Is their a disclaimer to your boycott that allows you to still read Sports Guy for your reviews?

Yes Chip...that is definitely in the bylaws. But I do have his page bookmarked so I can skip over and go straight to page two.

I'm thinking of starting a blog called BurnInHellColinCowherd...

You In???

I really wish another network would come out with just Sports all the time no other BS, to compete with ESPN. I really feel that Deadspin should come out with its own T.V. network. I think it's been said before on their comments but i don't remember, seeing im not a comment member.

Yeah, I think another sports network might work, but it could also backfire. Since most networks only care about ratings anymore, a new sports network may just turn into a hollow craptastic shitfest like ESPN just to draw viewers. Maybe a second network would help drive the cost of ESPN down a little. I can't recall the exact breakdown, but I'm pretty sure ESPN is one of the most expensive non-premium channels for cable companies to carry, which then in turn equals more money we have to shell out for service.

Oh and to Spirit of Jack, we've got a guy on our site that is working on doing a critique of Cowherd's opening monologues. He's been working on setting up a format for quite a while now. It'll be similar to what AA is doing with Bill Simmons. Stay tuned with that.

Thunder Matt's Saloon

You are too much for me ESPN, you son of a horsin' bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you!

Do we think that OLN is in the very early stages of becoming an alternative sports network? I mean, there's not much there right now (sorta like ESPN in its billiards-intensive infancy) but it's owned by Comcast (hmmm, a cable company) and a big name change/promo push is in the works. It won't happen overnight of course but it seems like something's going on there. Or not. But you have to give 'em this: OLN is Berman-free and that's a good start.

I rarely used espn.com, but they do have good sortable stats. If you can find me a site that has sortable, up to the minute baseball stats, then I'm done with espn

I believe OLN is going to change their name to 'Versus', for whatever reason and is going more national. Same thing with Comcast's CN8, based out of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and I think DC...I think they're doing away with all hte local broadcasts. Weird thing is, they're not going to base either out of Philadelphia, their home city???

I'd agree with the boycott, but Rob Neyer and Keith Law are still there, and I like those guys. Besides, my brother has Insider, so I just use it when I need to. It works out nicely there. :D

ESPN.com depends entirely on whether or not you can justify the purchase of INsider. It is hands down crap without it. For me, the $4.95 per month is worth it solely for Olney's blog (who writes year round, joseph), and it's also nice to have access to the fantasy sports info. The funny thing is that about a year ago I'd essentially stopped going to ESPN.com because it sucked so bad, and then I talked myself into INsider to keep up with the Twins trade rumors, which didn't work out so well, but I'm glad I ended up buying it.

Insider should be free though...What a joke.

The OLN thing is interesting, but I don't even know what channel it is.

you know, I thought I was the only one who cannot stand the sound of Colin Coward's voice. But its good to see there are others like me... keep us posted on that critique of his monologues...

Can do. One of our other writers at Thunder Matt's, Brant Brown will posting something about his Cowherd critiques later today.

I have to say, I'm excited to see how this goes.

Yeah the OLN thing is interesting. They'll have to slowly phase in more mainstream sports and phase out the "Two guys in camouflage whispering about the big buck they just saw before they blow it away" shows.

That's not to be a slam against hunting. Hunting's great, but a lot of those shows just crack me up. Most are filmed at this huge ranches in Texas where they have thousands of acres fenced in and they feed their deer all sorts of feed supplemented with hormones and shit, then charge some shmo $10K to shoot one. Yeah, what a big game hunter those guys are!

I hope OLN does that. They already have hockey.

They can keep the hunting shows. They would just be used as ESPN uses Poker, Billiards, etc.

They need to get Gary Thorne for hockey.