This was the headline of ESPN a few days ago. The Yankees best pitcher, Gerrit Cole, had an MRI recently that was inconclusive but the prognosis was that he would miss a month at the least and potentially the whole season. And the headline is: “Gerrit Cole’s injury jeopardizes Yank’s World Series chances.” Given that Cole won the American League Cy Young Award unanimously last year, No Fucking Really? Yet, I bet if Cole is out for 2 months and the Yankees win the World Series, the headlines will be about how his absence pulled the Yankees together and how they bonded and stepped up.
If by BS you're talking about the flip-flopping narratives, that's not getting cut anytime soon because there's too much money tied up in BS.
Big cities have multiple sports media companies competing for limited attention. Their job is to write sensational headlines and engaging stories to keep "fans" engaged in the sport in some way to keep making money. These media companies have also realized that it doesn't matter how logical, factual or true the story is. It just has to appeal to emotion. You just wrote about a headline that upset you, which keeps people talking about it. It keeps people engaged with the sport.
Like it or not, it (still) works. Granted, I've heard rumblings that profits in the sports media business might be declining?
But for the time being, what you call BS is what sports media executives call "profit."
Did you find the edge in sports statistics?
If by BS you're talking about the flip-flopping narratives, that's not getting cut anytime soon because there's too much money tied up in BS.
Big cities have multiple sports media companies competing for limited attention. Their job is to write sensational headlines and engaging stories to keep "fans" engaged in the sport in some way to keep making money. These media companies have also realized that it doesn't matter how logical, factual or true the story is. It just has to appeal to emotion. You just wrote about a headline that upset you, which keeps people talking about it. It keeps people engaged with the sport.
Like it or not, it (still) works. Granted, I've heard rumblings that profits in the sports media business might be declining?
But for the time being, what you call BS is what sports media executives call "profit."