I just went onto the Internet and checked out an article on my homepage that has a British writer (and I use this term loosely) complaining about Canadians celebrating winning gold at the Olympics. Here is the link here.
Basically, he is upset at Canadians for not acting apologetic for winning events. Hmmm, what word best describes this guy, dumb, idiotic, complete moron, the list goes on. If this guy is getting upset at Canadians celebrating while winning gold. I would ask for this guy to take an IQ test but fear the results would come back negative.
This is my main beef with it, how come this moron is only targeting Canadians, why not Germany, the United States, any other country who has had an athlete win gold (England has one in women's skeleton as well and I am sure she celebrated as well). What are we suppose to do apologize? What are we suppose to say, "Sorry, but you aren't as good as me.", "Sorry, but your team sucks.", or how about "Sorry that I am better than you."?
The bottom line as far as I am concerned, it doesn't matter whether you are from Canada, the United States, behind my left nipple, if you win the gold, as far as I am concerned, you can celebrate something that you know not many people get the chance to ever be, an Olympic champion.
I will putting up a new blog in a couple of days with my thoughts and my awards for the games.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Can we please stop the Sidney Crosby love fest!!!
I have just finished watching a full day of Olympic hockey and man I am drained. Canada was the only team that dominated as they beat Germany 8-2. However I have a major grievance with something I saw. With the score 4-0 for Canada, Rick Nash put on a hell of a dangle and gets hooked and a penalty shot is called. I figured, good play by Nash, let him take the penalty shot. However under IIHF rules, any player may take a penalty shot and head coach of Team Canada, Mike Babcock, chose to go with Sidney Crosby. Before the penalty shot was even taken I said "What the hell is Babcock doing.". The end result of the penalty shot was an easy save by Griess on Crosby who seems to lack the comprehension that if you come in with speed on a penalty shot or a shootout shot that it is easier to beat a goalie when you are going fast.
I feel that part of my dislike of Crosby commotion is the fact that Sidney Crosby gets shoved down my throat as commentators make him out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Here are the facts that the pro commentators that I find to be opinion
1. Crosby is the best player in the NHL
False: Crosby is on a team with 4 first 5, first round draft picks and they have not been able to find consistent scoring wingers for him. Also Ovechkin has done a lot more with a lot less around him.
2. Crosby is a rival to being better than Gretzky
False: As stated above, Crosby has not been able to make his wingers 50 goal scorers so this argument falls apart right there. Besides, Gretzky got Semenko a hat trick and Semenko didn't even have to shoot the puck once, Gretzky deflected all three shots off of various pieces (Helmet, butt, and stick). Also, Gretzky could have a defender on him and would still make the guy his bitch, Crosby has been shut down, especially by New Jersey and Vancouver. This could go on forever but I don't want to type til I am dead.
3. The best way to market the NHL is by showing Sidney Crosby
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Crosby is not the way to market the NHL, not only does he defy what most players do after an opposing player scores a hat trick (He should just go back to his bench and take his medicine, he goes and whines to the official about the game being slowed down) he defies charisma. He gives robotic cliche answers that are extremely well known to anyone who has watched any sporting event in recent history. I'm not saying he should become the next The Rock when he gives interviews, but add something more than just the same old answer, it will catch people's attention. Also, the best guy for marketing the NHL right now is Alexander Ovechkin, he has charisma, and is wanting to get hockey to be the biggest thing in the world.
I could go on but it is getting real late, so if you disagree, tell me, and if you agree, spread the word. Also if you disagree, give me a logical argument and just don't say you are an idiot, you aren't proving anything by saying that.
I feel that part of my dislike of Crosby commotion is the fact that Sidney Crosby gets shoved down my throat as commentators make him out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Here are the facts that the pro commentators that I find to be opinion
1. Crosby is the best player in the NHL
False: Crosby is on a team with 4 first 5, first round draft picks and they have not been able to find consistent scoring wingers for him. Also Ovechkin has done a lot more with a lot less around him.
2. Crosby is a rival to being better than Gretzky
False: As stated above, Crosby has not been able to make his wingers 50 goal scorers so this argument falls apart right there. Besides, Gretzky got Semenko a hat trick and Semenko didn't even have to shoot the puck once, Gretzky deflected all three shots off of various pieces (Helmet, butt, and stick). Also, Gretzky could have a defender on him and would still make the guy his bitch, Crosby has been shut down, especially by New Jersey and Vancouver. This could go on forever but I don't want to type til I am dead.
3. The best way to market the NHL is by showing Sidney Crosby
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Crosby is not the way to market the NHL, not only does he defy what most players do after an opposing player scores a hat trick (He should just go back to his bench and take his medicine, he goes and whines to the official about the game being slowed down) he defies charisma. He gives robotic cliche answers that are extremely well known to anyone who has watched any sporting event in recent history. I'm not saying he should become the next The Rock when he gives interviews, but add something more than just the same old answer, it will catch people's attention. Also, the best guy for marketing the NHL right now is Alexander Ovechkin, he has charisma, and is wanting to get hockey to be the biggest thing in the world.
I could go on but it is getting real late, so if you disagree, tell me, and if you agree, spread the word. Also if you disagree, give me a logical argument and just don't say you are an idiot, you aren't proving anything by saying that.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
The 2010 Olympics, Preparing for the headache
The 2010 Olympics are coming up in a week in Vancouver. Personally I am very excited to watch the Olympics, however the one thing I am not looking forward to is the announcing of the sports that people will be subjected to.
I live in Canada so I will be catching the Olympics on CTV, who have not shown the Olympics as far back as I remember. The problem is that we are going to be subjected to horrible announcing in the biggest sport in the winter Olympics which is Ice Hockey. With CTV hosting the Olympics they are likely going to use the announcers of there sister sport station TSN. TSN's main announcers Gord Miller and Pierre Maguire will likely get Team Canada's games and all the other big games. Miller can be good if he is into it, Maguire on the other hand, sucks so hard a vacuum cleaner is jealous. Instead of using some truly talented people such as Chris Cuthbert or Jim Hughson who are two of the best in the business right now, we get subjected to crap and told they are good.
I may have been spoiled though when it comes to play-by-play hockey announcers having grown up in British Columbia and cheering for the Vancouver Canucks. The two guys I have listened to growing up calling Canucks games are Jim Robson and Jim Hughson who are two announcers I would encourage anybody who wants to get into announcing to copy their announcing technique. When Robson or Hughson do a game, they know the numbers of all the players on both teams, they know the background of the players, (An example of this is Mark Hartigan who is from my hometown and played for the Junior B team there, the Fort St. John Huskies.), they are able to tell you how many points a player has very quickly which leads you to believe that they actually follow the game, and most importantly, they can make you feel like you are at a once in a lifetime event.
The other thing with the commentators for the Olympics is they can make something exciting make you want to go watch paint dry because it is more exciting. Case and point on this is watching Snowboarding Halfpipe in 2006 and the guy doing commentary was just going, "Wow, what a move, I think that was a 720 indy.", the guy also said this in an uninterested voice as if he was forced to do it. Second, if you don't know, don't say, it makes you look stupid, (The move was also a McTwist and was very sloppily done).
Bottom line to this is that we want good commentary for the events, not the guys who are suppose to be good that actually want to make us mute the TV.
My choices for interviewers and commentators to follow the lead of:
Jim Hughson (Current CBC lead hockey commentator, also does the rare Blue Jays game on CBC), Jim Robson (Former Canucks play-by-play for the Vancouver Canucks), Rick Jeanerette (Current play-by-play for the Buffalo Sabers), John Garrett (Current colour commentary for the Canucks), Chris Cuthbert (Play-by-Play commentator for TSN and does almost all the CFL games for the season), Craig Simpson (Colour commentator for CBC), Dan Murphy (Post game interviews for Canucks on Sportsnet, this is a difficult area because most of the guys are not good at this)
Commentators I usually suggest you push the mute button on:
Pierre Maguire (See above for what I think of him), Bob Cole (Did have some talent back in the day but has stayed around too long and his commentary sucks now), Harry Neale (Very inaccurate comments and says stuff that can be usually be covered by a half decent play-by-play man), Elliot Friedman (This guy would actually have to get better to suck, you could hire a kid who could talk and would be more relevant than this moron)
I should be back soon and God willing I will not go crazy listening to the moron that is Pierre Maguire and some other idiots they will find to call some of the other sports.
I live in Canada so I will be catching the Olympics on CTV, who have not shown the Olympics as far back as I remember. The problem is that we are going to be subjected to horrible announcing in the biggest sport in the winter Olympics which is Ice Hockey. With CTV hosting the Olympics they are likely going to use the announcers of there sister sport station TSN. TSN's main announcers Gord Miller and Pierre Maguire will likely get Team Canada's games and all the other big games. Miller can be good if he is into it, Maguire on the other hand, sucks so hard a vacuum cleaner is jealous. Instead of using some truly talented people such as Chris Cuthbert or Jim Hughson who are two of the best in the business right now, we get subjected to crap and told they are good.
I may have been spoiled though when it comes to play-by-play hockey announcers having grown up in British Columbia and cheering for the Vancouver Canucks. The two guys I have listened to growing up calling Canucks games are Jim Robson and Jim Hughson who are two announcers I would encourage anybody who wants to get into announcing to copy their announcing technique. When Robson or Hughson do a game, they know the numbers of all the players on both teams, they know the background of the players, (An example of this is Mark Hartigan who is from my hometown and played for the Junior B team there, the Fort St. John Huskies.), they are able to tell you how many points a player has very quickly which leads you to believe that they actually follow the game, and most importantly, they can make you feel like you are at a once in a lifetime event.
The other thing with the commentators for the Olympics is they can make something exciting make you want to go watch paint dry because it is more exciting. Case and point on this is watching Snowboarding Halfpipe in 2006 and the guy doing commentary was just going, "Wow, what a move, I think that was a 720 indy.", the guy also said this in an uninterested voice as if he was forced to do it. Second, if you don't know, don't say, it makes you look stupid, (The move was also a McTwist and was very sloppily done).
Bottom line to this is that we want good commentary for the events, not the guys who are suppose to be good that actually want to make us mute the TV.
My choices for interviewers and commentators to follow the lead of:
Jim Hughson (Current CBC lead hockey commentator, also does the rare Blue Jays game on CBC), Jim Robson (Former Canucks play-by-play for the Vancouver Canucks), Rick Jeanerette (Current play-by-play for the Buffalo Sabers), John Garrett (Current colour commentary for the Canucks), Chris Cuthbert (Play-by-Play commentator for TSN and does almost all the CFL games for the season), Craig Simpson (Colour commentator for CBC), Dan Murphy (Post game interviews for Canucks on Sportsnet, this is a difficult area because most of the guys are not good at this)
Commentators I usually suggest you push the mute button on:
Pierre Maguire (See above for what I think of him), Bob Cole (Did have some talent back in the day but has stayed around too long and his commentary sucks now), Harry Neale (Very inaccurate comments and says stuff that can be usually be covered by a half decent play-by-play man), Elliot Friedman (This guy would actually have to get better to suck, you could hire a kid who could talk and would be more relevant than this moron)
I should be back soon and God willing I will not go crazy listening to the moron that is Pierre Maguire and some other idiots they will find to call some of the other sports.
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