Drama, drama, drama...

Is anyone else sick and tired of ESPN? I don't have cable at home so staying with my friend this weekend who has ESPN was going to be quite the treat...or so I thought.

As an absolute addict to the drug that is sport, ESPN has always been my dealer of choice. ESPN is always the first channel I visit when I flip on the tube, ESPN.com is my browser's homepage, I have not missed an issue of ESPN the Magazine in about three years, and I fall asleep to ESPN Radio each night...enough said. For those of us who think of nothing else over the course of the day than how badly we thing the Wolves are going to lose that night, ESPN was a haven where we could sit on our butts watching other nerds talk about similar "important" issues and feel slightly less pathetic about ourselves. But what happens when our friends in Bristol run out of things to talk about? I'll tell you what happens, NAG gets frustrated!

Over the last few months at least, ESPN has beaten all interest out of every issue in the world of sports to the point where they've beaten all interest out of me. Recently HUNDREDS of hours have been spent discussing and reiterating the Tank Johnson and Pacman Jones scandals, the Steroid Investigation in Baseball, whether or not players should honor Jackie by wearing 42 on Sunday, the Don Imus comments, etc. How much to even the "Til Death" devoted sports fans care about these issues?

Everytime I turn on ESPN, there is always some already exhausted topic being discussed. I'm just so tired of making sports so darn dramatic. I don't think I could possibly care less what Pacman Jones does in his freetime, legit or not. I don't care if players don't want to wear 42 on the Sunday. I'm not interested in what Peggy N., an emailer from Cheyenne, WY, has to say about the phrase "nappyheaded hos". ESPN is built around the idea of delivering sports news but doesn't that imply that the stories change from time to time?

I am just getting tired of saying to myself, "Okay, ESPN, we get it, move on. What do you say we get to the games now, what we're really watching your network to see?"

See you in therapy,
NAG