Media Thread

[Kin]

Maybe it's just me, but I really don't find Will Ferrell all that funny.

Funny is obviously a subjective thing but he does at least seem committed to being weird. From the funny or die stuff to recording beer ads that only play in small markets in Iowa at the very least he's not just sitting back and cashing big checks to make sequels.

You know, except now.

 

[seahawk]

Onrait and O'Toole were great in the beginning. By the end it became less and less about the scores of games and more and more about how ridiculously unfunny they could be.

If all I wanted was to find out the scores of the games I would just check their website.

Last time I checked, Sportscenter is a sports newscast, not the Jay and Dan comedy hour. I'm fine with a few cracks here and there, but to them it was more stand-up than about the sports.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Onrait and O'Toole were great in the beginning. By the end it became less and less about the scores of games and more and more about how ridiculously unfunny they could be.

If all I wanted was to find out the scores of the games I would just check their website.

Last time I checked, Sportscenter is a sports newscast, not the Jay and Dan comedy hour. I'm fine with a few cracks here and there, but to them it was more stand-up than about the sports.

It's whatever TSN decides it is actually.

EDIT: And the highlights were still exactly the same.  Unless you watch Sportscentre for the bland recantation of goals, assists, win by a faceless droid.

 

[Kin]

Last time I checked, Sportscenter is a sports newscast, not the Jay and Dan comedy hour. I'm fine with a few cracks here and there, but to them it was more stand-up than about the sports.

It's not really a newscast though, it's a highlight show and if the only two available tones are boring or funny I'd go funny.

 

[bustaheims]

Last time I checked, Sportscenter is a sports newscast, not the Jay and Dan comedy hour. I'm fine with a few cracks here and there, but to them it was more stand-up than about the sports.

It's still an entertainment product, and they made it more entertaining.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

They wouldn't be working in the U.S. and have lasted as long as they did if it wasn't bringing in viewers.  Won't be for everyone but being unique is better IMO than being bland and forgettable.

 

[skippy]

Last time I checked, Sportscenter is a sports newscast, not the Jay and Dan comedy hour. I'm fine with a few cracks here and there, but to them it was more stand-up than about the sports.

It's still an entertainment product, and they made it more entertaining.

Obviously that would be subjective. To me they were awful. Just seemed to try really hard but came across as lame and forced. Mugging for the camera is not comedy.

I hope they die.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Last time I checked, Sportscenter is a sports newscast, not the Jay and Dan comedy hour. I'm fine with a few cracks here and there, but to them it was more stand-up than about the sports.

It's still an entertainment product, and they made it more entertaining.

Obviously that would be subjective.

You don't think that goes without saying?  I can't stand Jay Leno but he's lasted how many years?  Obviously.

 

[lamajama]

Last time I checked, Sportscenter is a sports newscast, not the Jay and Dan comedy hour. I'm fine with a few cracks here and there, but to them it was more stand-up than about the sports.

It's still an entertainment product, and they made it more entertaining.

Obviously that would be subjective. To me they were awful. Just seemed to try really hard but came across as lame and forced. Mugging for the camera is not comedy.

I hope they die.

What are you? 10 years old?

 

[OldTimeHockey]

I have no issue with the highlight show being funny...I just didn't find them funny towards the end of their time there. Like Potvin said, to each their own.

 

[bustaheims]

Obviously that would be subjective. To me they were awful. Just seemed to try really hard but came across as lame and forced. Mugging for the camera is not comedy.

I hope they die.

Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but, you're wrong and I hate you.

 

[skippy]

Obviously that would be subjective. To me they were awful. Just seemed to try really hard but came across as lame and forced. Mugging for the camera is not comedy.

I hope they die.

Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but, you're wrong and I hate you.

Fair enough. But you shall perish to

 

[mc]

Tim Leiweke on George Stroumboulopulus show

http://youtu.be/Jv-P305iCDs

Well worth watching

 

[cujo4ever]

Tim Leiweke on George Stroumboulopulus show

http://youtu.be/Jv-P305iCDs

Well worth watching

I really enjoyed watching that interview. Didn't know much about Tim Leiweke before, but I think I'm a fan of his now.

 

[mc]

The Maple Leafs' Collapse Is A Victory For Rationality

http://deadspin.com/the-maple-leafs-collapse-is-a-victory-for-rationality-1559848856/+barryap

The summer was spent with battle lines being drawn. On one side, bloggers like stat evangelist Tyler Dellow and the folks at Pension Plan Puppets, all but screaming that GM Dave Nonis's roster and coach Randy Carlyle's systems were set up for failure. On the other side, the Leafs themselves, contemptuously dismissive of so-called "fancy stats," and their cheerleaders in the Toronto media, like TSN's Leafs mouthpiece Darren Dreger and the Sun's Steve Simmons.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

It shouldn't be a 'battle' or termed a 'victory'.

 

[2badknees]

The corsi metric and the Kessel/Bozak/JVR line just isn't compatible, and never will be, I would think. The leafs need a big center who can control the play down low. We used to have a certain swede who was good at that.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

The corsi metric and the Kessel/Bozak/JVR line just isn't compatible, and never will be, I would think. The leafs need a big center who can control the play down low. We used to have a certain swede who was good at that.

Kessel was able to be just about a 50% possession player under Wilson.  But every single player's possession stats have fallen under Carlyle so...with a new coach I don't see why they couldn't be good in those areas.

 

[Kin]

It's always fun when someone declares victory in a game where they make the rules.

 

[2badknees]

It's always fun when someone declares victory in a game where they make the rules.

And the fact that a month ago, the Leafs were closer to home ice than being eliminated. I don't buy this "stats catching up" argument that made the freefall inevitable... a healthy Bernier, a reversal of some bad luck, and its not hard to envision a seed above wildcard, despite all the convenient naysayers coming out of the woodwork.

Makes you wonder what the article would have been!