SportsNation is People. IT'S PEEEOPLE!!!!!!

1271002 You know, every single day I see posts about how the SportsNation show is terrible. People bashing it for being the worst show ever. Saying Colin has a face for radio (OK, I made that one up myself). It's a whole lot of self-deprecating language. Why self-deprecating? Well, for one simple reason... WE ARE ALL SportsNation! This show can only be as good as we make it. Create a screen test, make a fake athlete phone call, write a blog, vote, post comments. It's all right there. And for some to decide that it is awful, well, you are part of the reason you don't like it. I really enjoy SportsNation (well, except the time slots) because it provides me with a cross-section of the fan culture from all over the world. It lets me see other opinions about Michael Vick or the Steroids era. It lets me have a voice to say what I do or do not want to see. It gives the fans a place to come together as fans of Sport, then divide as fans of different teams and sports. Hating this show is exactly like hating your self-portrait. The only person that can do something about it is you. I mean, have you seen the web site? You can do all sorts of thing with your profile. Start a weekly, daily, HOURLY blog. Tweet. Express yourself as the fan of the sport in the way you see yourself. And, yeah, make the case why everyone else should feel the same way! I challenge everyone out there who hates SportsNation (4 et and midnight et) to do the following things: 1 - Create a screen test telling us how the show can be better. 2 - Make an athlete fake call and have them tell SN how it could be better. 3 - Create a blog post of all the things that could make the SN better. 4 - Follow the web site and the fan feed on your profile page for one week. If every one of you that doesn't like SN does these things, they cannot be ignored. Me? I actually like the show and the forums a lot. They give me the chance to express my love/hate relationship with Sport to a whole lot of people, and to find out if others feel that way, too. I can come on a blast an athlete or and organization. I can tell the rest of the Nation how much I hate the current trickling of anonymous PED test failures. I can comment on a story just to say how much I agree or disagree with it. Or I can add content to the site and show by creating a blog and trying to write about something I find interesting, sad, outrageous, fantastic a couple times a week or so. And whether anyone reads it or not I can't say. But I can say that I am contributing to the answer instead of those that would simply state the problem while providing no practical solutions. Complete the 4 challenges I listed and the show is bound to get better for you. If you don't, it's because you didn't want the show to succeed in the first place. Which is sad, because you'd be giving up the one thing you have always wanted for as long as you have been a fan... The Chance to be heard. The chance to make a difference in the sports you love. The chance to share your opinion with the world. And yes, the chance to argue why you are right and they are wrong. Really, you will just be giving up on the one chance you have had to make a difference in sport. And that's a shame. The bottom line is that this is the only sports show that is giving us the chance to write it. So what are you waiting for? I'm taking my chance seriously and enjoying myself. Why aren't you? Don't just be a critic. Just throwing the negative out there, being the bad-vibe guy. Be a part of the solution. What are you waiting for? Go ahead and write and episode. We DARE you... true

2009-08-11T13:25:01Z

91217 7 SportsNation is People. IT'S PEEEOPLE!!!!!!

2009-08-17T02:18:14Z