http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/statitudes/news/2002/08/28/labor_daze_btn/ 150 -- Hours of programming ESPN would have to replace in the event of a season-ending strike.
don't worry...we ain't getting ************... they'll still show re-runs of baseball and baseball tonite
Fitness compettition, great outdoors games, nascar, PTI, Jay Mohr marathon. They'll be fine. No need to add soccer.
Oh good lord - I dont think they'd do that to the world. Can you say EOE - thats right ESPN Original Entertainment. Plenty of old episodes of The Season, The Life, The Bling Bling and The Jock Sniffer.
Not to mention more billiards... Too bad the baseball season doesn't extend into the winter. There goes curling's big chance.
seriously, it's conceivable we could squeeze a couple extra playoff games out of ESPN. hey, i'm feeling optimistic this morning.
I don't have it handy, but Martzke (or whoever did it yesterday) had in his column that soccer would be one of the things they'd ostensibly show more of in the event of a strike to fill time. I'll believe it when I see it.
How bout buying some United Soccer League games from Fox. After all they're "enthralling"..."and strive to someday be one of tomorrows stars" off topic - but Mr Fox Sports World promo writer - whats it gonna be "someday" or "tomorrow"?
The same article noted they wouldn't cover the strike itself wall-to-wall because people are sick of it. Yes, by all means, buy those USL games. Because MLS games are such ratings-grabbers.
more soccer on ESPN? Mark Shapiro, senior VP of programming at ESPN, is quoted as saying that, in the event of a baseball strike, ESPN will fill its programming void with, aming other things, "more soccer": www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10388.
More sumo! I've missed entire bashos, and I want to see if my little homie Kaio has cleaned Takanowaka's clock yet.
Are you kidding? see 1994. Currently they are less than 24 hours away from the strike deadline. In 1994 the strike cancelled the World Series.
No, I'm not kidding. If you've been following the negotiations, then you know things are very, very different this time around.
The labor situation is similar to what it was in '85. In '85 there was a 2 day strike. I think that if there is a strike it will last longer though. Probably in the range of a month and a half because everyone will be really pissed off at each other and deeper problems within baseball will emerge.