Sports Center Track & Field Comment

Send an email to him. Here is the link.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/scottvanpeltshow/news/story?page=email_svp

themanontherun wrote:

I hate to break it to you guys, but track and field IS boring. Unless you know the backstories and the significance of certain times, it's pretty much all the same. But who cares? We don't love running because it's fun to watch, we love running because it's fun to do. It's one of the things that separates us from the 'game' sports.

Speak for yourself, to many of us it is not boring.

There's always the guy who comes on here with his self-proclaimed 'voice of reason' saying "hate to break it to you but track IS boring."

I'm emailing the guy. Golf isn't even a sport, it's a leisure activity and if he's gonna bash on T&F, he's gonna hear about it from me (a true supporter of the sport) All you other washouts can go and watch baseball players rearrange their balls since that's supposedly more interesting.

themanontherun wrote:

I hate to break it to you guys, but track and field IS boring. Unless you know the backstories and the significance of certain times, it\'s pretty much all the same. But who cares? We don\'t love running because it\'s fun to watch, we love running because it\'s fun to do. It\'s one of the things that separates us from the \'game\' sports.

Nascar is all pretty much the same too - a bunch a cars zooming around an oval. Golf and baseball can be painfully boring. Most of the Tour de France consists of watching a bunch of brightly clad dudes biking in a pack. The point is that often the backstories and other interesting bits of information are what make a sport interesting to watch - and it is the announcer\'s job to give that to the viewers. We have failed miserably with that in the US. We need the Phil Ligget of track and field.

World Series baseball is spectacular - every pitch matters. That's true drama; not some gays running around a track.

d00d wrote:

I'm emailing the guy. Golf isn't even a sport, it's a leisure activity and if he's gonna bash on T&F, he's gonna hear about it from me

He's gonna hear about it from YOU? The dOOd? I bet an angry email from a random runner bashing golf and extolling the virtues of T&F will change his mind.

haha yesss! golf really is just a leisure activity, it can be great fun to participate in but to watch other people play is boring as hell.

nascar is probibly the last thing on tv i would watch, yet it is probibly the closest thing you will get to a 10k in a strange way, although those guys are in no way athletes.

Ha ha! Let us know how that goes!

Widespread wrote:

d00d wrote:

I'm emailing the guy. Golf isn't even a sport, it's a leisure activity and if he's gonna bash on T&F, he's gonna hear about it from me

He's gonna hear about it from YOU? The dOOd? I bet an angry email from a random runner bashing golf and extolling the virtues of T&F will change his mind.

Yes. It's either that or sit here and let them think that everyone agrees.

What would you recommend?

Odds are you're not going to change his mind. An e-mail from a random runner sure isn't going to sway him, especially if you bash the sport he's spent most of his life covering.

So you've got two options:

1. Do nothing

2. Send an e-mail

Both have the same result: SVP will continue to act as he always has. To me, the better use of your time would be to do nothing; you could use that five minutes to do something productive.

And thats why people in the media can slam track & field because we will not speak up for our sport. Yeah lets just sit here and take it up the a$$

He's got a chat starting in 90 minutes.

If he gets 500 messages asking him if he thinks this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrZpT-LXO-8

is really less exciting than two fat jerks play cards for 2 hours, he might apologize.

I let him hear it also.

That's bullshit.

d00d wrote:

Yes. It's either that or sit here and let them think that everyone agrees.

What would you recommend?

Well I like watching track on TV but honestly I'd rather watch golf.

A lot on here seem to think that people don't like track because they don't understand the nuances but then turn around and call golf boring without fully understanding the sport.

and being a weekend hacker on the golf course shooting 120 doesn't mean you understand the sport. It puts you in the hobby jogger category.

(polite) e-mail sent.

he is a jerk!!! Is boring because he does not know nothing about the sport but that does not give the right to say is boring, as a profesinal he should have some respect for all sports.

Ha, I thought it was John Anderson not Van Pelt who made the joke. Could be wrong? WOuld be funny if I'm not.

proud pa member wrote:

Odds are you're not going to change his mind. An e-mail from a random runner sure isn't going to sway him, especially if you bash the sport he's spent most of his life covering.

So you've got two options:

1. Do nothing

2. Send an e-mail

Both have the same result: SVP will continue to act as he always has. To me, the better use of your time would be to do nothing; you could use that five minutes to do something productive.

You seem to be espousing the virtues of making every five minutes count. While I agree with you to some extent, it seems that you took about the same time it would have taken to write the email to post on letsrun.com. He's supporting our sport, and the email does not take long to write.

-your friendly anti-hypocrisy advisor