Sean's Take: After a week of no games, my beloved Sharks are about to get back on the ice. I'm pumped, except that I'm not. Yes, I'm happy to have something to do at 7:30 PM once again, but it's all pretty meaningless, isn't it? Yes, yes, it's the winter doldrums, a period in which even the most dedicated hockey (and normally) basketball fans struggle to care about their team's games. For a team like the Sharks, who are all but assured of making the playoffs, there's no point in these games. The team has produced regular seasons in which they tore apart the league, yet had nothing to show for it. They've also had regular seasons in which they stunk it up and still managed to make the playoffs. And it's not as though the Sharks are alone in this, Puck Daddy had an interesting piece about this a few days ago showing that even at this early point in the season, there's only really one playoff spot up for grabs. And 5 teams have a realistic chance at that. So...there are two and a half months left in the season, and there's nothing left to do for 2/3rds of the teams in the West.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Five Drinks Into Sports: Breaking Down Super Bowl XLVI (IV)
Editors Note: As the Super Bowl is an extra important topic, we'll be devoting extra coverage to this post. Stay tuned for 3rd, 4th and 5th opinions.
Sean's Take: Where'd you get that video of me?
Ugh. For all my talk of being higher and mightier than other sports fans since I watch everything, I really, really do not want to watch the Super Bowl. Eli's face is ugly, Brady's a woman, blah blah. I can't even be funny or creative when it comes to hating this matchup.
So instead, I'll take the high road and go for some cold, hard facts. Hopefully this virtual ink won't be smudged from my actual tears.
Fact: Rob Gronkowski's ankle won't be fully healed in time for the Super Bowl. Gronk put up the most impressive season ever for a tight end, with 1,327 yards and 17 touchdowns. At 6-6, 265lbs with the determination of Liam Neeson in any Liam Neeson movie (outside of Love Actually) Gronk would give the Pats offense a major advantage over a very average Giants linebacking core, who gave up the 5th most fantasy points in the league to Tight Ends (according to ESPN.com). That of course includes the 101 points and a score for Gronkowski in the Week 9 matchup between the teams.
Tom's Take:
Sean's Take: Where'd you get that video of me?
Ugh. For all my talk of being higher and mightier than other sports fans since I watch everything, I really, really do not want to watch the Super Bowl. Eli's face is ugly, Brady's a woman, blah blah. I can't even be funny or creative when it comes to hating this matchup.
So instead, I'll take the high road and go for some cold, hard facts. Hopefully this virtual ink won't be smudged from my actual tears.
Fact: Rob Gronkowski's ankle won't be fully healed in time for the Super Bowl. Gronk put up the most impressive season ever for a tight end, with 1,327 yards and 17 touchdowns. At 6-6, 265lbs with the determination of Liam Neeson in any Liam Neeson movie (outside of Love Actually) Gronk would give the Pats offense a major advantage over a very average Giants linebacking core, who gave up the 5th most fantasy points in the league to Tight Ends (according to ESPN.com). That of course includes the 101 points and a score for Gronkowski in the Week 9 matchup between the teams.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Five Drinks Into Thursday Night Television: Why are None of My Shows On? (II)
Tom's Take: Thursday Night for some reason has become my TV night. Normally I have several shows with new episodes on Thursdays, or if I don't then at least I take most of the night off to catch up on the shows I keep up with. Some great shows are on Thursday nights usually. The Office, Big Bang Theory, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Community. Usually.
Tonight that was not the case. Sunny and Community are on hiatus, (I'm actually quite worried that Community might be on the verge of cancellation) and The Office wasn't on tonight. So all there was for me was Big Bang Theory. But I guess that makes my job easier, since this is the first of my TV review posts. So here we go!
Tom's Review of Big Bang Theory: Season 5 Episode 14: The Beta Test Initiation
Tonight that was not the case. Sunny and Community are on hiatus, (I'm actually quite worried that Community might be on the verge of cancellation) and The Office wasn't on tonight. So all there was for me was Big Bang Theory. But I guess that makes my job easier, since this is the first of my TV review posts. So here we go!
Tom's Review of Big Bang Theory: Season 5 Episode 14: The Beta Test Initiation
Five Drinks Into Sports: The Perilous Position of the All-Star Game (III)
Sean's Take:
The sports junkie in me demands to watch any sporting event of any significance. And not just in American sports, but there's no reason for me to miss out on Cricket, Rugby, Curling, Hurling or Buzkashi if I get the chance to view it.
But something about the Pro Bowl makes me sick. Perhaps the purpose is to showcase all of the top players in the game at one time, but when ESPN saunters on religiously about each one of them throughout the year, the event transforms from a nice get-together into a circle jerk. It certainly doesn't help that nobody playing or watching cares either. It's not as though other all-star games have traditionally been much better either, but the Pro Bowl feels the most like it spits on the intensity and passion that make sports into spectacles.
The sports junkie in me demands to watch any sporting event of any significance. And not just in American sports, but there's no reason for me to miss out on Cricket, Rugby, Curling, Hurling or Buzkashi if I get the chance to view it.
But something about the Pro Bowl makes me sick. Perhaps the purpose is to showcase all of the top players in the game at one time, but when ESPN saunters on religiously about each one of them throughout the year, the event transforms from a nice get-together into a circle jerk. It certainly doesn't help that nobody playing or watching cares either. It's not as though other all-star games have traditionally been much better either, but the Pro Bowl feels the most like it spits on the intensity and passion that make sports into spectacles.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Five Drinks into Reality TV: To Watch or Not to Watch (III)
Tom's Take:
So I enjoy reality TV. Not because it's in any way "real," but rather because it is one of the few times where you can see people having ridiculous and clearly staged fights while shouting "this is real!" How can anyone resist that?
So I enjoy reality TV. Not because it's in any way "real," but rather because it is one of the few times where you can see people having ridiculous and clearly staged fights while shouting "this is real!" How can anyone resist that?
Reality gameshows are a little different, since the focus for me is not so much on the "reality" as on the competition. Still I enjoy them, and I've watched most of the seasons of Big Brother and Survivor. Now, I've never watched Amazing Race, despite there apparently being 19 seasons of it so far, but when I found out that Amazing Race 20 was going to feature Brendon and Rachel from Big Brother 12, and 13, known to most fans as Brenchel, I found myself intrigued. Brenchel was the main spectacle that attracted to Big Brother 12, the first season I watched before getting hooked and going back to watch most of the earlier seasons. Am I a Brenchel fan? That's a complicated question. The easy answer is no, but I think on some visceral level that I really am, because I love to watch these two on television. They have ridiculous fights about things like whether Rachel calls Brendon "bukey." So it comes back to the question. How can anyone resist that?
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