re: ESPN's Public Editor admits moving left has hurt ratings (Scary Quote Inside!)

Live sports are the only reason to watch ESPN anymore. It's kind of like losing an old friend, if you watched it a lot when you were younger.

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I work in the sun all day. Have for 30 years. I loved coming home popping open a beer and watching highlights on ESPN. Not any more. It's all idiots with insane opinions with zero consequence. frick them

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I chromecast highlights from youtube. It's nice to watch how the games play out without the talking heads giving their "insight".

Shockingly, the NFL puts out good highlight videos of every game. Pure highlights with no "analysis".

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I work in the sun all day. Have for 30 years. I loved coming home popping open a beer and watching highlights on ESPN. Not any more. It's all idiots with insane opinions with zero consequence. frick them

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Same here. From May until today to be exact for three years, I'm in the excruciating Georgia sun multiple days a week and I work 14-18 hours a day. Only difference is I'm surrounded by radical hardcore liberals and it's insufferable because I can't say a damn word in fear of being booted and blacklisted from this industry. I make great money and I really don't have to work again from now until May and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity... BUT there are literally NO republicans in sight and there are times when it's so hard to keep quiet and the shite I hear daily is almost unbearable to the point where it's not even worth it. The irony is knowing these people are fleeing California by the dozens to work in Georgia due to the Republican tax breaks....

I never knew ESPN switched to the left as literally the only time I ever watch ANY ESPN station is on Saturdays during CFB season, but it really doesn't surprise me. If this is truly the case, then I won't bother spending any money or tuning in to anything ESPN related anymore.

As someone else noted, it's a great little escape from reality (especially for those of us who basically spend every waking minute around neo-liberal lunatics) and it's a fricking shame they've infiltrated sporting networks.