Hey ESPN, Give Us Some Respect!
by Ben Schneider on Apr 14, 2025 9:56 PM EDT
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I know that ESPN gives soccer/football very little coverage on its American page, but it was a box that could easily have fit the Red Bulls' logo in as well. I also know that we don't fill our seats at Red Bull Arena, but there are ten thousand or so dedicated fans and probably many thousands more who keep up with the team's results. How does it harm ESPN to promote another part of their website that deals with soccer? (It doesn't.)
Quite simply, there is no reason for this, and it's probably not a hard fix for them. We are a New York Area sports team, ESPN. Give us some respect.
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better chance of MLS refs having some accountability. In this Portland game alone, Ricardo Salazar has disallowed a goal on a phantom call (think Edu in the Cup kind, where you keep looking at replays and going WTF), and Corey Gibbs has somehow emerged with one yellow from TWO blatant red card challenges. I know this is not quite on point with your argument, but I don’t have anywhere else to put it. And yes, I agree with you completely. ESPN blows.
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by bigbluethruandthru on Apr 14, 2025 11:54 PM EDT reply actions
Salazar sucks.
Then again, they all suck. A lot.
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by Ben Schneider on Apr 15, 2025 1:41 AM EDT up reply actions
But to your original point
I’m sick of ESPN’s half-assed approach to MLS. Yes they have a game in HD almost every week. The game last night was awesome. Raucous sold- out crowd that was chanting and singing the whole game. 6 Goals scored, with two major controversies to boot. And yet, not a single highlight on ANY Sportscenter this morning. Why put something on your network and then pretend it doesn’t exist? This was the PERFECT game to promote MLS, and they ignored it from the moment it was done.
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by bigbluethruandthru on Apr 15, 2025 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Amen.
We have two huge international stars and two very promising young USMNT candidates. The MLS has plenty of issues with exposure and popularity and little things like this certainly don’t help.
You guys see the Portland Timbers version of the National Anthem by the way? Awesome.
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by Dig Deep on Apr 15, 2025 7:07 PM EDT reply actions
screw espn
Im a huge hockey and soccer fan. And honestly ESPN is useless for both, it caters to this big sports here in the US and honestly has become a joke. i’m glad MSG picked up Red Bulls, id rather see MLS do something like the NHL did and go to Versus and NBC. That has turned out great for them, there too much shit playing on espn anyway, most games would be thrown away besides like an LA NY matchup. fuck that i dont need ESPN. it sort of like trying to convince a friend how beautiful a game soccer is, sometimes people are just stubborn.
by Cmen on May 2, 2025 3:56 AM EDT reply actions
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