First of all, the unfortunate news for tonight’s college football schedule is that ESPN plans to shove Aaron Judge chasing the “home run record” down everyone’s throats and show live cut-ins to his at bats during college football games.
If you follow the AoG Twitter account, you’ve probably heard my thoughts on this, but to sum up:
- If you’re old enough to remember the summer of 1998, the McGwire/Sosa chase was organically a big deal, whereas this feels entirely forced like ESPN is trying to make people care about it.
- Part of this is because Judge plays for the Yankees, part of it is because this just isn’t coming off as something that non-Yankees fans care about.