SO, WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? The Warriors or the Sharks? It shouldn't have to be one or the other; in fact, most of you will be switching back and forth; even those of you, like me, that only, if at all, dare admit that you watch hockey, even playoff hockey, but I digress...
This is an historic evening. The BBQ has been put on hold; the mad rush to watch a KRON sports personality make his fellow anchors look like mush is delayed; you have must-see sports viewing of historic proportions commencing from about 5 PM up until around 9, a basketball-hockey orgasm punctuated with epic story lines; can the Warriors survive a Game 7 with OKC's vaunted double superstar tandem; how do the Sharks look on the Stanley Cup opener at Penguin control center in Pittsburgh? A BBQ? Screw that! We have a lot on the menu.
It didn't have to be this chaotic for your watch party on Memorial Day night. For example, the brain-dead buttheads who run the NHL and are desperate for ratings must have been high on dope for scheduling Stanley Cup Game 1 on a night when they knew a Game 7 NBA encounter was possible, what goofballs!
Who's responsible? This schmuck.
I mean, any amateur yahoo could have stood up at the NHL TV meeting and said, "sir/madam, I do believe we can stagger Game 1 on Sunday Night and 2 on Tuesday or Wednesday so as not to compete with the NBA, right?" Of course that would haven been too logical.
This is not going to wreck your day or evening. Some of you will carry on and do laundry. Your kids and family are more important. The babysitter has been paid and you're already dreading Tuesday and back at the office. Life moves on...
Then there's the rest of you like me that have no life and are counting down the time between 5 and 6 when teal and black and gold and blue are more vital than good chopped liver. I get it.
Just be careful and enjoy. It's still just a game. It will have no bearing on your regular ways and means; you'll still have to be fresh for tomorrow --remember, the boss doesn't give a damn, he's so gosh darn cranky!
Take care and eat well.
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Channel flipping. Mostly Warriors but still flipping...
ReplyDeleteSharks live, Warriors on delay (and during the commercial and intermission breaks from the hockey game). That will change if one of those local teams is getting blown out. And if the Sharks and Warriors are both getting blown out, I'll watch baseball! Lots of contingencies!
ReplyDeleteWarriors Live. Sharks who cares. Can name 2 players, Joe Thornton and something Couture, that's how unmemorable they are outside their 17k who attend games.
DeleteThere are many people who feel the same way about basketball which is funny given your holier than thou attitude. I know some people that when asked to name two warriors would answer Stephen Curry and Arsenio Hall? Basketball still has an image problem with many due to the thugged out, tattooed up players from the late 90s until about 6 or'so years ago that.populated.the game. As sad as it is, I've heard many co-workers still to this day say they don't watch "n******ball".
DeleteWell fuck you!
Delete@9:47 where do you work, the local chapter of the KKK?
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DeleteIt's obvious that 9:47 is stuck in a Jim Crow time warp. The funniest part is that he/she/it claims to have "co-workers." Doubtful much exists beyond the trailer enclave.
9:47 I've overheard that exact phrase while at Sharks ice in San Jose watching adult league play. 2:25, 3:44 the Bay Area isn't the pristine multicural utopia you've been brainwashed into thinking it is. Try learning a language other than English and then listen to what other nationalities are saying when you walk by. Lots of racism from all sides here in San Jose.
Delete"I've overheard that exact phrase while at Sharks ice in San Jose watching adult league play."
DeleteNo surprise, 4:07. You can find trash anywhere. BTW, before advising people to learn a language other than English, try learning how to type it.
I have a home theater set up with three screens so I will watch both at once. I often do this with the news since I'm a news junkie - seldom does the local news have anything interesting on all three feeds at one time (but the timing of the newscasts matches each other - they all shift to weather and sports at about the same times).
ReplyDeleteI also will probably be watching a Latino paranormal show I recorded on the memory stick last night at the same time. If I get pressed I can turn on one of my there hard disc video recorders I rebuilt to 500G recently.
Enjoy your holiday!
Speaking purely as a one time Sharks season ticket holder and long time NHL fan...
ReplyDeleteFuck the NBA. Move over Warriors. This is our time.
Your time to choke. Hockey blows big time just like soccer. NBA and NFL rules. Deal with it. The W's ratings will dwarf the Sharks ratings, it will be quite embarrassing. The NHL screwed up on the scheduling. Great ratings in Pitt. Okay ratings here, and crap every where else. I remember 15 years ago after the NHL game 7 finals, Channel 2 cut the celebration off to go to the Giants 2nd inning regular season game. That's how weak it is locally.
DeleteSpeaking of, The Warriors got an 11 rating (30 in Bay Area) and the Stanley Cup a 2.4 rating. The Sharks and Penguins would get better ratings if they were playing hoops, ESPN said this morning.
DeleteIt's nice to see that your life is so simple. You must really not have much going on to have the time and energy to be so so worried about how 1 group of millionaires is so much better than another group of millionaires. Go sports team! The marketing department has you hook line and sinker.
DeleteFrom Awful Announcing site: Turner Sports and Nielsen state that Monday night’s Game 7 telecast of Oklahoma State at Golden State registered an 11.2 overnight rating which becomes cable TV’s highest-rated NBA game of all-time. The peak rating was 13.8 in the final quarter-hour betwen 11:15-11:30 p.m. ET. And Game 7 was the highest-rated sporting event of the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
DeleteThe overnight rating Stanley Cup Final on NBC was miniscule by comparison:
I'm watching WWE Raw.
ReplyDeleteRoman empire
DeleteToo much excitement for my ticker! I picked a bad month to quit Lipitor.
ReplyDeleteI just watched the Warriors finish off an exciting come back against OKC.
ReplyDeleteThose guys have such amazing heart to go with their otherworldly talent. They are such a joy to watch, they even had me watching regular season basketball on a regular basis!
Warriors game 7 is more important than Sharks game 1. Simple math.
ReplyDelete25 years of waiting, vs 1. Simpler math.
DeleteI watched a vid post by Bob Fitzgerald and he said that he will be joining Tom Tolbert on the radio. Does this mean Tim Roye wont be calling the game? I like Fitz, but Tim Roye IS THE VOICE OF THE WARRIORS. Let us know!
ReplyDeleteThey said earlier on the radio that Tim is going to his daughter's graduation so I assume it's a 1 time deal.
DeleteI was "interactively" watching porn.
ReplyDelete"...the brain-dead buttheads who run the NHL..."
ReplyDeleteNo one is as brain-dead as those at the Chronicle. They stupidly decided that Sunday's paper should feature Curry above the fold and plastered all over Sports--with photos and columns galore--when it was Klay who set a playoff record and single-handedly kept the Warriors from being eliminated the night before.
Basketball? Really? It suffers from the same problem as soccer: scoring. In soccer, next to no scoring; in basketball, close to 5 points per minute. The last two minutes takes an hour. The three point play is a joke. And it cannot compare to football and baseball where the elements are a huge factor,i.e., rain, wind and sun. Moreover, I cannot support a team named Golden State. When they become the San Francisco Warriors, maybe.
ReplyDeleteThey should of been the Oakland Warriors all this time.
Deleteyou would think that one of these two entities would simply move their schedule one year so this does not happen anymore. They are both in doors, so it does not matter which one. It is silly to have the championships in the same month. Let's start basketball in September.
ReplyDeleteI watched basketball between my son who was watching some sort of Japanese animee. He actually like the game at the end. I don't watch hockey, but I like to watch playoff hockey. Just strange, I guess.
ReplyDeleteNo conundrum at our house.
ReplyDeleteActually, the dual scheduling made for an awesome Memorial Day party. Fired up the BBQ, watched Sharks-Penguins live, then DVR'd the Warriors-Thunder game and flipped over to it during intermissions and after the Sharks game was over. It was way more fun and exciting than had it just been one game.
To those of you crapping on hockey because you don't watch it....look, if you don't like it, that's fine, just don't watch. But you should probably know there are people out there who don't like basketball, too. Or some of the other things you like. If one or the other isn't your thing, fine. No need to be a tool about it. I don't come over to your house and tell you that your favorite movie or book sucks. Just accept that different people find enjoyment in different things and get on with it. I do wish more people watched hockey (and in the Bay Area in particular), but that's not going to stop me from enjoying my favorite sports. The excitement level at my house among my friends and family was not impacted in the slightest because some anonymous poster on this site can't name two Sharks players.
As for Rich.....there are a lot of ways in which the NHL powers-that-be are brain dead, but this is not one of them. The NHL released their Stanley Cup Finals schedule a week ago, before the NHL final teams were even set. The schedule takes into account NBC's preferences, arena availability, player rest, and travel. Yes, Stanley Cup Game 1 ended up against NBA West Finals Game 7.....so what? What would you have had the NHL do? Re-work their entire Finals schedule on the off chance that a series the Warriors were losing 3-1 would go 7 games (a series that, as late as Saturday night, the OKC Thunder were about 4 minutes away from finishing off without a 7th game)?
But okay, let's say you get your way...no Stanley Cup Game 1 on Monday evening. Monday day time start? Nobody watches TV in the day time on Memorial Day. Couldn't do it prime time on Sunday....because that might have interfered with a potential (but unecessary) NBA East Finals Game 7. Can't do Saturday because that was GS-OKC Game 6. So the only other time you can start on Tuesday night.....which not only forces NBC to pre-empt its showing of the much higher rated "America's Got Talent," that makes SC Game 2 on Thursday night the same night as NBA Finals Game 1.
The NHL did their best to avoid overlapping with NBA games and their efforts STILL didn't work out. The problem is there are just no favorable time for the NHL to air its games. There are re-runs of network sitcoms that get better ratings than Stanley Cup games. Until that changes, if ever, the NHL can't just sit back and wait for everything else in the televised universe to finish up first (which means pretty much every other show, on every other channel, every single night) before the NHL plays their games in order to accommodate the flighty viewing habits of casual viewers who are so disinterested they can't name any players involved or are even willing to publicly admit to liking hockey. If you want to watch the games, you'll make the effort like those of us who care do. If you don't want to watch, that's fine, but then leave the rest of us who DO care in peace and not tell us when our games should air
I don't think anyone was crapping on the sport, just showing how much more popular hoops is than hockey, viewing-wise. I hope that the Sharks goalie is as defensive as their fans.
Delete"Your time to choke." "Hockey blows big time just like soccer." "Sharks who cares." Hope the Sharks offense is that good at crapping on their opponent.
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