So folks ask us all the time but not really why we get so annoyed with professional sports in America. Um. Here are some reasons, and we'll use last night's exhibition match between Chelsea and the Galaxy to illustrate our slightly hungover points.
1. Beckham, who is good, didn't start. ESPN, which is not, still ran 68 packages on him before the game.
2. Chelsea, which is very good, won the game. Of course. ESPN, which had Bonnie Bernstein on celebrity duty, ran nothing on CFC, one of the best soccer clubs in the world.
3. Celebrity duty. Oh our God with the shots of Posh and Eva and Joey Potter in the box, and the interviews with Drew Carey and the Governor of Caleefornya. Can we just watch the game without being reminded that sometimes no-talent ass clowns win life and get all its spoils?
4. Anyone not seeing the heroic come-into-the-game-with-10-minutes-left moment coming? You didn't? You must not have been watching the Beckham Cam. Hey look! He's sitting! Look! Look! He's taking off his shoe!
We're excited that Becks is here, don't get us wrong. But, well, can we turn down the dramatic hype machine? Jesus. We long for the time when the actual game provided the, gasp, entertainment.
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So we take back the Drew Carey dig. We just read he takes soccer photos for Sports Illustrated and he's an avid fan.
Still not the funniest fella, but at least he should've been there.
Our bad.
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