Embracing uncharted depths of awful
>> Sunday
Disney Conglomerative Sports Broadcasting Enterprises--better known on the street as ESPN--continues its attempt to alienate the 18-80 brain-bearing adult demographic.
As if Friday night's Roger Clemens minor-league rehab/tune-up start wasn't terrible enough, I just took in the following exchange (paraphrased) during the Spurs-Jazz game on ABC:
Sucky play-by-play guy: [...blah blah blah] Desperate Housewives season finale tonight. ... Well the Spurs are certainly not "desperate" right now ...
Mark Jackson or third-wheel guy, can't remember which: Well the Jazz might need an "extreme makeover" after this game...
...or something like that. I can't remember the exact verbiage, but the point being, it was two of the lamest, pun-iest cross-promotional transitions I've ever heard within the span of three sentences. Remarkably, I didn't catch one reference to the Tony Parker-Eva Longoria engagement this afternoon, though I expect they'll save that conversation for a game when they don't have "coming up next on ABC..." as an excuse to schill out.
Ugh. If only all the games could be on TNT.
As if Friday night's Roger Clemens minor-league rehab/tune-up start wasn't terrible enough, I just took in the following exchange (paraphrased) during the Spurs-Jazz game on ABC:
Sucky play-by-play guy: [...blah blah blah] Desperate Housewives season finale tonight. ... Well the Spurs are certainly not "desperate" right now ...
Mark Jackson or third-wheel guy, can't remember which: Well the Jazz might need an "extreme makeover" after this game...
...or something like that. I can't remember the exact verbiage, but the point being, it was two of the lamest, pun-iest cross-promotional transitions I've ever heard within the span of three sentences. Remarkably, I didn't catch one reference to the Tony Parker-Eva Longoria engagement this afternoon, though I expect they'll save that conversation for a game when they don't have "coming up next on ABC..." as an excuse to schill out.
Ugh. If only all the games could be on TNT.
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Sounds like both of the commentators got "Lost" in their silly puns...
Believe me, it was very ugly (Betty).
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