ESPN sucks these days...

I'm really dissapointed with televesion in general the past, ummm 15 years or so. That's a pretty big chunk of change there, though, so I'll keep the bashing narrowed down to Sports Center.

I always used to watch SportsCenter in high school, and it showed clips of the games with commentary given in english and without a soundtrack provided by Linkin Park and Jay-Z. They even showed daily highlights from the Tour, but I'll keep cycling out of this for the most part. Today if you turn on SportsCenter you might not even see a real press confrence. That's because ever since baseball season has ended, ESPN thought we needed some simulated baseball action, and decided a fake news confrence for individual teams would be a good idea. This might be the stupidest thing I've ever seen on TV (including Laguna Beach).
But after the press confrence is over, all SportsCenter is these days is arguments and clips of thugs playing basketball or football players smacking eachother to the tune of cheesy rap music. The Budweiser hotseat and The Coors Action play of the game team up with the Honda Highlight... what the hell? Doesn't SportsCenter make enough money without whoring itself out? It's bad enough that there are 14 Pepsi Arenas and 4 Verizon Stadiums. Do we need highlights named after companies too?
Before Monday Night Football I think I might have witnessed one of the low points of televsion. Four grown men were hooting and hollering at players getting "jacked up" during Sunday's game. Now, the stupid tribalesque banter dosed out during the clips was pretty bad, but the fact that before moving on to the next clip they'd all chant in harmony "Whomever got JACKED UP" was a bit much to swallow.
ESPN needs to get back to its roots... take the rap music and the internal commericals out of SportsCenter, and while you're at it take poker and rodeo off too... what the hell? Put poker on the gameshow network and just make rodeo illegal.