Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
Blabble
Sunday
June 4, 2006
Last night I hit downtown Birmingham with John Pouncey. It was a good time; he knew some fun places to go. There were some gorgeous women at The Barking Kudu, in particular.
Some thoughts on a relaxed Sunday afternoon:
-Note to the Dallas Desperados... you're not the Cowboys. The Cowboys wear white at home because, traditionally in movies, the good guys wear white. It looks silly when the Desperados do it. The only way I'd go for this is if they had a special helmet with Troy Aikman's picture on it, so I could bug my friend
Dustin Gremmels ad nauseum with the image.
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-Dustin, as you might guess, is not a Troy Aikman fan.
-I finally watched some of the Best of A.J. Styles DVD today, and it has some great matches on it. However, it also has unintentional comedy galore that I wasn't expecting. The production quality wasn't exactly what I was anticipating, with a real second-rate feel. The current product looks miles better, to be sure. Don West (who still works for TNA, abbreviated now from the old NWA: TNA name) is a terrible color commentator. Worse that Jerry Glanville. It's hard for me to type that sentence, since Glanville was awful and unprepared, but Glanville didn't feel the need to scream over every touchdown call. Granted, that does happen sometimes in radio (where the color commentator doesn't know when to shut the hell up; ever hear the radio call of the Music City Miracle?) But seriously, West is awful. Not Dusty Rhodes bad (since Rhodes actually denegrated the cruiserweight product at times, whereas West was pushing it), but still he's tough to take.
However, if you look for the unintentional comedy, it becomes funny in a camp sort of way. When Don West screams, "I can't believe this only costs nine dollars and 95 cents!" or "This is the best match I've ever seen!" before the five minute mark, or when he says something that Mike Tenay has to correct (this happens often), it's time to laugh. Granted, it's not supposed to be funny, but whatever.
Also, in I guess when they decide to try and start pushing the "TNA" (as in T&A... I think when Vince Russo was idiotically brought in), they had some skank dancing on a platform for no reason and zoomed in on her. It was funny since it came out of nowhere. Now I'm all about hot women, but this chick wasn't exactly a prime choice. But the below-par selection, coupled with the amateur hour production quality (and the fact that this was broadcast from the NASHVILLE FAIRGROUNDS!!) made this a completely camp moment. Banal and slightly vulgar. Vulgar because they zoomed into her crotch (and yes, I'm serious.)
-Because there was no NFL, NBA or NHL on today, and baseball wasn't of interest to me (plenty of college baseball, softball and MLB choices, but no Yankees), I had options of the French Open, Arena Football and NASCAR. I haven't followed tennis that closely... ever, really. But especially lately, beyond Federer, I don't know the names. I know the women more than the men, but I couldn't tell you who won what. It's just not my thing. I love to play it, but watching it is a grind. Unless Andre Agassi is making a comeback, or Anna Kournikova is playing in a see-through blouse, I'm not sure I'm going to tune in.
So with NASCAR and Arena Football, I ended up switching back and forth. To my delight, Orlando beat Dallas. I'm a Storm fan from back in my Tampa days (I was at Arena Bowl XVII), but they missed the playoffs this year, so I'm pulling for Orlando and Joe Hamilton (who was a good QB at Georgia Tech who was deemed too small for the NFL.)
I'll never be into NASCAR like some people are. But the sub-plot today with an injured Tony Stewart starting the race, and then subbing in retired driver Ricky Rudd during the first pit stop, was pretty interesting. It seems ridiculous to me though that they run two races a year at a track in Dover that doesn't have enough pit spots (only 42) for the racers (43.) Nashville has a nearly-new, huge Superspeedway, but it only has a Busch race because NASCAR won't move one of the Winston Nextel Cup races there. I learned that on Wikipedia today. It's amazing how much you can learn, if you want to, on the web.
-Speaking of learning, millions of people heard of Albert Pujols getting hurt this week and said, "What the hell is an oblique muscle?" ESPN won't shut up about it now on Baseball Tonight. In fact, the fact that they kept bringing up the oblique made me remember that 60 Minutes was on and that I was missing it, so I changed the channel. Nice going, guys.
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