I've done the hate and the love list. Today, I'm going to break new ground with the "eh" list. This is a list of things I can go either way on...as you can imagine, this list is a rarity for a blathering idiot like myself, but there are some things I need to speak about that I am unsure which way to go....
NBC Primetime Olympic Coverage. I openly admit to getting sucked in EVERY year by the Summer Olympics. They could show virtually anything and I'm watching it--wrestling, whitewater rafting down a manmade "river", fencing, cake decorating, whatever. But I'm tiring of the primetime sked at this point--taped synchronized diving (which I truly didn't know existed before 3 nites ago), followed by a Mary Carillo piece about something dealing with Chinese culture, then some gymnastics and swimming. I need some more Logan Tom, hoopies, and boxing on my primetime lineup. Speaking of swimming...
Michael Phelps. Yes, I get it--he's won the most golds EVER in the history of EVER. Did you know his schedule is crazy? Who knew? Guess what--ANYONE's schedule at his age is crazy. Bob Costas LOVES to say that all Phelps does is eat, sleep and swim. You could substitute virtually any verb in for "swim" in that trinity of action for any single employed 20something male. For example..."All Flemmy does is eat, sleep and play guitar hero" "All BB does is eat, sleep and talk" "All Ryno does is eat, sleep, and murder the English language" Plus, as Al brought up earlier in the week, he looks a LOT like our crazy-eyed roomie Dave from Country Place days.
Upcoming network TV season. With the amount of cable channels around, the constant pimping of new shows on network TV just seems to fall flat at this point in our world.
Gary Sheffield. The Tigers wed themselves to a LOT of questionably contracts and people over the past 2 seasons. He's one of them. It's not really surprising that Shef, who has played for, in order, the Brewers, Padres, Marlins, Dodgers, Braves, Yankees and Tigers, isn't happy being somewhere. He's 39, broken down, and on the books for one MORE year at over 14 million American dollars. The Tigers are as much to blame for this as Shef is.
Borat.
NFL preseason football.
Everyone Loves Raymond/King of Queens. Same show. Same plot. Same wife who they cast who is just good-looking enough who you know would not ever be with that guy in the real world. Same kooky friends and parents of the main character. It is an affront to society that these two shows are slowly shoving Seinfeld and Simpsons off the late afternoon television lineups in this great country of ours.
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You go too easy on Sheffield. The recent comments in the paper were inexcusable. And let's not forget, there are 4, count 'em, 4 channels of Olympic coverage. Even if they have 4 hours of GREAT TV coverage each day, that's still only about 12%. There's bound to be a lot of duds. That said, I don't need to see Mary Carillo eating a fried scorpion. Ever.
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