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| | COMMIE OLYMPICS MARKETING WOES | | | | Monday, August 18, 2008 (12:37 PM) | | The Commie Olympics is having trouble satisfying some major Olympic sponsors. The Commies set up the "Olympic Green" where thousands and thousands of spectators could share in the Olympic experience by visiting venues sponsored by folks like Samsung, Adidas, Coca-Cola and McDonald's. However, this area, four times the size of Central Park, was largely a ghost town the first week. Only when track and field events began did business pick up. However, without tickets to events, or credentials, no entry. Just regular folks, not allowed.
Problem is, the Commies aren't exactly thrilled with gatherings of large crowds. Security has restricted visitors. Some poor "misguided" citizen might walk in there with a "free tibet" poster. Or, God forbid, (oops, I forget no God in China) those pesky students for democracy might rally again, and then the authorities will have to call in the tanks to stand up to a five foot tall Chinese student who's only weapon is his courage.
By my trained eye, the only prominent signage I have seen on virtually every telecast is that big painting of Chairman Mao Tse Tung's mug at Tiananmen Square. That's nice. Here's the guy who killed an estimated 77 million of his countrymen. Has anybody at NBC mentioned that little fact? Maybe the folks in Germany should reconsider and find a nice spot near the Bradenburg Gate for a big Hitler billboard, just to honor a little bit of German "history.'
I encourage everybody who has been lulled to sleep by the brilliant Commie show and NBC collaboration in Beijing, go to YouTube and punch up the footage of Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. Look at the faces of those young people who were slaughtered by the hundreds, and those who were hauled off to the Gulags.
Maybe McDonald's could send some burgers over to the political prisoners, in whatever hell hole they are being held. Now, that would generate some publicity, would it not? | | | 28 Views | 0  Thumbs Up | 0 Comments |  |
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| | COMMIE OLYMPICS UPDATE | | | | Thursday, August 14, 2008 (3:22 PM) | | The Commie Olympics are going along just as most freedom believing, democracy supporting, and human rights advocates figured. The Commies are showing their true colors.
Where to start? Oh, how about underage Chinese female gymnasts? That would be cheating except for the "individual" belongs to the state over there, and there is no age restriction on state owned individuals. So, take that! -- you whiners who care about the welfare and development of young children. What's good for China is that these pixies can "nail it" on the parallel bars.
What about poor Yang Peiyi? She was the young girl who actually sang "Ode to the Motherland", in front of a billion viewers worldwide at the opening ceremonies. No wait! She wasn't there. Nine year old Lin Miaoke lip-synched the song. Why? Well, Ms. Peiyi isn't pretty enough. I'll just let you readers chew on how disgusting that decision was. And by the way, Yang Peiyi is a very attractive young lady with a gift from God. Oops, no God in China. At least not "officially."
And finally, one more Commie ditty for ya. British journalist John Ray was arrested by the Commies after attempting to cover a Free Tibet rally. He was handcuffed , thrown to the ground, and dragged on the pavement to a restaurant where he was arrested.
Now, that's the Commies we are know and understand. Stay tuned, more to come.
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| | SEEING RED IN BEIJING | | | | Monday, August 11, 2008 (5:32 PM) | | The Commie Olympics are sailing right along. I watched the opening ceremony. They said it cost 285 million dollars. I figured that’s about a million dollars a minute. Damned thing should have been impressive don’t you think?
I watched that opening fluff piece by NBC’s Tom Brokaw. Nice job of glossing over the fact that China is a Communist, repressive, totalitarian, evil regime. And when these games are over, they will go right back to business, supporting genocide in Darfur, suppressing religious freedom, continuing to imprison folks who believe in something ridiculous, like, oh, voting for their leaders, and emboldening dictators around the world.
I never supported awarding the Olympic games to such a government. Maybe that’s why I don’t really support the Olympic games period. It has become what it wasn’t supposed to become. Big business. And business always makes strange bedfellows.
I think the money wasted on the spectacle is ridiculous. I think the overhype is mind-numbing, and I believe whatever principles the Olympics were founded upon have long been disbanded.
So, hooray for the Commies. They put on a great show. I wonder if the poor tortured souls in the political prisons get television privileges?
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| | THE OPEN, CLOSES, ON NORMAN | | | | Monday, July 21, 2008 (11:23 AM) | | Even if Greg Norman had a good round Sunday at the British Open, BigDaddy stills believes Padraig Harrington would have won.
That being said, wasn't it fun watching the 53 year old Norman hang in there like a hair on a biscuit all weekend? Conditions at Royal Birkdale were close to impossible. If it was carnival ride, they would have had to close it for safety reasons.
But Norman was like a rottweiler on a porkchop. An old rottweiler, with not as much stamina as he had when he was a pup.
But, unfortunately for Norman, his age, or the fact he hadn't won in ten years, or the fact he picks up a club these days mainly to hit the cermonial first shot at one of his golf course openings, is not going to matter. He will always be labelled as the guy who couldn't close the Big One.
I was with Norman in 1986 when he told me early in the season he believed the Grand Slam was possible. Then he set out to prove it. He led all four majors, but only captured one, The British. Two of his major losses were lightning strikes by the other guy. in 1986 at Inverness, he loses the PGA to Bob Tway who holes out from the bunker at 18 on the final day. Has anybody heard from Tway since? Also, who can forget 1987, in the Masters playoff with Larry Mize, who hits a screaming chip downhill on 11 from about 140 feet, and it goes in! Anybody heard from Mize since?
Well, we heard from Norman again this weekend. I just sent him an email. Told him that was fun to watch. I also told him to "Now, go win the friggin' Masters!"
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| | ALL STAR DEBACLE, OPPORTUNITY MISSED | | | | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (5:13 PM) | | BigDaddy was right in 2002, and he's right now. And last night's All Star baseball game ended before his point could finally be proved.
Let's review. Most sports fans went ballistic against baseball Commissioner Bud Selig in 2002 in Milwaukee when he ruled the All Star game was a tie with the score 7-7 after 11 innings. Why? Because they ran out of friggin' pitchers! And secondly, it's an dad-gummed exhibition game. Nothing more.
By the way, picking on Selig is like picking on Mr. Bean, but I digress.
Then, those Fox Sports geniuses, decided to make the Game, "count'. Which means, the network and Fox came up with a ridiculous scheme to award the All Star winning league the home field advantage in the World Series. What? Let me get this straight. A team struggles to achieve the ultimate goal of playing in the championship, but instead of alternating home field from year to year from league to league, which is fair, a meaningless exhibition game decides "home field." Does anybody doubt the importantance of an extra home game in a tightly contested best of seven series?
Anyways, I was hoping for the fallacy of this stupid idea to finally come back to bite baseball last night when, lo and behold, it was the 15th inning and it was tied. Darn it! The Americans finally got a run in the bottom of the inning and beat the Nationals 4-3. Just when I thought I saw Jose Canseco warming up in the bullpen for the Americans.
What a mess it would have been if the game had to be ruled a tie because, oops! They ran out of pitchers! It would have been a beautiful mess, but we'll never know. At least not this year.
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| | An Unbelieveable Boxing Minute | | | | Tuesday, July 8, 2008 (2:54 PM) | | Boxing history was made Saturday night at The Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. I was there, called the fight for international television, and still don't believe what I saw.
It was historic in the sense it was an all time moment in the sport. By a moment, I mean one minute and one second. That's all it lasted.
Kendall Holt was challenging Ricardo Torres for the WBO Jr. Welterweight title. Torres had beaten Holt last year in Barranquilla Colombia because Torres enjoyed so much "home cooking" down there, I was afraid he wouldn't make weight this time. That fight was a joke, with beer cans being tossed in the ring, an incompetent referee, and more corrupt politics than you'll find in a Latin American election.
So, Torres got double the money he received in the first fight to come to Las Vegas, where the gaming commission always has a nose in the air if anything smells as rotten as it was in Colombia that night.
Here's how it went. Holt got knocked down in the first 15 seconds. Then he got knocked down again a few seconds later. So, Holt has been down twice in the first 35 seconds. Then, at 1:01 of the first round, he hits Torres with a right hand that could stop a bullet train. Torres looks to be sitting on the bottom rope. But he's not sitting, he's perched there. Out cold. His leg is twitching like he's on an electrical wire. Gone. Wow. How's that for drama? This was one for everybody out there with Attention Deficit Disorder. If you tuned out for one second, you missed it.
Fortunately, Holt agreed to come on the BigDaddyShow afterwards. Unfortunately, I still haven't received proper tech support from LiveVideo.com so the Holt interview was a no go. At this point I wonder if it will ever happen.
My advice to you sports fans is to surf the internet and find this fabulous one minute of boxing history. I know it's there. But Holt wasn't here to tell my viewers about it on this site, and that's a shame.
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| | BigDaddy Failed, Pacquiao Prevailed | | | | Tuesday, July 1, 2008 (8:15 PM) | | I must apologize to my BigDaddySports viewers. I had promised reports from Las Vegas for weeks on the Manny Pacquiao/David Diaz fight. However, upon arriving in Vegas, my Livevideo.com equipment failed. I believe I'm pretty good at what I do, and I love what I do, but even BigDaddy can't overcome technical problems. Hopefully, I can overcome these problems in the future.
But I was working anyways. I called all eight fights Saturday. Four of those fights in the new medium, the internet on ESPN360 and Yahoo. The final four fights I called on Top Rank international television. If you live somewhere outside the United States, I hope you enjoyed the show.
In the Philippines, there are roughly 80 million people. We estimate 60 million saw our show. And I don't have to tell you Filipinos what is now obvious. With the alleged retirement of Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Manny Pacquiao is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. He destroyed the WBC lightweight world champion David Diaz. Pacquiao won every round, and then knocked out Diaz in the ninth with a punch so hard Diaz will be eating soup through a straw for a month.
Up next for Pacquiao, Venezuela's Edwin Valero, known as a devastating knockout artist. In fact, Valero is 24-0, and has won 19 of those fights in the first round with a TKO or KO. Unless he's been fighting the Olsen twins the entire time, that's pretty impressive.
Look for Valero/Pacquaio November 8th. And look for Pacquiao to be one with the KO in the end.
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| | CELLPHONE T.V. IDIOTS, STOP! | | | | Sunday, June 22, 2008 (11:09 PM) | | Somebody has to say something. What's with you folks at the sporting events with the cellphones? When the cameras are on, you are talking to some buddy and waving like jackasses at the camera.
This is how I suppose it goes. "Hey dude, look at me, I'm the idiot with my cellphone and I'm waving at you just because, ain't it cool? I'm on television!"
No you're not cool. You're an idiot. And just because you managed to get in position behind the ropes at a golfing event, or behind home plate at a baseball game, or ringside at a boxing event, doesn't make you special because you have a stinkin' cellphone and you can flash a dumbass grin when you know the camera is pointed at you.
Newsflash. Everybody has a cellphone. Second newsflash. Nobody gives a crap about you except you and your idiot buddy on the other end. Third newsflash. If you want to be on television, buy webcams and learn how to use a computer, if it's not too complicated for you mouth breathers. Then you and your stupid friends can sit and wave at one another for hours without bothering the rest of us.
This finally hit rock bottom for me this weekend when drag racer Scott Kalitta crashed and died in Englishtown, N.J. ESPN's crew had cameras in his garage area and were airing a tribute to Kalitta's life.
ESPN was showing the grieving fans, when, uh oh, don't tell me!
There's a scraggly looking dude there with a Budweiser tee shirt, and , uh oh, don't tell me! His phone rings and he has to put down his Bud to answer it. Then, in the midst of all the grief we're witnessing, Einstein here is smiling and laughing because, sure enough, his buddy just called to tell him, wow, you're on television Bubba!
Pathetic.
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| | APPRECIATING TIGER | | | | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (4:38 PM) | | I owe Tiger Woods an apology.
But I didn't know.
I missed a chance to describe what we saw last weekend as one of the greatest performances in the history of sports. Maybe THE greatest.
But I didn't know. And you didn't know either because Tiger didn't tell us. It's not in his nature to complain or make any kind of excuse.
His late father Earl, says in those Nike commercials, Tiger would never encounter another person with a tougher mental attitude.
Did Earl know his boy? And did he do a great job raising him? Yes and yes times ten.
In case you haven't heard by now, Woods won the U.S. Open on one leg. 91 holes total in the kind of pain that only Tiger could describe. But he did not, and he will not.
We found out today his season is done. His left knee is blown out. He needs complete reconstructive surgery. To make it even more unbelieveable, he also has two stress fractures in the area.
His doctors told him not to play. Tiger knew he could risk further injury to play. But, to him, missing Torrey Pines, a place where he has dominated, was not an option.
When asked how one fractures a knee in two places, his agent, Mark Steinberg said, "I don't know. But then I also don't know how one wins the U.S. Open on one knee either."
As for me, I thought they didn't make 'em like that anymore. I was wrong. Sorry Tiger.
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| | ROCCO "ROCKY" MEDIATE | | | | Monday, June 16, 2008 (3:40 PM) | | Sometimes real life can equal the movies. At the U.S. Open a 45 year old dream chaser almost won one for the ages and the aged.
He has the right name, almost. Instead of Rocky, his name is Rocco, which is close enough. But just like Balboa against Apollo Creed, Rocco Mediate went the distance against the biggest and the baddest. And lost.
In fact, Rocco went past the distance. 19 holes of extra fighting. And it was a fight to be sure. Tiger Woods got that 14th major championship. But it is Rocco who will be remembered through the ages for what he did at Torrey Pines. He stared down the giant until somebody had to blink. And in the end, Rocco blinked.
BigDaddy has been covering sports for 30 years. I'm as jaded as they come. But even I had to blink at the end on Monday. I blinked because, to my everlasting surprise, water formed in the corner of my eye as I listened to his "I gave it all I had" post-playoff interview. A tiny tear for this gracious everyman, who I do not know personally, because he fought the good fight against perhaps the best ever to tee up a golfball.
Bravo Rocco! Another reminder to us all to never quit, to never surrender, to never lose hope.
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