Sep 28 2003
What's the best thing about
What's the best thing about watching the Women's World Cup on TV?
Is it Julie Foudy or Shannon MacMillan (pictured above) or any of the other lovely ladies of the USA? The answer, faithful readers, is none of the above (although I would not fault you for picking the lovely Mrs. Foudy). The answer is studio commentator Heather Mitts:
Heather, how you doin'?
She should have plenty to talk about today as the US squad faces a tough test in North Korea. The North Korean women are fighting for their tournament lives, along with some respect, while the US needs a win or tie to ensure their spot in the quarters. A good deal of the US team's success can be placed on their ability to capitalize on set plays off of dead balls. The way things are heading now, the US could face Germany in the semi's which would be a tough road to the Finals. Still, if Mia Hamm continues her stellar play and Aly Wagner continues to come up big, The US should be OK.
In a related item, did the WUSA fail because it focused it's marketing approach on the wrong demographics?
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM THE INTERWEB:
> Cubs Win! Cubs Win! The playoffs beckon....And their pitching rotation is looking good.
> Speaking of winning, the Tigers won their own personal World Series last night as they came back from an 8 run deficit to beat the Twins and stave off loss #120. Their last game of the season is this afternoon. Go Tizzle's!
> Baby faced GM Theo Epstein deserves alot of credit for his personnel moves with the Red Sizzle's this year. The no-closer approach back fired on him but Ortiz, Millar and Mueller came up aces.
> Talent or no talent, the Lakers will face a long road in the media this year thanks to Kobe's shoplifting of the pooty.
> Pat Riley is banking mad loot on pot-head Lamar Odom.
> Peter May's Top 10 Storylines for the upcoming NBA season. Guess what's #1? By the way, rookies report for camp tomorrow!!!!.
> Yo!! How you been dawg? Bobby Hurley (the only man on the planet that has had more bad haircuts than me) is named as a scout for the Philly 76ers. Hot.
> How about my Carolina Panthers and second year coach John Fox?
> Pitchfork compiles a list of the 50 most common used CD's of the last 10 or so years. For the record, I own or have owned 21 of them.
> Apple is updating their logo. Not changing, updating.
> FOIL Scott follows up on my WKRP spot from yesterday:
I read your little mention of WKRP in Cincinnati and thought I'd weigh in. The episodes are pretty much butchered, music-wise, as you've said. The royalties are ridiculous. That's why we still have yet to see WKRP DVDs. Just to license the music for the DVD release is well over the million dollar mark. Ludicrous, if you ask me. The same problem apparently came up when they were releasing FELICITY season 2, hence the reason that those episodes have been butchered on the DVD release. They've been substituted with cheesy elevator music.
Thanks for reading and weighing in!! By the way, Scott's site is actually more on top of a Chuck Palahniuk story than I am. Apparantly there is a 4 page article in the Sept. 26th issue of Entertainment Weekly that takes potshots at Chuck (and his fans) and also claims he is NOT married although he stated he was everytime I have gone to a reading and have read this very fact elsewhere numerous times. Still, with Chucky P, you never know. I'm still trying to find out all of the facts, but I hope to have more info later.
That's all for now. It's rainy outside which probably means more house cleaning and some football and fitba TV action for later today.
Remember, I don't have an attitude, rebellion is a platitude. I only hope the verse is good, I hate verisimilitude.
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