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The Sins of American Sportscasting:

American TV sportscasting is full of factoids, full of graphics, full of breakaways from the midst of play for prerecorded human-interest backgrounders, full of color analysts overexplaining what happened a couple of minutes ago even as new, more urgent things are happening in front of our eyes, full of overpacked broadcast booths with three-man teams, sideline reporters, spotters, graphics people and telestrators, all breathlessly jostling for air time. Goals are scored in hockey games, and instead of showing the players celebrating, hyperactive producers cut away to show coaches, random crowd shots, the empty net, the goalie whose expression is hidden behind his mask. A single football play cannot pass without two instant replays; lineups cannot be given without film clips of the players saying their own names. At any given moment in a baseball game, what you’ll hear is the studied casualness of the down-home, nothing-really-exciting-going-on-here play-calling tradition that O’Brien personifies.

All these strands together add up to the crisis in American sportscasting that is made evident at every World Cup, when English-speaking fans flee in enormous numbers to listen to commentary in a language they don’t even understand.

Like I promised Percy yesterday, the link to the most awesomest 8-bit inspired flash game ever!

Gamma Bros.

I think I can get behind this:

plus it'll be good for Pronger cause then he'll still get to see his mistress due to regional scheduling.

fuckit. let's just get JOVO and get it over with. he better lock in for four years though

Being sick sucks. But at least now I have my computer with me and can spam the message board! Yay!

Also, this weekend, I was as close to a grizzly bear as I ever want to be in my entire life (unless of course, there are bars between us). The rest of hiking trip was wonderful - it was so lovely there. When I feel well enough to go get my camera (yes, I know it's just downstairs) I will post some images. Or try to. Whatever. Wish I hadn't left the camera in the tent when the bear was around, but seeing as he was sniffing my tent, I wasn't too inclined to go get it.

So, is Mac Tavish obligated to trade Pronger? Though I suppose a player being forced to play in in a city he doesn't want to be in probably won't play so hot.

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