ESPN has covered up the existence of an entire timezone

Major League Baseball contains a franchise located between St. Louis and Phoenix. You would not know this if you watched ESPN, though due to the media blackout that Bristol has placed over the Colorado Rockies.

Despite the fact that the Rockies have the best record in the National League since May 1st, ESPN has saw fit to ignore them on Sports Center and Baseball Tonight. Not that we really wish to hear Eric Young's opinions on hardball played in the inter-mountain west, but still. Maybe we can cut down on the segments where Steve Phillips has a battle royale with himself three times a week and actually cover every team in baseball?

Troy Tulowitzki is having a record year for a rookie shortstop, and should win the Gold Glove at that position. Due to the ESPN media blackout however, nobody in the country knows who he is. We wonder if the inability of the interns in Bristol to correctly type his name into the teleprompter is at fault. But the most likely assumption is the attempted assassination of any awards voting Tulowitzki may get.

Matt Holliday is the National League MVP in reality, but reality has a well known geographical bias in that it takes place in areas not on the coast. ESPN also doesn't have a programming deal with reality, so it has to take less time to make room for more NASCAR promos.

It is of course possible, that being located in US America has made ESPN unable to get maps that accurately show the city of Denver as existing, and this should be rectified if it is indeed the case.