OT: ESPN.com

[giddyup.sixpack]

Quite Timely - sent a note to ESPN just yesterday...

..stating the 538 section on their site is utter nonsense. I go to ESPN to read sports, not to be influenced politically one way or the other. That's what FoxNews/MSNBC/CNN/NBC is for.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Where did I

say I was mad, ever? Assume much? Don't hurt yourself patting your own back.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Seems to me

that the only ones "triggered" were the libs in this thread pissed that people don't want to see politics when they're watching sports...

 

[mstateglfr]

ESPN = Entertainment & Sports Programming Network. Entertainment is listed before sports in their name.
The company isnt strictly sports. This should be obvious by the thousands of hours of poker that's been televised over the last 15 years. And I would be the first to say that the 'entertainment' part of their name is a stretch at times(often).

538 is an analytical website dedicated to politics with some sports analysis added in. ESPN owns 538. So seeing 538 content on ESPN is only natural. ESPN covers more than just major professional and college sports. Get the 17 over it.

 

[ShrubDog]

And ESPN is tied to Disney, where is Mickey Mouse?

 

[mstateglfr]

And ESPN is tied to Disney, where is Micky Mouse?

Yes it is. This is obvious by ABC using the ESPN graphics for basketball and football games. Disney-ABC Television Group is what oversees all of ABC programming and the multiple Disney television channels/programs.
Also, multiple ESPN created early season basketball games have been held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex located in the Walt Disney Resort along with many amateur and pro sporting events.

Not sure what ESPN's relationship to Disney has to to with the topic at hand(538 site).

 

[DudyDawg]

And you would be so completely wrong it is laughable. What generation and geographic region come up with "triggered"? "Safe Space"? "White Privlidge"? What generation has trumpeted the forgiveness of student loans because they ran up thousands of debt on worthless degrees while refusing to work their way through college?

From Time Magazine: "The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that’s now 65 or older, according to the National Institutes of Health; 58% more college students scored higher on a narcissism scale in 2009 than in 1982."

Also from Time mag: "Their development is stunted: more people ages 18 to 29 live with their parents than with a spouse, according to the 2012 Clark University Poll of Emerging Adults. And they are lazy. In 1992, the nonprofit Families and Work Institute reported that 80% of people under 23 wanted to one day have a job with greater responsibility; 10 years later, only 60% did."

Oh yea.. and from the defense dept: "According to the Defense Department, differences exist at the regional level as well. In 2013, 44% of all military recruits came from the South, despite it having only 36% of the country's 18-24 year-old civilian population.By contrast, the Northeast was the most underrepresented region of the country; only 14% of new enlistments came from this area, compared to 18% of its 18-24 year-old population."

Hope I didn't trigger you.

Working your way thru college isn't really an option for most. Not many part time jobs a high school grad can get to pay for 4 year university.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I don't think you

comprehended my post at all, either that or you aren't sure how to properly reply.

 

[johnson86-1]

Working your way thru college isn't really an option for most. Not many part time jobs a high school grad can get to pay for 4 year university.

Well, if you're limiting yourself to part time and four year universities, that's true. But that just goes to show the entitlement attitude that people have gotten about the issue. Spending four or five years as a young adult on somebody else's dime has somehow gone from a luxury that only a relatively small portion of the population is fortunate enough to experience, to something that everybody is somehow entitled to.

 

[patdog]

Exactly. You can easily cut the cost of college by about 35% by going JUCO for summer-fall-spring-summer and getting about 45 hours of lower level courses out of the way in just over 1 year. And yeah, a part time job isn't going to pay for the full cost of a 4-year school, but it'll help keep you from borrowing as much. But few are willing to do that since the loans are so easy to get.

 

[RocketDawg]

Exactly. You can easily cut the cost of college by about 35% by going JUCO for summer-fall-spring-summer and getting about 45 hours of lower level courses out of the way in just over 1 year. And yeah, a part time job isn't going to pay for the full cost of a 4-year school, but it'll help keep you from borrowing as much. But few are willing to do that since the loans are so easy to get.

There's the co-op program ....

 

[ArcherSPS]

Jesus and his boys, why in the world is this thread two pages now?

 

[mstateglfr]

comprehended my post at all, either that or you aren't sure how to properly reply.

I clicked 'reply to thread' instead of responding to a specific comment. No idea why it attached my post as a response to you. Guess I havent learned how to properly reply after all these years.

 

[mstateglfr]

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