Is anybody following the Olympics this year? I've watched a little tiny bit of the coverage, but I'm just not into it this time around. I guess for me there's the scandal of all these different cities trying to bribe the IOC to give the games to them, and then all these athletes turn out to be on steroids...I mean, if I want that type of entertainment, the NFL does it much better.

Plus, does Bob Costas really need another soap box? Come on. Somebody put that guy to sleep. I'll never forget the 1997 World Series when he argued with Joe Morgan about a play at second base. Talk about Napoleon complexes, this guy thinks he knows EVERYTHING...thinks he knows second base better than the smartest guy to ever play the position, fer crissakes.

A response from Richard Remington:
                      I have been watching a good bit of the Olympics in Sydney.  I don't mind tape delay per se, but it's a shame that NBC is running some events in the past tense.  Really, they are running cut-and-paste canned programs of events that occured hours before.  The quickness with which the NBC production crew is able to cut down the footage and narrate it posthumously is impressive, but what does it matter when in the final product you see contestants cross the finish line in slow motion?  Even worse, you hear the outcome in the tone of the announcers voice no matter how hard they try to obscure the result from the audience.  And the general lack of enthousiasm in the announcers' voices can surely be attributed, at least in part, to the fact that they are calling a game that has already been played out.  Imagine having to sit in a room and call a dead game flashed to you on a tv screen.  The real time constraint of a live call is a catalyst for the commentator's creativity.  Maybe this was the only way NBC could figure out how to schedule around Bob Costas' seemingly manditory air-time quota.  Bob Costas in one straight faced moment introduced a segment about Nicky, the Australian girl who sang at the opening ceremony, by saying, "we now join Nicky and her parents in their middle class Australian home."  What an a**hole. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crapshoot Sports | Sports Archive | My Home Page