Introducing What Is Sure To Be the Lowest Rated Television Program In the History of TV – "We Need To Talk"

SI.com – The rarest species in sports television is a woman offering her opinion. Your cable system is littered with bloviating Baylesses belting out hot takes, but it doesn’t take Inspector Javert to recognize that the women in the medium are essentially restricted to anchoring or sideline reporting. So I give CBS Sports executives credit for executing a concept that’s long overdue. On Tuesday, the network will launch We Need To Talk, a nationally-televised, all-female, hour-long, once-a-week sports show, airing at 10 p.m. Eastern on CBS Sports Network. “I’m serious about this — I want this show to succeed for all these little girls across the country who sit and watch baseball games with their Dads and Moms and want to get into this business and have been — and I choose these words carefully — relegated to three minutes during a football game,” said Emilie Deutsch, one of the show’s coordinating producers along with Suzanne Smith. “It’s time. It’s time for women to have a real platform. It’s time for women to have more of an opportunity than to be relegated to three minutes during a three-hour game. When you are a little girl looking for role models in television, this show will now hopefully provide that.” The show has 12 regular on-air commentators, including CBS Sports staffers Dana Jacobson, Allie LaForce, Amy Trask, Lesley Visser and Tracy Wolfson. There’s also an Emmy award-winning journalist from another network (Andrea Kremer) and a host of former athletes (Katrina Adams, Laila Ali, Swin Cash, Lisa Leslie, Summer Sanders and Dara Torres), most of whom have post-athletic broadcasting experience. The debut show will feature 11 of the 12 staffers (Sanders is in Rwanda on a humanitarian mission), and on most weeks the producers say there will be four or five staffers plus guests.

Can you say lowest rated sports show of all time? Yeah the first episode may get decent numbers because they’re gonna light Goodell on fire and the novelty of it all, but after that forget about it. It’s not even that I’m necessarily rooting against it either. It’s just I’m sick of hearing women bitch that they deserve a bigger role in sports television. No you don’t. This isn’t high school and college where there is Title IX. This is the real world where profits and ratings matter. There just aren’t enough women who care about sports to make this work. And most guys including myself don’t give a shit what these chicks have to say.  The truth of the matter is that as much as women hate hearing it, most men prefer listening to jackasses yell at each other. So unless Allie LaForce ends every segment by twerking this show has ZERO chance to succeed.  I’m sure CBS already knows that, but right now the “hip” thing to do is give women a bigger role in sports media because Ray Rice beat his wife. It’s bizarro world logic. If I’m wrong I’ll be the first one to eat my words but this show is nothing more than a publicity stunt in my opinion.

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PS – Obviously there are exceptions to every rule.  I like Doris Burke.  I like Jackie McMullan.   But like I said those are exceptions to the rule and I don’t want to see 5 Doris Burke’s talking to each other.