Monday, April 2, 2007

What Grinds My Gears Gripe of Today: SI.com

So, being a guy, sometimes I like to read sports stories. My daily dose of Sportscenter does a bang up job of covering most of what I want to see, but, sometimes I miss Sportscenter, or I may want to read a nice convincing editorial on who knows.

Most of the time I head to Espn.com to get my fix. Well, CNN.com does have a sports section, and most (if not all) of their sports stories link to SI.com (sports illustrated). Tell me why the writers of SI feel the need to inundate the website with suuuuch loooooong stoooories. Take a post from today on the sports section of CNN.com entitled "Fearing mistake, teams leery of trading at top of draft". It's an article about how many NFL teams would rather trade away early draft picks rather than waste time and money (but mostly money) on unproven players. It sounds like something I would normally want to read. Go ahead...give it a look.

Its Five. Freaking. Pages. Long.

Now, I am not a slow reader. But I certainly don't want to read a five page article. This is why I stick with ESPN.com. Sorry SI.