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)

Posted by Awful Announcing- at 11:14 AM

8 Comments:

strangely enough a rod has never hit a walk off on the road, clearly he is not clutch.

Anonymous said...
Apr 20, 2007, 12:56:00 PM  

Nice catch.

Apr 20, 2007, 1:45:00 PM  

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 said...
Apr 20, 2007, 2:36:00 PM  

Geoff, get your shit together. It's VT day.

Apr 20, 2007, 2:47:00 PM  

HA! Nice catch by the writer there.

twins15 said...
Apr 20, 2007, 2:49:00 PM  

There are questions about ESPN's credibility regarding accuracy?

DOn't they employ Len Pasquarelli and Salisbury?

Anonymous said...
Apr 20, 2007, 3:20:00 PM  

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.

Apr 20, 2007, 3:51:00 PM  

What have I done? :)

therod said...
Apr 20, 2007, 8:46:00 PM  

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