1) Yes, probably a valid point about losing quite a few viewers due to the political slant.

2) Regardless of which side of the political aisle you are on, their coverage has become more and more about sports "issues" than about the actual games themselves. That costs them a different set of viewers, people like me who probably lean to the left but we are mostly interested in the games themselves when we tune in to a sports network. A controversial topic, whether is is Baylor or Caitlin or DeflateGate or Michael Sam, gets WAY WAY more discussion on SportsCenter than who won, who lost, who made a great play, etc. There's a place for discussion of topics like that: E:60, 30 for 30 have done EXCELLENT work on those types of things. And when there is ACTUAL breaking news about a topic like that, sure you put it on SportsCenter. But I don't want it to dominate the daily sports shows when it isn't the biggest news event.

3) I know they show fewer highlights on SportsCenter because younger people now "get their highlights on their devices". And yes, I do get some highlights on my device... if I don't watch tonight's Oriole game, I'll go seek out specific highlights. But I miss the old SportsCenter where you would see the gamut of highlights from sports you cared about to those you don't. I'm not going to go out on my phone to specifically find Mike Trout's 460 foot HR, but I'd like to see a comprehensive set of highlights in the evening or the next morning that includes things that are of interest to me as a baseball fan. Sportscenter doesn't do that enough anymore. Maybe there are more people drawn to the new 6PM SportsCenter than people like me who are driven away by the reduction in nuts and bolts highlights and sports coverage. So maybe we don't matter as much. OK, bye bye SportsCenter.

4) Their in-sport biases. As many have pointed out, they play up anything SEC related. And their baseball coverage is about 40% Yankees & Red Sox, and 40% whatever flavor teams happens to be hot and popular in a given season (Cubs now, for example). And 20% on the other two dozen teams. It's just pathetic. I used to watch Baseball Tonight but as soon as MLB Network came on the air with actual balanced coverage where each of the 30 teams got roughly the same amount of air time, I dropped BT like a stone and never looked back.

5) The proliferation of the argument-style shows. They used to just have one or two, now it seems like there are about 6. And the one that had always been the highest quality in my opinion, The Sports Reporters, is the one they cancel!! I hate those shows where people yell takes and opinions at each other.

6) Incredible overhype of particular players, like Tebow, Manziel, Tom Brady, Lebron, etc. They'll breathlessly report on Tim Tebow getting a hit in a minor league game before telling me who won the game between two first place teams in the major leagues. Yes, Brady and Lebron are great players but they still outsize the coverage of them. You will know if Brady misses a midweek practice, you won't hear about it if David Carr does.

Add it all up, and I'm like a lot of people. I mostly just watch live games now on ESPN. I still watch College GameDay, but that's about it. I will certainly tune in for a good 30 for 30 that interests me. But most of their regular programming has totally lost its appeal to me.