Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
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Friday
June 6, 2003
What's the deal with Anaheim Mighty Ducks goaltender
Jean-Sebastien Giguere? When the Ducks are playing at home, the guy is a brick wall. He's shut out the Devils in their two Stanley Cup Finals games in Anaheim and looked impressive as hell in the process.
But as for his play in East Rutherford, New Jersey... It's been atrocious. Maybe it's the East Coast time difference. Maybe it's the smog. But whatever the case, it's a night-and-day difference. Jiggy gave up six goals in last night's 6-3 loss to the Devils. Now Anaheim is in a 3-2 hole, and they need to win Game 6 in California to force a Game 7. Which, unfortunately for Anaheim fans, will be played in New Jersey.
The Barbara Walters interview with Hillary Clinton is scheduled to air Sunday night on ABC. I'll be watching it; Hillary rarely gives interviews, and the subject matter should be interesting. Granted, I think Hillary is a fraud and her political views are about 180 degrees from mine, but it will be interesting to see how she plays spin control. Of course, it would be a much more thrilling interview if it was being done by someone like Bill O'Reilly, but nonetheless it should be interesting.
Accents are interesting things. Back in Nashville this past weekend, I really noticed the "Nashville accent" in people more than ever before. Maybe it's because I've been gone from the area for so long now, but back in the day it didn't sound the least bit strange or unfamiliar. But now it's something that I really notice. Unfortunately it's not necessarily in a hot kind of way, like how a sexy girl can be taken to the next level with a Mississippi or Georgia accent. It's just different.
Florida is kind of an anomaly when it comes to accents, particularly south of the panhandle. You still hear southern accents from people who moved from southern cities or who live in rural areas. But then you throw that in with people who have Spanish accents or transplanted northerners with Yankee accents, and it really creates an intriguing mix.
Comedian Dave Chapelle was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. They showed a hilarious clip from his
Comedy Central show of a parody of that Mitsubishi commercial with the "Days Go By" song by Dirty Vegas and the girl doing that crazy dance in the passenger seat. In the parody, Dave Chapelle flipped out and made the girl get out of the car. It was great.
There are rumblings coming from Channel 10 from this past week about the volume of re-writes and stress of the 5-6 AM hour. Neal Boling went on vacation for two weeks, which meant one of the other producers got thrown into the fire (and I hear she's none too happy about the experience). That 5-6 AM show is such a bear (even with the modified commercial time format that I came up with and which remains in place), and I hear that the Executive Meddler is proving to be as tough to work with as ever. And to that I say: HAHAHAHAHAHA. Enjoy it, we do. Seriously though, I don't particularly envy anyone in that position. There's a ridiculous amount of stress level that goes with trying to play Beat The Clock while getting peppered with nonsense questions by a supervisor who refuses to help write unwritten scripts first. But whatever, I'm free from there, and as Morton Downey Sr. said in Boogie Nights: "That's not an MP, that's a YP, your problem!"
The whole situation with Sammy Sosa and the corked bat is intriguing. If there's such a risk of possibly using a corked bat, why not write "CORKED" on the outside of the bat in huge letters so that type of mistake would never be made? I tend to believe Sosa when he says it was an accident, but regardless it's like having a loaded gun that looks just like a bunch of other guns that are filled with blanks. If you're going to do it, make damned sure that you can tell them apart.
Of course, it would've been interesting if Sosa would've cranked a home run in his first at bat, then cracked the cork later on in the game. I was actually watching the game where that cork incident happened while it was going on. TV was dead on Tuesday night (no NBA, no NHL), so I stooped to watching the Cubs/Devil Rays game on PAX (not even WGN was carrying it). But at the time of the corked bat incident I was on the phone and had the TV on mute, trying to figure out why there was a 10 minute discussion going on at the mound about a broken bat. Only later did I find out what had happened.
Who leaves their sunroof open during rainy season in Tampa? Someone at the station did today, then got pissed off when he found out it was raining (there aren't any windows in the main "Rock Barn" area). Bummer.
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