The Glade 4.0

No love for the Olympics? Anyone else been watching them? I've been tuning in pretty regularly and this games is by far the most I've ever watched. Lots of fun to watch the crowds on home soil buzzing with energy and enthusiam.

Oh and I do agree with you Midgen about the whole "first gold on home soil". It was a bit of a story yes, but they really beat it to death, I got sick of it. Thankfully it happened on Day 3 so we don't have to hear about it anymore.

I hate all the figure skating and freestyle skiing, though. Anything judged, rather than outright competition, is just silly.

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I'm kind of boggled why coverage is tape delayed for you Midgen, because Vancouver is on the west coast??? There should be at least some live events.

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That's to bad, you guys are kicking butt so far.

Anyone else catch Shaun White last night? Man that guy is crazy good with the snowboard. He seems like a pretty likeable guy too.

That's to bad, you guys are kicking butt so far.

Anyone else catch Shaun White last night? Man that guy is crazy good with the snowboard. He seems like a pretty likeable guy too.

Is there anything more frustrating for a sports fan than watching the Olympics? Every night I feel like I'm sitting down with a great book, and after I read the first 10 pages, I discover that pages 11 to 25 have been crossed out, and then I'm supposed to skip to page 102, and by the way, I inadvertently read the ending nine hours ago.
The U.S. just had its best night in Winter Olympic history, which should have been awesome entertainment, and it was pretty cool, except ... it wasn't really the best night the U.S. ever had. Lindsey Vonn had won gold in the women's downhill hours before NBC primetime coverage began.
In 2010, how are you supposed to avoid that news? All we do is communicate with each other. We e-mail. We text. Everybody's grandmother is on Facebook. Thanks to Twitter, you can understand Kim Kardashian's thoughts before she does. Are we supposed to avoid our local newspaper's Web site and favorite blogs and Facebook and Twitter and not check our text messages?
If you want NBC's coverage to seem suspenseful -- if you want, in other words, to feel like a sports fan -- then you have to build a tiny brick house, then take the last brick and hit yourself over the head until you're unconscious.
Tape-delayed coverage is a time-honored Olympic tradition, as venerated as the rings and political boycotts. But it seems especially ridiculous now.
First of all, the Olympics are in Vancouver, which is in Canada, which is attached to the United States. (SIDE NOTE: A Binghamton basketball player reading this just got three credits for Remedial Geography.) It just feels absurd to delay coverage from Vancouver.
My friend Chris points out that he lives in the same time zone as Vancouver ... therefore he must watch the Olympics on tape-delay. My friend Dave said there was an exciting finish to the biathlon (I don't know how that is possible, but perhaps they replaced the rifles with hand grenades) and it was shown on a 20-minute delay for no good reason.
And this brings us to the main problem: it is not 1988 anymore. Everybody expects to know everything immediately.
What is NBC thinking? I have a theory on that. It might sound crazy, maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about, but ...
Maybe NBC wants to make money.
(Or, you know, lose as little money as possible.)

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OMG what a game. Analysis tomorrow morning if I have time. Gotta get up at 5am though, ughhhhh

Though Crosby is ridiculously talented, I just can't let myself like him.