Here's a link to contact ESPN3
http://espn.go.com/espn/contact
I made a point to contact them and thank them for their live coverage of the Mosconi Cup. I also made a point that I would actively support any sponsors they had that helped bring live pool to ESPN.
The more positive feedback they get the more likely they are to expand coverage and I have to believe that everyone on this forum would like to see that happen.
Think of what they did... 4 days of beginning to end live coverage of the Mosconi Cup with no freezing, lagging and at no additional cost!!! Talk about what would be good for growing the game of pool.
Lets get in their face with all the support AZB can muster. Maybe we can start enjoying some of the international tournaments.
Please, take 3 minutes of your time and invest it in more and better pool coverage
Thanks
Joel
Just looked at the Mosconi Cup fan page on FB. 64 likes and 3 shared it. I don't know how many people actually emailed without sharing it but I'm a skeptic. I'm just curious if any of the players have done this on their Facebook pages. You know... Please share and email ESPN3 on the Mosconi Cup coverage!! God knows how many fans or likes some of these guys have. That or just plain friends willing to help. I've always been a big part of self-promotion and I rally hope these guys have done something to help out. When I get home I will check and get back to everybody. My prediction is not many did squat. Not all but not many which would be really sad. It seems that the power of the interwebz is out of touch for the pool community
Yeah this was painfully obvious to me when I posted a couple threads asking about AZBers and other pool peeps on Twitter and I got crickets in response. Twitter is one of the biggest and easiest methods of self promotion and fan interaction and it's barely used by the pool community. Some pros are on there but rarely post. Lame.
I sent a similar email to a number of pros that I know and several have posted on their Facebook page asking for supported to contact ESPNJust looked at the Mosconi Cup fan page on FB. 64 likes and 3 shared it. I don't know how many people actually emailed without sharing it but I'm a skeptic. I'm just curious if any of the players have done this on their Facebook pages. You know... Please share and email ESPN3 on the Mosconi Cup coverage!! God knows how many fans or likes some of these guys have. That or just plain friends willing to help. I've always been a big part of self-promotion and I rally hope these guys have done something to help out. When I get home I will check and get back to everybody. My prediction is not many did squat. Not all but not many which would be really sad. It seems that the power of the interwebz is out of touch for the pool community
Unforutnately my gut feeling was right... I check at least 30 different American Professional Players and not one of them helped promote this. Im sure majority of them don't even know about the ESPN email so you can't really blame them or can you?? I guess it really doesnt matter in the end of it but image if each pro asked people on their pages to help. We will say that they all have around 3 thousand fans on average. So 3k times 80 is 240k and lets just say that 1/8 of the fans and their friends combined do it. So thats around 30k. Now let's say that a majority of posters share it (500) to all of their friends and get 50 of them to share it adn so on and so forth. You may get 35000 at best. Is that enough?? Probably not but it was worth a shot right??
Now all we need is to get Jennifer B on DWTS and we can forget emailing anybody for support.