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All: The new Billszone site with the updated software is scheduled to be turned on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The company that built it, Dynascale, estimates a FOUR HOUR shut down, from 8pm Pacific, (5pm Eastern) while they get it up and running. Nobody will be able to post in any forum until they are done. Afterwards, you may need to do a web search for the site, as old links will not work, because the site is getting a new IP address. Please be patient. If there are bugs, we will tackle them one at a time. Remember the goal is to be up and running with no glitches by camp. Doing this now assures us of that, because it gives us all summer to get our ducks in a row. Thank you!
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ESPN is moving from its old conference beat style to a team beat style similar to what you see from recruiting sites like Rivals/247/Scout. Anyways they announced 24 of the 32 NFL beat writers recently and here is the Bills new beat guy, Mike Rodak.
Rodak is from Massachusetts and used to work for ESPN Boston covering the Pats. James Walker the AFC East Blogger is moving to the Dolphins.
COMING SOON...
Originally posted by Dr.Lecter
We were both drunk and Hillary did not look that bad at 2 AM, I swear!!!!!!
So that's why I haven't seen equal coverage of the Bills on there. All I see is Dolphin this and Dolphins that. It makes sense though, as James Walker is good at what he does and he spread the wealth to all 4 teams.
Should have known, way back in 1960 when we drafted Richie Lucas Number 1, that this would be a long, hard ride. But who could have known it would be THIS bad?
Yeah, ESPN is horrible. Sportscenter? They lump baseball, hockey, basketball, football, women's field hockey, and everything else into one show and switch between those topics constantly...as though people are equally interested in every single sport. I used to watch NFL Primetime with Chris Berman, but they even screwed with that...it's called "the Blitz." You just get segments here and there, not a whole show about football usually...sometimes, but not usually. Forget about watching highlights and coming away with a sense of what really happened in the game.
ESPN... Boy I love old athletes who are so biased about random bull**** that no one cares about getting jobs talking about how much they know the game. Hey let's throw in some attractive female "anchors" and catch phrases because we want to reach the cool crowd! How about Aaron Hernandez LIVE LOOK INS of his prison sentence?! Screw highlights, who wants those? We want a bunch of opinions about how the Patriots, Robert Griffin III, and the Yankees will do this year, sprinkled with 4 minutes of other sports "news"... who considers real highlights and recaps of games that actually happened to be news anyways?!
Pirates are doing good this year? Let's show a 10 second clip of Andrew McCutcheon's home run and the score, THAT'S what people tuned in to see, not the rest of individual runs scored. They need time to show Andrew Luck's completion percentage decline from last years regular season to this years preseason and "analyze" it for 20 minutes!
it's curious, the NFL made ESPN and they are slowly breaking them. with them taking primetime because NBC paid more, and having the highlights on their NFL network channel in a more constant rotation without nascar filler, etc, ESPN is at a crossroads. Pay out the nose to keep live sports, or transition into a talking head format where real sports dorks watch a snippet on every sport.
especially with google entering the fray on trying to get the NFL season ticket, that could cut a lot of people off from cable going foward. if you can get all your sports ordered online and you can get abc,cbs,nbc,fox from digital bunny ears, and you can watch shows on hulu and netflix for 8bucks a month, why pay for cable?
i also found the continuous addition of former players too annoying for words. Only a handful of them are charasmatic enough and removed enough from their playing days to give you a real solid thought on what you saw. and with very little bird's eye view cames to show you how plays developed, what exactly is their insight giving you?
i know its trendy to hate ESPN, but there is a good reason for it.
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