ESPN "analysts": room temp IQs all around?

I'm not defending either one. I'm just sick of your constant willingness -- your eagerness -- to define yourself by misery and hatred.

chill out, pal, it's an ESPN Hate thread.

And the NYY thread is the Yankees Hate Thread, and the Mets thread is the Mets Haters Hate Thread, and the politics threads are all Everybody and Everything Hate Threads, and film threads are all Mere Entertainment Hate Threads.

et fucking cetera, ad fucking nauseam

c'mon, ppl blow off steam. There are positive things on all those.

Speaking as a neutral non-American who never really understood the whole Memorial Day Weekend thing, at least the jingoistic stuff (and Morbs' reaction to that specific thing) is over and done with as soon as the day finishes, whereas dudes like Hershiser will be spouting blahblahblah over mythical "clean lists" every day from now until we die.

I fucking hate Rick Reilly so goddamned much.

Latest gimmick, in tonight's game -- Schulman in the booth, Phillips sitting down at field level next to the Dodgers dugout, Hershiser sitting down by the Cards dugout. WTF?

hahahaha i know, it's really random. but whatever, they can't be any worse down there.

how tall is tim kurkjian

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4267267280_616fa92900_m.jpg

yes that is "tim kurkjian height"

tim kurkjian heineken

see? i didn't want anyone to think it was that

The Giants are new analyst Morgan Ensberg's choice for fifth-best team in MLB. The Mark DeRosa acquisition was huge. His choices for third/fourth/fifth-best starting rotation were, IIRC, Phillies, Rays, Rangers.

Ravech questioned the Giants' lack of power beyond Sandoval. Ensberg's reply was something like "Yes, DeRosa makes every team better."

lol wait morgan fuckin' ensberg is on espn now??

He could be worse than Tino Martinez.

i gotta say, if you get a guy who has JUST left the game, you better make sure he's like rodney harrison and does not give a fuck.

the only ex-baseball player I've seen willing to trash guys is Mitch Williams

yeah i've only seen a bit of him but he's enjoyable.

I wonder how this shows ratings have been affected by the diehard mlb fans tuning into mlb network.

how soon before someone tries doing a show w/out ex-jocks?

What, like PTL/Around the Horn?

hahah probably not that soon.

i actually like a lot of ex-player analysts, i think they bring some great perspective. but unfortunately none of the ones i like analyze baseball.

no WmC, I meant no jocks OR shouty circus clowns.

how many shows did Nate Silver do last year?

well, say what you mean, Herr Doktor (xp)

Kurk-gem:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/images/02/11/kurkjian-ripken.jpg

"We interrupt the stretch run of this fascinating baseball season with something completely irrelevant, epically ridiculous and wildly unimportant. A most absurd streak quietly ended in 2010: For the first time since 1989, I no longer clip every box score of every baseball game from the nearest newspaper and tape each one into a spiral notebook, a daily task that I've estimated, at roughly 15 minutes per day, has cost me 40 days of my truly pathetic life."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=kurkjian_tim&id=5420098

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/0805/mlb_e_kurkjian11_600.jpg

:-(

derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

If you got a system that helps you make a living, it doesn't matter how much it makes you look like a beaten-for-lunch-money-by-Liberace victim

schilling also had a good segment about strasburg on baseball tonight last night

HEY NOMAH -- "experience" don't mean shit in the postseason

HEY KRUK, IS EVERYONE A "CLUTCH HITTER"?

i know i'm not supposed to get angered by these guys but jp riccardi saying that cc is the al cy young because he plays in a tougher division w/ tougher line ups w/ the way that felix has pitched against nyy actually makes me want to cancel my cable

was hilar to hear Nomar try to say "sabermetric"

"Cybermuh-dih-duh-duh"

CHRIS SINGLETON STOP YELLING AT US

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/03/01/heres-j-p-arencibias-divine-tim-kurkjian-impression-with-tim-kurkjian-looking-on/

Read that URL as saying he did an impression of Divine

a sidebar on jon lester tonight caused kruk to ramble at great length about baseball and cancer, including the fact that getting those (cancer-afflicted) kids on the field to meet some players would be better than any possible treatment

i know that's not what he meant, but he is about as incoherent an analyst as i've ever heard

The return of Nate?!?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/brian-stelter-reports-nate-silver-leaving-new-york-times-to-join-keith-olbermann-at-espn/

he is about as incoherent an analyst as i've ever heard

look for his new book I Ain't an Analyst, Lady

only saw the bottom of the ninth, but espn's use of nine (or whatever) commentators apparently only meant that each had only a moment to force his chosen cliches into the mix no matter what was going on in the game

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNRD62vUsAAzIfW.png

every time i think he can't get any goddamn worse

o man

"It's said"

"true #'s"