Friday, May 11, 2007
espn.com peeves
It is soooooooooooooooo annoying to have the Sports Center minute or any other video stream automatically open whenever one goes to ESPN.com.
It is as bad or worse than a pop-up ad.
If one wants to see that garbage, one can click on it, or find it endless repeating on the ESPN TV network. (Except on Saturdays and Sundays, when normal working stiffs would be home to watch it, then, there is no repeating SportsCenter, instead there is fishing or talking heads. Morons run this network.)
Someone needs to tell the head honchos to quit making the video link pop open without being requested.
In addition to being annoyingly agressive, it is too data rich. Even on a cable modem, every time one goes to ESPN.com, it is all one can do to pick another link off of and away from the main page as fast as possible because the main ESPN page is slowing down everything else the system is trying to do...
like playing iTunes music, which is another reason the dang pop-up SportsCenter minute is annoying...if one is listening to music, and if one navigates to ESPN.com, suddenly there is somebody, unrequested, talking over the music.
On the Clarion's iBook, one can’t mute only one without muting both, so we desperately have to search for the pause button to shut up, Neil Everett or whomever is blathering on...ad inifintum...ugh
It is as bad or worse than a pop-up ad.
If one wants to see that garbage, one can click on it, or find it endless repeating on the ESPN TV network. (Except on Saturdays and Sundays, when normal working stiffs would be home to watch it, then, there is no repeating SportsCenter, instead there is fishing or talking heads. Morons run this network.)
Someone needs to tell the head honchos to quit making the video link pop open without being requested.
In addition to being annoyingly agressive, it is too data rich. Even on a cable modem, every time one goes to ESPN.com, it is all one can do to pick another link off of and away from the main page as fast as possible because the main ESPN page is slowing down everything else the system is trying to do...
like playing iTunes music, which is another reason the dang pop-up SportsCenter minute is annoying...if one is listening to music, and if one navigates to ESPN.com, suddenly there is somebody, unrequested, talking over the music.
On the Clarion's iBook, one can’t mute only one without muting both, so we desperately have to search for the pause button to shut up, Neil Everett or whomever is blathering on...ad inifintum...ugh
Labels: ESPN, Pop Culture, television
Comments:
Completely agree about the pop up, and that you have to pay insider fees for half of the information. Those guys are getting a little to big for their own good, I just wish I could start going to cbssports.com or something instead; f#@king repetition.
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: 5/19/2007 6:21 PM
: 5/19/2007 6:21 PM
They think that they are invulnerable because they have all sorts of top talent on lock down; John Clayton, Peter Gammons, Len Pasquarelli, Bill Simmons...but they haven't been fresh since Stuart Scott's first year on SportsCenter. Which itself, was only fascinating as an Af-Am counterpoint to the Olberman-Patrick paradigm.
Their coverage of sport has deteriorated every year. The are like the Entertainment Tonight of sports at this point, too much Budweiser Hot Seat and too many gossip questions, too few highlights and real analysis.
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Their coverage of sport has deteriorated every year. The are like the Entertainment Tonight of sports at this point, too much Budweiser Hot Seat and too many gossip questions, too few highlights and real analysis.
