[John F]

Media has more than the Northeast to cover. It's a crime to seemingly brand teams in that region the best -- or give them the lump of coverage - and exclude and ignore the rest of the country.

I mean, ESPN's got a fixation on Yankees/Red Sox and the country is flat out tired of it. And what does ESPN continue to jam down the country's throat? Yankee and Red Sox coverage. Part of it is because of the population of New England and New York being involved here and the other part of it is because Bristol, Connecticut is ESPN's home.

Dodgers/Giants has been muted, if not castrated. Chicago/St. Louis as well. And this is just baseball I'm talking about here. When a pro team of the other 3 big leagues ends up competitive but isn't in the Tri-state area of New York, New Jersey or Connecticut (or in New England) the degree of coverage falls. Is that wise to pull with a California team? You were trumpeting the Pacific Northwest in the other thread -- if they matter, wouldn't it be wise to praise them instead of following around Yankee players like paparazzi?

Actually, I have to retract "other three" in my statement. The NFL tends to put all teams on a level playing field. The Giants/Jets don't have the extra coverage you'd expect and small town teams like Green Bay are relevant too because everyone is on a level playing field.

But still, fixating on one region is not justified when the country has 300 million citizens spanning from Maine to Key West to San Diego to Seattle....