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Where have all the sports journalists gone?

SportsCenter is slowly degenerating into BooYaCenter, where reporting the news comes secondary to sensationalizing and jargonizing it.  While I long for the days of Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman entertaining and informing the viewer, I gave up hope long ago that SportsCenter would ever return to it's former glory.

Baseball Tonight, until this most recent season, had been the lone holdout; a throwback to the golden days where viewers cared more about journalistic insight than professional sports experience.  Peter Gammons in particular provided not only the stories you want to hear, but the stories behind the stories that only he can find.

Sitting behind the desk you used to see three or four journalists and one athelete (to give an on-field perspective), but now the formula has been reversed: three or four atheletes yelling at each other, and one "journalist" babysitting them.

I was just watching baseball tonight -- the same baseball tonight that tried to make John Kruk pick the Yankees to win the East -- and the esteemed Eric Young was trying to make a point that Jimmy Rollins is "far more better" than "all the guys in his class."  A point he backed up by the amazingly insightful "his on-base percentage is low, but his slugging percentage is high."

ESPN, are you listening? I'm trying to watch.  I really am.  But you can do better than this.