Look, we're not going to lie, we listen to ESPN radio sometimes. Not for large segments of time, and we usually try and catch it in condensed podcast form, but we listen. And, except for the guy who's on after Dan Patrick whose name we don't know, Mike and Mike in the Morning is by far the least entertaining radio show on the WWL's airwaves. Colin Cowherd can be an ass, Dan Patrick defines pomposity, and listening to whoever the guy is after Patrick is like watching the JV play after the varsity's left the court. Yet, none of them match the mediocrity of Mike and Mike. It's a four-hour barrage of softball questions, Greenberg's intellectual barbs, and Golic's barbaric "man up!" schtick. We can't stand it.
But we'd better get used to it, because when we opened USA Today's sports homepage this morning - just to see how Ben Sheets threw last night - we dropped our scone when we saw this:
ESPN is set to unveil a second Monday Night Football announcing team today: play-by-play Mike Greenberg, analysts Mike Golic and Mike Ditka and sideline reporter Bonnie Bernstein. The new team will make their MNF debut during the Arizona Cardinals vs. San Francisco 49ers game on Sept. 10, says ESPN's Norby Williamson, executive vice president for remote and studio production. The game will be the nightcap in a national NFL doubleheader on ESPN and will kick off at 10:15 p.m. ET.
ESPN, killing the watchability of Monday Night Football, one agonizing step at a time.
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Killing the watchability of ALL sports, you mean.
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