Dewar Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Not following too religiously this year, but its nice to hear Vic Rauter. Don't know why they didn't have him doing the Olympics, his voice is curling. CBC's commentators did all of the events. I thought the crew they had for curling was solid. Amazed that Mike Harris made one year that he got hot into a permanent analyst spot though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Just met Kaitlyn Lawes in the hallway at work. Gave her some directions, and figured out she's even cuter up close than on TV. I might have a restraining order placed against me soon though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Rejoice American Olympics fans. NBC has announced they have extended their contract and will have tv rights for the Winter/Summer Olympic games through 2032. (Fuck you IOC.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Rejoice American Olympics fans. NBC has announced they have extended their contract and will have tv rights for the Winter/Summer Olympic games through 2032. (Fuck you IOC.) So I'll be dead before they stop talking about Lolo Jones and Shaun White? Yay! I needed a reason to see death as a sweet release from torture and Beckett wasn't cutting it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 The corruption is delicious. The IOC didn't even open the rights bidding this time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Fuck. On the plus side, I'm getting pretty damn handy with foreign proxies so I might just say fuck it and watch CBC or BBC's feeds. Lord of Light knows that CBC's coverage of the Opening Cermonies was lightyears better than NBC's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 If NBC doesn't get the games, does anyone seriously think ESPN or CBS would provide better coverage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 If NBC doesn't get the games, does anyone seriously think ESPN or CBS would provide better coverage? I was hoping for Jim Lehrer on PBS. I miss those old pinboard backgrounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 You can't get worse than NBC. Period. They're fucking terrible. I'd just like to see what CBS or ESPN do with it, since they're generally better at sports period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Chris Berman: Opening Ceremonies Commentator. That would be enough to make me fear ESPN getting the rights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Point. Although it is arguable if that's better or worse than Lauer and Videra. Merideth did tell us to "Google It" this time instead of like, doing her damn job. Although CBS runs into the problem of Jim Nantz calling the Opening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Chris Berman: Opening Ceremonies Commentator. That would be enough to make me fear ESPN getting the rights. Everyone is so bad. Last night I tried to watch some baseball highlights. I went to ESPN and watched Baseball Tonight and it was in the middle of a long segment tying into the movie MILLION DOLLAR ARM..and they were showing clips and doing a million dollar arm pitching contest. So I switched to MLB Network just in time for their tie in with MLB The SHOW 14 where they were calling a simulation of Reds/Red Sox instead of talking about the actual game. I thought for a second about Fox Sports One, but they were in the middle of their simulated NFL draft that I think tied in to the Kevin Costner movie, like, with a Kevin Costner Hologram commenting on their picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 As a Blue Jays fan, baseball highlights typically make me cringe. Also, living in Canada, baseball highlights are always at the end of the sportscast in springtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 7, 2014 Author Share Posted May 7, 2014 For me, NBC was fine in Sochi, becausei watched everything online, after the fact, often with no announcers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 So apparently, the '22 Winter Games are in serious trouble. Krakow just dropped out. There are only 4 finalists left, they are in descending LOL! order: 1) Lviv, Ukraine - Hey, heard about Russia invading us our 'civil war'? 2) Oslo, Norway - We tried to sneak this past our people and now they've rejected all our funding for infrastructure. 3) Almaty, Kazakhstan - The Borat Olympics. Also, small, very far from everything, and has a super-dictator in place. 4) Beijing, China - Order. Control. And Pollution. Lots and LOTS of pollution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Chris Berman: Opening Ceremonies Commentator. That would be enough to make me fear ESPN getting the rights. You misspelled "Keith Olbermann." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 So apparently, the '22 Winter Games are in serious trouble. Krakow just dropped out. There are only 4 finalists left, they are in descending LOL! order: 1) Lviv, Ukraine - Hey, heard about Russia invading us our 'civil war'? 2) Oslo, Norway - We tried to sneak this past our people and now they've rejected all our funding for infrastructure. 3) Almaty, Kazakhstan - The Borat Olympics. Also, small, very far from everything, and has a super-dictator in place. 4) Beijing, China - Order. Control. And Pollution. Lots and LOTS of pollution. Any chance Salt Lake City or Vancouver can make a last minute bid? The idea of a Borat movie chronicling how they won the Olympic bid is amusing me way too much right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 The IOC has roundly told the Americas to fuck off. That's what the Chicago '16 vote was. As it stands, the USOC won't bid again until '24 (probably LA) and '26 (probably Boston). If both of those get rejected, I doubt we'll see an American Olympics again in our lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 All of those places will be under Putin in '22 anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Beijing would really put Chinese junk weather control science to the test in order for them to have any fucking snow at the appropriate time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 28, 2014 Author Share Posted May 28, 2014 And yet they happiky take nbc's tv money while mostly having olympics halfway around the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Beijing would really put Chinese junk weather control science to the test in order for them to have any fucking snow at the appropriate time of year. White snow is so bourgeois. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 The IOC has roundly told the Americas to fuck off. That's what the Chicago '16 vote was. As it stands, the USOC won't bid again until '24 (probably LA) and '26 (probably Boston). If both of those get rejected, I doubt we'll see an American Olympics again in our lifetime. Well the problem is that the USOC obiviously doesn't give big enough bribes donate enough money to the IOC for real consideration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 The IOC has roundly told the Americas to fuck off. That's what the Chicago '16 vote was. As it stands, the USOC won't bid again until '24 (probably LA) and '26 (probably Boston). If both of those get rejected, I doubt we'll see an American Olympics again in our lifetime. Well the problem is that the USOC obiviously doesn't give big enough bribes donate enough money to the IOC for real consideration. And part of that comes from our Olympic Committee not being an arm of the Federal Government. Thomas Bach needs live dolphins for his solid gold backyard fountain god damn it! Mayor de Blasio also shut down any hope for a NYC 2024 bid. So, yeah, I'm next to positive, 2024 is going to be Los Angeles for the USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Hattrick Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Then they can play up the 40 year milestone the last time they were in LA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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