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Monthly Archives: October 2006
I’ve never gotten into this holiday, but now that I have boys…I’m sort of being dragged into it, kicking and screaming…
But this helps:
You can find more such whimsy at drinkatwork.com
…and it was actually a pretty good game.
But the color commentary really pissed me off. I mean really pissed me off.
Why?
Farve is a passing QB. It’s all he’s ever been. Last year was a bad, bad year for the man, throwing more interceptions than in any other season.
At the beginning of this season, it was clear that our new “coach” was going to concentrate on a running game…which failed miserably. In fact, if you looked at some of the cuts and pick ups early in the season, it’s pretty damn clear that the front office was looking to build the Post-Farve Packers, which makes sense of course…but the man can still play.
Anyway, in Miami…
The man was throwing yesterday. He was threading needles and hitting routes all over the place.
He hit a TD that was a real laser. Thread it right through 2 d’s and after a small tip, hit his mark.
And what did the color commenter have to say about it?
“Wow, what a bad and risky play. I can’t believe Farve would just take such a risk with where they are.”
Let’s review…the man just threw a touchdown… Apparently, I wasn’t the only one a bit…put off by the comment, as witnessed by the other commentator, “That’s Farve for you, he knows how to squeeze those in there.”
But the color guy wouldn’t let it go, “It’s just too risky. Miami was all over that zone and that was an easy pick waiting to happen.”
The kept going back to a reply of the TD the rest of the game so that this jackass could show us all why it was such a lousy and horrible play.
Packers won, by the way. Green and Driver actually played some good ball yesterday. Stepped up at a time they really needed to.
We’re not gonna see the post season, ain’t no way that’s gonna happen. But it was a great day of football.
There is only so far I can take this particular argument, but it was an interesting one.
One of my co-workers points out that perhaps Studio 60 is bad on purpose. Much like SNL has been dying a long, slow, lingering death…maybe we’re supposed to feel the same way about Studio 60?
Much like the first couple seasons of The West Wing, where Bartlet is pretty much crippled by polls and not wanting to do anything “too liberal” (Until Leo comes up with “Let Bartlet be Bartlet”), maybe we’re suppose to see this team get to a turning point where they realize that everything they’ve been doing is useless, utter crap…and then they make a huge turn-around.
Mind you, I don’t truly buy into this, but looking at Sorkin’s other efforts, it would fit a general patten he seems to fall into.
Still, I cannot buy the “Harriet Has Talent” bullshit at all.
I’m a big fan of Mandy P. (I miss Chicago Hope and Dead Like Me), and I’ve only recently seen that he’s featured on Criminal Minds on CBS.
So is this thing any good? I’ve kept away from the crime-drama things on CBS because…well…I’ve just not found them all that good or entertaining.
Opinions?
OK, so I gave it another chance.
Harriet still isn’t funny (or all that talented from what I can see), the back-stories are lame and uninspired, Matt’s “brilliant writing” is far from brilliant…or close to writing as the absolutely horrible show-within-a-show demonstrates.
Indeed, the series feels like a heavily watered-down version of The West Wing, dammit.
On the other hand, 30 Rock is much better than it has a right to be.
An overheard conversation at the Y after Ben’s swim lesson:
Tony: Why does your Dad call you “Sir”?
Ben: Because he respects me.
Tony: You call your Dad “Sir” too?
Ben: Yeah, because I respect him.
Tony: That’s weird.
Ben: You should try it.
Ben’s team had another banner day yesterday, putting away their game with a 5-0 win. I was impressed that the team seemed to find a bit of growth this week, with a passing game becoming more evident.
We stuck around for another games. Our neighbors daughter had a game right after ours and we wanted to add our support. They has a little striker named Oscar who’s gunning to be the next soccer superstar. Kid scored something on the order of 10 goals before he was pulled from the game to give the other team a chance. It was pretty amazing to watch, the kid clearly has talent…but little in the way of sportsmanship. He was rather…”vocal” at being pulled.
Still, it was a fun afternoon.
“In this post 9/11 world”
sigh
Did you hear about that new Emo Grass?
It cuts itself.
