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Pissed off at ESPN?

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do.a.rodeo
Posts: 270 - Karma: -30
if anyone wants to join me trying to get the xgames coverage back on , feel free

http://dynamic.espn.go.com/espn/bugs?url=http%3A//expn.go.com/expn/winterx/2008/live/index


heres a template if you want one


Dear espn,

you suck

your commentators suck - fire them

your priorities are all wrong - start showing skiing instead of snowmobiling.

most importantly, your ''live'' coverage is screwed. all we can hear is your useless commentators talking to each other with a leaderboard, which is being continually updated which indicates that we have missed runs of our favourite athletes. we cannot see any skiing, despite the event being run live. your audio is connected but your video is not.

please fix these technical problem asap

yours sincerely

YOUR NAME
Jan 27 2008 5:24PM
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titsLOL
Posts: 7485 - Karma: 396
uh what? i've been seeing skiing. are you talking about how they dont show any runs or are you not seeing skiing at all??
Jan 27 2008 5:26PM
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do.a.rodeo
Posts: 270 - Karma: -30

now FINALLY i have a bit but i had to endure a shitload of sal masakela and snowmobiling to get there

Jan 27 2008 5:29PM
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Spiff361
Posts: 138 - Karma: 10
theres actually a lot of people that enjoy watching the snowmobiling and the sport has a huge community that follows it and supports the racers, so really everyone should stop knocking it and accept that it's popular and interesting, just not what you like. ESPN isn't showing it because they're stupid or don't know what their audience wants.
Jan 27 2008 5:35PM
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skijunkiedtm
Posts: 9229 - Karma: 61
what they need is multipule live feeds. so every one can watch there own sport
Jan 27 2008 5:38PM
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Shpadoinkle
Posts: 10437 - Karma: 84
Fuck you, Hayden Christensen!
Jan 27 2008 5:49PM
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titsLOL
Posts: 7485 - Karma: 396
all I know is that this is the only time of year I get to watch freeskiing on tv and espn are who I have to thank for this second christmas so I can't get too mad at them...
Jan 27 2008 6:03PM
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TWoods
Posts: 10014 - Karma: 8,385
i can almost guarentee you it's nowhere near the level of the freeskiing fanbase.
Jan 27 2008 6:10PM
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LC.
Posts: 5952 - Karma: 2,423
I agree snowmobiling is lame but it's in the X-Games because it has a big following. Just like motocross and Nascar. Without it there would be far less money coming into the event and it wouldn't be what it is today.
Jan 27 2008 6:27PM
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alexL
Posts: 512 - Karma: 28
hahaha he sounded like some old person in the chalet "wow how is that even possible??  i did a backflip once by accident... but that was just incredible"
Jan 27 2008 6:31PM
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alexL
Posts: 512 - Karma: 28
but yeah i dunno why you would be pissed at espn theyre bringing you hours of skiing for free... and theyre bringing the snowmobile nuts their snowmobiling and yeah
Jan 27 2008 6:34PM
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titsLOL
Posts: 7485 - Karma: 396
I'm not sure about that Trevor. It may be easy to forget living in SLC and going to the U, but overall freeskiing has a pretty daaaaamn small fanbase.
Jan 27 2008 6:42PM
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eheath
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Exactly, they get maddd money from snowmobile sponsors etc thats why there are on TV more.
Jan 27 2008 6:44PM
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Rogge
Posts: 5772 - Karma: 3,867
Mike Douglas and Uncle E are awesome. The only thing I would want to add is Luke Van Valin to the team.
Jan 27 2008 6:48PM
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987321654hgfd
Posts: 5133 - Karma: 5,447
They really need to drop Sal Masekela, he sucks so much balls. They should run 1 event on ESPN and the other on ESPN 2.
Jan 27 2008 8:05PM
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Shpadoinkle
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I just ROFLCOPTERED.
Jan 27 2008 8:05PM
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ValPow
Posts: 1049 - Karma: 10
be thankful we have it on live stream any way, yes the coverage has been shit and the snowmobiling seems endless, but to have it streamed on the internet is awesome for us who cant get espn

they need to work on it for sure though
Jan 27 2008 8:57PM
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mnjib
Posts: 5592 - Karma: 357
ummm the reason the announcers suck is cuz they have to talk about it to a majority of non skiers so if they get too technical the average person will be totally lost.
Jan 27 2008 9:01PM
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