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Law school finals are finally over, so its time to catch up some posts….
BE, you were mentioning a few posts ago about the decline of sportscenter and I tend to agree with that. I think what ESPN has done for sports has been phenomenal, but between Cold Pizza, Baseball Tonight, PTI, Around the Horn, Rome is Burning, NBA Fast Break, and the 15 different NFL shows, there is really not a whole lot left for sportscenter, especially when you consider ESPNews as well. I mean Sometimes its good to just sit back and watch the highlights, but Sportscenter has always been known for being just the right mixture of cool and sophisticated, along with a good deal of catch phrases…"en fuego” anyone? I still like John Anderson and Scott Van Pelt, but outside of them the personality of the show is really lacking. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to handle the show correctly. I’m not a huge fan of Stu “Cool as the other side of the pillow” Scott, but at least I know who he is (if that’s not a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what is). Gone are the days of The Big Show with Dan and Keith. As Aaron Sorkin once said, it was the best writing on television in any format. And I’d agree with that as it was smart, funny, sophisticated and filled with a lot of running gags. Oh well, at least I get to listen to them on the radio everyday. Sorkin by the way wrote A Few Good Men, The West Wing, Sports Night (a show he was inspired to write while he was in rehab and watching Sportscenter and based it on Dan and Keith) so he does know what he’s talking about.
Right now for my money, the best sports related TV show is Inside the NBA on TNT. Ernie, Kenny, and Charles are hilarious. Ernie has won couple Emmy’s, as has the show. Barkley is off the charts funny. They even did a donut taste test with him the other day, where they blindfolded him and made him guess which was the Krispy Kreme. Tonight someone wrote the show and asked if Ernie was black or white, so the producers edited Ernie's head onto the famous photo of John Carlos at the olympics wearing the black glove and raising his fist in the air. Hilarious. Anyways, back to sportscenter. One thing that I will always love about sportscenter is the commercials. Including the new one with David Ortiz (whose book I haven't read by the way), Jorge Posada and the Red Sox mascot. Which almost cracks my top 5 of all time. The others (off the top of my head and subject to change):
#10- LT in the Mailroom
#9- Driving Mascot
#8- Bribing
#7- The Closer and the The Perfect Show
#6- Betrayal
#5- Star Wars
#4- Hazing
#3- Brats Eating Brats
#2- Y2K
#1- Big Buddies
Time to crash, but I urge you to watch them all. Great stuff. Especially that Brats eating Brats one. Totally underrated. By the way, Scott Van Pelt really reminds me of another tall goofy white guy we know. Check him out in these two: Dinner Time and American Cheese.
BE, you were mentioning a few posts ago about the decline of sportscenter and I tend to agree with that. I think what ESPN has done for sports has been phenomenal, but between Cold Pizza, Baseball Tonight, PTI, Around the Horn, Rome is Burning, NBA Fast Break, and the 15 different NFL shows, there is really not a whole lot left for sportscenter, especially when you consider ESPNews as well. I mean Sometimes its good to just sit back and watch the highlights, but Sportscenter has always been known for being just the right mixture of cool and sophisticated, along with a good deal of catch phrases…"en fuego” anyone? I still like John Anderson and Scott Van Pelt, but outside of them the personality of the show is really lacking. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to handle the show correctly. I’m not a huge fan of Stu “Cool as the other side of the pillow” Scott, but at least I know who he is (if that’s not a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what is). Gone are the days of The Big Show with Dan and Keith. As Aaron Sorkin once said, it was the best writing on television in any format. And I’d agree with that as it was smart, funny, sophisticated and filled with a lot of running gags. Oh well, at least I get to listen to them on the radio everyday. Sorkin by the way wrote A Few Good Men, The West Wing, Sports Night (a show he was inspired to write while he was in rehab and watching Sportscenter and based it on Dan and Keith) so he does know what he’s talking about.
Right now for my money, the best sports related TV show is Inside the NBA on TNT. Ernie, Kenny, and Charles are hilarious. Ernie has won couple Emmy’s, as has the show. Barkley is off the charts funny. They even did a donut taste test with him the other day, where they blindfolded him and made him guess which was the Krispy Kreme. Tonight someone wrote the show and asked if Ernie was black or white, so the producers edited Ernie's head onto the famous photo of John Carlos at the olympics wearing the black glove and raising his fist in the air. Hilarious. Anyways, back to sportscenter. One thing that I will always love about sportscenter is the commercials. Including the new one with David Ortiz (whose book I haven't read by the way), Jorge Posada and the Red Sox mascot. Which almost cracks my top 5 of all time. The others (off the top of my head and subject to change):
#10- LT in the Mailroom
#9- Driving Mascot
#8- Bribing
#7- The Closer and the The Perfect Show
#6- Betrayal
#5- Star Wars
#4- Hazing
#3- Brats Eating Brats
#2- Y2K
#1- Big Buddies
Time to crash, but I urge you to watch them all. Great stuff. Especially that Brats eating Brats one. Totally underrated. By the way, Scott Van Pelt really reminds me of another tall goofy white guy we know. Check him out in these two: Dinner Time and American Cheese.
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