It’s interesting to me that ESPN is starting local websites. ESPN Chicago has been up for some time, and ESPN New York is coming.
I think it’s a cool idea, but with all things the key is knowing your audience – so having some guy in Bristol write about the Mets is the difference between a national broadcast of the Mets and the SNY ‘cast.
There’s plenty of skilled local guys and bloggers out there, hopefully they will tap into that rather than ask Buster Olney write an extra paragraph about the Mets (and I like Olney and respect his work.)
Selfishly, I’d love to see Mets Police turn into a once a week on there akin to the relationship between Uni Watch on ESPN and the blog there.
So there I said it, and hopefully ESPN’s news trackers caught this. Hi guys.
This concludes my commercial for myself, we now resume normal complaining.