“Both teams played hard…”
I really like the new Comcast sports channel 37. I’m one of the half-million who get it without angst. (Although I can’t find MSNBC now. Where oh where are you tonight?)
While the channel is in its early stages, it shows promise. Ducks games, repeated several times. Philadelphia Flyers games! NHL hockey! And not on a Saturday at noon! (Sorry, too damn early for hockey.) I may start following it again.
And now to the Blazers. It’s nice having a constant source. I don’t like their on-screen scoreboard, every time I glance I see the 24 second clock where *I* think the Blazer score should be. (WTF? 66 to 19? Oh, wait a minute…) The chatterboxes on the halftime show? I can tolerate them, but please, stop with the “MIKE, tell him what he’s/they’ve won!” crap. It was borderline funny the first time, but it’s someone else’s catch phrase.
And finally, in the love/hate category. They rerun the Blazer games late at night! Yesss! I can come home, relax a bit, and watch the game as though it’s being played live. I work late hours, and watch reruns of the 10 O’clock news at 3 AM. Now, with the Blazers going balls out, I have legitimate choices in TV viewing.
However, fellow bloggers, I have a request. I’ve become quite adept at dodging reports of scores to games I want to watch on repeat. I will walk around work with fingers in ears singing lalalala until Cort and Fatboy’s Jock Itch is over. I will avoid the reader crawl on ESPN if that’s what channel the TV is on when I get home. If an exuberant fan comes into the store, yelling about what an awesome game it was, I will accept fate, and probably still watch, though not as intently.
BUT, there are a couple of bloggers I read religiously, every damn night, and usually while waiting for the game to start. (You and You, to be specific.) They end up spilling the beans about fifteen minutes before game time, which leads to apoplectic spitting and swearing and gnashing of teeth. I haven’t thrown anything at the TV yet, but…
So, my friends with the power of the pen, can you be a little more vague with your headlines? My blood pressure is normal, and I’d like to keep it that way.
I’m thinking we could take a page from Rasheed Wallace’s book. “It was a good game. Both teams played hard.”
Otherwise, *I’m* going to have 100 technical fouls this season.
