Asleep at the switch at ESPN...

What the hell is going on at ESPN? Or as the great Phil Mushnik of the NY Post refers to it: Bristol Clown College.

Example #3,456: Sunday Night Baseball Yankees-Red Sox...When broadcaster Jon Miller is setting the positions, "Jeter playing short, AROD at third" ....There on the mound, the graphic stated, was PAVANO. Only that night's Yankee pitcher was PONSON, as in Sidney Ponson, NOT American Idle. (Of course, any real Yankee fan knew there was little chance of the oft-injured Pavano piching)

Is it me or is this a huge error? It struck me as so egregious an error that you wonder how in the world it got by anyone in production who knows
S-P-O-R-T-S.

Wisely, Jon Miller paid it no attention.

I called for ESPN for comment. And they declined. It strikes me that this how the Roman Empire fell: Arrogance. Just as with the borders of the far-flung Roman Empire were impossible to defend, so to has ESPN. Maybe they are too big.

To quote from the famous YOUTUBE clip from head ESPN clown Chris Berman: "Unbelievable. It's like no one here ever worked in television before."