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Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:44 pm
by ponyboy
Changing the channel is not an argument. As a matter of fact it is what the original poster was trying to help ESPN prevent us from doing.

I agree with the first post and would add almost all women's sports to that list as well.

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:32 pm
by Mitch McConnell
Pretty hard to fill 24/7/365 sports programming with programming that will satisfy everybody.

So if you have the magic formula to produce programming that fits the above, knock yourself out.

Televising the Little League World Series is fine. You people need to shut up about this.

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:52 pm
by friarwolf
This is the association that has had several "stars" outed as 13 and 14 year olds so spare me the drivel about this being the pure league where the nice parents are..........

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:53 pm
by NickSMU17
Dear ESPN,

Please keep the little league world series on TV, also please add all women's sports. All are better uses of my time than anything a ponyfans.com poster with screen name Mitch McConnell posts.

Thanks

Nick

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:56 pm
by ponyboy
It's only fine if people want to watch it and it doesn't deviate from your charter, i.e. sports content and not poker or fiddlesticks. Maybe Little League is interesting to a large number of people. If so, great. Show it. But if you want to keep the interest of at least a few Ponyfans posters, consider showing something else.

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:57 pm
by redpony
Now Nick- play nice. We all enjoy the '[deleted] with Mitch" rants. Right? :roll:

GO PONIES!!!

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:24 pm
by Mitch McConnell
ponyboy wrote:It's only fine if people want to watch it and it doesn't deviate from your charter, i.e. sports content and not poker or fiddlesticks. Maybe Little League is interesting to a large number of people. If so, great. Show it. But if you want to keep the interest of at least a few Ponyfans posters, consider showing something else.
I would think ESPN did enough of its homework to determine that there was enough of a national appeal to show it annually. So if some old bags on this board want to complain about it, let them stew in their own urine.

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:58 pm
by friarwolf
Bet he loves watching the WNBA, too.................

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:07 pm
by Mitch McConnell
Who will knock off Japan?

Here's everything you need to know:
http://espn.go.com/sports/topics/_/page ... rld-series

An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:35 pm
by smupony94
NickSMU17 wrote:Dear ESPN,

Please keep the little league world series on TV, also please add all women's sports. All are better uses of my time than anything a ponyfans.com poster with screen name Mitch McConnell posts.

Thanks

Nick

Hero

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:37 pm
by GrapevineMustang
Mitch McConnell wrote:Pretty hard to fill 24/7/365 sports programming with programming that will satisfy everybody.

So if you have the magic formula to produce programming that fits the above, knock yourself out.

Televising the Little League World Series is fine. You people need to shut up about this.
And you need to get off your high horse. You like peewee baseball? Great - go to a park.

The original poster was expressing an opinion, apparently an opinion with which you don't agree. You know as well as anyone that not everyone agrees with a stated opinion.

The original opinion was simply that babyball doesn't belong on ESPN. Pick up baseball, MLS ... hell, show college football reruns to get people fired up for the season.

It's an opinion a lot of people seem to agree with. Count me among those people - get that crap off ESPN.

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:00 am
by Mitch McConnell
Helluva game yesterday. California vs. Montana in the U.S. Finals on Saturday.

http://espn.go.com/sports/llws11/story/ ... in-advance

And I'm sure many of you would be flocking to the TVs to watch MLS games or re-runs of college football games in which you already knew the outcome.....riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Big day on Saturday.

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:01 am
by NickSMU17
Go Away...

An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:21 pm
by smupony94
On ABC right now

Re: An open letter to ESPN

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:42 pm
by HB Pony Dad
HB and USA

Way to go!
California returned the Little League World Series title to the United States with the type of victory even the big leaguers dream about.

Nick Pratto singled in the winning run with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of sixth inning to give the boys from Huntington Beach a 2-1 victory Sunday over Hamamatsu City, Japan, and a championship.