get out of here with that garbage. you want someone to pay 5+ bucks a month on top of what they pay now for espn to get access to divII football, regional little league games, and the ocho's juggling dodgeball? wtf is wrong with you.

That's what ESPN looked like in the early days.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

ESPN can go spit. I get it with Playstation Vue but I definitely would not miss it if I stopped getting it.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Don't forget healthy amounts of Australian Rules Football.

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

AWA Wrestling every afternoon as well.

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just dont buy it.

It will go away in no time.

Fuck, even ESPN2 is a wasteland now.

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I'm not paying for it, but I think it will (unfortunately) do well for them. The goal isn't to get new people into the comparatively obscure programming it has but instead just to make money on those people who are already into those sports. They probably could have done this years ago rather than offering so much free stuff on ESPN3/WatchESPN for so long, though of course the idea is to get the people who took advantage of it to now pay up.

I also get the sense that they got pretty good deals on a lot of the sports they've been adding to it. They just picked up rights to a lot of European football in the last few weeks for extremely cheap, and if I ever wanted to stream legally I could see myself being a lot more inclined to pay for ESPN+ programming over the far pricier streaming services that NBC Sports and Turner are offering for the leagues they have the rights to (here's good recent article about how expensive following all the leagues can become).

theres already speculation it requires a few million subscribers to break even and at this point is sitting at 100k. I don't think thats a good sign. If they want subscribers to tune into fringe programing they are going to have to start also offering an MLB game here or an NBA game there. like marquee offerings. not bucks/hawks or TB/tigers.

I've noticed the Cubs on there several times. For out of market viewers, it could be worthwhile in some regards.