ESPN.com's New Look

Ok...here's my opinion of the ESPN.com new look (I have no read any others to date):

1) ESPN.com has gone through a lot of redesigns. At the beginning I hate it and then I get used to it and like it in the end. So take what I say with a grain of salt.

2) I feel like I'm watching Standard Definition on an HDTV. Anyone else feel like this. I have bars at the side of my screen. Almost all monitors now (especially on laptops) are wide screen and I feel like there's a lot of wasted space. It just looks really strange. At least it's better than black bars...I guess.

3) I know, I know. Leary told me in all the commercials. The "All-New F-150" has 21 MPG and the most payload. You don't have to take up my entire front page with it too. You really don't. I'm not buying a Ford, nevermind an F-150. It's a good thing you have a lot of money lying around to do shit like this. Oh wait...

4) My company has blocked me from accessing videos on ESPN.com (for fear that I will be inundated with desire to watch Outside the Lines while I work, no doubt). So I can't tell you if the second tab after top stories is worthwhile. But even if it is, can't you put more tabs. I tab my browser, I tab my IMs, can we get more tabs? Am I missing something?

5) Mad props for putting the NHL in a viewable place. I know that the NHL made the biggest mistake since their glowing puck by taking themselves away from ESPN broadcasts. But, please, you already took away NHL 2Night...it was really just cruel to bury the NHL on the ESPN homepage. Just cruel.

6) Bill Simmons and Rick Reilly aren't your only two f'ing columnists. Move them up! Put them on the front page. Peter Gammons? Buster Olney? Do these men not make your company enough money that you can't at least have a link to them on the front page? Do I really have to go looking for them?

7) Otherwise, I applaud their blog placement.

8) I am an Insider member. The only thing you give me is a month early sneak peak to this thing? Come on ESPN. You really missed the ball on this one. Enter me into a contest or something. I already have to resign in 403 times a day to prove I'm a member. Sheesh. $40 a year? For what?

9) Back to the video thing. I sort of get it. YouTube is popular. You want to be popular. But really, it just doesn't hit home with me. Sorry. Not my demographic maybe. But then again, neither is the Ford F-150.

10) There is one thing I really, really, really like about the main page. Less clutter. ESPN got caught being too busy on their front page. Everything seems a lot cleaner and lot clearer and hopefully will make the site easier to use.

I'm looking forward to testing out all the new things that the new ESPN.com can do...thoughts?