Has To Be Said Again: ESPN Boston Is Ruined And Getting Worse

pdangle · Oct 11, 2015

Ian said:
I've been working on our news feed for a while, which includes ESPN Boston (Patriots Only content - I've filtered out the rest), CSNNE, MassLive, Yahoo! Sports (Patriots only - as much as I can filter it), Providence Journal, NESN, WEEI, Boston.com, WEEI, ProFootballTalk (Patriots Only) and Football By Football. So I think that covers it:

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/news/ or the "News" link as others have mentioned.

The Patriots.com feed has been an issue and I'm working on cleaning that up a little and it will be included back in as well. Obviously let me know if you have anything else you might want, but most of it should be here.

Well done. Whatever you did , it worked. I noticed a while back the news content got a lot more comprehensive, timely and the articles on point. I pretty much now use it solely as my daily jump off point for Pats news. It's also great when interacting with the forum, and you can spot new and/or related articles of interest.

Wax Frog · Oct 11, 2015

With no apologies to Stephen A. Smith, quite frankly, this forum is all I need.

Wax Frog · Oct 11, 2015

Tony2046 said:
Question: What is BESPN? I've seen BSPN but not BESPN. thanks

Wax Frog · Oct 11, 2015

patriot lifer said:
I'll do it right in front of my computer.

Does this have anything to do with A***t Fr**nd F**der?

pheenix11 · Oct 11, 2015

I wants Pats info, I come here and scan the first page of threads. I have no desire to contribute clicks or anything for that matter to ESPN.

RobertWeathers · Oct 11, 2015

rochrist said:
Yes, you're missing the fact that when you click on the link for Pats stuff, you likely as not get s whole bunch of crap that is NOT Pats related stuff.

I saw some fantasy football stuff w Dion Lewis mentioned. Is that what you are referring to?

lurker1965 · Oct 11, 2015

The Brandon Five said:
Tonight on NFL Network they had three "Football Life" episodes in a row related to the Cowboys. The day before the Patriots play them.

Actually that is good programing. They get more viewers when the Cowboys are still relevant.

YOUGOTMOSSED · Oct 11, 2015

Ross12 said:
I think Bill Simmons, Mike Reiss, Matt Chatham and Tedy Bruschi should come together and create the ultimate Pats site. Imagine that!

Why just a Patriots site? How about a national site for people who like Football and don't like bullsh*t?

I'd also add Pat Kirwin to the mix. I really like his "Real Football Network."

As cable goes the way of the dinosaur, I'd love to see that crap network BSPN become marginalized like MTV did after it stopped playing music.

fair catch fryar · Oct 11, 2015

My only exposure to ESPN these days is when I have absolutely, positively no other choice because they have exclusive rights to something I want to watch. Other than that, Phuck 'em.

Ivan · Oct 11, 2015

fair catch fryar said:
My only exposure to ESPN these days is when I have absolutely, positively no other choice because they have exclusive rights to something I want to watch. Other than that, Phuck 'em.

Winner. I won't use ESPN for anything unless I have absolutely no other choice. They are the NFL's Pravda. Their initial report on last seasons AFCCG read "COLTS FINISH SECOND IN AFCCG, patriots finish next to last."

bobbutts · Oct 11, 2015

I'm down to the watching games and this site. The fallout from framegate for me has been no desire to be a superfan at least for this year. No ESPN, no fantasy, no non-Patriots games, no merchandise. It's not a boycott so much as just losing my desire for those things.

QuantumMechanic · Oct 11, 2015

Canuck said:
I use this link to get Mike Reiss articles http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/ne/new-england-patriots

I use http://twitter.com/mikereiss

(BTW, you don't need a Twitter account to see public tweets.)

DarrylS · Oct 11, 2015

Not sure of the issue here as I have this bookmarked and go directly to his blog..

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-england-patriots

Rhodey · Oct 11, 2015

Wouldn't it be ironic to have most people from New England boycott ESPN; get their infos from elsewhere; and be better informed? And forums like this make it so.

jefmblrd · Oct 11, 2015

I used to read Mike Reiss everyday, but now I hardly go there at all. It's too bad they've ruined the site with a ton of clutter.

rochrist · Oct 11, 2015

DarrylS said:
Not sure of the issue here as I have this bookmarked and go directly to his blog..

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-england-patriots

If you follow that link, the first thing you hit is a ESPN video that has nothing to do with Mike Reiss.

The point is, it isn't HIS blog anymore. If it ever was.

Ian · Oct 11, 2015

pdangle said:
Well done. Whatever you did , it worked. I noticed a while back the news content got a lot more comprehensive, timely and the articles on point. I pretty much now use it solely as my daily jump off point for Pats news. It's also great when interacting with the forum, and you can spot new and/or related articles of interest.

Thanks. I went in and tried to fill in the blanks that we were missing, although a couple of those sites don't seem to have an rss feed anymore - and they didn't answer my requests to obtain one - so I had to code out ways to grab them manually. The goal was to make it a place for everyone to be able to find all the news from everywhere a little quicker and to make sure it was timely and it's getting there

IcyPatriot · Oct 20, 2015

#FartGate

Froob · Oct 20, 2015

Rhodey said:
Wouldn't it be ironic to have most people from New England boycott ESPN; get their infos from elsewhere; and be better informed? And forums like this make it so.

Wouldn't really be ironic lol, but they should. I've been pushing the **** the trolls trolley for a while.

RobertWeathers · Oct 20, 2015

IcyPatriot said:
#FartGate

This can't be real........?

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