Binghamton sportscaster pens ESPN a nice blog letter

March 5th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

At this point, blogging about ESPN has become redundant, played out. I get it: some things about the channel suck — the corporate synergy, the gimmicks, the “Sportscenter” announcers that try too hard, Chris Berman — but we keep watching and keep complaining. Oh what a vicious cycle!

But via Fark comes this nice letter penned to the WWL from Brendan O’Reilly, a sportscaster in Binghamton, NY for WBNG. It seems ESPN kept calling his cell phone Saturday. And he was busy.

Thanks so much for calling my cellphone repeatedly on Saturday.

Not sure how you got that number, but it sure was super to chat. Say hi to Neil Everett for me. He’s awesome.

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Yes, we are happy to share the video from Cornell clinching their Ivy League title. Hope you don’t mind if we go ahead and worry about our show first though.

I know everyone loves the Sportscenter, with the zany commercials and all, but we’re going to go ahead and edit our stuff first.

We’re selfish that way.

Second, after I send you the video roughly 15 minutes after we get the tape back from Ithaca, feel free to call again and ask me to resend it because “the video quality isn’t the best.” No sweat. It’s not like I mentioned we’re a staff of 2 putting together a 30 minute show.

I’ll keep your number for when I want a different angle on all the stuff you send to WBNG.

Third, when you run our video on all your shows, please find a font size roughly one pixel in height to show that it was shot by WBNG. We want people that have 60 inch monitors to have to squint to read it. That’s the goal.

I do not know this man. But for this, he is awesome.

AA had this yesterday.