Right now I really am sick of ESPN...

[bryan_05]

On the night of the WBC Championship they show NIT Round 2 instead of the 1st inning. And their website headline is "Zags to riches". I was fuming from 8:15-8:40 when I had to watch freakin Michigan basketball. Good thing he hit that shot...

[nyyanksfan20]

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On the night of the WBC Championship they show NIT Round 2 instead of the 1st inning. And their website headline is "Zags to riches". I was fuming from 8:15-8:40 when I had to watch freakin Michigan basketball. Good thing he hit that shot...

Damn I didn't know that. Thier coverage of the WBC hasn't been very good. I'd bet that if Team USA was playing this would not have happened though.

[Birdsonbat]

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On the night of the WBC Championship they show NIT Round 2 instead of the 1st inning. And their website headline is "Zags to riches". I was fuming from 8:15-8:40 when I had to watch freakin Michigan basketball. Good thing he hit that shot...

Oh, when they went to that second ot I went nuts. It's the NIT for crying out loud. And ESPN2 had women's bball. Might as well be poker. I'm just lucky that the ESPN alternates on Dish Network showed pretty much every WBC game.

[Stu]

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They also did a nice job with the highlights on Sportscenter. They spent the whole clip mocking the Japanese names. The WBC should look for a new broadcast partner in 2009 because ESPN clearly doesn't take it very seriously.

[bravosfan]

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ESPN is a joke anymore... it's a shame.

[MassNole]

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On the night of the WBC Championship they show NIT Round 2 instead of the 1st inning. And their website headline is "Zags to riches". I was fuming from 8:15-8:40 when I had to watch freakin Michigan basketball. Good thing he hit that shot...

Awesome avatar.

As for the WBC, had a team they believed Americans cared about (USA or Dominican Republic) they'd have cut from the NIT. However, when it is a game between Cuba and Japan, I am presuming they felt there'd be more interest in the NIT than WBC.

[aukevin]

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Awesome avatar.

As for the WBC, had a team they believed Americans cared about (USA or Dominican Republic) they'd have cut from the NIT. However, when it is a game between Cuba and Japan, I am presuming they felt there'd be more interest in the NIT than WBC.

I agree.

[ehh]

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Regardless of who was playing, I don't think ESPN was cutting from the NIT game.

They NEVER do that with any sport.

[Misfit]

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Their coverage of the WBC was a joke. You would think they would have hyped it up some to increase interest since they were carrying it. They didn't even stay with the broadcast long enough to show us the medal presentation at the end, which was just stupid. A network would never leave the Superbowl or World Series before the trophy was presented. Instead ESPN had to get right to Sportscenter to tell us all about their crappy NIT games.

[MassNole]

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Their coverage of the WBC was a joke. You would think they would have hyped it up some to increase interest since they were carrying it. They didn't even stay with the broadcast long enough to show us the medal presentation at the end, which was just stupid. A network would never leave the Superbowl or World Series before the trophy was presented. Instead ESPN had to get right to Sportscenter to tell us all about their crappy NIT games.

Yet again, this is probably a byproduct of there not being teams of interest to most viewers in the WBC Final. I expected Japan would win, but I really didn't care too much, and being an average person I'd presume many other people thought the same way.

Regardless of who was playing, I don't think ESPN was cutting from the NIT game.

They NEVER do that with any sport.

They do when the game is no longer in doubt and I believe will do it for a marquee event if something of little to no importance or interest is being televised, or if the game being televised is no longer in doubt.

[BGarrett7]

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Not once in my lifetime can I recall ESPN ever leaving a game early regardless of what was to follow or how lopsided the score may be. Have I seen them start telecasting the game or event early on ESPN2 or some other ESPN affiliate, yes, and then they have switched over to the intended station when the overriding telecast ended. But I don't remember a single time where they have left a game -- especially one that was in double overtime -- for another. Expecting them to leave a marquee matchup like Notre Dame and Michigan in double OT for damn near anything is just stubborn. They have already pre-empted the US games a couple times in the WBC, so I wouldn't exactly say it was an issue of who was playing in the championship game.

[MassNole]

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Not once in my lifetime can I recall ESPN ever leaving a game early regardless of what was to follow or how lopsided the score may be. Have I seen them start telecasting the game or event early on ESPN2 or some other ESPN affiliate, yes, and then they have switched over to the intended station when the overriding telecast ended. But I don't remember a single time where they have left a game -- especially one that was in double overtime -- for another. Expecting them to leave a marquee matchup like Notre Dame and Michigan in double OT for damn near anything is just stubborn. They have already pre-empted the US games a couple times in the WBC, so I wouldn't exactly say it was an issue of who was playing in the championship game.

Off the top of my head, I remember back in 1999 they left the Duke/Florida game early because Duke was up by a ton and there was a marquee matchup on at 9pm. I only remember because I knew people on the Duke team.

I am going to have to disagree though, had the WBC Final been between USA and the DR, they would have at the very least moved the Michigan/ND game to ESPN2.

[dkgojackets]

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Not once in my lifetime can I recall ESPN ever leaving a game early regardless of what was to follow or how lopsided the score may be. Have I seen them start telecasting the game or event early on ESPN2 or some other ESPN affiliate, yes, and then they have switched over to the intended station when the overriding telecast ended. But I don't remember a single time where they have left a game -- especially one that was in double overtime -- for another. Expecting them to leave a marquee matchup like Notre Dame and Michigan in double OT for damn near anything is just stubborn. They have already pre-empted the US games a couple times in the WBC, so I wouldn't exactly say it was an issue of who was playing in the championship game.

Thats what Im thinking. I cant remember them ever cutting a game short, especially one in 2OT

[Kruza]

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Uh, I'm not sure if anyone in this thread knew, but the WBC game was showing on ESPNEWS from the very beginning while the ND vs. U-M game was on.

Kruza

[BGarrett7]

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Uh, I'm not sure if anyone in this thread knew, but the WBC game was showing on ESPNEWS from the very beginning while the ND vs. U-M game was on.