Winston-Salem, NC -- The purpose of this blog is to reveal the numerous and daily stories that I seredipitously encounter at work, at the places I visit, and the people that cross paths with me. I'd also like to report on certain things that I find interesting in the news and perhaps make fun of it. And lastly, there will be some baseball analysis sprinkled throughout the blog as this was the initial reason why this blog idea came to fruition. To reiterate, this is not some sappy journal or dairy where I spill my innermost thoughts and feelings. If you're looking for stuff like that, please see Alexa Koby's online journal here. Hats off to Katie for the idea -- she hears most of the stories first hand, and therefore thought it would be appropriate for certain readers to view as well.
The ultimate goal is for all the readers to take 2 minutes out of their day to read the blog, and hopefully, comment. I know this may cut into your precious lunch time, facebook time or following the stock market, but hopefully the content will make you laugh or ponder.
I hope to update this blog on a daily basis (excluding weekends). If it's a busy day at work, as is normally the case, a posting won't be available until later on in the day.
Look for the first topic on Tuesday, May 1st.
Thanks for reading! Comments and thoughts are most welcome.
5 comments:
Since this idea to blog, Brian has been requesting a "study" in the new townhouse (when we move) and a pipe. Did I suddenly start dating JD Salinger and just wasnt informed of it?
Mel Kiper Jr. is unquestionably the most unusual sports television personality of our time. Like Howard Cosell or Dick Vitale, he is disliked by a significant portion of the viewing public; however, both Cosell and Vitale also had their share of admirers and fans, and that is where Mel Kiper, Jr. is truly unique: I have never heard of anyone that liked him.
Why is Kiper almost universally disliked? It is probably because most Americans are offended by the notion that someone that lacking in talent or personality can nonetheless make big bucks by spending his entire year focusing on something as socially insignficant and completely unimportant as NFL Draft Day. Kiper is the result of the need that ESPN has to fill its 24 hour/365 day broadcast year with something other than films of old games. Kiper is the benficiary of ESPN's need to put something on the airways -- even if that something is just marginally better than nothing.
It seems incredible that ESPN could not find somebody more likeable than Kiper -- he is an incredibly humorless person so obsessed with the NFL draft that he doesn't seems to have lost all perspective about just how vacuous it is for adults to spend any time at all paying attention to this. This is not an NFL game, for goodness sake...this is just the draft...the season is months away.
Despite the inexplicablity of ESPN keeping Kiper doing this for so long, it must strike some chord in the modern American psyche. In fact, Kiperism is spreading...ESPN now also employs other similarly obsessed no-talent goofballs doing similar things -- what can explain our willingness to tolerate John Clayton or Steven A. Smith?
The major question coming out of this year's draft in not how Brady Quinn lost so much money ... it is how Mel Kiper Jr. continues to make any money performing such a meaningless task.
K. Brosch hit the nail on its head! This evening, ESPN had a 30 minute program with nothing but draft analysis!
Ok, so what do Mel Kiper Jr., John Clayton and Stephen A. Smith all have in common? They are analysts who have never played the game! To quote Sean Salisbury, "the closest you ever came to the field, John, was that you were the waterboy!"
To elaborate on your comment, ESPN had 5 guys on the main set, including Mel Kiper Jr., 3 guys from the Monday night crew, and another 4 guys in the studio. They had correspondent reporters at a select number of teams' headquarters -- roughly 4. I just can't get enough out of 16 reporters.
The question of the draft is not who is going to be better between Russell and Quinn, it is how did Mel Kiper Jr. obtain such a job?
I'm rather interested in hearing someone's sappy innermost thoughts so I think I'll read Alexa's blog instead. Now back to "A day in the life of Alexa"
LOL! You would be interested in that, Justie.
It stems from your infatuation with "my space" and flying cross country for devious acts.
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