Friday, February 11, 2005
IDIOTS ARE IN CHARGE or WHY I'M LEAVING WORK EARLY
Four games tonight, two of them interesting. Let's go to the tape!
AU takes on Bucknell, at 5 in the afternoon. That's right, they're playing while everyone else in the world is either a)at work b)leaving work or c)being unemployed jerks who sap cash from the rest of us. Start times haven't sucked like this since you had to get up at 4 AM to watch World Cup Soccer. (Yeah right, no one watches soccer!)
They changed the start time to accomodate media powerhouse College Sports Television (more like Crappy Sports TV, am I right? But seriously folks, you're a great crowd), a station no one has ever heard of and even fewer people have ever watched. This is the same station that canceled a broadcast of Army-Navy because of snow. If there has been a more 2 bit operation in the history of television, I've never encountered it.
Why did they move the start time from 7 PM to 5? So that CSTV could broadcast women's sports. No seriously, they're letting women play sports now. I was shocked too.
That's not the worst of it. It's WOMEN'S HOCKEY. They can't be serious, right? A WOMENS HOCKEY GAME is more important than DI Men's Basketball? Hell, they may as well broadcast clowns wrestling midgets. At least they'd get a better share of the 18-35 demographic. No one is going to watch a women's hockey game, except for the parents of the women participating. And even they are going to have to go to some lousy bar to watch it, because NO ONE GETS CSTV.
If the league renews their contract with CSTV for next year, it will be the dumbest move in sports history. This channel has done everything it can to provide shitty service, and they shouldn't be rewarded.
OK, enough whining and bitching. I get to leave work early to try to find this game on TV, so that's a plus. And Feinstein is proadcasting the game, so not everythign is wrong. Onto the actual games:
AU/BU is an interesting matchup, with both teams suffering letdowns lately. AU missed their shot at being a number one team in losing to HC last Sunday. Bucknell has just dropped like an ACME anvil, losing three of four, and making me look stupid for singing their praises. This is a tossup, but I'm going to give the advantage to BU because they're very very good at home. Linus Lekavicius had a great game in Sojka last year, so I'm going to go out on a limb and predict him to be the top performer.
The other fun game of the night is Colgate/Navy. I am starting to really like the USNA, and they're becoming the team no one wants to play in the league. If they win tonight, they get themselves into 5th place. They haven't been anywhere near the top half of the league for a long time, so a win here is a big deal for them. Road W's have been tough for them, however, so Colgate ought to pull this one out by 8 or 10. I actually hope that I'm wrong, since it's hard not to root for the underdog Midshipmen. They hustle and scrap, and it's hard not to admire that.
Otherwise, not a lot of action tonight. Lafayette and Army are continuing to suck. LC only has 2 wins this year, against Army and Navy. They will not give HC a scare, much less beat them.
A NEW FEATURE
And Army? Well, I'm starting to run out of ways to say they are going to lose. So from now on I will predict their game outcomes in a different language every time. This week's language is simplified Chinese! 军队丢失 @ 10:18 AM
Four games tonight, two of them interesting. Let's go to the tape!
AU takes on Bucknell, at 5 in the afternoon. That's right, they're playing while everyone else in the world is either a)at work b)leaving work or c)being unemployed jerks who sap cash from the rest of us. Start times haven't sucked like this since you had to get up at 4 AM to watch World Cup Soccer. (Yeah right, no one watches soccer!)
They changed the start time to accomodate media powerhouse College Sports Television (more like Crappy Sports TV, am I right? But seriously folks, you're a great crowd), a station no one has ever heard of and even fewer people have ever watched. This is the same station that canceled a broadcast of Army-Navy because of snow. If there has been a more 2 bit operation in the history of television, I've never encountered it.
Why did they move the start time from 7 PM to 5? So that CSTV could broadcast women's sports. No seriously, they're letting women play sports now. I was shocked too.
That's not the worst of it. It's WOMEN'S HOCKEY. They can't be serious, right? A WOMENS HOCKEY GAME is more important than DI Men's Basketball? Hell, they may as well broadcast clowns wrestling midgets. At least they'd get a better share of the 18-35 demographic. No one is going to watch a women's hockey game, except for the parents of the women participating. And even they are going to have to go to some lousy bar to watch it, because NO ONE GETS CSTV.
If the league renews their contract with CSTV for next year, it will be the dumbest move in sports history. This channel has done everything it can to provide shitty service, and they shouldn't be rewarded.
OK, enough whining and bitching. I get to leave work early to try to find this game on TV, so that's a plus. And Feinstein is proadcasting the game, so not everythign is wrong. Onto the actual games:
AU/BU is an interesting matchup, with both teams suffering letdowns lately. AU missed their shot at being a number one team in losing to HC last Sunday. Bucknell has just dropped like an ACME anvil, losing three of four, and making me look stupid for singing their praises. This is a tossup, but I'm going to give the advantage to BU because they're very very good at home. Linus Lekavicius had a great game in Sojka last year, so I'm going to go out on a limb and predict him to be the top performer.
The other fun game of the night is Colgate/Navy. I am starting to really like the USNA, and they're becoming the team no one wants to play in the league. If they win tonight, they get themselves into 5th place. They haven't been anywhere near the top half of the league for a long time, so a win here is a big deal for them. Road W's have been tough for them, however, so Colgate ought to pull this one out by 8 or 10. I actually hope that I'm wrong, since it's hard not to root for the underdog Midshipmen. They hustle and scrap, and it's hard not to admire that.
Otherwise, not a lot of action tonight. Lafayette and Army are continuing to suck. LC only has 2 wins this year, against Army and Navy. They will not give HC a scare, much less beat them.
A NEW FEATURE
And Army? Well, I'm starting to run out of ways to say they are going to lose. So from now on I will predict their game outcomes in a different language every time. This week's language is simplified Chinese! 军队丢失 @ 10:18 AM
