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Message: [QUOTE="DblCrossbar, post: 4715562, member: 12251"] The problem with ESPN isn't ESPN, it's that it was bought by ABC in 1984 and then Disney bought ABC in 1996, so that local connection isn't that local in terms of where some of the ruthless decisions are made - always with a nod to the motherships. Having said that, some of the state's tax breaks given to ESPN were ill conceived to say the least and should have had strings attached in terms of their influence in the state. Remember an ESPN themed attraction proposed for "Adriaen's Landing" when the Patriots were to move that area? Obviously nothing materialized, and since then every ESPN Zone themed restaurant has been closed nation wide. [/QUOTE]