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Wednesday, April 02, 2003
I sometimes wonder who is really reading this blog. I say that because just days after this entry, my friend Rodney sort of follows up in the AJC. It serves me right for not reading the Billboard charts as often as before (when we both did a fantasy game on that site). The thing debuted at No. 17? Yikes!
posted at 11:19 PM
Monday, March 31, 2003
Oh yeah, happy Opening Day! I think I like the fact that Opening Day is not the same day as the National Championship game. It gives both events the stage to itself instead of sharing and providing an overload of sports action when none is really needed.
posted at 12:36 AM
And then there were four ...
I guess the Final Four will be full of star power, although I wonder if NBA scouts will discount some of this tournament stuff when it comes to draft time. It always seems like guys who do well in college on the biggest stage actually have a strike against them when they hit the pros. Mateen Cleeves, Danny Manning, Christian Laettner, Khalid El-Amin -- all have been in the pros, but none could be considered superstars. And think of Anderson Hunt and Scotty Thurman -- the Final Four MVPs from those team were the only one not to have much of a pro career. It's like winning is a detriment to NBA success -- me first is good, team first is not. In scouting speak -- a "winner" is a player (usually white) lacking in talent who finds his way to winning games or putting up numbers. An "athlete" is often an African-American player with lots of skill but not much smarts.
Back to my bracket, I predicted earlier that Marquette might make the Final Four after I predicted them to lose in the first round. However, I guess I was right in getting a No. 3 seeded Catholic school into the Final Four. I just picked the wrong one (Xavier instead of Marquette.) I did get Syracuse right, so I feel good about that. Like everyone else, I got burned by Kentucky and Arizona losing. BTW, do you think someone over at CBS decided to switch out Pontiac ads to the Al McGuire "Holy Mackrel" one in the first spot after the game ended?
posted at 12:16 AM
Sunday, March 30, 2003
The more I think about it, the more I'm not surprised Fox News is winning in the ratings during the war. This war seems to be so much about politics that it can only help Fox News, which has built its audience based along a certain point of view. (On a similar note, I now think the Michael Moore speech was hard to stomach because it started ranting about the 2000 election. The pope/Dixie Chicks line was great, but when you're still whining about the election, it's hard to get support for whatever you say.)
What we're learning is that CNN is good at getting viewers when something happens that actually has a middle ground or isn't politcially motivated. If there's something where you can scream and yell either for or against Bush right away when it happens, Fox News has it covered. When you really can't do that (Bush didn't mess with those shuttle tiles, as far as we know), CNN gets the edge. It's really sad that today's climate of debate (at least in the major media) seems to forbid finding a middle ground. I am very conflicted as to my feelings about the war, and unfortunately the very vocal extremes of the debate turn me off to their side.
And with that said, I'm still waiting for The Onion headline: "Critics complain The Weather Channel has pro-hurricane bias"
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