The Overwhelming Boston Media Influence

"I've had all I can stands, and I can't stands no more"

For years, people have ranted and raved about what was a perceived "East Coast Bias" in the media regarding sports coverage. Initially, I always thought it had alot to do with the time zones across this country. Who is really going to be interested in a San Diego/Los Angeles game that starts at 10:30pm for most of the country.

(As you can see from this picture, the majority of the people in the USA live East of the Mississippi River and predominately in the Northeastern part of the country)


(In fairness, I will admit 2 things. The Yankees get a LOT of coverage. Yes, Jayson Stark tends to write about Philadelphia slightly disproportionate to the rest of his work.)

However, the Boston coverage in the "national" media is just overwhelming. Peter King, who is, from the repeated mentions of his daughter's high school career, from Montclair, NJ. Yet, by reading his weekly CNNSI.com columns, you would think his father was Paul Revere. It finally reached a head this week as he printed a verbal fellation on Monday of the New England Patriot organization during a visit to their mini-camp. This rotund coffee drinking blogger spent paragraph after paragraph fawning over everyone from Scott Pioli down to the clubhouse boys who pick up Tom Brady's jock. To make things worse, on Tuesday, he published a series of questions from readers who have finally reached their boiling point with this ninny. Here's a clue Peter....Nick Saban called and said he's staying in Miami.

But the worst culprit in this mess is ESPN and their website, ESPN.com. Aside from Peter Gammons annoying Red Sox related drivel, ESPN actually employs the former Boston Sports Guy, Bill Simmons to write a column. Simmons, in his hackneyed ways, actually made a statement that "More people are concerned about what the Celtics are going to do with the #5 pick, than the NBA finals." Guess what? We aren't. Nobody cares about Boston as much as ESPN leads people to believe. Their bandwagon fans have suddenly popped out of the woodwork the past 5-10 years as the team has decided to go on an all-out spending spree to become the Yankees North. Nobody cares about the Celtics or the Patriots or the Red Sox as much as ESPN leads us to believe. Nobody cares about Dave Roberts and "The Steal", people don't view "May 22" as a day that will live in infamy, and people are not entertained by you relating everything back to the 1986 Celtics. Simmons should do what Simmons does best, yammer on about inane reality shows to the point where he ghost writes a column about "The Bachelor" as his wife......again.

Well, gotta run. ESPN is reporting breaking news that Theo Epstein just bought a new guitar and are going to go live to Dan Shaughnessy and Bob Ryan for their take.

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