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No because everyone at ESPN had Suns winning in 6
Does it piss you off that ESPN.com and Foxsports.com lead with a Suns loss headline, rather than a Spurs win headline? I have to admit... It rubs me the wrong way.
This reminds me of what happened when the Spurs ended the Lakers' championship run. There was 10 times as much talk about the Lakers losing than there was about the Spurs winning.
When your team pulls off a dominant performance against a good team in the playoffs... it'd be nice to see a little recognition of their greatness.
No because everyone at ESPN had Suns winning in 6
I'm okay with it. I think people can put two and two together when they see the Suns are losing ("oh the Spurs must have beat them again")
I'm used to it. The Spurs always fly under the radar and nobody ever picks them. But the Spurs always use that to their advantage.
Nah it doesnt bother me cuz i watch the games
Anyone who saw last nights game knows that the Suns didnt just lose they got beaten
Headlines, shmeadlines
rubs me the wrong way 2...i'm very optimistic....why bog us down with what you coulda woulda done right .......tell us everything u DID right.......
All they see are self serving interests like ratings (ie ad dollars). They want Boston LA in the Finals. Phoenix Boston would work.
I hope they get Spurs - Magic. ABC ESPN would like nothing better than to have the Spurs lose as soon as possible. F'em.
When you are rooting for a team, the discussion is either what your team did to win or what they didn't do in a loss. ESPN roots for the Suns. ESPN roots for the Lakers. ESPN roots for the Celtics. Get used to it.
I'm fine with it because i get the bigger story is that the Suns are getting beat down here. Everyone said this was going to be an awesome series and beyond game 1 it has not been that compe ive.
They were cheerleading for the Suns so bad on the pre-game for game 1 i turned it off, it was disgusting the bias they showed.
Poor ESPN. You know in the back room they're just beside themselves.
They have to hope that Phoenix was just much, much worse than expected.
the so call critics bother me the most...
even my little brother said spurs play better basketball
and yet the "experts" say Suns in 6
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"they're just beside themselves."
nah, they don't ing care one way or the other. They read the tele-prompter, follow the scripts handed to them by the corporate managers.
Do you really think these male bimbos are allowed to run with their own story lines and opinions?
male bimbos...
Yes. If the business people made the decisions they'd promote who they thought was going to win rather than who they wanted to win so they wouldn't have bad ratings by the time those teams made the finals. When you stop seeing anyone writing about how terrible the prospect of a Pistons/Spurs finals would be, THAT is when you'll know the corporate people are running the show. Until then, it's just a bunch of journalists that can't hide their bias, so it's no different from CNN or CNBC.
I'm with you, buddy. It's just more of the same lack of respect for the greatness of the Spurs. ESPN and Foxsports. I'm sticking to SI.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...playoffs/2008/
It would be one thing if it had been like the Patriots losing to the Giants. I can understand in that situation that you might initially focus on the losing team. The Patriots were the clearly dominant team, with a string of Super Bowl victories, losing to the unlikely Giants. I can see it in that situation. Or like when Tyson lost to Buster Douglas.
But this was NOT that situation. The Suns haven't won , the Spurs are the clearly dominant team, so why are you going to focus on the losing team (unless you're either writing for an Arizona publication)?
Gotten used to it over the years. At first it annoyed meand I wanted so badly to change that. Eventually I came to the conclusion that there's nothing we can do about it. The revenge comes in the post season when we knock off their favorites and win championships.
As Spur fans we should emulate our team - care only about the LB trophy.All the other stuff is nice but pales in comparison to being the champs.
The irony of it is that many have over the years pointed out the following:
If this team was in NY, LA or another big city the Spurs would be GODS. Absolutely worshipped and the media would have bowed down before them.
it doesn't change my mood... it has always been like that... Dirk named best player of the day instead of TP shows u how used we are to be like that... and it's all good... all the signals that we will be right there this year too
It really doesn't make a .
The only recognition we need is people getting tired of us winning. That's a dynasty, folks.
As Spur fans we should emulate our team - care only about the LB trophy.
yea it does kinda get me upset that EVRYONE of the sports analysts are sad and depressed that the Suns lost. I was watching NBATV after the game and Peter Vescey had this sad look as if somebody had told him he was gonna die tommorow. Ridiculous. If it had been the Suns sweeping the Spurs they would ride that till the Confernce Finals and no mention of the Spurs anywhere.
Sports coverage accross the board tends to favor the loser in elimination events. The thinking is that this is one of the last times to write the Suns angle, whereas there will be other opportunities later on to write about the Spurs.
Look at it this way, we could be Utah or EDIT Philly, in which case ALL the coverage would be skewed towards the losing team and not just most.
We should be very, very glad that ESPN and other don't have to write giant in-depth articles about what is wrong with our team.
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