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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Excellent. And now a little rant about the Stanley Cup.
1. Hockey may be a lot of things, but I never saw it as cheezy. ABC's coverage is Cheesy with a capital C. Who is Sam Ryan and is there any hockey fan out there that gives a shit what Jean-Sebastien Gigeure's fiancee has to say about anything? Maybe flash the camera on her for a second because she's pretty, but an interview? Who cares - this is the fucking Stanley cup for god's sake, not the superbowl.
2. Those were two of the softest goals I have ever seen. I think I could have stopped one of them. Go ducks.
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Blame the ABC suits. Sam is a cutie, but her interviews with Adam Oates' father, Jiggy's brother, and Scott Stevens' clan were a huge waste of time. And do we need to see *any* shots of Michael Eisner cheering? (I'm sure that it's merely a co-inky-dink that King Michael owns Disney which owns ABC which paid the camera people who had their lenses focused on him) And what's with all the shots of Jim Fucking Belushi? Argh. I guess we should be thankful that the ESPN games weren't full of the same nonsense. Emilio Estevez movie clips, indeed.
And don't get me started on the funky camera angles -- if I wanted to see the game from the ceiling, I would buy cheap seats. Save those angles for replays when they show the way the play developed or a penalty or something.
Thank God for the soft goals (though I'd call Sandis's goal a fluke, not soft -- unless you were talking about the game winner and the other one?). I assume that the hated Devils will still win the Cup, but at least it won't be a sweep.
