Got Damn ESPN

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

That's not for you to decide and try to control. I have no problem with you having an opinion but when you try and turn into some sort of god and use that opinion to control the press and restrict what others can see, that's when I tell you to gfy.

My opinion is that the 11:00pm local NBC news affiliate doesn't have to dig up and show every scrape of video they have of Eight Belles dying when discussing this story.

Including, after showing all the film they have of her laying on her side with the vets giving her injections and her legs straight out to the side, quivering - a pan shot, with the news announcer saying, "Watch here, in the corner of this clip of Big Brown, Eight Belles is the head in the right hand corner, you can see her bob her head and go down". And the overhead of her going down.

I have every right to complain loud, long and publically to the news editor about deciding to show gratuitous video crap of a horse in severe distress and dying that adds nothing whatsoever explainatory to the story.

You're free to contact him and encourage him to show more of it.

It adds nothing to story? Really????

It's impossible to be rational with someone who is completely out of touch with reality. Good luck to you.

[horseofcourse]

In my house I'm more upset with the Viagra and Cialis commercials than Eight Belles coverage!! I can't even watch the KY Derby or baseball games with my kids anymore without them hearing about 7 hour erections 4 times in a couple hours!!

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

In my house I'm more upset with the Viagra and Cialis commercials than Eight Belles coverage!! I can't even watch the KY Derby or baseball games with my kids anymore without them hearing about 7 hour erections 4 times in a couple hours!!

Must make an awful lot off those dick pills,cuz you just can't keep from seeing the constant parade of commercials for that crap.

[fpsoxfan]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

In my house I'm more upset with the Viagra and Cialis commercials than Eight Belles coverage!! I can't even watch the KY Derby or baseball games with my kids anymore without them hearing about 7 hour erections 4 times in a couple hours!!

Very good point.

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

In my house I'm more upset with the Viagra and Cialis commercials than Eight Belles coverage!! I can't even watch the KY Derby or baseball games with my kids anymore without them hearing about 7 hour erections 4 times in a couple hours!!

And these boner commercials are needed because people go into shock and then depression over seeing acl and groin injuries in baseball and tragic breakdowns in horse racing.

[fpsoxfan]

Dam FOX should stop showing NASCAR wrecks and NBC...shame on them for showing hockey fights. And the dam news showing murder scenes. The discovery channel showing the Predator/Prey stuff needs to be stopped.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by fpsoxfan

Dam FOX should stop showing NASCAR wrecks and NBC...shame on them for showing hockey fights. And the dam news showing murder scenes. The discovery channel showing the Predator/Prey stuff needs to be stopped.

Showing images or footage of animals or people in the throes of death on the nightly news is not the same as a Nascar wreck or a hockey fight or a murder scene. Its possible to broadcast tragic stories that accurately depict what happened without showing footage of convulsing bodies.

[3kings]

It is the press's responsibility to give the news and this situation ESPN's brief picture of the broken down horse was not irresponsible or over kill. Injuries and death occur in this sport and it is part of the story.

[fpsoxfan]

They briefly showed the horse and the trailers. Can you please tell me why that is so awful? Please. People need to get a phucking grip.

[fpsoxfan]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Showing images or footage of animals or people in the throes of death on the nightly news is not the same as a Nascar wreck or a hockey fight or a murder scene. Its possible to broadcast tragic stories that accurately depict what happened without showing footage of convulsing bodies.

Oh you mean like when a HUMAN, like Earnhardt died.
I know most of this stuff is not the same, but this knocking ESPN for what
it showed is WAY, WAY over the top.

Originally Posted by fpsoxfan

Dam FOX should stop showing NASCAR wrecks and NBC...shame on them for showing hockey fights. And the dam news showing murder scenes. The discovery channel showing the Predator/Prey stuff needs to be stopped.

I agree with the strangeness of people getting upset
over showing the horse. She had already been euthanized
by the time I saw it. And it is a part of this game that
should actually be shown because it happens. It is real.

But your some of your examples above are God-awful.

People willingly get into cars and into hockey.
They know whats coming.
Predator/prey... give me a flippn break.
Watch that track come up and eat the horse?

Maybe people being blown up randomly by suicide
bombers would be more appropriate.

Horses dont have much of a choice.
Horses dont formally request to skip a
run in the slop or on pavement.

That being said change the channel if you
dont like it. I dont watch local news because
of the car wrecks and bar shootings. If you choose
to watch a horse race, you know what can and does
happen.

[fpsoxfan]

Originally Posted by pgardn

I agree with the strangeness of people getting upset
over showing the horse. She had already been euthanized
by the time I saw it. And it is a part of this game that
should actually be shown because it happens. It is real.

But your some of your examples above are God-awful.

People willingly get into cars and into hockey.
They know whats coming.
Predator/prey... give me a flippn break.
Watch that track come up and eat the horse?

Maybe people being blown up randomly by suicide
bombers would be more appropriate.

Horses dont have much of a choice.
Horses dont formally request to skip a
run in the slop or on pavement.

That being said change the channel if you
dont like it. I dont watch local news because
of the car wrecks and bar shootings. If you choose
to watch a horse race, you know what can and does
happen.

Because it was said with tongue firmly imbedded into cheek. You couldn't sense that just a little bit. And yes, believe it or not there are some people who get frigged up over the predator/prey stuff.

[fpsoxfan]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

In my house I'm more upset with the Viagra and Cialis commercials[/b] than Eight Belles coverage!! I can't even watch the KY Derby or baseball games with my kids anymore without them hearing about 7 hour erections 4 times in a couple hours!!

Speaking of which, I see ole Hefner was at the track yesterday with a bunch of bunnies. I wonder if the old boy has a mainline of that stuff hooked up to him.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

It adds nothing to story? Really????

It's impossible to be rational with someone who is completely out of touch with reality. Good luck to you.

Yeah. In my opinion it adds nothing at all to the story.

You trying to lecture me on the "reality" of animal death and euthanasia is beyond a joke.

Originally Posted by Mumtaz

Yeah. In my opinion it adds nothing at all to the story.

You trying to lecture me on the "reality" of animal death and euthanasia is beyond a joke.

There you go trying to flaunt your status again.

Nobody cares, ****. It'll take maybe two generations of your family to pass in order for you to be completely forgotten. You're a wannabe.

[letswastemoney]

It's a story, just like a man getting shot at a liquor shop is a story, I don't see the problem with this...it's their job.

[fpsoxfan]

Originally Posted by letswastemoney

It's a story, just like a man getting shot at a liquor shop is a story, I don't see the problem with this...it's their job.

Exactly

It's pointless to try and reason with her. She's a Lexington $50,000 millionaire and she looks down to all of us.

[Riot]

Easy to be experts on death when all one does is watch it on TV.