Comments on: ESPN.com sucks on weekends http://umpbump.com/press/2009/06/28/espn-com-sucks-on-weekends/ In-your-face baseball commentary Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:30:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2009/06/28/espn-com-sucks-on-weekends/comment-page-1/#comment-59580 Sarah Green Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:25:05 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/?p=6145#comment-59580 Nick, I think the difference is that MLBtraderumors pays something like $5 a post and is not (as far as I can tell) accountable to the IRS or any other regulatory body. For one thing, for ESPN to hire weekend workers they'd probably have to pay them time-and-a-half, at least on Sunday, assuming that CT has the same laws as we do in MA. Plus you can be pretty sure that their traffic nosedives on the weekends, when as you point out, no one in the US is sitting around their computer hitting "refresh." I guess I just don't see a pressing demand (or need) for ESPN to give 110% on the weekends - when their audience probably watches the games on TV anyway. Nick, I think the difference is that MLBtraderumors pays something like $5 a post and is not (as far as I can tell) accountable to the IRS or any other regulatory body. For one thing, for ESPN to hire weekend workers they’d probably have to pay them time-and-a-half, at least on Sunday, assuming that CT has the same laws as we do in MA. Plus you can be pretty sure that their traffic nosedives on the weekends, when as you point out, no one in the US is sitting around their computer hitting “refresh.”

I guess I just don’t see a pressing demand (or need) for ESPN to give 110% on the weekends – when their audience probably watches the games on TV anyway.

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