The ESPY Awards

I made the mistake of watching a rerun of the ESPY Awards last night. I usually don’t watch ESPN much because generally their shows are crap. I just tuned in for a few minutes while channel surfing and herd  Host Rob Riggle of "The Daily Show" and "The Hangover" fame zinge some of the famous faces in his opening monologue.

He then went on to make fun of the city of Cleveland and their fans following a trend, which ESPN has been using, ever since LeBron left.  He said, among other things, that what 25 yr. old wouldn’t want to leave Cleveland for Miami. He also pointed to Jin Brown in the crowd and said that Jim retired at 29 so he could get out of Cleveland. He also stated that a whole team actually left the city only to move to Baltimore. To Baltimore, he repeated, the city where the Wire was filmed. The zings just kept on coming.

I just wonder why ESPN feels it has to disparage the city of Cleveland. They often make fun of it on the air and always report the Indians wins last on their shows or like today not at all.  They go out of their way trying to repair King James’ reputation. They treat cities like Miami and LA like they were the greatest places on earth.

Recently they made a big point to report Chris Perez and his rants about Indian fans.

I could write about what a great city Cleveland is to visit but what would be the point. Instead I would like to write about the job ESPN and host Rob Wriggle did on the show.

Judging by the number of laughs Robb received from the audience I would say that he stunk up the joint. He was not funny and even had trouble with the English language. His writers were just as stupid.  This show was a stinker from the start to the end, ESPN needs to hire some pros to plan and direct their award show. Clearly their present writers and directer are not up to par.

I just remember the year Albert Bell had a higher batting average, home run total, more R.B.I.’s and more doubles. The sport writers gave the MVP Award to Boston’s Mo Vaughn. You never herd a word of protest from the experts at ESPN.

In closing I feel like crap today so I would like to say to ESPN and Robb that both of you suck. I can tell that when it comes to having class the fans and people of Cleveland can teach you both a thing or two or three or four. In Street language you can better understand “YOU SUCK"  The Jersey Shore ans Sponge Bob does a better job and I am sure have better ratings.