#in a way that i feel is more egregious than it is w tnt??

[kitnita]

Do you seriously think ESPN was rotting for Seattle?

okay assuming you meant rooting. and also assuming this is in reference to this post i sent out into the lb tag last night. yes and no?? do i think espn as a corporation or whatever is inherently biased against the stars & was actively rooting for them to lose out of some kind of malice — no lmao, it's not that deep. do i think that national broadcasts are largely ambivalent to teams in non-traditional markets & so the scales tip more in the kraken's favor because they have a true underdog narrative for espn to pitch to a casual audience? yeah, a little. i do try not to bitch about the national broadcasts because it's such a tired complaint, esp re: teams like the stars who have such good local broadcast crews. but like ........... yeah the national broadcast is meant to be unbiased and there was a feeling in game 5 (which was on tnt so espn wasnt even to blame there) like they were hoping to see seattle come back (probably just for the drama! like, i get it! their jobs are better when the games are more exciting!). and also a feeling in game 6 like they didn't think the stars had a comeback in them & were thus being a little more effusive w seattle talking points than they were w dallas talking points.

i do think that if the tables were flipped – if the kraken had won game 5 & the stars had won last night – the vibes from the broadcasts would have also been flipped. because in the end neither tnt nor espn cares about the kraken or the stars & all they really want is more game sevens because game sevens bring in good ratings.

#replies #they just. can't pronounce our players' names lmao #in a way that i feel is more egregious than it is w tnt?? #so the fact that they'd been pouring on the praise for seattle & just seemed to bring up dallas after a save was uhhh. annoying #but then to be fair to them now that i'm not watching the game filled w stress and ire. the stars had like 2 shots on goal that period lmao #i would've been hard pressed to come up w other compliments too probably