Saturday, June 28, 2008  Counterpoint: ESPN? No thanks!  For our
counterpoint, we turn to one of our commenters. He was super
worried about the length of his diatribe, so if you just put
tl;dr in the comments, he may not be able to handle it. He does
start off with a nice double entendre, so at least he is in tune
with the general maturity level of this site's writers.  Won't
you please welcome Mike Georger to the fight. He did a heck of a
lot more research than I did.  1. Penetration: Hiding the tip
One of the biggest arguments for putting the EPL on ESPN is that
it will reach more households. Let us assume that ESPN Classic
would be getting it, as the talk was of turning that into ESPN 3
or whatever. Classic is not a mainstay of cable packages like
its ESPN brethren; it currently reaches 65 million households.
Fox Soccer Channel currently reaches 35 million households, and
it has added ten million in the last year and a half alone. So
while it would almost be a doubling of the households, over one
in ten o