OT: Predictions for ESPN Detroit
The recent bombardment of promos for ESPN New York has piqued my interest. When will ESPN Detroit come out, and who will be the featured teams/athletes in the promo? New York shows Jeter and Wright, Sanchez and Manning, and David Lee.
My prediction: in twenty seven months ESPN Detroit will roll off the assembly line and into the showroom, featuring Calvin Johnson, Verlander, Tate, and Aminu (Pistons). Hockey will be left out. Because of the timing, college hoops (and thus MSU) will be left out.
As much as I would love to see ESPN show Detroit some love, it is never going to happen. Plus if there was an ESPN Detroit, you'd get jerkoff's like Rosenberg, Drew Sharp, and Dave Birkett spouting off even more than they do now.
Never? I bet ESPN's intention is to get one of these city sites for all the large metro areas in the next few years. Detroit would certainly be one of them. But yeah, currently the available roster would blow. Or maybe, step up to the plate Mr. Cook!
I think it'll happen. Detroit is still like a top 12 market in the US and one of the better sports towns/areas in the country. My guess is you'll see it in the next year or two.
Rosendouche would be on ESPN Detroit along with Mitch Albom.
Detroit is the step child and will most likely never get it's just due! But our teams will rebound and win more than the "Big Markets"
There'll be an ESPN Detroit, but after ESPN Jacksonville, ESPN El Paso, ESPN Boise, ESPN Duluth, and ESPN Montpelier. Just the way things go for Detroit. The surprising thing is the hype they had for ESPN Boston and ESPN New York - I thought they already had those sites and called them "ESPN.com."
I agree with you. ESPN might as well be THE NEw York/LA/Boston Network.
I would expect to see Parker, Jamele Hill, and Albom if they paid him enough, because they are already on ESPN part-time.
I think the previous poster's comment about Brian sounds better than any of these options, especially for the UM "beat." If Brain is interested, maybe we should consider "using the power of mgoblog" to send some feedback to ESPN offices.
I wouldn't want to deal with all the annoying people like Rosenberg, Birkett, Hill, and Sharp.
I actually heard a segment on NPR's marketplace money that this was one of ESPN's new expansion strategies. They think there is untapped revenue that the fox sports' of the world are getting locally and they are not (obviously, which is why they are doing this...). But the other interesting points were ESPN thinks this could be profitable because of the decline of the local newspaper and with the rise of blogs sports coverage is more specific than ever. So, yeah, Johnson, Stafford, Izzo. ESPN is pretty much the NFL network-lite at this point. And my bet is that it will suck.
The only reason they would even consider an ESPN Detroit is because there are so many sports teams here and the fanbases are probably large enough nationally to garner some following. That said, it would also give another platform to guys like Sharp and Rosenberg, so I'm not sure it is worth it.
The thing about Detroit, Detroiters and even most Michiganders is how many of us have left. In that sense, yes, I think that Detroit has an unusually large fanbase spread across the nation.
By comparison, who outside of Phoenix or Tampa cares about any of those teams? Even amongst their local markets many of those teams have only been around 20 years and haven't developed nearly the cross-generational pull that old teams like Detroit have with their fans (even the ex-pats living in exile). It always amazes me how many Detroiters I meet outside of Detroit...we're kind of like a virus quietly infecting the rest of the world.
Ex-Michiganders now populate the Sun Belt in droves. This would be of more national interest than possibly any other market.
I personally prefer blogs over ESPN and FSN Detroit type sites. Yeah blogs carry emotions and biases but as we all know Brian has turned mgoblog into the best sports blog in the universe. As for the Wings, i have a handful of blogs i check out and they too carry a bias but anything is better than reading the Freep. If there was an ESPN Detroit i think it would be an more extensive M-Live.
Who knows how long until they actually use it though. It looks like they bought the rights to the url in 2007.
http://whois.domaintools.com/espndetroit.com
Unfortunately Brian would have to sell out and "ride the company line" to work for ESPN. I'd rather read excellent pieces here and at TSB than have Brian having to waste time with ESPN. I would be for it if I had confidence ESPN would do it the right way, but I don't.
Just what is the ESPN "company line?" Why would Brian have to "sell out?"
And lastly, what do you consider to be the "right way?"
Do you want a UM homer who never questions anything Michigan does? Are you selling the idea that ESPN hates Michigan and only wants Michigan Haterz?
In spite of what Michigan fans think about ESPN, they must be doing a lot of right things--they basically ARE sports.
Brian never questions decisions by Michigan coaches or players? What?
I'm sorry, but it's funny that we've become so brainwashed by ESPN's marketing to care about something like this. The ESPN Detroit website isn't going to be anything special, just another local sports site. ESPN was beaten to the punch a decade ago by Fox Sports Net and it's now belatedly trying to catch up.
should represent the Pistons as the greatest acquisitions ever.