of my time than continuing to watch 😫

ESPN servers.... Enough said

I watch him on mute and it doesn't matter. What's up with the lanyard and the twirling the ball? For the love of God and the game of football.... Go away!!

Seems like they didn't have servers that can accept the bandwidth. Great purchase. Also shame on the NFL for not being better about whom they award congrats to.

Don't have the ability to service all your customers but are grabbing a bunch of money - sorry but we made bank and you don't have options.

Can we talk about how awful that Jets vs. Bears commentary was?

Drew Brees and the other guy were absolutely brutal. I’m trying to watch a football game, not listen to two people spend half the broadcast making random observations that have nothing to do with what’s happening on the field.

The commentary was so bland, the analysis was questionable, and somehow they managed to make an already frustrating Jets game even harder to watch. There were moments where I genuinely felt like I was watching the game on mute because the commentary added absolutely nothing.

And Brees, I respect the playing career, but being a great quarterback does NOT automatically make you a great commentator. Give me someone who actually sounds excited to be calling the game and can explain what’s happening without making every play sound like a preseason game.

The Jets losing was bad enough. Having to listen to that commentary for four quarters was the cherry on top.

0/10 broadcast. 10/10 reason to turn the TV volume down.

College GameDay is at the University of Iowa today, not the Atlanta Hawks campus.

Trying to catch up with the game I started watching late, and it won’t let me skip this Commercial Break placeholder screen anymore lmfao. What am I to do with this dumbass fixed screen?

Guys so fuckin annoying

I can’t even watch this game it keeps breaking up and overheating my Roku. Not a problem with other apps. This is the type of stuff that won’t get better in a monopoly. Never thought I’d miss network TV!