No Love! TBS and ESPN Hurt My Feelings
Apparently the most important sports news stories, according to ESPN, were the Lakers vs. the Cavaliers, the Corey Maggette and Ron Artest trade falling through, Reggie Bush declaring for the NFL draft, discussing teen golfer Michelle Wie’s terrible start to a tournament (it seems like all I ever here about her is how much she struggles) and the resignation of Buffalo Bills head coach Mike Mularky.
The rematch of last year’s NBA Finals between the champion San Antonio Spurs and the league’s best team the Detroit Pistons wasn’t important enough to lead the show.
The Pistons improved to 28-5 after dominating the Spurs in the SBC Center.
I prefer the Pistons flying under the radar, but it is also frustrating to see a team this good go this unappreciated. When it was the Chicago Bulls in the mid-nineties, it was all ESPN could talk about. And I have a feeling if the Miami Heat or New York Knicks started 28-5, a whole episode of ESPN Sportscenter, Cold Pizza, Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn would be dedicated to how amazing Dwayne Wade and Shaquille O’Neal are or how Larry Brown is a genius coach.
As for TBS. I suffered through the Miss Bliss episodes. I sat quietly while the early junior high school episodes were played. I did this because I knew Zach and the rest of the Saved By the Bell gang would soon be in high school. I love those episodes.
But I turned on TBS this morning and it was the f**king college years. How the hell did it go from early junior high to college? Something is wrong.
I don’t care for the college years that much. I want to see Zach fail drivers ed, world peace break out and Zach treat Kelly to a special prom, the gang win a weekend to a live game of Clue and then finally get into the Malibu Sands Beach Club…if there’s time TBS could show Jessica Spano and her attempt at striping.
You see my mornings are very simple. I try to wake up before Emily and Brooke so I don’t take up their shower time, since it is their apartment. Then I iron my clothes and then I watch Saved by the Bell and Sportscenter. When this gets disrupted, I’m like an autistic boy who didn’t get to do what he/she wanted to do. Basically I’m pissed.
Now my whole morning is thrown off kilter. I was expecting high school episodes of Saved by the Bell and to see highlights of the Pistons/Spurs, but ESPN and TBS conspired to f**k up my morning.
I hate you TBS and ESPN. Jerks.
The rematch of last year’s NBA Finals between the champion San Antonio Spurs and the league’s best team the Detroit Pistons wasn’t important enough to lead the show.
The Pistons improved to 28-5 after dominating the Spurs in the SBC Center.
I prefer the Pistons flying under the radar, but it is also frustrating to see a team this good go this unappreciated. When it was the Chicago Bulls in the mid-nineties, it was all ESPN could talk about. And I have a feeling if the Miami Heat or New York Knicks started 28-5, a whole episode of ESPN Sportscenter, Cold Pizza, Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn would be dedicated to how amazing Dwayne Wade and Shaquille O’Neal are or how Larry Brown is a genius coach.
As for TBS. I suffered through the Miss Bliss episodes. I sat quietly while the early junior high school episodes were played. I did this because I knew Zach and the rest of the Saved By the Bell gang would soon be in high school. I love those episodes.
But I turned on TBS this morning and it was the f**king college years. How the hell did it go from early junior high to college? Something is wrong.
I don’t care for the college years that much. I want to see Zach fail drivers ed, world peace break out and Zach treat Kelly to a special prom, the gang win a weekend to a live game of Clue and then finally get into the Malibu Sands Beach Club…if there’s time TBS could show Jessica Spano and her attempt at striping.
You see my mornings are very simple. I try to wake up before Emily and Brooke so I don’t take up their shower time, since it is their apartment. Then I iron my clothes and then I watch Saved by the Bell and Sportscenter. When this gets disrupted, I’m like an autistic boy who didn’t get to do what he/she wanted to do. Basically I’m pissed.
Now my whole morning is thrown off kilter. I was expecting high school episodes of Saved by the Bell and to see highlights of the Pistons/Spurs, but ESPN and TBS conspired to f**k up my morning.
I hate you TBS and ESPN. Jerks.
posted by az at 8:07 AM
7 Comments:
wow. rough morning, huh?
i bet this is the only blog that mentions detroit basketball and miss bliss in the same entry!
the pistons are the lead story on espn.com right now. as for the saved by the bell fiasco. no excuse. i can find out where ted turner lives... seriously.- c
espn is too busy thinking up innovative and exciting new ways to announce that the Pistons aren't capable of winning 70 games this season to actually give them credit for anything.
no love, indeed.
I think it is even more ridiculous that the Pistons are quietly dominating the nation. It should probably be a bigger deal that we are doing it without our "genious" head coach, Larry Brown.
You have to give Flip and Co. credit, it is one hell of a run they are on.
i dont believe the pistons are under the radar this year. The pistons are uniformly referred to as the best team in the nba. furhter, you can't miss the 70 win talk. flip has gotten a lot of deserved credit, winning coach of the month twice. in those respects, i think the pistons have gotten much deserved love.
the problem is, the media assumes the pistons will derail. apparently, there is a rule that if you have had good health, you are doomed. fine. pessimists. what pisses me off is that the "experts" still pick the spurs. we kicked their asses twice. once in their arena. but everyone expects them to right the ship and beat the pistons ... or the heat, which is apparently america's favorite team, or something.
i love the pistons. i think they are far and away getting more media attention than any other team. and i think that is how it should be. unfortunaetly, the media loves talking about kobe, ai, or lebron going for 40, even if it is in a losing effort. i think it is ted turner's fault. -c
you're right jeni. it is the only blog ever to mention the pistons and miss bliss in the same article. expect the one about miss bliss trying to get on rip. rip tossed her aside.
chris, please find where ted turner lives. i'll kick him in his balls. i agree, they aren't really under the radar. i guess that's not a fair thing to say. they are reffered to as the best starting five in the nba and are constantly talked about getting 70 wins. i just think they could get even more press than they do. with jordan, the bulls where all anyone could talk about and i think four of five of those guys made the all star team. detroit will be lucky if they get two. right now, billups isn't a front runner. i kinda prefer it this way, but it also frustrates me. i agree though, they do get a lot of positive ink.
jon, i'm surprised at flip saunders. i didn't hate the guy, but i wasn't a huge fan either. i thought he didn't win a lot with the timberwolves, but now i think about what he did accomplish there with only kg as a player and i think wow. i love his offense. you can learn so much by just watching the way rip and tayshuan move without the ball. and sheed's game has gotten even better. fuck larry brown. the knicks look like they are finally winning, but i bet they fall down and lose a bunch again.
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