Making Fun of ESPN is Too Easy
Friday, April 20, 2007
This article from Phil Mushnick (who I rarely agree with) in the NY Post just cracked me up. Apparently during the Marco Scutaro walk-off homerun against Mariano Rivera, ESPN put up a graphic stating, "This was the 4th Walk-off Homerun given up by Mariano Rivera in his career. All 4 have been on the road." Hmm, really? Wait don't all......hmm.....?
A graphic noted that this was the fourth "walk-off" home run Rivera has allowed in his career. And then the all-sports network's graphic further noted that all four "have come on the road." How's that for a coincidence! Of course, the only sports-minded people who wouldn't realize that all "walk-off" hits are the results of pitches thrown by visiting team pitchers - the road team's pitchers - work at ESPN. Once again, ESPN out-slicked itself.God I wish I had seen that live (and had video). Too funny.
ESPN Those Walk Off Wonders (NY Post)
8 Comments:
Nice catch.
Forcing users to mouse-over every single word of your blog posts to find out if there is a hyperlink is lame. This isn't reading Strongbad Emails! Please change your blog post settings.
Geoff, get your shit together. It's VT day.
HA! Nice catch by the writer there.
There are questions about ESPN's credibility regarding accuracy?
DOn't they employ Len Pasquarelli and Salisbury?
G-off, it's pretty simple. Any link you need to click on is always listed at the end of the post. Also any website I reference is always linked. Everything will be back the way it was on Monday.
Thanks for reading.
What have I done? :)
strangely enough a rod has never hit a walk off on the road, clearly he is not clutch.