“I’m not rushing home to watch “Baseball Tonight” highlights of Ryan Howard,” snorted ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd this morning. “I’m sorry, I’m not going gaga over another one-dimensional home run hitter, I’m been burned too many times. You see a guy hitting that many home runs and you have to ask yourself if he isn’t on HGH.”
Strangely, ESPN’s mid-morning moron has no such qualms when it comes to his fascination with all things NFL and collegiate football. Not that anyone could be using human growth hormone in football.
Earlier on the program, Cowherd dismissed the interests of wrestling fans, proclaiming “this is big boy radio…you can tell a lot about an audience by the type of advertisers it attracts. If you’re on NBC showing the NFL, you attract Rolex. If you’re Spike TV, it’s Slim Jim.”
A very interesting observation considering the local affiliate playing “The Herd” usually features advertisers including cock pill pushers, baldness cures, strip clubs and night schools.
Damn right. You nailed that one.
Wow you’d figure Cowdung would realize that the Wrestling Crowd makes up for half of ESPN’s viewing auidence way to alienate them Colin after you pissed on Eddie’s grave.
Its his right to be sceptical over Ryan Howard. I was listening to the herd that day. I don’t think that conversation was about football or any other sport. Cowherd did not need to list every sport that has been suspected of doping. He was specifically talking about Ryan Howard and he didn’t even say he was anti-Howard. He just said he wasn’t getting caught up in the homerun hype. He may have something better to do, like watch college football.
I liked wrestling….when I was 9 years old. Baseball may be the national pastime, but ratings have gone down each year. It’s kind of hard to watch baseball when you know 1/2 the teams have no shot at the playoffs after Opening Day. More people watch football and college football than all the other major sports COMBINED. That is the reason why Cowhered talks about football and college football.
Colin Cowherd hit it on the target. With all kinds of players taking steroids from 1994-2004, you have to be skeptical at anyone who has hit as many home runs as Howard. I don’t fault Cowherd for making that point. If baseball did their job, they would have done something about steroids. However, baseball turned a blind eye on performance enhancing drugs as they were regain prominence after the strike.
Don’t fault Cowherd for making the opinion on being skeptical. He’s not as gullible as 1/2 the dumbass sport fans in this country.
“I liked wrestling….when I was 9 years old.”
Let me be the first person, then, to wish you a very happy 10th birthday.
“It’s kind of hard to watch baseball when you know 1/2 the teams have no shot at the playoffs after Opening Day”
clearly, you’ve been watching as much baseball in recent years as you have professional wrestling.
Certainly, I can appreciate that college and pro football are of greater interest. But Cowherd spends an inordinate amount of time sneering at any segment of his audience whose tastes differ from his own. Where does a guy with a boner for Courtney Love get off mocking wrestling fans?
“If baseball did their job, they would have done something about steroids.”
Yeah, if only MLB had a handle on the problem like the NFL.
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