Monday, June 23, 2008
George Carlin dies...
...evidently while watching sports on television yesterday. Having a week heart and witnessing one of the rarest things to happen in sports must have been too much for his ticker. Rarer than a hole in one in golf or a perfect 300 game bowling on national television. We're talking triple crown rarity here - for the second time in the history of women's professional basketball a woman dunked the ball, the only other time being in 2002.
Who's idea was the WNBA anyway? Didn't I make a post about this before? I could understand a bunch of Hooter's girls in their Hooter's uniforms jiggling....errr, dribbling up and down the court being something worth watching. But no, they wanted to be all serious about this. What about the poor fan though that watches faithfully every game. Time and again they see the girl charge down the court, rush the basket, expecting...hoping...praying...will she???...nope, it's another layup. Imagine the disappointment if the one time in 6 years this happens he ran to the fridge for a beer and missed the dunk? Oh sure, there's instant replay, but it's just not the same. That's like watching a porn movie, you weren't there when it happened, it's just not the same. This is followed by the shame of lying to all your friends because you don't want them to know you were an idiot and missed the once in a lifetime live shot.
If they are going to keep the WNBA they really need to make some changes where you have something to talk about more than once every 6 years. Like maybe put mud on the court and combine some aspects of roller derby into the game.
Who's idea was the WNBA anyway? Didn't I make a post about this before? I could understand a bunch of Hooter's girls in their Hooter's uniforms jiggling....errr, dribbling up and down the court being something worth watching. But no, they wanted to be all serious about this. What about the poor fan though that watches faithfully every game. Time and again they see the girl charge down the court, rush the basket, expecting...hoping...praying...will she???...nope, it's another layup. Imagine the disappointment if the one time in 6 years this happens he ran to the fridge for a beer and missed the dunk? Oh sure, there's instant replay, but it's just not the same. That's like watching a porn movie, you weren't there when it happened, it's just not the same. This is followed by the shame of lying to all your friends because you don't want them to know you were an idiot and missed the once in a lifetime live shot.
If they are going to keep the WNBA they really need to make some changes where you have something to talk about more than once every 6 years. Like maybe put mud on the court and combine some aspects of roller derby into the game.
