on national broadcasting
FACT: There are 10 people in America who still care about the NBA. They are as follows --
1. Bill Simmons
2. Rob Thomas, creator of Veronica Mars and a major Spurs fan
3. My friend Jeff
4. Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe
5. David Stern, because he kinda has to
... and I don't know who the rest of them are.
The point is, all of them -- except for Jeff, but whatever, he's Jeff and has the attention span of a gnat -- are rich enough to pay for premium cable services, whereas I am impoverished (yet, for some reason, wearing $32 eyeliner). I seriously do not care about the NBA and really haven't since 2001 or thereabouts. I used to -- hell, I wanted to be Larry Bird when I was 2. Had the jersey and everything, f'reals. But I don't anymore, and I'm not the only person who feels that way.
In fact, y'know what I want to be watching right now? Giants-A's. First of all, it's the best "natural rivalry" when it comes time for interleague -- sorry, kids, y'all know how I feel about New York, and the White Sox are no match for the Cubbies in terms of fanbase -- and second of all, you'd think that BONDSWATCH! would merit some sort of national coverage. My interest in this game has less to do with BONDSWATCH! than it does with Stoned Danny Haren and Hottie Noah Lowry, but I would have fully expected ESPN to carry this game nationally. Instead, I'm stuck with a basketball game that no one cares about on the primary network and freaking BOXING on the Deuce.
And I have a really hard time believing that more people care about boxing than baseball. I have accepted football's recreational dominance -- although not in New England -- but I refuse to believe that boxing should usurp the National M-Fing Pasttime when it comes to media coverage.
Know your audience, ESPN. Know your audience.
In conclusion, I am irritated, and I am stuck following Giants-A's on MLB Gameday while hoping for snatches of video on NESN's Extra Innings. And while Dennis Eckersley is cool as hell, I'd rather be watching the real thing.
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In other news, my PapelBoyfriend has hair again. I'm excited, that's for sure.
1. Bill Simmons
2. Rob Thomas, creator of Veronica Mars and a major Spurs fan
3. My friend Jeff
4. Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe
5. David Stern, because he kinda has to
... and I don't know who the rest of them are.
The point is, all of them -- except for Jeff, but whatever, he's Jeff and has the attention span of a gnat -- are rich enough to pay for premium cable services, whereas I am impoverished (yet, for some reason, wearing $32 eyeliner). I seriously do not care about the NBA and really haven't since 2001 or thereabouts. I used to -- hell, I wanted to be Larry Bird when I was 2. Had the jersey and everything, f'reals. But I don't anymore, and I'm not the only person who feels that way.
In fact, y'know what I want to be watching right now? Giants-A's. First of all, it's the best "natural rivalry" when it comes time for interleague -- sorry, kids, y'all know how I feel about New York, and the White Sox are no match for the Cubbies in terms of fanbase -- and second of all, you'd think that BONDSWATCH! would merit some sort of national coverage. My interest in this game has less to do with BONDSWATCH! than it does with Stoned Danny Haren and Hottie Noah Lowry, but I would have fully expected ESPN to carry this game nationally. Instead, I'm stuck with a basketball game that no one cares about on the primary network and freaking BOXING on the Deuce.
And I have a really hard time believing that more people care about boxing than baseball. I have accepted football's recreational dominance -- although not in New England -- but I refuse to believe that boxing should usurp the National M-Fing Pasttime when it comes to media coverage.
Know your audience, ESPN. Know your audience.
In conclusion, I am irritated, and I am stuck following Giants-A's on MLB Gameday while hoping for snatches of video on NESN's Extra Innings. And while Dennis Eckersley is cool as hell, I'd rather be watching the real thing.
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In other news, my PapelBoyfriend has hair again. I'm excited, that's for sure.
posted by Suzie at 10:35 PM
4 Comments:
a-freakin'-men
This is the best NBA playoffs in years, if not ever. 3 Semis are going to game 7, and the hot story is whether or not LeBron will be MJ-like now or later.
And how do you not like Mets/Yanks? You should root for the Mets just out of good will, as they all become Sox fans in October. Reciprication.
suzie you also forgot to include the rob thomas that is formerly of matchbox twenty. i feel like he greatly cares about the nba since they seem to be the only ones willing to purchase his music and use it in a promotional sense.
zack.
wooo i love replying to stuff about eight years after it's been written.
manton -- mets fans, as a general rule, make me want to stick my hand in a meat grinder. a sadder bunch of sops have never been seen. bostonians, at least, have that insufferable degree of moralist superiority; mets fans just straight-up suck.
zack -- the fact that the NBA has sunk to using matchbox 20 songs in promos might possibly be the worst thing i've ever heard.
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