A Few Debacles to Consider

Alas. Friday. Friday came quickly as hoped for. I had a solid week that was actually a lot more fulfilling than weeks past. I will still forever maintain that draft day was THE BEST day, but we've been helping our supervisor with the publicity book and that has been very time-consuming. A publicity book is like one big color hard clips bound with pretty plastic and held together by the hopes and dreams of petty interns. Blood, sweat, tears, and epic battles with the copy machine smolder together in a smoking cauldron only to eventually form this publicity book. Actually... no. I just like words a lot. Basically we just have to make clean copies of every publicity clipping from magazines, websites, newspapers, weeklies, etc. and put them together in categories of national, weekly, local, community, etc. In the end, you have one book that has every photography, every major mention, and every magazine feature that pertained to the knicks during the previous season. It's actually pretty and I bet you could sell it to an anxious, memory-loss fearing fan. The thing is, it takes time and FINALLY my time can be spent on something other than freetetris.org (check it out if you dare), gawker.com, the drudge report, perez hilton, twitter, and facebook. Yes, those are my rounds. Oh... solitaire and freecell have also become a major part of the daily routine. Yet today something different happened as well. I found myself thinking about things of importance... Well, not of IMPORTANCE necessarily, but I was thinking about ideas, quandaries. It was great. So I wanted to share with you and perhaps get some feedback... since so many people read this.

First, the idea of ESPN taking over the world. I've always had a little violin in my heart that played the sweet sobs of private industry, small businesses, family-owned enterprises. Yet, I love ESPN more than some of my distant family members and I don't hate the idea that ESPN might take over. Rewind... essentially, last week, ESPN announced that they are beginning to open up local websites to keep track of local sports from the professional level to little league games. ESPN would have small offices all over the country with a few extra employees who focus on the smaller scale athletic occurrences in a certain area. The smaller businesses, most specifically the local papers, are quivering and shaking their little italian boots because they're afraid that ESPN's coverage will be more desirable and therefore will take over the sports section of their papers. They believe this because apparently sports pages are what keep people buying the papers that have become irrelevant since the explosion of all things internet. I mean... yes I see their point. It would be sad for the local papers to die, but I mean... if ESPN was a terrible network with terrible motives and terrible reporting and terrible investigative skills and terrible writing, well, we wouldn't have this problem. However, ESPN is the bee's knees, the chocolate to my chip, the sunshine to my dreams and OF COURSE I would look at ESPN local sports coverage before my local newspaper. I mean, let's be real... how many people REALLY care about Joseph Smith jr.'s 12 points in a junior varsity basketball game? Not enough to keep a local paper running! I don't really know what my point is here... I guess we should all wonder if the integrity of local sports writing would be compromised by the big league writers of ESPN. Yet, I have a lot of faith in ESPN and its ability to hold my interest on any level of athletic discourse. I've even found myself to enjoy ESPN Magazine writing a little better than that of Sports Illustrated sometimes. I've shed countless tears over ESPN's outside the lines features or whatever their called... well... I can't do anything about it other than try to get a job with them.... but yea... sit on that.

Second... three words: Obama beer summit? Really though? I saw this shiz going down when I was running on the treadmill yesterday and actually started laughing... partially because of the terrible quality of cameramanning that was going on, but also because of how AWKWARD that had to have been for everyone involved. NO ONE should be giving VP Biden any form of mind-altering substance.... he's already drunk off his own general mindset and could be potentially dangerous to mankind as a whole. Then there's this Harvard professor chillin' next to the police officer who arrested him??? Racial profiling or not, innocent or guilty, who wants to be sitting next to the person who tried to put them behind bars? I mean really people!! OH and did anyone notice the way they were sitting. It was white, black, white, white/black. I don't mean to be politically incorrect and I know they HAD to do it that way because otherwise it would be too symbolic of team dark-skinned vs. team light-skinned, but I just felt like I was watching a really weird girl scouts meets president meets original thanksgiving reenactment meeting. I guess that kind of is what it was. And everyone keeps talking about the deeper issues going on in this situation, but I really can't see myself quizzing my children on the Obama Beer Summit 20 years from now. Though that would be fitting since we are the generation of the damned, generation stimulus package, generation DEMOCRACY NOW.

Third, that guy from the Daily News should file a defamation suit against Omar Minaya. I know he's over it, but he shouldn't be. Everyone's always going to associate him with that now and whether or not he's 'guilty', the conflict of interest that he could even be suspected of is enough to damage a journalist's rep for lyfe. Yea I know... weird spelling... I'm just getting bored with my own writing.

Well, I'm out of thoughts for now, but it's 3:12 pm on a Friday and there are way too many minutes left until weekend. Perhaps I will grace the internets with more of my genius blabber in the next hour and 48 minutes. Only if you're lucky though.