ESPN has announced that, from now on, they’re changing their name from the Worldwide Leader in Sports to the Rehashed Story Network. I’d be curious to know the last time NFL Live talked about a story other than Brett Favre, the NFC East, or the New England Patriots. And whatever happened to that West Coast baseball game ESPN used to show once a week to, you know, provide baseball fans with a nationally televised game that didn’t involve a team from New York or Boston. There’s a reason that most people didn’t know about Josh Hamilton’s story until he was hitting 28 first round dingers in the Home Run Derby; ESPN doesn’t cover teams that aren’t in huge media markets.

In case you were concerned or didn’t know about it, ESPN will be airing Green Bay’s first pre-season game and their first regular season game on prime time so everyone can bask in Brett Favre’s greatness. But you must know about it already because you just watched NFL Live do a role play with Floyd Reece pretending to be Ted Thompson and Drew Rosenhaus pretending to be Brett Favre’s agent while they acted out a conversation between the two. Why would they do this? Is there really nothing else going on in the football world that takes priority over an amateur skit? Absolutely nothing that was said in the five minutes of Reece and Rosenhaus bantering has any factual weight or any relevance to the topic of Brett Favre.

Then, of course, I would want nothing more than to watch the Yankees and Red Sox play the first and third games of a meaningless June series on primetime. Why would ESPN bother showing anything other than Cubs-Cardinals, Yankees-Red Sox, or Mets-Phillies. Those are the only teams in the league right? How about giving Anaheim more than one prime time game every two months. They’re the best team in the league, at least give them some love. How about showing us Josh Hamilton, Milton Bradley, and Ian Kinsler slug balls out of Arlington every now and then? Would it kill to go to Florida and show us the Marlins, a team who is just a few games out of first despite half the team being fresh out of high school. To ESPN, yes, it would kill.

I suppose the purpose of this article doesn’t go beyond a simple rant. Nonetheless, I can’t believe that ESPN continues to get away with garbage unbalanced coverage of the sports world based on what they view as important.