Wrigleyville23 Would Like To Make A Wish
Is anyone else not thrilled with this pairing of SportsCenter and the Make-A-Wish Foundation?
While I very much like the Make-A-Wish Foundation and I very much like SportsCenter, I don't like the two together. Or, as my uncle once said, "I like corn and I like pudding, but this tastes like crap."
The problem is this: I tune in to SportsCenter for two reasons only: 1. highlights and 2. the off chance that Erin Andrews is on (College World Series!). I do not tune in to SportsCenter to see sick kids. If I wanted to see sick kids, I'd watch that Extreme Home Makeover show (another Disney property) or the National Georgraphic channel. Or the Sick Kids Channel (in the 300s somewhere).
So, ESPN, my wish is this: Show more Erin Andrews and fewer sick kids. Please.
22 comments:
Yeah, I'm with you on this. And its not just the Make a Wish thing. All of their long-drawn out sob stories need to go. Any time I hear the somber piano music and Chris Connelly's narration, I know its time to switch to ESPN News.
Some of their stories like this are OK, like the JMAC basketball kid who was autistic and went NBA Jam "he's on fire" for like 10 minutes in a game. That story kicked ass. It just seems like they are trying way too hard to find stories like that. Overall, I am definitely with you on this, and I feel uncomfortable fastforwarding the DVR in the morning through the sick kids stories to get to baseball highlights.
I'm with you guys. I wrote about the same thing on my friend and I's blog, mybrainsaysrage.blogspot.com.
I just think ESPN is forcing a good story to both make themselves look good and something to fill the airwaves during the summer. Glad to see I'm not alone.
Chris Connelly is to dying kids what Pedro Gomez is to Barry Bonds.
Erin Andrews is NOT all that. She doesn't know ANYthing about the games that she's covering.
Fine, have her just sit there, then. But I'd much rather listen to her and Steve Lavin during Big 10 basketball season than Bret Musburger.
I think the main problem is you actually like Sportscenter.
The target audience for ESPN is guys under 40, and many--I would argue the majority--of them don't care about this kind of aw-that's-nice feature story. It's simply irrelevant. And even if you're feeling all nice and charitable and you want to sit through one, they last _forever_. The one with Dwyane Wade this morning felt like it ran 15 minutes.
If only she could report in the nude.
No shit, I'd love to shoot a load and that rack!
I think Kevin from The Office just posted the nude comment.
what if a sick kid's wish is to do Erin Andrews? then what?
Does anything make me scramble for the remote quicker than Chris Connelly?
Hell no.
Hey Wrigleyville23,
It's funny... I had the exact same thought last night. I was watching SportsCenter thinking, "You know, I love what Make-A-Wish does, but I came here to see the highlights... and I don't have ESPN news in my Cable setup. If I did, I'd be over there instead of waiting through a segment I'm not currently interested in."
Meanwhile, speaking of Erin Andrews, I love that Jeanne Zelasko.
Dear God, how good did Erin Andrews look at the CWS..... I'd hit it.
Why was there no photo of Erin Andrews accompanying this story?
the lack of picture of erin is an egregious oversight. we'll add later.
Jeannie Zelasko? Are you kidding me?
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